Featured books for review: ‘Making the World Work Better: The ideas that shaped a century and a company’ by Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, Jeffrey M. O’Brien – IBM Press; ‘Entrepreneurship: A hands-on guide to starting your business’ by Muthu Singaram – Vijay Nicole.

Featured books for review: ‘Superstar Leadership: A 31-day plan to motivate people communicate positively and get everyone on your side’ by Rick Conlow, Doug Watsabaugh – Jaico; ‘Techie @ Heart: The candid confessions of a software engineer’ by Karthik S – Hachette.

Featured books for review: ‘Identically Different: Why you can change your genes’ by Tim Spector – Hachette; ‘Zealot: The life and times of Jesus of Nazareth’ by Reza Aslan – Harper.

Featured books for review: ‘Great Work Hack’ by Bert Cherian, Akshay Cherian – Dialog Publishing; ‘Wise Enough to be Foolish: A novel based on a true story’ by Gauri Jayaram – Jaico.

Featured books for review: ‘Confidence: The surprising truth about how much you need and how to get it’ by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – Hachette; ‘Efflorescence 2013: An anthology of poems’ from Chennai Poets’ Circle.

Featured books for review: ‘A Good Life: The VLCC way’ by Vandana Luthra – Harper; ‘Seeking Redemption’ by Madhu Vajpayee – Notion Press.

Featured books for review: ‘India’s Military Conflicts and Diplomacy: An inside view of decision making’ by General V. P. Malik – Harper; ‘Efflorescence 2012’ – Chennai Poets’ Circle.

Featured books for review: Sharmaji Padmashree: Escapades of a self-styled Gandhian by Vithal Rajan – Konark; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Notion Press.

Featured books for review: ‘Final Cut’ by Uday Gupt (Leadstart); and ‘Ordinary to Extraordinary: Your pathway to success & happiness’ by Minocher Patel (Jaico).

Featured book for review - ‘Abundance: The future is better than you think’ by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler – (Free Press). Also: ‘Springboard: Launching your personal search for success’ by G. Richard Shell – Landmark; ‘Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How contrarian entrepreneurs create and capture extraordinary value’ by Daniel Isenberg; ‘Ghanta College: The art of topping college life’ by Clyde D’Souza; ‘Life’s a Pitch: What the world’s best sales people can teach us all’ by Philip Delves Broughton.

Featured book for review - ‘Gandhi: A spiritual biography’ by Arvind Sharma (Hachette). Also: ‘Why A Students Work for C Students: And B students work for the government’ by Robert T. Kiyosaki – Landmark; ‘Squaring the Circle: Seven steps to Indian renaissance’ by APJ Abdul Kalam; ‘The Superstar Syndrome: The making of a champion’ by Dr Myra S. White, Sanjay Jha; ‘How to Make Enemies and Offend People’ by G. Sampath.

Featured book for review - ‘Business at the Speed of Now’ by John M. Bernard (Wiley). Also: ‘Brotherhood: Dharma, destiny, and the American dream’ by Deepak Chopra, Sanjiv Chopra; ‘The Signal and the Noise: The art and science of prediction’ by Nate Silver; ‘Celebrate: Lessons learned from the world’s most admired organisations’ by Scott Friedman; ‘Marvel Comics: The untold story’ by Sean Howe (Landmark). (Next issue dated October 31, 2013)

Featured book for review - ‘The Idea Hunter: How to find the best ideas and make them happen’ by Andy Boynton, Bill Fischer (Wiley). Also: ‘Population 10 Billion: The coming demographic crisis and how to survive it’ by Danny Dorling – Landmark; ‘The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 tales from history to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy’ by Rick Beyer; ‘The New Bihar: Rekindling governance and development’ Edited by N. K. Singh, Nicholas Stern; ‘Work with Me: How gender intelligence can help you succeed at work and in life’ by Barbara Annis, John Gray.

Featured book for review - ‘Lead by Greatness: How character can power your success’ by David Lapin. Also: ‘Daring Greatly: How the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent and lead’ by Brené Brown – Landmark; ‘The Competent Authority’ by Shovon Chowdhury; ‘Pink Sari Revolution: A tale of women and power in India’ by Amana Fontanella-Khan; ‘Shoes of the Dead’ by Kota Neelima.

