Arjun Srivastava's Library

How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs—and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic ...

How to Invent Everything: Rebuild All of Civilization (With 96% Fewer Catastrophes This Time)
Ryan North
***One of BBC Focus magazine's top books of 2018***Get ready to make history better... on the second try.Imagine you are stranded in the past (your time machine has broken) and the only way home is to rebuild civilization yourself. But you need to do...

How to Lie with Maps
Mark Monmonier

How to Measure Anything
Douglas W. Hubbard
Now updated with new measurement methods and new examples, How to Measure Anything shows managers how to inform themselves in order to make less risky, more profitable business decisionsThis insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure t...

How to Tame a Fox (And Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut
Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs—they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing...

How to Win an Indian Election: What Political Parties Don’t Want You to Know
Shivam Shankar Singh
What role do political consultants play in election campaigns? How are political parties using technological tools such as data analytics, surveys and alternative media to construct effective, micro-targeted campaigns? How does the use of money impa...

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
Norbert Wiener
This is one of the fundamental documents of our time, a period epitomized by the concepts of ‘information’ and ‘communications’. Norbert Wiener, a child prodigy and a great mathematician, coined the term ‘cybernetics’ to characterize a very general ...