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Why Nations Fail: The Origin of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
 by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
Rs 2220
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.
 What Young India wants
by Chetan Bhagat
Rs 224
What Young India Wants is based on Chetan Bhagats vast experience as a very successful writer and motivational speaker. In clear, simple prose, and with great insight, he analyses some of the complex issues facing modern India, offers solutions and invites discussion on them. If you want to understand contemporary India, the problems that face it, and want to be a part of the solution, What Young India Wants is the book for you.
 The Silk Road in World History
by Xinru Liu
Rs 792
The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. Using supply and demand as the framework for analyzing the formation and development of the Silk Road, the book examines the dynamics of the interactions of the nomadic pastoralists with sedentary agriculturalists, and the spread of new ideas, religions, and values into the world of commerce, thus illustrating the cultural forces underlying material transactions
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