MS Swaminathan: The Man Who Fed India
Priyambada Jayakumar
HarperCollins
Pp 360, Rs 699
MS Swaminathan worked tirelessly to disprove doomsday prophecies and Malthusian theories, with a simple but profound four-letter word philosophy—food; and the idea that food and nutrition security were paramount for human progress. This biography captures his life and times, tracing his early introduction to agriculture and his association with Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, which ultimately led to the Green Revolution.
Breaking The Law
Alex Marlow
Simon & Schuster
Pp 288, Rs 855
Just as the political left uses the corporate media, academia, and the culture to advance their political agendas, they have found a new core American institution that they now exploit to expand their power—the legal system. Featuring Alex Marlow’s ‘prescient’ insight, Breaking the Law effortlessly demonstrates how the American legal system has been weaponised against President Donald Trump on purely political grounds.
The Hiroshima Men
Iain MacGregor
Hachette
Pp 448, Rs 799
At 8.15 am on August 6, 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was struck by the world’s first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret Manhattan Project and delivered by a B-29 Superfortress, a revolutionary long-range bomber, the weapon destroyed large swaths of the city, instantly killing tens of thousands. The world would never be the same again. The Hiroshima Men’s unique narrative recounts the decade-long journey towards this attack.
Emotional Intelligence at Work
Dalip Singh
HarperCollins
Pp 268, Rs 499
Emotional Intelligence at Work has seen four editions and has been translated into multiple languages. The revised edition evinces speciality and skills in Emotional Intelligence guiding and developing emotions, moods, feelings and minds of individuals and groups worldwide. This edition also contains the latest version of the popular EQ test conceptualised by Dr Dalip Singh and Prof NK Chadha and a bonus chapter on EQ for adolescents.
The Collective Edge
Colin M Fisher
Simon & Schuster
Pp 336, Rs 799
The Collective Edge is a ground-breaking book that will transform your understanding of human behaviour. Whether you want to change yourself, your team, or the world, you need to work with the invisible forces of group dynamics, rather than being unwittingly pushed around by them. By doing so you can learn to make better decisions, form happier groups that are more than the sum of their parts, and improve the quality of your interactions with others—forever changing how you live and work for the better.