Featured book for review - ‘Build from Scratch: Real strategies and proven methods to build start-up businesses’ by Vineet Bajpai (Jaico). Also: ‘Battleground U.P.: Politics in the land of Ram’ by Manish Tiwari, Rajan Pandey – Landmark; ‘Why I Failed: Lessons from leaders’ by Shweta Punj; ‘Yoga Wisdom at Work: Finding sanity off the mat and on the job’ by Maren Showkeir, Jamie Showkeir; ‘Lady, You’re Not a Man! The adventures of a woman at work’ by Apurva Purohit.

Featured book for review - ‘The One Thing’ by Gary Keller (Hachette). Also: ‘Supply Chain Analytics with SAP NetWeaver BW’ by Amol Palekar, Shreekant W. Shiralkar (TMH); ‘Your Research Project’ by Nicholas Walliman (Sage); ‘Visual Marketing’ by David Langton, Anita Campbell (Wiley); ‘From Seva to Cyberspace’ by Femida Handy, Meenaz Kassam, Jillian Ingold, Bhagyashree Ranade (Sage).

Featured book for review - ‘Management Essentials’ by Arindam Banerjee (Sage). Also: ‘Business Etiquette’ by Shital Kakkar Mehra (Harper); ‘Hindustani Music Today’ by Deepak S. Raja (DK Printworld); ‘Towards Financial Inclusion in India’ by K. G. Karmakar, G. D. Banerjee, N. P. Mohapatra (Sage); and ‘How to Get Ideas’ by Jack Foster (Harper).

Featured book for review - ‘The CEO Code’ by David Rohlander (Jaico). Also, short snatches from: ‘Against the Herd’ by Steve Cortes (Wiley); ‘Sustainability of Rights after Globalisation’ Edited by Sabyasachi Basu, Ray Chaudhury, Ishita Dey (Sage); ‘Winning Investors Over’ by Baruch Lev (Harvard); ‘Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0’ by Sasi Venkat (TMH).

Featured book for detailed review - ‘The Mantram Handbook’ by Eknath Easwaran (Jaico). Also, short snatches from ‘Amul’s India’ (Harper); ‘A Life in Politics’ by P. A. Sangma (Harper); ‘Popular Music’ by Tara Brabazon (Sage); ‘Dictionary of Science’ by K. George (TMH).

Featured book: ‘The Moonballer’ by Nirupama Vaidyanathan (Konark). Also: Women and Land: Securing rights for better lives-Debbie Budlender, Eileen Alma; The Success Principles: How to get from where you are to where you want to be-Jack Canfield; Healing the Heart of Democracy: The courage to create a politics worthy of the human spirit-Parker J. Palmer; Black Ice-Mahmudul Haque; Tobacco Control in Africa: People, politics and policies-Jeffrey Drope; How to Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit from Price Declines-Dr Alexander Elder.

Featured book: ‘Management: Say it with fun’ by Gopulu, and R. Natarajan (MJP)

Reviews. It’s So Easy-Duff McKagan; Trust Works! Four keys to building lasting relationships-Ken Blanchard; To Save Everything, Click Here-Evgeny Morozov; How Can I Help You? 5 mistakes to avoid in customer service-Debashis Sarkar; Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the brink and back-Bruce Riedel; Riot Politics: Hindu-Muslim violence and the Indian State-Ward Berenschot. Also: Magical Palace-Kunal Mukherjee; Content is Currency-Jon Wuebben; Global Innovation in Emerging Economies-Prasada Reddy; High Performance Companies-Nitin Pangarkar; I Lost My Job But…-Lakshmanan Solayappan; Curse of the Godman-Biddy.

Reviews. From Smart to Wise-Prasad Kaipa, Navi Radjou; Philosophy for Life-Jules Evans. Also: Brandwashed-Martin Lindstrom; Strategic Thinking-Biswatosh Saha, Parthasarathi Banerjee, Ram Kumar Kakani; Succeed at Psychometric Testing-Simbo Nuga; Intermission-Nirupama Subramanian; Eat. Delete.-Pooja Makhija; The Extras-Kiran Nagarkar.

