Books on Current Affairs & Global Affairs. Knowledge necessary for Business.

Hai,

We live in the world of information. Facebook & Watsapp are eating most of our time but we are not sure that the messages circulated are authenticated and we also see that the wrong messages gets circulated forever /without an expiry date.

As Gandhiji says,
True Education Must Correspond to the Surrounding Circumstances or it is not a healthy growth

Dr.Saravepalli Radhakrishnan says,

Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures. 

Very few talks / shares has exact information, wherein it reaches only few people. The unbiased open talks, receives lot of criticism and if the speaker is not good in the arguments, gives an impression to the viewers, that his statements may be wrong.

We don't do much of googling in these news.

Your perception differs, when you are in business. You will listen to those who gives you rare data, valid data/ information. And you will be doing continous extensive research and keep your senses active, as any piece of information will help you in decision making.

Only very few writers has interest in writing books on current social issues. Those are the ones, who are socially service minded people and who puts others before self. They are the ones, who wants the society to be uplifted and educate the people on "What is What". Only few books gets published.

Here are some books in Current affairs and Global affairs, that will definitely help you to understand better about the Indian / Global Society.

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AGE OF ANGER : A History of the Present
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AGE OF ANGER : A History of the Present Pankaj Mishra


Why do young men and women from the West join an extremist organization like ISIS? Why are we seeing the rise of aggressive right-wing politics in countries such as India, Turkey and USA, the expansion of Islamist terror, massacres in Western metropolises, wars in the Middle East? And in what way is the politics of anger and violence connected? In this outstanding book, Pankaj Mishra argues that the roots of our age of anger lie in the great economic and political revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Europe and the traumatic social and political changes they brought. Boldly argued and with a canvas that stretches from Savarkar in India to Rousseau in France, Age of Anger is a must-read to understand the world today.
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist. In 1992, Mishra moved to Mashobra, a Himalayan village, where he began to contribute literary essays and reviews to The Indian Review of Books, The India Magazine, and the newspaper The Pioneer. His first book, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995), was a travelogue that described the social and cultural changes in India in the context of globalization. His novel The Romantics (2000), an ironic tale of people longing for fulfilment in cultures other than their own, was published in 11 European languages and won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction. In 2005, Mishra published an anthology of writings on India, India in Mind. His writings have been anthologised in The Picador Book of Journeys (2000), The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature (2004), Away: The Indian Writer as Expatriate (2004), and A History of Indian Literature in English (2003), among many other titles. Mishra has written literary and political essays for The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and the New Yorker, among other American, British, and Indian publications. He is a recipient of the 2014 WindhamûCampbell Prize for non-fiction. He had written following Books: Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995); The Romantics (2000); An End to Suffering: the Buddha in the World (2004); India in Mind, edited by Pankaj Mishra (2005); Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond (2006); Kashmir: The Case for Freedom (2011); From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (2012); A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours (2013); Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017).
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CULTURE : LEADING SCIENTISTS EXPLORE SOCIETIES, ART, POWER AND TECHNOLOGY Edge.Org

Why do civilizations rise and fall What are the origins and purpose of art How does technology shape society Did culture direct human evolution Is the Internet an agent of democracy or dictatorships An immensely powerful but little-understood force that impacts society, art, politics, and even human biological development, culture is the very stage on which human experience plays out. But what is it, exactly What are its rules and origins In this fascinating volume, John Brockman, editor and publisher of Edge, presents short, accessible explorations of cultureÆs essential aspects, by today's most influential scientists and thinkers. Contributors and topics include: Jared Diamond on why societies collapse and how we can make better decisions to protect our own future Denis Dutton on the origins of art Daniel C. Dennett on the evolution of cultures Jaron Lanier on the ominous impact of the Internet Nicholas Christakis on the structure and rules of social networks, both ôrealö and online Clay Shirky and Evgeny Morozov on the new political reality of the digital era Brian Eno on what cultures value Stewart Brand on the responsibilities of human power Douglas Rushkoff on the next Renaissance W. Daniel Hillis on the Net as a global ôknowledge webö



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Social Sciences and Sociology - Minnie Vaid

An ant in the ear of an elephant can cause a lot of trouble, can't it? declares a woman protesting against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu, describing the daily, peaceful, non-violent protest that she and other women from nearby villages have been carrying on in Idinthakarai since August 15, 2011. It is the proverbial fight between David and Goliath, with the villagers living in the vicinity of the KKNPP and most affected by it, pitted against the might and machinery of the Government of India. For these villages along the coastal belt of Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and Tuticorin districts--that have a nuclear plant almost in their backyard--radiation is a real fear that dominates their lives and dictates their choices; to protest, to fast, to demonstrate against the government, to face arrest and incarceration. These Project Affected People or PAP do not believe the governments assurances that the plant is totally safe because they have not been consulted in any discussions about the KKNPP. Led by the Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) and its coordinator S P Udayakumar, the women who form the backbone of the Koodankulam struggle, are fiercely courageous, well informed and steadfast in their resolve to oppose the KKNPP and nuclear power and continue to protestà Minnie Vaid spent time in June 2013 with the intrepid women leading the Koodankulam struggle to record their fears, their demands and their hopes for the future. A month later, Unit 1 of the KKNPP was commissioned. She went back to Idinthakarai in January 2014 to talk to the women about their game plan.
  • About the Author: Minnie Vaid is a print and television journalist, having worked at prestigious organisations such as the Times of India's Illustrated Weekly, India Today's Newstrack, Business India Television's Roots and Star Plus, and Mahindra's Mumbai Mantra. She is also a part-time activist full-time procrastinator. Wrote books on Binayak Sen, Irom Sharmila and the Koodankulam people's struggle. mumbai. Writing (books and scripts) and directing films which have a strong social message is her passion. Also focussing on rural india and its positive and disturbing elements too has remained a life long commitment to her.



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INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM AND THE SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY : CITIZENS RISING


From the fall of the Soviet Union to the Arab Spring to todays continuing conflicts, media have played a decisive role in political affairs across the globe-driving the revolutionary changes shaping todays new world. This is the first book presenting a comprehensive look at the emergence of media as a primary actor and not merely an observer, of global affairs. As the founder and CEO of Internews, the worlds largest non-governmental media development organization, David Hoffman has had a backstage pass to many of the seminal world political upheavals in recent years. In these pages we see how media have been used for good and bad and how with the rise of digital technology, the power of media to intervene in global affairs is in the hands of everyone-including you. Citizens Rising examines medias historic impact and offers a road-map to the future.
  1. About the Author: David Hoffman is president emeritus and founder of Internews, a global non-profit organization that fosters independent media and access to information worldwide. The organization has helped build thousands of television and radio stations in some of the most difficult environments in the world. Hoffman has written widely about media and democracy, the Internet and the importance of supporting pluralistic, local media around the world. His articles and op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and The San Francisco Chronicle.
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