Bookrack for the week (Feb 28 to March 6)

New releases of the week (Feb 28 to Mar 6)

They Found What/They Made What

Shweta Taneja

Hachette India,
pp 304, Rs 399

Meet India’s brightest scientists and read all about their incredible, groundbreaking inventions in this first-of-its-kind book. Explore the most fascinating fields of science, from nanotechnology and engineering to tropical ecology and molecular physics, and find the answers to the scientific questions you’ve always wondered about.

Think Again

Adam Grant

Penguin, pp 320, Rs 799

This book invites us to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility, humility, and curiosity over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.

This Book Could
Fix Your Life

Helen Thomson

Hachette India,
pp 263, Rs 452

From building confidence and boosting creativity to forming better relationships and getting smarter (and healthier), this book explores the real science behind self-help.

Making Excellence A Habit

Dr V Mohan

Penguin, pp 240, Rs 699

One of the few practising doctors in India who contributed to research, education and charity in such a large measure, the book documents the fundamentals of what makes a person achieve meaningful success.

Black Hole
Paradigm

Abhas Mitra

Macmillan, pp 320,
Rs 599

In this book, the author shows us how, much before the black hole paradigm entered public consciousness, he had proven why the so-called black holes must only be black hole pretenders.