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THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
₨ 5,345A major reappraisal, by the Nobel prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom
Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ‘animal spirits’ capitalism produces not only greater prosperity, but more freedom for individuals in society and is therefore morally better.
But, in The Road to Freedom Stiglitz asks, whose freedom are we should we be thinking about? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s? Should the freedoms of corporations be allowed to impinge upon those of individuals in the ways they now do?
Taking on giants of neoliberalism such as Hayek and Friedman and examining how public opinion is formed, Stiglitz reclaims the language of freedom from the right to show that far from ‘free’ unregulated markets promoting growth and enterprise, they in fact reduce it, lessening economic opportunities for majorities and siphoning wealth from the many to the few both individuals and countries. He shows how neoliberal economics and its implied moral system have impacted our legal and social freedoms in surprising ways, from property and intellectual rights, to education and social media.Stiglitz’s eye, as always, is on how we might create the true human flourishing which should be the great aim of our economic and social system, and offers an alternative to that prevailing today. The Road to Freedom offers a powerful re-evaluation of democracy, economics and what constitutes a good society and provides a roadmap of how we might achieve it.
ISBN: 9780241687888
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: ECONOMICS AND THE GOOD SOCIETY
Author: JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ -
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
₨ 5,595Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world?
In this major work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates the eras and movements that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world. Three such periods hold profound lessons for today. First, in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, a fascinating series of transformations made that tiny land the richest in the world—and created politics as we know it today. Next, the French Revolution was an explosive era that devoured its ideological children and left a bloody legacy that haunts us today. Finally, the mother of all revolutions was the Industrial Revolution, which catapulted Great Britain and the US to global dominance and created the modern world.
Alongside these paradigm-shifting historical events, Zakaria probes four present-day revolutions: globalization, technology, identity, and geopolitics. For all their benefits, the globalization and technology revolutions have produced profound disruptions and pervasive anxiety and our identity. And increasingly, identity is the battlefield on which the twenty-first century’s polarized politics are fought. All this is set against a geopolitical revolution as great as the one that catapulted the United States to world power in the late nineteenth century. Now we are entering a world in which the US is no longer the dominant power. As we find ourselves at the nexus of four seismic revolutions, we can easily imagine a dark future. But Zakaria proves that pessimism is premature. If we act wisely, the liberal international order can be revived and populism relegated to the ash heap of history.
As few public intellectuals can, Zakaria combines intellectual range, deep historical insight, and uncanny prescience to once again reframe and illuminate our turbulent present. His bold, compelling arguments make this book essential reading in our age of revolutions.
ISBN: 9780241692417
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: PROGRESS AND BACKLASH FROM 1600 TO THE PRESENT
Author: FAREED ZAKARIA -
HOW TO KNOW A PERSON
₨ 5,845A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives-from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain If you are going to care for someone, you must first understand them. If you re going to hire, marry, or befriend someone, you have to be able to see them. If you are going to work closely with someone, you have to be able to make them feel recognized and valued. As David Brooks observes, “The older I get, the more I come to the certainty that there is one skill at the center of any healthy family, company, classroom, community or nation: the ability to see each other, to know other people, to make them feel valued, heard and understood.” And yet we humans don t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us to do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us. If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person s story should you pay attention to? Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and from the worlds of theatre, history, and education, to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate towards others; it helps readers find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception. The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is a profoundly creative act: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, seeking to understand and yearning to be understood.
ISBN: 9780241670293
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: THE ART OF SEEING OTHERS DEEPLY AND BEING DEEPLY SEEN
Author: DAVID BROOKS -
IT’S OK TO BE ANGRY ABOUT CAPITALISM
₨ 4,645Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever Owen Jones It’s OK to be angry about capitalism. It’s OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontrolled greed, and rigged against ordinary people. Where a handful of oligarchs have never had it so good, with more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes, and the vast majority struggle to survive. Where a decent standard of living for all seems like an impossible dream. How can we accept an economic order that allows three billionaires to control more wealth than the bottom half of our society? How can we accept a political system that allows the super-rich to buy elections and politicians? How can we accept an energy system that rewards the fossil fuel corporations causing the climate crisis? How can we let it happen any longer? We must demand fundamental economic and political change. This is where the path forward begins. It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism presents a vision of what would be possible if a political revolution took place. If we would finally recognize that economic rights are human rights, and work to create a society that provides them. This isn t some utopian fantasy; this is democracy as we should know it. Is it too much to ask?
