The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua25.1.2019
Interesting personal story with a great sense of intellectual humour and great insights on cultural differences.
Non-Fiction
Appointment with Death
Agatha Christie25.1.2019
This is a classic style Hercule Poirot novel and quite good one.
Fiction
The Templars
Dan Jones31.12.2018
This is an objective and fact based history of Templars without pop-culture additions or any romanticising. It also gives some insights of medieval political life in general.
Non-Fiction
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark10.11.2018
This is the most well informed and neutral book about future of AI I have read, by an author who’s has great authority in this field.
How to remove certain property from all objects inside a object
10.10.2018
Sometimes you have a data object, with a set of objects inside it and maybe even object inside each child object and you want to get certain property removed from all these child objects. Here’s one way to do it.
Advanced
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries10.10.2018
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Business
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari17.9.2018
Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now
Non-Fiction
Platform Revolution
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne , Sangeet Paul Choudary30.8.2018
This books is a good business book introducing reader to Platform based business model and how it works.
Business
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore16.8.2018
This was a good basic view of Romanov family and their 300 year reign of Russia. It really focuses on Romanov family and reader doesn’t get really good sense of historical context where events takes place.
Non-Fiction
The Theory of Everything
Stephen Hawking9.8.2018
Seven lectures by the brilliant theoretical physicist have been compiled into this book to try to explain to the common man, the complex problems of mathematics and the question that has been gripped everyone all for centuries, the theory of existence.
Non-Fiction
Origin Story: A Big History of everything
David Christian29.6.2018
In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire 13.8 billion years we’ve come to know as “history.” By focusing on defining events (thresholds), major trends, and profound questions about our origins, Christian exposes the hidden threads that tie everything together.
Non-Fiction
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
Agatha Christie28.6.2018
Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.
Fiction