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

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‘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