ISBN: 9780241643280
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
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Author: BERNIE SANDERS -
WAR FOR ETERNITY
₨ 3,995
ISBN: 9780241431078
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: THE RETURN OF TRADITIONALISM AND THE RISE OF THE POPULIST RIGHT
Author: BENJAMIN R. TEITELBAUM -
THE COLD WAR
₨ 3,995
ISBN: 9780241011317
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: A WORLD HISTORY
Author: ODD ARNE WESTAD -
THE RUIN OF ALL WITCHES
₨ 4,295In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall.
ISBN: 9780241413388 AUTHOR: MALCOLM GASKILL
ISBN: 9780241413388
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: LIFE AND DEATH IN THE NEW WORLD
Author: MALCOLM GASKILL -
THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING
₨ 3,995For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike – either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and civilization itself.
ISBN: 9780241402429 AUTHOR: DAVID GRAEBER, DAVID WENGROW
ISBN: 9780241402429
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: A NEW HISTORY OF HUMANITY
Author: DAVID GRAEBER -
ENEMIES AND NEIGHBOURS
₨ 4,995In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today, published on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources–from declassified documents to oral histories to his vivid on-the-ground reporting to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age, and from both sides. In the third year of World War I, the seed was planted for an inevitable clash: Jerusalem governor Izzat Pasha surrendered to British troops and foreign secretary Lord Balfour issued a fateful document promising the establishment of “a national home for the Jewish people.” The chronicle takes us through the Arab rebellion of the 1930s; the long shadow of the Nazi Holocaust; the war of 1948 culminating in Israel’s independence and the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe); the “cursed victory” of the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Palestinian re-awakening; the first and second Intifadas; the Oslo Accords; and other failed peace negotiations and continued violence up to 2017.
ISBN: 9780241004425
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: ARABS AND JEWS IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL, 1917-2017
Author: IAN BLACK -
THE WAY OF THE STRANGERS
₨ 1,595From Graeme Wood, author of the explosive Atlantic cover story “What ISIS Really Wants,” comes the definitive book on the history, psychology, character, and aims of the Islamic State. Based on Wood’s unprecedented access to supporters, recruiters, and high-ranking members of the most infamous jihadist group in the world, The Way of the Strangers is a riveting, fast-paced deep dive into the apocalyptic dogma that informs the group’s worldview, from the ideas that motivate it, to the “fatwa factory” that produces its laws, to its very specific plans for the future. By accepting that ISIS truly believes the end is nigh, we can understand its strategy-and predict what it will do next.
Author: GRAEME WOOD
ISBN: 9780241299623
ISBN: 9780241299623
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ISLAMIC STATE
Author: GRAEME WOOD -
THE ECONOMIC GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD
₨ 9,645An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 In 1933, Keynes reflected on the crisis of the Great Depression that arose from individualistic capitalism: It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous – and it doesn’t deliver the goods … But when we wonder what to put in its place, we are extremely perplexed. We are now in a similar state of perplexity, wondering how to respond to the economic problems of the world. Martin Daunton examines the changing balance over ninety years between economic nationalism and globalization, explaining why one economic order breaks down and how another one is built, in a wide-ranging history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy. In 1933, the World Monetary and Economic Conference brought together the nations of the world: it failed. Trade and currency warfare led to economic nationalism and a turn from globalization that culminated in war. During the Second World War, a new economic order emerged – the embedded liberalism of Bretton Woods, the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development – and the post-war General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. These institutions and their rules created a balance between domestic welfare and globalization, complemented by a social contract between labour, capital and the state to share the benefits of economic growth. Yet this embedded liberalism reflected the interests of the west in the Cold War: in the 1970s, it faced collapse, caused by its internal weaknesses and the breakdown of the social contract, and was challenged by the Third World as a form of neo-colonialism. It was succeeded by neoliberalism, financialisation and hyper-globalization. In 2008, the global financial crash exposed the flaws of neoliberalism without leading to a fundamental change. Now, as leading nations are tackling the fall-out from Covid-19 and the threats of inflation, food security and the existential risk of climate change, Martin Daunton calls for a return to a globalization that benefits many of the world’s poor and a fairer capitalism that delivers domestic welfare and equality. The Economic Government of the World is the first history to show how trade, international monetary relations, capital mobility and development impacted on and influenced each other. Martin Daunton places these economic relations in the geo-political context of the twentieth century, and considers the importance of economic ideas and of political ideology, of electoral calculations and institutional design. The book rests on extensive archival research to provide a powerful analysis of the origins of our current global crisis, and suggests how we might build a fairer international order.
