Arts

The book is an accessible and intriguing introduction to some of the greatest artists of the Western world, from Fra Angelico to James Whistler. Commentaries by leading art historians, written in non-technical language, give fresh insights into the featured paintings and sculptures, helping to explain how the works came into being and what they tell us about their creators and the times in which the lived.

Economics

The report highlights issues related to the development priorities of the islands and the road ahead in health, education, tribal development, environment, agriculture, ports, shipping and air connectivity. The report suggests a long-term plan to restore the livelihoods, adversely affected by the Tsunami in December 2004. It is expected to serve as a useful reference material and stimulate informed debate on the policy issues faced by the Union Territory.
 

This volume appraises the impact of globalization on the state-market relationship, and discusses the experience of China and India. Divided into four sections, the essays in this volume discuss these issues in a historical and comparative perspective. The first section focuses mainly on how China and India, with completely different political structures and institutions, are grappling with problems of growth in a globalizing economy. The second section is a telling account of the culture that permeates the epicenter of the financial world. The essays in the third section deal with certain key regulatory and governance issue in the Indian financial system. The final section-set in the context of the Enron episode that was followed by successive bankruptcies of some of the largest global corporations.

The book examines the real problems within the world of mutual funds and outlines a value-oriented approach to this market that will allow us to achieve investment success. This book shines a harsh light on much of what is wrong with the mutual fund industry, it also helps illuminate the brighter corners of today's investment environment.

This is an engaging, informative, and thoroughly delightful book. The author provide important lessons for structuring social policies so that people still have complete choice over their own actions but are gently nudged to do what is in their own best interest.

Education

The report marks the midterm point in the international commitment to provide a quality education to all by 2015. It assesses progress towards expanding early childhood learning programmers, achieving free and universal primary education, realizing gender parity and gender equality in education, reducing adult illiteracy and improving education quality. It highlights innovative projects and strategies, and underscores the urgency of pushing forward with a common agenda for action.

History

Alexander the great and the Hellenistic age: a short story / Green, Peter. --London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007

The Hellenistic era witnessed the overlap of antiquity's two great Western civilizations,  the Greek and the Roman. Beginning with Alexander's succession to the throne of Macedon, this book ends with the final triumph of Caesar's heir, the young Augustus. This was the epoch of Alexander's vast expansion of the Greco-Macedonian world, the rise and fall of his successors' major dynasties in Egypt and Asia, and the establishment of Rome as the Mediterranean superpower. The author offers a survey of the key people, places and events of the years from 336 BC, when Alexander came to power, to the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC.

The book tells the story of how the British Empire survived the war only to expire in a post-war world that did not owe the British people a living. The book examines how Britain was dealt a losing hand after winning the war, how it found itself overshadowed by America, and how the sun finally set on the British Empire.

The book reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development. It shows how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess, and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion.

This book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of World War Two in 1939 to his death in 1953. The author challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great world leaders; his foreign policy and his role in instigating the cold war.

The book explored how the past could be a living part of the present and a means of negotiating the future. It presumed history to be only one way of organizing the past, arguing that there are other ways, represented by legends; informal public memories; family stories told, retold and reconfigured over generations, and private and public myths that process the past for us.

International Relations

Aid and influence: do donors help or hinder? / Browne, Stephen. --London: Earthscan, 2006

The author provides a radical and original take on familiar subject-aid, with careful analysis and drawing on a wealth of personal experience. Aid is always a means of influence: political, commercial, military and security-related. The author proposes two kinds of solution: donors should climb down from paternalistic central planning practices and support public goods that are neutral and beneficial. This book contains some important proposals on how a new deal could be struck, which is beneficial to both North and South.

Literature

This is a perceptive guide to the practice, pedagogy, and prospects for one of the fastest growing areas in English studies. The chapters cover other practices, from translation to starting a magazine and from memoir writing to writing for children.

The book discusses a thin, short man with illusions of grandeur, Khahtivallabh Pant, is a school teacher in a remote Kumaoni village, where he is mockingly referred to as T'ta Professor. A great admirer of the Englishman's attire. T'ta is also deeply in awe of the white man's language. He carries a notebook to jot down English words that he hears for the first time, acknowledging a word as acceptable only after he has consulted his Oxford dictionary. His vanity makes him a terrific target for lampooning and the narrator in this novel.

Management

Yes! 50 scientifically proven ways to be persuasive / Goldstein, Noah J. --Free Press: New York, 2008

Persuasion is not only an art, it is also a science, and researchers who study it have uncovered a series of hidden rules for moving people in your direction. The book deals with scientifically proven ways to be persuasive.

Public Administration

The Powers to lead / Nye, Joseph S. --New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008

The book analyses what leadership really means and how it relates to power. This book presents an important intellectual odyssey. The author uses the concept of smart power to shed light on such topics as leadership types and skills, the needs and demands of followers, and the nature of good and bad leadership in terms of both ethics and effectiveness.

The Tools of government in the digital age / Hood, Christopher C. --New York: Palgrave, 2007

This new text provides a systematic update of its arguments and assesses their relevance in the twenty-first century using a wide range of examples from around the world. It shows how and why the tools of nodality, authority, treasure and organisation help us to understand government. This new edition provides a long-anticipated update to a classic work and an important angle of vision on the continuities and differences of modern society and the task of government within it.

Sociology

The book directs the reader to new archives for seeking out history, for with women, silence and speech, the written and the unsaid, the occasional fragment, the old noting. The author weaves together different strands to give the reader a rich and complex book that contributes to new ways of approaching women's history.

This book is a critical examination of the relationship between urbanism, public ness and democracy. The author presents a series of detailed case studies that explore the struggle for space in different forms of public ness, from political protesters seeking to use the grounds around Parliament House in Canberra, to young people hanging out on the streets of inner city Perth.

Trade & Commerce

The book provides a comprehensive evaluation of possible solutions, including evolution   of the law through WTO dispute settlement, a new agreement outside the WTO, and   reforms to improve the balance between trade liberalization and cultural policy objectives.

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