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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Author: Harari Yuval Noah
Brand: Penguin Random House
Color: Blue
Package Dimensions: 40x218x600
Number Of Pages: 368
Release Date: 30-08-2018
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From the author of the million copy bestseller sapiens. Sapiens showed us where we came from. homo deus looked to the future. 21 lessons for the 21st century explores the present.
How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children?
Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorienting change. Are we still capable of understanding the world we have created?
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Truly mind-expanding…
Ultra-topical… Harari’s big selling point [is] the ambition and breadth of his work,
smashing together unexpected ideas into dazzling observations. ―
GuardianThere is surely no one alive who is better at explaining our world than Yuval Noah Harari – he is the lecturer we all wish we’d had at university. Reading this book, I must have interrupted my partner a hundred times to pass on fascinating things I’d just read.
Harari has done it again –
21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book. — Adam KayErudite, illuminating, vivid. [Harari’s] lessons suggest new ways of thinking about current problems…
a splendid, sobering, stirring call to arms. ―
Sunday TimesFascinating…
compelling…
[Harari] has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century. — Bill Gates ―
New York TimesThe great thinker of our age. ―
The TimesHarari… is
a rare voice of calm reassurance, slicing through the chaos and uncertainty of the modern age. — Allan Hunter ―
Sunday ExpressHarari thrills his readers because he addresses the biggest possible topics with confidence and brio. Compared with the subjects he tackles, anything else we might read looks piffling and parochial. ―
Evening StandardHarari’s
genius at weaving together insights from different disciplines, ranging from ancient history to neuroscience to philosophy to artificial intelligence, has enabled him to respond to the clamour to understand where we have come from and where we might be heading…
21 Lessons is lit up by flashes of intellectual adventure and literary verve. ―
Financial TimesModern life can seem overwhelming. Fortunately, Yuval Noah Harari’s new book,
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, is on hand to guide us through it.
Poolside reading with purpose. ―
Elle[Harari’s] purpose is to reveal the hard-learned lessons we have all already encountered this century…
the persuasiveness of Harari’s philosophical analysis, and the engaging quality of his writing, is hard to deny. ―
Esquire
About the Author
Prof Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has become an international phenomenon attracting a legion of fans from Bill Gates and Barack Obama to Chris Evans and Jarvis Cocker, and is published in sixty languages worldwide. It was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller and was in the Top Ten for over nine months in paperback. His follow-up to Sapiens, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow was also a Top Ten Bestseller and was described by the Guardian as ‘even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens’. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, was a Number One Bestseller and was described by Bill Gates as ‘fascinating’ and ‘crucial’. Harari worked closely with renowned comics illustrator Daniel Casanave and co-writer David Vandermeulen to create his latest book, an adaptation of his first bestseller, Sapiens Graphic Novel: Volume 1.₹154.00₹609.0021 Lessons for the 21st Century
₹154.00₹609.00A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
Author: Hawking Stephen
Brand: Penguin Random House
Edition: Latest Edition
Features:
- Stephen Hawking: A brief History of Time From the Big Bang to Black Holes
- Published by Bantam Books
- Language: English
Package Dimensions: 20x198x170
Number Of Pages: 240
Release Date: 01-04-1995
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Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece which begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time.
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This app/book version of Hawking’s famous laymen book is just an amazing piece of learning. This makes much more accessible and understandable the complex and awesome topics dealt by Hawking as he explains how our universe works. I am just in awe at how creative he is to produce one of a kind e-book like this. The pace, illustrations and connections of topics within the book are so helpful and so appropriate for the new generation used to tweets and small bites of information. You can flip over some topics when you have some time, learn some amazing fact, and come back later which no rush or worry about how fast you are progressing through the book. Hope other books on complex topics are translated to this format. And I love the updates of the latest science since the publication of the original book. We have learned so much in the last decade that I agree with Hawking, it is an honour to live in this times. ―
Ribozyme‘Master of the Universe…One scientist’s courageous voyage to the frontiers of the Cosmos’ ―
Newsweek‘This book marries a child’s wonder to a genius’s intellect. We journey into Hawking’s universe, while marvelling at his mind’ ―
The Sunday Times‘He can explain the complexities of cosmological physics with an engaging combination of clarity and wit…His is a brain of extraordinary power’ ―
Observer‘To follow such a fine mind as it exposes such great problems is an exciting experience’ ―
The Sunday Times
About the Author
STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world’s greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures.He died on 14 March, 2018.₹140.00₹409.00A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
₹140.00₹409.00A Fine Balance
Author: Rohinton Mistry
Brand: Penguin Random House
Package Dimensions: 40x192x499
Release Date: 20-11-2003
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A towering masterpiece by a writer of genius.’ Independent India, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil, the lives of four unlikely strangers collide forever. An epic panorama of modern India in all its corruption, violence, and heroism, A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry’s prize-winning masterpiece: a Dickensian modern classic brimming with compassion, humour, and insight – and a hymn to the human spirit in an inhuman state. ‘A masterpiece of illumination and grace. Like all great fiction, it transforms our understanding of life.’ Guardian ‘Magical.’ New York Times ‘Monumental.’ Time ‘Astonishing.’ Wall Street Journal What readers are saying: ‘One of the most layered and beautifully executed books I’ve ever read … Easily one of my all time favourite books!’ ‘Many say that the mark of a good book is that it stays with you; well, I read this several years ago and I still find myself thinking of the characters … Beautiful.’ ‘What a storyteller, what a wide canvas he covers of India … Wonderful.’ ‘One of the best and most entertaining books I have ever read … I can’t recommend it highly enough.’ ‘Often heartbreaking, always evocative … A book to savour rather than to gallop through.’ ‘One of the best books I’ve read … Not a book for the faint-hearted, but it is a book with a big heart.’
