Good Reads

Robert Kanigel's biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Indian mathematician—originally a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras on a salary of only £20 per annum—tells a fascinating story of genius and the famed collaboration Hardy arranged at Cambridge.

This book is aptly named. Bad Samaritans are the industrialized or developed countries of the world which, having achieved development and riches using specific policies, use that very economic power thus gained to deny identical policies to today’s underdeveloped countries.

"In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?