“The world is not responsible for you, you are responsible for yourself in the world,” an excellent reminder when we are tempted to complain. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
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Bookstrapping: Influence Empire – The story of Tencent and China’s tech ambition
Lulu Chen’s book is a window into the brainchild of Pony Ma, Tencent’s ‘influence empire’. Bookstrapping Rating: 4 stars
Bookstrapping: India’s Most Fearless – true stories of extraordinary courage
‘India’s most fearless’ – now a trilogy of books honouring our men in uniform. The third book features ten true stories, providing glimpses of the incredible heroism of Indian soldiers. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars.
Bookstrapping: Hul Hul – The suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855.
The plot, stratagems and alliances of the rebellion itself, form the bulk of the book by Peter Stanley. Meet new heroes you probably haven’t heard of. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
Bookstrapping: Upgrade by Blake Crouch
As our reviewer closed this book, this is what she understood of its message – ‘We need to stop humanity from destroying itself by upgrading our collective intelligence and reason. We will die out in the next century if nothing changes.’ Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
Bookstrapping: The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
Geoff Dyer’s category-defying piece of writing cannot sit in biography or self-help and yet has elements of both. Dyer focuses on the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who wrote their own rules when their beautiful youths were over, writes @OfficialReetaRG Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
Bookstrapping: ‘Wild Wisdom’ by Christine Amour-Levar
‘Wild Wisdom: Life Lessons from Leading Teams to Some of the Most Inhospitable Places in the World’ leaves you disturbed about sustainability and warm about the possibilities if we all came together. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
Bookstrapping: The Man Who Bent Light by Narinder Singh Kapany
The fusion of ‘science as a universal need’ and ‘religion as a universal truth but private practice’ emerges beautifully from this book. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
Bookstrapping: Unsung Genius – A life of Jagadish Chandra Bose
The key message in ‘Unsung Genius’ by Kunal Ghosh revolves around Bose’s enthusiasm about bringing the study of science to the masses and his passion for scientific education and public lectures, despite his failing health. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
Bookstrapping: A review of Reggie Fils Aime’s Disrupting the Game
The book is a “business memoir” in which the reader learns that Reggie Fils Aime ‘lived his life at the intersection of capability and opportunity.’ Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars