Animal Welfare

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 / Autobiography

In 1944, Albert Einstein invited three close friends, giants of contemporary science and thought, to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey to discuss science, philosophy, and world events. These were Bertrand Russell, the incomparable logician, philosopher, and humanist; Wolfgang Pauli, the great physicist; and Kurt Godel, the groundbreaking logician. Using these historic meetings as a starting point, Burton Feldman provides a highly original examination of these four very outsized personalities as friends, colleagues and rivals-particularly the stubborn and supremely self-confident Einstein and the aristocratic Russell. Masterfully researched, this accessible book illuminates the feelings of these great men about the world of science that was then beginning to pass them by, and about the dawning atomic age that terrified them all.

The author presents the life and wars of this greatest of Britons in unique form in his own words. Over six centuries, one man has fought in all these battles and helped shape the course of history: the British soldier. Drawing on some 200 first-hand accounts of all the great, bloody battles of British history.

The book is the comprehensive, well-documented account of the life of the charismatic leader, the Lion of Kashmir, who contributed crucially to the making of modern India in terms of territory and more importantly to its founding ideology of secularism.

The book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as "The Oracle of Omaha. "This book tells us why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time.

History

Soldier: a visual history of the fighting man / Grant, R G. --London: Dorling Kindersley, 2007 (Reference)

From the Ancient Greek hoplite through the Medieval knight to today's special forces, this book relates the drama of warfare from the perspective of the people who have taken part behind the lines and amid the visceral experience of battle.

Ecology

The book examines every facet of this remarkable environment, from plate tectonics to the effects of the moon, phytoplankton to blue whales. It traces Man's efforts to probe the deep in aid of scientific discovery; it also covers his less worthy activities regarding the environment, the ramifications of which remain uncertain.

Economics

The book aims at presenting the various intricacies of the economic system of India simply and clearly, so that educated women and men would find the book useful in understanding what is going on around them in the world of finance and trade. Indian economic development is only five decades old. Its future course seems to be bright but uncertain. This book aims at explaining the workings of the Indian economy, not to the initiated, but to the intelligent reader who is interested in knowing more about India's changing economic pattern.

This is a moving and fascinating account that draws upon extensive archival material and rare photographs to paint a compelling story that all Indians can be proud of. The informed and objective book is a fitting tribute to an exceptional Indian company in its centenary year. The book is a valuable and interesting record of the company's evolution over its 100-year history, while at the same time being an enjoyable book to read.

Environment

The author explains how global warming rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world's middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is 'hot, flat, and crowded'. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things unless there is a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that author calls Code Green.

History

This is the story of President Jimmy Carter's post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation's history. Through The Carter Centre, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, he has fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the world. This book is drawn from the personal diaries of Rosalynn's and Jimmy Carter's work with The Carter Centre during the last twenty-five years.

The book introduces us to one of the greatest tragedies of modern times, its principal characters as well as the forces impelling them, consciously or unconsciously. The year 1950 was certainly one such crucial year in the destinies in India, Tibet and China. The three nations had the choice of going towards peace and collaboration, or tension and confrontation. In strategic terms, Tibet is critical to South Asia and South-East Asia. Rather the Tibetan plateau holds the key to the peace, security and well being of Asia, and the world as such. This study of the history of Tibet, a nation sandwiched between two giant neighbours, will enable better understanding of the geopolitics influencing the tumultuous relations between India and China, particularly in the backdrop of border disputes and recent events in Tibet.

This volume describes the history of the world through a series of chronological self-contained spreads. The illustrated timelines each cover a specific period in history and detail the major historical developments that were taking place simultaneously in different parts of the world: the Americas, Europe, Africa, western Asia, South and Central Asia, and East Asia and Oceania.

 

Information and Communication Technology

Digital review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008 / Librero, Felix, ed.--London: Sage Publications, 2008 (Reference)

The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) in Asia Pacific. This third edition covers 31 countries and economies, including North Korea for the first time. Each country chapter presents key ICT policies, applications and initiatives for national development.

International Relations

Are we deceiving ourselves again: lessons the Chinese taught Pandit Nehru but which we refuse to learn / Shourie, Arun.--New Delhi: Rupa, 2008

This brief essay traces the policies, assumptions, delusions by which a great man, a fervent patriot, Pandit Nehru misled himself, and thereby brought severe trauma upon the country, a country that he loved and served with such ardour. A devastating analysis and warning by author, based entirely on Pandit Nehru's own notes to his officers, his correspondence including his letters to Chief Ministers, his speeches in and out of Parliament.

Management

Management of non-profit organizations: towards professionally managing of societies and a handbook for governance of voluntary agencies / Bhatia, S. K.--New Delhi: Deep and Deep, 2007

The book gives the key areas of functioning for non-profit organizations, from clarifying the concept of non-profit organisation and to pursue the mission and then to manage such type of organisation. This book covers comprehensively various concepts in management of non-profit institutions.
 

Military Science

The book centres on the lives and careers of seven physicists sitting in the front row at the Capenhagen meeting in April 1932. Six of them-Niels Bohr, Paul Ehrenfest, Lise Meitner, Wolfang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg and Paul Dirac were already in the pantheon of physics greats. The seventh Max Delbruck, was the author of a skit concluding the meeting. Physics was fortunate to have at one moment a remarkable number of individuals to help create and shape the great evolution in science called quantum mechanics

Politics and Government

The book tackles the big questions about our global condition and our collective future with a verve and authority. Energy, food, water, international crime, weapons proliferation, drug trafficking, climate change, epidemic disease, migration-the challenges facing our world are themselves proliferating rapidly. On each of them, author digests vast amounts of information from many different sources and analyses them for the reader using his experience at the highest levels of international politics.
 

The author's writings in the Indian Express packed with evidence, uncompromising, prophetic on the issues that are consuming the country today: evaporation of governance and what it spells for internal security; developments in Pakistan; how the present government has sown trouble with the nuclear deal for our security as well as relations with US. The writings in this book, most of which first appeared in the Indian Express where author has written exclusively for the past four years now.

Sociology

This is the story of the lives of ordinary people in Stalin's Russia: a world where everyone was afraid to talk and a society spoke in whispers, whether to protect friends and family or to betray them. 

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