About the Author
Rohinton Mistry was born in 1952 and grew up in Bombay, India, where he also attended university. In 1975 he emigrated to Canada, where he began a course in English and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of three novels and one collection of short stories. His debut novel, Such a Long Journey (1991), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and the Governor General’s Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was made into an acclaimed feature film in 1998. His second novel, A Fine Balance (1995), won many prestigious awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Giller Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. His collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag, was published in 1987.In 2002 Faber published Mistry’s third novel, Family Matters, which was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize.₹214.00₹509.00A Fine Balance
₹214.00₹509.00A Gentleman in Moscow: The worldwide bestseller
Author: Towles Amor
Brand: Penguin Random House
Features:
- Language Published: English
- Condition : Good
- Compact for travelling
Package Dimensions: 34x198x340
Number Of Pages: 512
Release Date: 02-11-2017
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** Available for pre-order, THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, the dazzling new novel from Amor Towles **Chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall’s online book club The Reading RoomOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD: a BBC Radio 4 Book Club choice, soon to be a major TV series starring Kenneth Branagh_________________________’A wonderful book’ – Tana French’This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don’t miss it’ – Chris Cleave’No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original’ – Sunday Times, Books of the Year'[A] supremely uplifting novel … It’s elegant, witty and delightful – much like the Count himself.’ – Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year’Charming … shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism’ – The Times, Books of the Year_________________________On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?_________________________A BOOK OF THE DECADE, 2010-2020 (INDEPENDENT)THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S BEST BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF BILL GATES’S SUMMER READS OF 2019NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD
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[A] supremely uplifting novel … It’s elegant, witty and delightful – much like the Count himself. ―
Mail on Sunday, Books of the YearA comic masterpiece . . . very funny, tender and as laughably accurate an account of the dismal nature of life in Soviet Russia as one could hope for . . . Quite apart from the ingeniously ludicrous plot and the acutely drawn characters, what adds to the joy of this book is the precision of Towles’ style. Again and again he conveys exactly the right impression with a deliciously surprising choice of words . . . a sheer delight. — William Hartson ―
Daily ExpressA work of great charm, intelligence and insight. — Nick Rennison ―
Sunday TimesNo historical novel was more witty, insightful and original ―
Sunday Times, Culture MagazineElegant sentences, wonderful characters and inventive storytelling . . . This is everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight. ―
Mail on SundayThis novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don’t miss it. ―
Chris CleaveI just reread
A Gentleman in Moscow … It’s a wonderful book at any time, and this time it brought home to me how people find ways to be happy, make connections, and make a difference to one another’s lives, even in the strangest, saddest and most restrictive circumstances. — Tana French ―
Good HousekeepingI think the world feels so disordered right now. The count’s refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we’re longing for. His world was also in shambles but he maintained his grace and humor.
There is so, so much to love in this book as we keep company with the endlessly entertaining Count . . .[This] novel is wistful, whimsical and wry and elegantly captures that most apposite of lessons: ‘By the smallest of one’s actions, one can restore some sense of order to the world’. Brilliant ―
Sunday ExpressA Gentleman in Moscow
is a tale abundant in humour, history and humanity, with a poignant message about time passing. That Towles also makes this rollicking good fun is no mean feat. ―
Sunday TelegraphWINNING . . . GORGEOUS . . . SATISFYING . . . TOWLES IS A CRAFTSMAN ―
New York Times Book ReviewTowles’ use of language is an absolute pleasure to read and
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₹164.00₹509.00After The Quake
Author: Murakami Haruki
Brand: Penguin Random House
Package Dimensions: 10x194x100
Number Of Pages: 144
Release Date: 06-03-2003
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Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake.For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away.Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm. ‘When he gets angry, he causes earthquakes,’ says Frog. ‘And right now he is very, very angry.’In a dance with the delights of Murakami’s imagination we experience the limitless possibilities of fiction. With these stories Murakami expands our hearts and minds yet again’ The Times
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In a dance with the delights of Murakami’s imagination we experience the limitless possibilities of fiction. With these stories Murakami expands our hearts and minds yet again ―
The TimesUshers the reader into a hallucinatory world where the real and surreal merge and overlap, where dreams and real-life nightmares are impossible to tell apart…this slender volume, deftly translated by Jay Rubin, may serve as a succinct introduction to his imaginative world…Lewis Carroll meets Kafka with a touch of Philip K. Dick ―
New York TimesDazzlingly elegant…In a world where even the ground beneath our feet can’t be relied on, imagination becomes less of a luxury and more of a duty. It’s an obligation that Murakami is busily making his raison d’etre, to our very great advantage ―
GuardianIn the world of literary fiction, Haruki Murakami is unquestionably a superstar…Many critics have touted Murakami for the Nobel Prize. If he can stay on this kind of form, he could be in with a chance ―
Scotland on SundayMurakami is a unique writer, at once restrained and raw, plainspoken and poetic ―
Washington Post
About the Author
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami’s distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.₹140.00₹509.00After The Quake
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