Reviews. No Easy Day-Mark Owen; Skin-Sharad P. Paul; Americanah-Chimamanda, Ngozi Adichie; Exposure-Michael Woodford; The Dyslexic Advantage-Dr Brock L. Eide, Dr Fernette F. Eide; The Gandhian Moment-Ramin Jahanbegloo. Also: Makers-Chris Anderson; Fat Chance-Dr Robert Lustig; An Economist gets Lunch-Tyler Cowen; Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World-Haruki Murakami; Dhandha-Shobha Bondre; Breakthrough-David C. M. Carter.

Reviews. There may be an Asterisk Involved-Vedashree Khambete; Sophie Says: Memoirs of a breakup coach-Judy Balan; Dharavi: The city within-Joseph Campana; 50 Writers 50 Books: The best of Indian fiction-Pradeep Sebastian, Chandra Siddan; Healing the Blue Planet: An informed consent-Bane Singh; The Slim Punjabi: Food, traditions, love-stories-Harmeet Kaur. Also: It’s So Easy-Duff McKagan; Trust Works!-Ken Blanchard; To Save Everything, Click Here-Evgeny Morozov; How Can I Help You?-Debashis Sarkar; Avoiding Armageddon-Bruce Riedel; Riot Politics-Ward Berenschot.

Reviews. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia-Mohsin Hamid; Think like a Champion-Rudi V. Webster; Constant Touch: A global history of the mobile phone-Jon Agar; The Chimp Paradox: The mind management programme for confidence, success and happiness- Dr Steve Peters; Confucius on Leadership-John Adair; Lonely at the Top-V. K. Madhav Mohan. Also: No Easy Day-Mark Owen; Skin-Sharad P. Paul; Americanah-Chimamanda, Ngozi Adichie; Exposure-Michael Woodford; The Dyslexic Advantage-Dr Brock L. Eide, Dr Fernette F. Eide; The Gandhian Moment-Ramin Jahanbegloo.

Reviews. Corporate Champions-B. Karunakar; The Prabhakaran Saga-S. Murari; Dance of Govinda-Ashok K. Banker; Delirious Delhi-Dave Prager; The 4 Disciplines of Execution-Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling; Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services-Brian Larson. Also: There may be an Asterisk Involved-Vedashree Khambete; Sophie Says-Judy Balan; Dharavi-Joseph Campana; 50 Writers 50 Books-Pradeep Sebastian, Chandra Siddan; Healing the Blue Planet-Bane Singh; The Slim Punjabi-Harmeet Kaur. Next issue : July 11, 2013.

Reviews. Eleven Commandments of Life Maximization-Santosh Nair; Empowering Rural Women-Kiron Wadhera, George Koreth; The Custodians of Biodiversity-Manuel Ruiz, Ronnie Vernooy; The Evolution of Gods-Ajay Kansal; Health, Wealth and Spiritualism-R. C. Aggarwal; Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance-Perry Mehrling. Also: The Power of Promise-M. V. Ramana; How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia-Mohsin Hamid; Think like a Champion-Rudi V. Webster; Constant Touch-Jon Agar; The Chimp Paradox-Dr Steve Peters; Confucius on Leadership-John Adair.

Reviews. Web Developer’s Cookbook-Robin Nixon; Paramhansa Yogananda: A biography-Swami Kriyananda; Millennials and the Workplace-Pritam Singh, Asha Bhandarker, Sumita Rai; Those Pricey Thakur Girls-Anuja Chauhan; Winning with People-John C. Maxwell; The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry-Sudeep Sen. Also: Corporate Champions: Excellent companies of India-B. Karunakar; The Prabhakaran Saga-S. Murari; Dance of Govinda-Ashok K. Banker; Delirious Delhi-Dave Prager; The 4 Disciplines of Execution-Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling; Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services-Brian Larson.

Reviews. How Stella Saved the Farm-Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble; Practical Newspaper Reporting-David Spark, Geoffrey Harris; Falling Over Backwards-Arun Shourie; Get Real-Eliane Glaser; Defragmenting India-Harish Nambiar; 100 Managers in Action-T. V. Rao. Also: Eleven Commandments of Life Maximization-Santosh Nair; Empowering Rural Women-Kiron Wadhera, George Koreth; The Custodians of Biodiversity-Manuel Ruiz, Ronnie Vernooy; The Evolution of Gods-Ajay Kansal; Health, Wealth and Spiritualism-R. C. Aggarwal; Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance-Perry Mehrling.

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