Naveen Patnaik - Ruben Banerjee (2019)

When you have a political leader who is so silent and so cut off from state politics from his early days of life, it's really hard to find much from his life, more so his unpublished life. Ruben Banerjee presents a very balanced view, not something you can say overtly positive or negative about the person. Not something that's not known of the person from his political life post-1997 which is the life of a modern non-spiritual Saint. Someone who is broadly cut off from any attachments yet in the thick of every aspect of the state as the longest-term chief minister in India. Although the son of a famous daredevil father who has the charisma to rule over the hearts of many Odias, the son is a suave silent political master who knows to be powerful among all highs and lows. Both had very different styles of taking political life. 

While the political struggles have been talked about in detail, why he wins is a chapter dedicated to his accomplishments in running a state for almost 20 years and improving the financial and social value of the people. Lastly the ability to maintain a consistent image that is distant from his early life socialite is definitely a plus for him.

A must-read and almost unputdownable. 

PDF Explained - John Whitington(2011)

 The book is good introduction to PDF but has left lots of details away. One can get a good understanding of 1.3 or 1.4 but PDF specification gets more complex after 1.5. So some of those parts must make it to the book. I prefer Developing with PDF for more advanced concepts though. Liked this book for the hand editable examples that are very useful to explain someone about PDF. 

Being in Safari Online collection this book adds a lot of value to customers. 

Developing with PDF - Leonard Rosenthol(2013)

 I normally do not write commentary on technical books as they are kind of associated with a period and as technology moves on new technology shows up. The books get outdated too soon. This one is about a technology that has almost seen maturity. PDF specification is pretty much a mature specification. Post release of the ISO-32000-1 published in 2008, the pace of development in PDF spect has become really slow. The PDF 2.0 spec is more of minor updates and not a major rewrite. The book is published in 2013. So very much current in that respect. The good part about this book is, it covers the high level features of most of the PDF specification. Text, Graphics, Optional Content etc. There are only countable books on PDF specification as such. Many books are available on the libraries that can be used to read and modify PDF specification documents. But purely a book that speaks of file specification is only countable few. From that perspective the book has lots of information look forward to. Secondly, being part of the Safari Online collection of Oreilly, most technical libraries will have access to the book. 

If you are looking forward to working on PDFs then this is a important book to keep. For advanced users of PDF specification is the book to refer to.