Name of the book : The Assertive YOU

Author : Stanley Phelps & Nancy Austin

Publisher : Jaico publishing House

Edition/Year : Not mentioned

Contributed by : Srinivasa Subrahmanyam Neralla

Email ID : info@anavascha.com

Date of contribution : 11-12-25

Comment :

This is a free book distributed inside India and Nepal. This thin book comprising only 32 pages is a treasure in real terms. The book is organized in 11 small chapters which teach us how to become an assertive person, the dynamics involved, empowering yourself, expressing realistically, believing that you are worth it, handling of complements, criticism and rejection, learning to say NO, understanding why people manipulate, need of good humor and finally resulting in Assertive family relationship.

Name of the book : The Little book of CALM

Author : Dr Aaron Balick

Publisher : Penguin Random House UK

Edition/Year : First Edition / 2018

Contributed by : Srinivasa Subrahmanyam Neralla

Email ID : info@anavascha.com

Date of contribution : 21-12-25

Comment :

This book has been conceived considering the inevitable worries in our life and strategies that may work for you to handle them. Gives insights and enables you to face them with right perspective. This book has127 pages and organized in multiple chapters. It inspires us to realize our capacity to meet life’s challenges. Book is full of good quotations. The three hormones, namely cortisol, adrenaline and norepinephrine responsible for our stress are nicely explained. The Author’s creative explanation of anxiety through a formula is unique. It is worth reading this book given an opportunity.

Name of the book : Better Business Writing

Author : Bryan A. Garner

Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press, Boston,

                    Massachusetts

Edition/Year : 2012

Contributed by : Srinivasa Subrahmanyam Neralla

Email ID : info@anavascha.com

Date of contribution : 21-01-26

Comment :

This wonderful book is based on the thought of not letting your writing hold you back. The book has special emphasis on bringing in clarity, quick delivery, understanding your readers, collection of data, organizing, polishing the ideas so gathered, not waiting for inspiration, leaving perfectionism while writing, improving what has been written, selective usage of graphics, relentless clarity, summarizing accurately, wasting no words, plain spoken, chronology wherever required, focus on grammar, getting feed back from friends and colleagues etc.

What enthused me in this book is the novel reference to Data dentistry, Data ink ratio and advocating for excluding bilateral symmetry,

This book has 201 pages and is organized in 21 chapters. Each chapter is backed by a Recap section to consolidate what has been learnt. It is also supported by six rich appendices on further improving your writing. It is never late to work on improving the language we use, to communicate properly and effectively. I strongly recommend you to read this book.

Name of the book : The Psychology of Money

Author : Morgan Housel

Publisher : Jaico Publishing House, Mumbai, India

Edition/Year : 60th Jaco Impression 2022

Contributed by : Srinivasa Subrahmanyam Neralla

Email ID : info@anavascha.com

Date of contribution : 11-08-26

Comment :

Everyone is left with some money at the end of Productive life. They expect that this money shall work for them till the end of their lives. It is almost justified that we can expect others to help us all the times. The way we plan for the education or a travel, we need to plan for the passive income which can ensure that we maintain the same life style, if not better. In this journey, we need to understand how money works for us and this book gives us many insghts.

The book is organized in 20 concise chapters. It starts with a quote from Sherlock Holmes which goes like “The World is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observe”.

The book has given vivid accounts of lives of several successful persons and how they continue to be successful or went down the hill due to mismanagement.

What they did correctly or not, helps us in understanding, how the World works. It nicely explains how health and money are intertwined. The Author could complete the book in 220 pages based on his belief that most readers do not finish the books they begin because most single topics do not require 300-page explanation.

The analysis also points out to the experiences of different generations in their times. People’s life time investment decisions are heavily anchored to the experiences those investors had in their own generation, especially the experiences of their early life. The analogy of luck and risk as siblings is unique. This book really gives us lot of actionable takeaways based on the broad patterns of success. The other important attribute of this book the “Sense of enough”, which stops us doing anything beyond a certain point. The numerous examples from real life taches us relatable lessons to keep ourselves be responsible with our Money. Overall this is a great reading.