This is the second in series of the book review. In case you haven’t read the previous part, you may find it here, The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti (I/II).
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Book Review: The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti (I/II)
The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti is one of the most profound works that I have ever come across after Vivekananda. I have always been intrigued with relationship between thinker and thought. To some extent, I think, after reading this book, I have come close to the understanding of the mind’s duality, of course in terms of thinker and thought.
Read MoreBook Review: The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Stranger, also known as The Outsider in English, is a novella written by French author Albert Camus in 1942. It stands as the first of Camus’s novels published during his lifetime. The book highlights Camus’ philosophy of absurdism. Although there is no strong story line and writing style is simple, however, I did a couple of pauses here and there to reflect on certain questions about life in general.
Read MoreBook Review: The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality is the second book of theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist, professor Brian Greene. However, this happens to be my third read from the author, first two were Until the End of Time and The Hidden Reality.
Read MoreBook Review: Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari presents a 360-view of how addiction works. It gives a chronological account of the War on Drugs, hence, it’s a largely convincing book. Johann Hari started his journey in the first place as he had a few questions like: What causes addiction? Is there any alternative to system that we have been using that doesn’t seem to work?
Read MoreBook Review: I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Ed Yong’s masterful journal, I Contain Multitudes happens to be my first microbiology book that I decided to hang out with. And it didn’t let me down, in fact, the book offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of microbes.
Read MoreBook Review: The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
Lately, Dr. Michio Kaku’s book The Future of Humanity caught my attention. The book is uber fascinating and it was difficult to put it down, I finished reading in less than a week. I wasn’t reading, rather I was witnessing the ‘space odyssey’ in Dr. Kaku’s style.
Read MoreBook Review: The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
The Hidden Reality talks about parallel universes and the deep laws of cosmos by Professor Brian Greene. It has been nominated for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books for 2012.
Read MoreBook Review: Until the End of Time by Brian Greene
This is one of the best books on Existentialism. Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, postulates a reductionist view that after all, we beings of planet Earth are nothing more than a “bag of particles”.
Read MoreBook Review: The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
As the title suggests, the biography is on the life of the self-taught mathematical prodigy Srinavasa Ramanujan Iyengar, through the lens of Robert Kanigel. Not only the book sheds light on the life and history of Ramanujan but we also get to know the lives of Godfrey Harold Hardy, his mentor in England and his friend John Edensor Littlewood.
Read MoreBook Review: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Although title of the book says Astrophysics for People in a Hurry but believe me the book has more depth than the label interprets. Neil deGrasse Tyson is an epitome of masterly skill at explaining complex scientific concepts into the most elementary and comprehensible manner. He makes astrophysics so interesting that even a person who has no inclination towards the subject will surely gravitate towards the space and evolutionary history after listening to his talks. His enthusiasm is contagious indeed.
Read MoreBook Review: Rapt Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher opens up with William James’s famous quote, “My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind”. This is one of the most powerful lines that I have come across. It’s so simple yet so profound to execute.
Read MoreBook Review: Open An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
J.R. Moehringer did a fantastic job in writing Andre Agassi’s ‘autobiography’, Open: An Autobiography. He gave his best shot again right after his own famous memoir “The Tender Bar”. Deftly, Moehringer slips into telling Agassi’s life on paper as if he had lived it too.
Read MoreBook Review: Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine M Pittman, Elizabeth M Karle
Anxiety is part of our everyday life but chronic anxiety is a type of mental illness. It is neither a temporary problem nor does it get away with medications. It can have serious consequences on health such as depression, mood swings, headache, panic attacks, pounding heart, breathing problems, extreme fatigue, increase in blood pressure and so on.
Read MoreBook Review: The Yoga of Time Travel by Fred Alan Wolf
This weekend I finished reading one of the most remarkable books, The Yoga of Time Travel: How the Mind Can Defeat Time by Fred Alan Wolf. Time travel, a concept has always intrigued me including movies based on the same. This book surpasses every motion picture that I have seen so far. Very deftly, Wolf has woven threads of Vedic philosophy into quantum physics and alternative philosophies like Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
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