Even Money By Dick Francis & Felix Francis
Rs 478
The third collaboration between bestseller Francis and son Felix (after Silks), a taut crime thriller, features an especially sympathetic hero. Bookmaker Ed Talbot is struggling with his wife’s mental illness, even as technology threatens to give the big bookmaking outfits an insurmountable advantage over his small family business.
Soon after a man shows up at Ascot and identifies himself as Ed’s father, Peter, whom Ed believed long dead. Ed is in for even more shocks when he learns his father was the prime suspect in his mother’s murder.
Capitalism,Socialism and Democracy
By Joshe A. Schumpter
Rs 472
In this definitive third and final edition (1950) of his masterwork, Joseph A. Schumpeter introduced the world to the concept of “creative destruction,” which forever altered how global economics is approached and perceived. Now featuring a new introduction by Schumpeter biographer Thomas K. McCraw, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand where the world economy is headed. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
By David Remnick Rs 720
Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, offers a detailed but lusterless account of Barack Obama’s historic ascent. As a piece of “biographical journalism,” the book succeeds ably enough and offers familiar commentary on Obama’s cosmopolitan childhood with strains of isolation and abandonment straight out of David Copperfield-rootless, fatherless, with a loving but naïve and absent mother, he suffered racial taunts and humiliations at the hands of his schoolmates and his transformation from “Barry” to “Barack”
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