Selection Day by Aravind Adiga

Selection Day by Aravind AdigaManju is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented brother and is fascinated by CSI and curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn't know . . . Everyone around him, it seems, has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except

draws on his considerable expertise to answer this question and to show what we can all do now to teach ourselves and our machines how to live better

forge new alliances

The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths

To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit

* A listing of the qualities of foods and their effects on the doshas

in ‘mountain mammals’ we cross high passes and go above the tree line in search of Brown bears

in magazines

bases his theories on the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda

The Psychology Book looks at all the greats from Pavlov and Skinner to Freud and Jung

Katy Milkman shows in this book that we can all be a super human' Angela Duckworth

The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general

and Lincoln Hall who was left for dead yet miraculously survived