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Shah
Jahan and his paradise on earth: the story of Shah Jahan’s
creations in Agra and Shahjahanabad in the golden days /
Sarker, Kobita. --Kolkata: K.P. Bagchi, 2007 (Reference) |
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This book transports us to
Shah Jahan's Hindustan where every aspect of life, socio-political,
architectural and cultural had reached the pinnacle of glory. The author
highlights the Shahjahani era as the golden period of Mughal rule because
the salient features of good governance which characterized the rule of the
great Mughals seem to have attained their fulfillment under the able rule of
Shah Jahan where a balance was struck between Shariat and rules of good
governance, where justice was assured to all, where efficiency was the
criterion for preference. |
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Shape: talking about seeing and doing / Stiny, George. --Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006 (Reference) |
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Shapes are devices for visual expression just as symbols are devices for
verbal expression. The author develops a unified scheme that includes both
visual expression with shapes and verbal expression with sign. |
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Shopping environments: evolution, planning and design / Coleman, Peter. --Oxford: Elsevier, 2006 (Reference) |
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This design guide has
over 600 illustrations that present the core values and considerations that
make a successful retail center; location and catchment including user needs
as well as access and layout. Covering everything from site master planning
to the essentials of public facilities and the technical systems, this is
essential reading for architects of contemporary shopping centers. |
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Biography |
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Wings
of fire: an autobiography: abridged Audiobook / Kalam, A. P. J., Abdul.
Chennai: Charkha Audiobook, 2004 |
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This
book is an extraordinary story that journeys the life of APJ Abdul Kalam
starting from his childhood as a common boat owner's son in the island-town
of Rameswaram, to his emergence as one of India's most distinguished
citizens. In a manner that is modest and self-effacing, Kalam traces his
life as a son, student, engineer, scientist and leader, and ascribes his
achievements to the influence of his parents, mentors and teachers. |
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Dams |
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'One
valley and a thousand': Dams, Nationalism, and development / Klingensmith,
Daniel.
New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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The
author shows how American river control projects influenced thinking on
development along the Damodar, and how Indian development visionaries
interpreted TVA, ultimately in an attempt to come to terms with concerns
that were more cultural than economic. He demonstrates how development
policies and actions - the construction of dams, power stations, and
irrigation canals. |
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History |
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Diaries of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan 1966-1972 / Khan, Mohammad Ayub.
--New Delhi:
Oxford, 2007 |
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The
present volume contains the diaries maintained by Field Marshal Ayub Khan
from September 1966 to October 1972. The diaries cover a very turbulent
period in Pakistan's history that included Ayub's Khan's yielding of the
presidency to Yahya Khan, the period of Yahya Khan's rule that saw the end
of the unified state of Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh, and
finally, the replacement of Yahya Khan by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto |
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The Great partition: the making of India and Pakistan / Khan, Yasmin. --New Delhi: Penguin Group, 2007 |
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The
author examines the context, execution and aftermath of the subcontinent's
division, weaving together local politics and ordinary lives with the larger
political forces at play. She exposes the obliviousness of the small elite
driving division, as well as of the activists on both sides, to what the
partition would entail in practice, how it would effect the populace and how
damaging its legacy would be. |
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Partition, Bengal
and after: the great tragedy of India / Mukhopadhyay, Kali Prasad. New Delhi: Reference Press, 2007
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This
book is a comprehensive history of partition and its impact in the life and
property of the minorities, especially in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
This is a narration of terrific atrocities and holocaust on innocent unarmed
persons. |
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HIV/AIDS |
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HIV/AIDS and the threats
to national and international security / Ostergard, Robert L., ed. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007
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From civil and
international conflicts to democratic stability and international
institutions, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has threatened national and
international security in ways few could have predicted early in the
crisis. Though African countries have borne the brunt of the pandemic,
other countries, including China and India, now have to address the
socio-political and economic dynamics of the threat in both the short and
long term. |
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International Relations |
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Arms
control after Iraq: normative and operational challenges /
Sidhu, Waheguru Pal Singh, ed. Tokyo:
United Nations University Press, 2006
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The questions discussed
in this book includes doctrinal issues regarding the use of force in
general; the implications of a shift in the utility of nuclear weapons
