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How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

By Tim Harford (2020) Pages: 352, Final verdict: Great-read I first came across Tim Harford's writing more than a decade ago, when he wrote of the most popular economics books of the 00's - The Undercover Economist. Since then, Harford become a leading figure in Economics, wrote seven books, and... Read more

Economics

Good Economics for Hard Times

By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2019) Pages: 417, Final verdict: Should-read Growth has been the watchword of this century in economics. It has been promoted as the magic recipe for a proper wealth distribution and one of the biggest challenges of modern societies. But growth is also one... Read more

Economics

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A Promised Land

By Barack Obama (2020) Pages: 701, Final-verdict: Great-read How does it feel to be the President of the United States? In this first of two volumes of his memoir, Barack Obama brings the reader a human view of the office - the feelings, the responsibility, and the family challenges -... Read more

Politics Autobiography

A History of Modern Computing

By Paul E. Ceruzzi (2010) Pages: 445, Final verdict: Great-read There are currently more than 22 billion computing devices in the world. They are everywhere, in laptops, smartphones, cars, and are used in all areas of the economy. But unlike many of the technologies we use today, computers are a... Read more

History

Shores Beyond Shores

By Irene Butter (2018) Pages: 445, Final verdict: Must-read Like so many Jewish families, the life of the Hasenbergs was shaken as the Nazis rose to power in Germany. In Shores beyond Shores, Irene Butter walks us, in the first person, through her family’s terrorizing experience during World War... Read more

History Autobiography