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South Asia and Beyond: Discourses on Emerging Security Challenges and Concerns
By Dhurba Rizal
Rs 1895



The book reflects on changing dimensions of security. It is argued that while the traditional security concerns persist, looming non-traditional security challenges have attended greater salience in recent years. The security agenda as this book demonstrates incorporates state security as well as humanize nation security to include political, economic, social, cultural and environmental dimensions and linkages between them at national, regional and global levels.



Outliers: The story of Success
By Malcolm Gladwell
Rs 560



Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers” the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.



Mandela: The Authorized Biography
By Anthony Sampson
Rs 958



Anthony Sampson, who has known Mandela since 1951 and has been a close observer of South Africa’s political life for the last fifty years, has produced the first authorized biography, the most informed and comprehensive portrait to date of a man whose dazzling image has been difficult to penetrate. With unprecedented access to Mandela’s private papers, meticulous research, and hundreds of interviews from Mandela himself to prison warders on Robben Island, from Walter Sisulu to Winnie Mandela and many others intimately connected to Mandela’s story.

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