On the Grand Trunk Road
10 best books like On the Grand Trunk Road (Steve Coll): The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead, Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine, When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want, Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, The Infinite Game, Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with nature’s most sweeping mysteries....
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
| Author | Laszlo Bock |
| ISBN | 1455554790 |
From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work-and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed.
"We spend more time working than doing anything else...
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Líquidos. Essas substâncias mágicas que fluem pelas nossas vidas.
Da revolucionária caneta de László Biro, ao querosene de Abraham Gesner, das estradas que se reparam automaticamente, passando pelo café, pelo chá ou pela água, Miodownik usa a sua enorme capacidade de divulgador...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 1473680336 |
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
| Author | Nicholas A. Christakis |
| ISBN | 0316230030 |
"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, New York Times), Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity.
For...
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
| Author | Thomas Hager |
| ISBN | 1419734407 |
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does...
When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want
| Author | Mike Lewis |
| ISBN | 1250124212 |
When Mike Lewis was twenty-four and working in a prestigious corporate job, he eagerly wanted to leave and pursue his dream of becoming a professional squash player. But he had questions: When is the right time to move from work that is comfortable to a career you have only dared to dream of? How have other...
Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
| Author | Ahmed Rashid |
| ISBN | 0670023469 |
An urgent, on-the-ground report from Pakistan--from the bestselling author of "Descent""Into Chaos" and "Taliban" Ahmed Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on the social and political situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, offers a highly anticipated update on the possibilities--and...
Do you know how to play the game you're in?
In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified.
In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go,...
Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together
| Author | Belinda Luscombe |
| ISBN | 0399592369 |
A smart and concise guide to staying together that draws on scientific findings, expert advice, and years in the marital trenches to explain why marriage is better for your health, your finances, your kids, and your happiness
Like you, probably, Belinda Luscombe would rather have had her...
This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States
| Author | Anja Manuel |
| ISBN | 1501121995 |
“By turns alarming and encouraging…Manuel delineates with clarity [why] the US must attend closely to…harmonious future relations with China and India” (Kirkus Reviews) and why our obsession with China (as once with Japan) is shortsighted.
In the next decade and a half, China...
The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy That Will Lead to a Career You Love
| Author | Ken Coleman |
| ISBN | 0978562038 |
Right now, 70% of Americans aren't passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They're sick of "average" and know there's something better out there, but they just don't know how to reach it.
One basic principle--The Proximity Principle--can change...
Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
| Author | Jim Collins |
| ISBN | 0062933795 |
A companion guidebook to the number-one bestselling Good to Great, focused on implementation of the flywheel concept, one of Jim Collins’ most memorable ideas that has been used across industries and the social sectors, and with startups.
The key to business success is not a single innovation...
The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth
| Author | Michael Mandelbaum |
| ISBN | 0190935936 |
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart. To be sure,...
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
| Author | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| ISBN | 1476784841 |
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.
Over...
The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.
Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful...
An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
| Author | Allison Schrager |
| ISBN | 0525533966 |
A Financial Times Book of the Month pick for April!
Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave?
Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie?
Should sex workers forfeit 50 percent of their income for added security or take...
Over 5,000 years, India has been home to a rich tapestry of peoples and cultures. Two of the world's great religions - Hinduism and Buddhism - have their origins in South Asia, and the lands east of the Indus River have long been a central hub for trade, migration, and cultural exchange. Today the subcontinent...
