Book Reviews

Originally planned as (just) a book review, now also a collection of several articles on the matter of cooperation and ideologies that…

Went through https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1843763311/ while doing a research of past growth cycles.

A book nut that I am, studying well researched books on times of not so distant past captivated me. Especially one concerned of a major…

The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

Lucy’s weekly column in the The Financial Times that I subscribed over a decade ago always carried wit and charisma through which she…

Tristan Donovan won my heart with Replay: The History of Video Games and repeats with a story about the cola wars

New additions, bold plans, ambitious conquests

A titan shares his quirks in a short book — as if a reprieve from the work on his monumental 5th volume on LBJ

Book — A PhD paper review

A story well told often needs an object to feel, touch and relate to: mission accomplished for a former head of the British Museum who…

A beautiful book pondering questions about how religious beliefs shaped societies and how societies formed religion — told through…

A study of of a collective that upheld intellectual debates at times of religious hatred and in part made the intellectual Renaissance…

A well-researched book about cyber-weapons and the need to build deterrence to save the interconnected world we live in

A investigative story by a prominent WSJ journalist about hubris, lies and deception in one of the most lauded medtech startups

A 21st Century Marshall Plan of China

Passing through London on a trip means going through Waterstones: while most of the ethereal cryptical baggage is now carried on Kindle…

A personal account of an uneasy yet respectful relationship with a aspiring global superpower by a respected policy insider

China has been on my mind lately: incresingly after I’ve discovered a what one might call a testing ground for capitalism — Hong Kong — the…