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Bookstrapping: How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner

As per Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta's review, the authors explain concepts such as commitment fallacy, bad-casting and critical errors such as 'what you see is all there is', with genuine empathy. They also openly confront disagreements. (Image source: Amazon)

The authors emphasize that before launching a project, it would be useful to check how long, other similar projects have taken and build an estimate from there. Even if the available estimate is a remote one, reviews Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta.

Bookstrapping: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

Every conversation is a negotiation. The book makes an insightful reference to the Harvard Negotiation Project and its outcome, ‘Getting To Yes,’ a book which turned our understanding of negotiation upside down, states Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta in her review.

Miscommunication occurs when people are having different kinds of conversations. On the contrary, good communication comes from symmetry. So pause a moment to understand what kind of conversation is happening, highlights Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta in her review.

Bookstrapping – The Jannayak Karpoori Thakur: Voice of the Voiceless by Santosh Singh and Aditya Anmol

As per Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta's review, tahe book explores Karpoori Thakur’s affinity to Mahabharata’s Eklavya- a wronged warrior-in detail. In the Jannayak’s own words, “Eklavya is a symbol of injustice, atrocity, disparity, neglect and deprivation of one’s rights in our social system; what was meted out to Eklavya is a living example of injustice and atrocity happening for 5000 years in Indian society."

As per the review by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, the book ‘The Jannayak Karpoori Thakur: Voice of the Voiceless’, helps the reader navigate the concept of democratic socialism- and engage in a lively debate on the same.

Bookstrapping – Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria

As per Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta's review, author Fareed Zakaria goes on to emphasise that the state of the world today, is dispersed. There is a loss of faith in God, religion, politics, institutions, norms, and experts. Referencing Lee Kuan Yew’s work in Singapore, he asks, “How do we build a common civic culture?”

As per the review by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, among many other insights, the author Fareed Zakaria proposes that the first move to defy monarchy and form a republican government was in the late 16th century; viz. the revolution in the Netherlands. This was an important movement that also spread to Britain, which soon after also pioneered the industrial revolution.

Bookstrapping: From Ideas to Impact by Michael Sheldrick

Peppered with real life anecdotes, such as Coldplay powering an entire show with energy from repurposed BMW car batteries, the book humanises advocacy. Sheldrick asks you to humanise your story in the same way, when you set out to convert your ideas for a better world, into action, reviews Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta. (Image source: Amazon)

As per the review by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, the book ‘From Ideas To Impact’ offers an eight step guide to policy entrepreneurship. Policy entrepreneurship itself, is about people combining the visionary, diplomatic, and implementation approaches, to transform an idea into tangible impact.

Bookstrapping: Now that I have your attention by Nicolas Hamilton

What is worse, is that the first flush of success, after years of feeling left out, comes with its own challenges. The loneliness of exclusion can bring negative influences into your life, who now see your money and encourage you to be part of activities like gambling, reviews Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta. (Image source: Amazon)

As per the review put down by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, the book is structured into seven chapters, which are more like seven lessons from the author’s life. They stand out extremely relevant for parents raising kids with disabilities; as the author explains- people talk ‘about’ your kids but not ‘to’ your kids.

Bookstrapping: Mr. Einstein’s Secretary by Matthew Reilly

Another factual thread in the book is that the period before 1920 was one during which the European nations were fighting each other and America outgrew Europe. And Hanna saw this contrast in action, as everyone in America was getting ‘richer and richer, reviews Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta. (Image source: Amazon)

As per the review by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta ‘Mr. Einstein’s Secretary’ is ‘historical fiction’ set around the 1920s to 1940s. So a few fictional characters meet a set of real characters at an important period in history and a story plays out from there. Our heroine is Hanna Fisher; a fictional character who escapes Berlin in 1919 after the death of her mother and the murder of her father!”

Bookstrapping: A tribute to a Nobel Laureate

‘Dear Life’, another collection released in 2012, was intended to be her last. Her stories are everyday stories of everyday people- those whom we don’t expect to encounter in books, writes Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta. (Image source: Britannica)

As per the review of Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, the compilation, ‘Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage’, which was released in 2001 cannot be missed. A story from this compilation, ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’, which spoke of Alzheimer’s disease, was made into a film titled ‘Away From Her’ in 2006.

Bookstrapping – The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson

As per Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta's review, "Gary Stevenson gets really funny as well. While the constant refrain in every brokers' ‘sad and mad’ life remains, ‘will I get paid?’ and ‘can I leave?’, Gary tells you that about a curious Japanese belief- they mistake Santa Claus for the KFC guy!" (Image source: Amazon)

The author talks about himself as a character in the book. Gary reveals that while in school, he got expelled for drugs, realised that good grades alone don’t lead to great jobs, won a poker-like trading competition, made it to Citibank and then made out of it too, reviews Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta.

Bookstrapping: Eden Abandoned – The story of Lilith by Shinie Antony

The evocation of feminism, is dealt with in the most fascinating manner. The author brings Lilith alive in the most irreverent way, for she believes that it was Adam’s ‘contempt for himself that interfered with his joy in her!", reviews Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta. (Image source: Amazon)

The book puts an entirely new spin on the very idea of worship and dignity. With chapters numbered in reverse, from thirteen to zero and unnamed, the reader can make their imagination go wild, reviews Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta.