IN the middle of Ladakh, at a height of 3,100 metres, in a village called Uleptokpo, young Sonam Wangchuk knew what it was to live in the midst of water shortages.

The book titled One Health Perspective on Antimicrobial Resistance and Some Strategies for its Mitigation is a publication of the Centre for Science & Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre.

Nanoscal provides deep insights into social, cultural, geographical and other factors that play a role in shaping nanotechnology development in India.

The book focusses on 15 inventions, starting with the Fortran programming language which in 1957 exploded the number of people who could control a mainframe computer, from the small numbers who could write in the binary code of ones and zeros to anyone who could remember instructions in simple English.

The space race of the 1950s culminated in making space assets a crucial part of the defence system of most countries.

Like most people, I too had an obsession for the prettiest and modest Insects – the Butterflies.

This book dramatically titled Around the World in 80 Trees recounts the tales of trees in a simple and elegant way in 236 pages.

Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book needs to be read after you have digested his Sapiens and before or after you have read through his Homo Deus.