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Quick look at a few books
BOOK PEEK
Contents of Book Peek - November 22, 2012
Reviews
1) ‘The Thinking Life: How to thrive in the age of distraction’ by P. M. Forni (Pan Macmillan)
2) ‘Media, Communication and Development: Three approaches’ by Linje Manyozo – Sage
3) ‘The world of Fatwas or the Shariah in action’ by Arun Shourie – Harper
4) ‘The Rich Investor: How to avoid common investing mistakes and build wealth’ by Arjun Parthasarathy – Vision
Video links
1) R. Raghavendra Ravi, Consultant, Chennai, on ‘What Management Is’ by Joan Magretta
2) Launch of ‘India Becoming: A portrait of life in Modern India’ by Akash
Kapur (Penguin)
Information
1) Srividhya Ragavan, Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law, author of ‘Patents and Trade Disparities in Developing Countries’ (OUP)
2) ‘Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a
Globalised World’ by Emma Crewe and Richard Axelby, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (CUP)
Short snatches
1) ‘The Resurgence of Satyam: The global IT giant’ by Zafar Anjum - Landmark
2) ‘How to Outwit Aristotle: And 34 other really interesting uses of
philosophy’ by Peter Cave
3) ‘Uncommon Ground: Dialogues between business and social leaders’ by Rohini Nilekani
4) ‘How Leaders Speak: Essential rules for engaging and inspiring others’ by
Jim Gray
5) ‘The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the newly affluent in China and India’ by Michael J. Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, David Michael
6) ‘Third Man in Havana: Finding the heart of cricket in the world’s most
unlikely places’ by Tom Rodwell
(Subscriptions: http://www.magzter.com/IN/Shrinikethan/Book-Peek/Business/)
‘India Becoming: A portrait of life in Modern India’
by Akash Kapur (Penguin)
Questions posed to author at the event
included the following
How did you select your subjects?
Did you mask their identities?
Is the overall outlook positive?
What does the car on the cover signify?
When did research stop and book begin?
Book launch
Srividhya Ragavan
Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law
Author of ‘Patents and Trade Disparities in
Developing Countries’ (Oxford University Press)
Questions addressed by the author
Is compulsory licensing the best way to provide
access to medication or is patent protection more
efficient?
Should innovation in plant breeding be protected at
all?
If so, should it be using patents or a sui generis
mechanism?
What is the impact of the agricultural negotiations
on plant variety protection?
(Source: OUP)
“For developing countries, the concept of
sustainable development, as opposed to rapid
pockets of development, embodies great promise
for socio-political reasons. To date, most analyses
of development have focused independently on
different trade mechanisms or intellectual
property regimes, which has
resulted in overly narrow and
sometimes paradoxical
conclusions, with corresponding
policy targets that tend to promise
far more than they can deliver…”
Author connect
R. Raghavendra Ravi, Consultant, Chennai
talks about
‘What Management Is’ by Joan Magretta
Currently reading
‘Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World’
by Emma Crewe and Richard Axelby
School of Oriental and African Studies University of London (CUP)
From social media
Short snatches
Published by: Shrinikethan, Chennai http://bit.ly/ShriMap
Edited by: D. Murali http://bit.ly/dMurali http://bit.ly/TopTalk
November 22, 2012