Author: MARTIN DAUNTON
ISBN: 9781846141713
ISBN: 9781846141713
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: 1933-2023
Author: MARTIN DAUNTON -
THE LAST DAYS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
₨ 5,995The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, published to coincide with the centenary of its dissolution The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 1914 it had been much reduced, but still remained after Russia the largest European state. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire s fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914, despite its successfully defending itself for much of the war, doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia. Ryan Gingeras s superb new book, published for the centenary of the last Sultan s departure into exile, explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago. Would all of the Empire fall to marauding Allied armies, or could something be saved? In such an ethnically and religiously entangled region, what would be the price paid to create a cohesive and independent new state? The story of the creation of modern Turkey is an extraordinary, bitter epic, brilliantly told here.
Author: Ryan Gingeras
ISBN: 9780241444320
ISBN: 9780241444320
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
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Author: RYAN GINGERAS -
LEADERSHIP
₨ 1,795“Leaders,” writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, “think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and uncertain. It is this intuitive grasp of direction that enables leaders to set objectives and lay down a strategy.”
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ISBN: 9780241542002
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: SIX STUDIES IN WORLD STRATEGY
Author: HENRY KISSINGER -
BEYOND ORDER: 12 MORE RULES FOR LIFE
₨ 2,245The long-awaited sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold more than five million copies around the world
In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world.
Now in this much-anticipated sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life’s meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what we know, and adapting to an ever-transforming world. While an excess of chaos threatens us with uncertainty, an excess of order leads to a lack of curiosity and creative vitality. Beyond Order therefore calls on us to balance the two fundamental principles of reality – order and chaos – and reveals the profound meaning that can be found on the path that divides them.
In times of instability and suffering, Peterson reminds us that there are sources of strength on which we can all draw: insights borrowed from psychology, philosophy, and humanity’s greatest myths and stories. Drawing on the hard-won truths of ancient wisdom, as well as deeply personal lessons from his own life and clinical practice, Peterson offers twelve new principles to guide readers towards a more courageous, truthful and meaningful life.
ISBN: 9780241407639
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
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Author: JORDAN B. PETERSON -
TALKING TO STRANGERS
₨ 1,795
ISBN: 9780241351574
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE DON’T KNOW
Author: MALCOLM GLADWELL -
12 RULES FOR LIFE
₨ 2,595What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson’s answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.
Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.
What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world’s wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners.
ISBN: 9780241351642
AUTHOR: JORDAN B. PETERSON
ISBN: 9780241351642
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS
Author: JORDAN B. PETERSON -
THE SQUARE AND THE TOWER : NETWORKS, HIERARCHIES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL POWER
₨ 1,595
ISBN: 9780241298985
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle:
Author: NIALL FERGUSON -
CHOICES : INSIDE THE MAKING OF INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY
₨ 1,195
ISBN: 9780670089239
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle:
Author: SHIVSHANKAR MENON -
OUR LAST BEST CHANCE
₨ 2,795
ISBN: 9781846143373
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: THE PURSUIT OF PEACE IN A TIME OF PERIL
Author: KING ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN -
HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED
₨ 995
ISBN: 9781846141294
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: WHY THE WORLD NEEDS A GREEN REVOLUTION – AND HOW WE CAN RENEW OUR GLOBAL FUTURE
Author: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN