What Are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art

By Will Gompertz (2012) Pages: 395, Final verdict: Great-read Could your 5-year old really have painted that work you've seen at the modern art museum? Will Gompertz answers this and other questions in What Are You Looking At by reviewing the most important art movements of the last... Read more

History

Finding George Orwell in Burma

By Emma Larkin (2005) Pages: 295, Final verdict: Great-read Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) was up to 2011 one of the most enclosed countries in the world, ruled by a military junta which successively deterred any attempt for democracy. It is also a country which was occupied as a British... Read more

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Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry

By Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff (2015) Pages: 288, Final verdict: Great-read They were the giants of mobile telecommunications. They represented corporate success. Fidgeting on their keyboard was the signal of power and the aspiration of many. But then, that status was lost. Jacquie McNish, senior correspondent in Toronto for... Read more

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