Society & Social Sciences

Being small is not the same as being weak and those considered insignificant can often turn into revolutionaries. The ones who have been discarded ...

People have been telling their love stories for thousands of years. It is the greatest common human experience. And yet, love stories coach us to b...

Recently transplanted from the quiet suburbs of Minnesota to bustling Gurgaon, sixteen-year-old Anisha Rai is determined to hate her new life. Whil...

The Penguin Dictionary of Geography

Stimulating and authoritative, The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy is the ideal reference work for anyone with an interest in the subject. Laid ou...

Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy lifeThe people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai – a reason to jump out of bed each morn...

Humans have become subservient to algorithms. Every day brings a new Moneyball fix - a maths whiz who will crack open an industry with clean fact-b...

"Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind." Combining gripping stories and cutting-edge science, V.S. Ramachandran, one of the world's leadin...

The Coming King

We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves & others is through external rewards like money or fame, or by the fe...

Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living, and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief ...

Adrishya Bharat

The Running of the Bulls: Inside the Cutthroat Race from Wharton to Wall Street

Readers of Dan Brown's extraordinary bestseller The Da Vinci Code are fascinated by the questions raised in the novel. Was Jesus actually married ...

From the Inside Flap "I know you are already smart, fast, and good. Now it's time to become smarter, faster, and better. It's time to ask questions...

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it?If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10...

This intimate portait of bereavement and death recalls the author's experiences of the loss of his wife, as well as his evolving belief in God and...

As the head of Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to fling open the doors of the MIT experience for the benefit of ...

In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the ‘heir to R. Crumb and art Spiegelman’ (economist) brings his Comics mastery to a story...

Successful people literally see the world differently. Now an award-winning scientist explains how anyone can leverage this "perception gap" To the...