Potpourri Sunday

1. Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental (paperback), by Marc S

Gerstein and Michael Ellsberg, published by Union Square Books, pp 320, Rs 650

2. Sold (paperback) by Patricia McCormick, published by Walker Books, pp 280, Rs 500

3. Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics by Martin Dupuis and Keith

Boeckelman, published by Praeger Books,

pp 184, Rs 595

4. Descent into Chaos: How the War Against

Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid, published by Allen Lane Books,

pp 544, Rs 895

5. Interventions (Paperback) by Noam

Chomsky, published by Penguin Books,

pp 288, Rs 595