from deterrence to compellence and of a focus on non-proliferation to the
neglect of disarmament; the place and the role of the United Nations in
controlling the spread and use of WMD; the regional dynamics of
proliferation concerns in North-East Asia and the Middle East. |
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India's external
intelligence: secrets of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) / Singh, V. K. New Delhi: Manas
Publications, 2007
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The present book is the
first account by a person who has served in RAW at a senior level and was
able to see its functioning from close quarters. Since he was concerned
with signal intelligence rather than human intelligence operations, most
of the coverage is devoted to the former. The book brings to light several
lacunae in the functioning of the country's top intelligence agency, the
most glaring being the anomalies in procurement of equipment, lack of
accountability and our dependence on foreign sources, with the resultant
threat to national security. |
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Law |
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Winning legal wars: the business manager’s
guide to law, litigation and legal strategy / Dubey, Ranjeev
C. New Delhi: Macmillan, 2007 |
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This book is a pioneering
effort on definitive work on legal strategy, a guide to managing
litigation, profusely supported by actual case studies, and what lay
beneath the legal manoeuveres. |
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Management |
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Adaptive technologies and business integration: social, managerial, and
organizational dimensions / Cunha, Maria Manuela. Hershey: Idea Group
reference, 2007 |
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The book provides an
authoritative review of both intra-organisational and inter-organisational
aspects in business integration, including: managerial and organizational
integration, social integration, and technology integration, along with
the resources to accomplish this competitive advantage. |
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Six
sigma financial tracking and reporting / Bremer, Michael. --New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2006 |
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As Six Sigma and lean
enterprise techniques continue to evolve and become more engrained in
business, it becomes difficult to track the impact of savings on a project
basis. Through the use of case studies, worked-out examples, and the
benchmarking techniques, this team of experts from Motorola University
helps us to put the right infrastructure in place for project
identification, project scooping, and financial reporting. |
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The
Ultimate question: driving good profits and true growth / Reichheld, Fred.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006 |
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The 'Ultimate question'
yields a powerful metric to promote golden-rule behaviour and generate
profits a company can be proud of. Hats off to author for a compelling
argument, lucid prose, and actionable concepts that every manager can
immediately put to use. |
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Manuscripts |
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The
Word is sacred; sacred is the word: The Indian manuscript tradition:
Meisterverke Indischer manuskriptkunst / Goswamy, B. N. --New Delhi:
Niyogi Books, 2006 |
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The book and the
exhibition it accompanies set out to demonstrate the wealth and diversity
of India's manuscript traditions and to communicate a lasting impression
of India as a multifarious and multicultural society that holds knowledge
and knowledge systems in high regard. |
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Military
Services |
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Unlearned lessons: an appraisal of India's military mishaps / Das, Gautam.
--New Delhi: Har Anand, 2007 |
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This book draws on Indian history, and is intended to help readers form a
well informed opinion of militarily significant events of the past that
could well recur in some form in the future. It fills the gap between the
instant history popularized by journalists, and the dry scholarly works of
military historians. |
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Public
Administration |
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Reinventing public administration: the Indian experience / Chakrabarty,
Bidyut.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007 |
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The book outlines the historical processes associated with the growth of
public administration as a discipline and discusses contemporary
perspectives on, and experiences in, administration theory. The book
considers the history of the Indian administration from the colonial
period to the present and also focuses on changes brought about by
globalisation, privatization and structural adjustment on governance. |
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Sociology |
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Crossing thresholds: feminist essays in social history / Kosambi, Meera.
--Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2007 |
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The book straddles the areas of gender studies, history, and Asian studies
while underscoring the resonance of these women's lives with those of
other women across South Asia and the West. |
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Statistics |
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The
Triumph of numbers: How counting shaped modern life / Cohen, I. Bernard.
--New York: W. W. Norton, 2005 |
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Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs
since antiquity-taxes, head counts for military service but not until the
scientific revolution in the seventeenth century did social numbers such
as births, deaths, and marriage begin to be analysed. |
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