December 13, 2012 1 Book Peek

Quick look at a few books

BOOK PEEK

December 13, 2012 2 Book Peek

Contents of the issue dated December 13, 2012

Reviews

‘Lessons in Lean Management: 53 ideas to transform services’ by

Debashis Sarkar

‘The Alchemy of Well-being’ by Indrajit Garai - Landmark

‘Paperclips Don’t Grow on Trees: Add value not cost to the bottomline’

by Catherine DeVrye

‘Creating Personal Presence: Look, talk, think, and act like a leader’

by Dianna Booher

‘Planet Ponzi: How the world got into this mess, what happens next,

how to save yourself’ by Mitch Feierstein

‘No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The untold story of one of history’s

deadliest floods’ by Utpal Sandesara, Tom Wooten

New arrivals: From Harper, Viva, TiE, Wiley

Short snatches

‘The Price of Civilization: Reawakening virtue and prosperity after the

economic fall’ by Jeffrey Sachs

‘Churning the Earth: The making of global India’ by Aseem

Shrivastava, Ashish Kothari

‘True North Groups: A powerful path to personal and leadership

development’ by Bill George, Doug Baker

‘Time to Start Thinking: America and the spectre of decline’ by

Edward Luce

‘Fit Pregnancy: The complete health plan for you and your baby’ by

Namita Jain – Harper

‘Let’s Talk: Negotiation & communication at the workplace’ by Mukta

Mahajani – Jaico

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December 13, 2012 3 Book Peek

‘Blood Red Sari’ - by Ashok Banker - Harper

‘Think Everest’ - 2e - Atul and Anita Karwal - Viva

‘The Tale of Tibet’ - Anita Kainthla - Viva

‘Dream to Destiny: The driving spirit of Chennai’s entrepreneurs’ - TiE

Chennai

New arrivals

December 13, 2012 4 Book Peek

‘Debacle: Obama’s war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to

regain our future’ - by Grover G. Norquist and John R. Lott, Jr. – Wiley

New arrival: Debacle

December 13, 2012 5 Book Peek

Short snatches

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December 13, 2012