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The authors identify six qualities typically represented in the best decisions: awareness, timing, foresight, confidence, humility, inspiration. These qualities are personified by the exceptional individuals in this book, each of whom made a hard call.

Civil Society

An important dimension of security is the interface between civil society and governance. A broader understanding of security encompasses issues relating to good governance, which have a direct impact on the well-being of the citizen. The role of civil society is crucial in ensuring good governance. The Centre for Security Analysis has developed a new focus on civil society governance in modern India and organized a national seminar on October 5-6, 2006 in Chennai. The proceedings of the seminar are covered in this book.

Communication

This volume is about people and the processes needed to facilitate sharing of knowledge in order to achieve sustainable developmental change. It underlines that development communication is based on dialogue, which is necessary to promote people's participation. This collection offers perspective insights and vivid examples to prove that the field of communication for development and social change is indeed vibrant.

Economics

This report is the fifth in an annual series, is essential reading for those who wish to follow the global development agenda and debate in 2008. The year 2008 marks the midpoint toward the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also an important year to work toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond to the challenge of climate change conference in December 2007. The report spans this agenda. It provides a comprehensive assessment of progress toward the MDGs and related policies and actions.

The author argues that practical potentials can be found in ideas and aspects of development that have previously been overlooked, undervalued or misunderstood. Each chapter presents and reviews one of his earlier writings, examines subsequent and contemporary experience, and then derives a wealth of conclusions and implications for the future.

The volume begins with issues relating to human development, such as education, health and governance. This is followed by comparison of India and China developments paths. In a diverse country like India, fiscal matters at state level are important. These are discussed in the section on Indian fiscal federalism.

Governance

History

This volume brings together scholars, practitioners, former regulators, and policy makers to address the problem of expanding information and communication technology (ICT) connectivity in emerging Asia. It centrally engages the widespread claim that technology by itself-independent of policy and regulatory reform can improve access to ICTs.

Interior Design

This is the comprehensive textbook on the subject and is intended for scholars and instructors as well as practicing designers, architects, and facility managers. Introductory chapters provide a thorough grounding in environment and effects of legislation. These principles are then put into practice. Strategies for working with natural resources, managing air quality and contaminants, and using different materials are discussed.

International Relations

India-Pakistan relations are at a historic juncture. The leadership in both India and Pakistan has not just accepted that they are willing to go beyond their stated positions, but have realized that the welfare of the other is essential to their own. The people of Jammu and Kashmir are also undergoing an attitudinal metamorphosis towards realism and the imperatives of peace, stability and prosperity.

Linguistics

This book describes selected varieties of World Englishes, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of selecting a particular variety from the point of view of both teaches and learners. It aims to examine and re-evaluate concepts such as standard, variety, native speaker and non-native speaker, and to validate the role played by multilingual and multicultural English language teachers, arguing that context and learner should determine the variety to be taught.

Management

Genetic and environmental variations make fundamental differences in all our characters. This inventive book analyses how these distinctions, if understood, can enable leaders as different as Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher to be influential in their own ways.

Non-governmental Organisations

This book provides basic information and vital managerial tips to various functions, formats, forms, taxation financing and funding aspects. NGOs perform a variety of services and humanitarian functions. NGOs and civil society play significant role at local, national and global levels.

The handbook seeks to highlight the need for formulating proposals imaginatively and patterned broadly on projected lines may gain acceptance of donor agencies and open the door for a relationship of trust and confidence between the donors and sponsoring agencies. The donor agencies growing interest in India's success must and can be matched by our own commitment, ability and competence to formulate quality project proposals that are brief, logical with clear goals enveloped in standard formats.

This book is based on the hypothesis of a governance gap. Such a gap impacts the successful and meaningful implementation of development goals in development projects. This book identifies six modules constituting the key responsibilities of project governance: they are system management for the systematic understanding of the project environment. Mission management spells out the core governance tasks in the area of strategy, structure and organizational culture. Integrity management suggests a process model to assess and resolve challenges threatening the integrity of the project.

The book examines role of NGOs in rural development. Economic development is a dynamic process whereby the real per capita income of a country rises over a long period of time, and distribution of justice is secured by introducing the major changes in social, cultural, economic, technical structures, popular attitudes and national institutions as well as the acceleration of economic growth, the reduction of inequality and the eradication of absolute poverty and also by making the optimum use of available resources.

This book presents a fine sample of experiences of NGOs, the very contributions, the level and degree of implementation and, identified alternative development and its level of sustainability. It provides opportunities framework for how to sustain the resources and create meaningful partnership with community.

Sociology

The book traces the emergence of each city in the global economy and examines the link between the dynamics of globalization and changing governances. The contributors describe how metropolitan leaders deal with the twin phenomena of globalization and the devolution of the state as they adjust to their city's new emerging role in the global system.

Technology

This book transmits the amazing energy and creative power behind Edison's world-changing innovations. Thomas Edison is the greatest innovator in American history. His pioneering achievements in the sciences and communications have inspired inventors and entrepreneurs for over a century, and his focus on practical accomplishment set the stage for America's global leadership in innovation.

 

New Books Added to Delhi Documenta

This volume deals with the period from the accession of the Khaljis on the throne of Delhi to the first battle of Panipat which laid the foundations of the Mughal empire. The Muslim Sultans of Delhi never ruled over even a major part of India, except during two brief periods of about twenty years each. For the rest, the history of India was really the history of a large number of Independent states under both Hindu and Muslim rulers.

This book touches upon a variety of topics. First, the complete history of the pillar is laid out, followed by a look at the structural features of the pillar. The book proceeds to describe the methodology employed in manufacturing the pillar and then analyse the reasons for the suerb resistance that the pillar has to atmospheric corrosion. This is an attempt to explain the story behind the pillar in a very simple manner, so that a reader can appreciate the history, science and technology of the Iron Pillar.

New Books Added to Authors Corner

Narain, Apurva, tr., A-6064

This is the first book-length collection of Kunwar Narain's poems in English translation, with poems selected from five volumes across five decades. The poems embody a unique simultaneity of the simple and layered, entailing a patient uncovering of resonances, lived equally in poetry and in life. A complex interplay of metaphysical imagination, playful irony and tentative sentiment marks the basic temper of his poetry, which lodges itself in an all encompassing reality and then tests it as only the most honest literature can.

Misra, Neeru, ed., A-1615

This volume brings together papers which were presented at a seminar to explore Indo-Thai historical and cultural linkages and the age old relationship between two countries, its historical contribution to the formation of global Asian civilization and consciousness in today's world. The topics discussed include the linkages between Hinduism and Buddhism in Thailand, trade contracts between the two countries from ancient time, Artifacts, and heritage sites.

This volume of essays, provides new directions in linguistic studies, offering further clarities about the process of Indo-Thai cultural contacts. It is also hoped that this ongoing process of studying language, religion, society and art-archaeology will help in identifying the linkages in the contemporary fields of economy, trade, science nand technology as essential components to build vital future programmes of cooperation between India and Thailand.

New Electronic Documents added

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