Annuals

The Reference Annual -India 2008 portrays every aspect of our large and diverse country. It encapsulates the nation's rapid strides in various fields in the year gone by, provides the profile of all the Indian States and deals with various aspects of our country, including the land and people, history, art and culture. The Reference Annual also compiles reliable and updated information about India's economy, polity, scientific achievements and basic infrastructure, obtained from various central ministries and several important organizations.

Biography

The book comprises a series of biographical reflections about people who influenced Gandhi, and those who were, influenced by him. Whilst the previous literature has tended to focus on Gandhi's political legacy. The author offers new and intriguing insights into the life and thought of one of the best-known and most significant figures of the twentieth century.

 

Ho Chi Minh is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, considered an icon and father of the nation by many Vietnames. Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Chi Minh is a brilliant feat of historical engineering. In a concise and highly readable account, author negotiates the many twists and turns of Ho Chi Minh's life and his multiple identities, from impoverished beginnings as a communist revolutionary to his founding of the Indochina Communist Party and the League for the Independence of Vietnam, and ultimately to his leadership of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and his death in 1969.

Dictionary

The dictionary contains over 8, 000 entries on all aspects of the environment and conservation. Coverage is uniquely inter-disciplinary. As well as scientific aspects, it also covers social dimensions such as international treaties, movements, trusts, and organizations

Economics

This book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of the burgeoning field of happiness and economics. The essays collected provide an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the theoretical, applied and partly experimental aspects of the whole field and discuss the economic, sociological, philosophical, and psychological contributions to the field. The book breaks new ground, particularly on the more recent directions of research on happiness, well-being, interpersonal relations and reciprocity.

Global Warming

This book looks at the key issues. The science, the politics, what is happening in today's threatened world and what can be done. Climate change is the most important issue of the 21st century. The global economy, and civilization itself, may collapse unless greenhouse gas emissions are controlled. Already global warming touches every part of the planet and people everywhere are affected in their daily lives. The book presents a number of measures that can be taken at an individual community, regional and international level to reverse global warming.

History

Battle for peace / Krishna Kumar. --New Delhi: Penguin books, 2007

The book examines the prospects of peace in South Asia with a refreshing new perspective. Indo-Pak relations are characterized by a maze of feelings, thoughts and suspicions that have been used to justify chronic distrust and war by successive generations on both sides of the border. This is an introspective and thought-provoking book from which emerges a persuasive argument for peace, while the rhetoric of a romantic past is rejected.

This book provides an invaluable guide to today's Russia for specialists and non-specialists alike. The author interviewed seventeen key Russian and American policy makers and analysts. The discussions with the most influential policymakers and reformers of the period are riveting and the approach gives crucial insights. The volume will be useful to researchers and students in development economics, political economy, and Soviet studies.

This volume examines the legacy of Alexander, the Macedonian, as it survived and transformed itself in literature, the arts and archaeology in Asia. The tendency to idealise Alexander began in antiquity and by the Roman period, a body of romance had grown around him, which continued to expand in almost every language from Scotland to Mongolia.

This revised edition refers to new ideas on the civilization and to recent excavations at a small but significant site. The challenges of archaeological interpretation are discussed, together with maps, site plans and illustrations of artifacts, but the evidence is presented in social terms rather than in a technical way.

Information & Communication Technology

This volume views the diffusion of ICTs in India primarily in the socio-cultural realm. In responding to the pioneering voices of innovators in ICTs, it provides empirical and theoretical assessments and critiques of some of the important, though often latent, premises that underlie these powerful initiatives. The book traces these processes across urban and rural spaces of work, consumption, e-governance, and highlights the new kinds of social identities they are fostering in India. It opens up an arena for dialogue between activists, technologists, policy makers and academia on using ICTs for development.

International Relations

The author highlights the array of notable dissenters who are challenged major presidential foreign policy initiatives. This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean war. This period of one hundred and fifty years saw the growth of the United States from fragile republic to transcontinental giant and author explores the dissenters voices which accompanied this dramatic ascent.

Knowledge Management

This book provides an extraordinary integration of literature on knowledge work, accompanied by a large number of cases and stories to illustrate underlying ideas. This book focuses on the processes through which knowledge is created, accumulated, and put to use in the knowledge-driven global economy. Its unique perspective stems from its knowledge diamond framework to examine how individuals, communities, organizations, and host industries reciprocally influence each other in the course of knowledge work.

Literature

This is the only Indian novel that called for the freedom of India from British rule. It brings history alive, depicting most movingly the decay of an entire culture and way of life. The book has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian and Urdu.

 

Organizational Change

The sustainability and spread of organizational change: modernizing healthcare / Buchanan, David A., ed. London: Routledge, 2007

The book examines issues affecting the sustainability and spread of new working practices. The question of why good ideas do not spread, the best practices puzzle has been widely reorganized. The key message is that sustainability and spread are intimately linked and it helpfully outlines the complex mediators of such challenging social processes.

Public Administration

Managing performance in the public sector / Bruijn, Hans de.--London: Routledge, 2007

This new edition shows how performance thinking has a substantial impact on the management of public sector organizations, as governments around the world use performance measurement to evaluate their products and services. The book also deals with indicators of success and how effective are these systems.

Sociology

Anthropology, politics and the state: democracy and violence in South Asia / Spencer, Jonathan.New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2007

In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics, Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new way of analyzing the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence.
Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the sub-continent.

This is a brave book tat tackles the complex subject of regeneration in a period of unparalleled change. This thought-provoking book contains powerful arguments that need to be heeded if regeneration is to maximize its impact in a changing world. It has a far reaching scope beyond urban regeneration with implications for managing all social systems.

United Nations

This is a book on an exceedingly important subject at the current juncture in world affairs. The position of Secretary-General is a job like no other. The person requires the skills of a general, yet the humility to serve as a secretary. Whether dealing with disasters that are natural or man-made, the Secretary-General is expected to conduct the world orchestra of nations. The book also examines the difficulties experienced by each Secretary-General which reflect the profound ambivalence of states towards entrusting their security, interests, or resources to an intergovernmental body.

Water and Sanitation

This book deals with the real situation in drinking water supply and sanitation in India. The water and sanitation picture for the rural and urban poor in India is dismal and a lot needs to be done to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of having the number of people without these essentials. Traditionally, the public sector in India was assigned a dominant role in planning, development and management of drinking water supply and sanitation projects.

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