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Accidents and
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Five past midnight in Bhopal /
Lapierre, Dominique. --London: Grand Central Publishing, 2002 |
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It
was past midnight on the night of 3rd December 1984 when a
terrifying cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide
plant in the heart of the Indian city of Bhopal. Killing between
sixteen and thirty thousand people and injuring five hundred
thousand more, it was the most murderous industrial disaster in
history. |
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Architecture |
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Dilli's Red Fort by the Yamuna / Batra,
N. L. --New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2007 (Reference) |
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The book presents the story of the
imposing Fort in red sandstone built by the Mughal emperor Shahjahan
(A-1628-58). This book is indeed a storehouse of information
regarding architectural details, various constructional aspects,
factors propelling deterioration, vandalism, decay, conservation,
maintenance, preservation and restoration work carried out by the
Archaeological Survey of India. |
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Biography |
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Goodbye Shahzadi: a political
biography of Benazir Bhutto / Bhatia, Shyam. New Delhi: Roli Books,
2008 |
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Benazir Bhutto and Shyam Bhatia were
at Oxford together and remained close friends until she was
assassinated in Pakistan last year. Over the years author recorded a
series of interviews with Benazir in which she talked with amazing
frankness about her life, her family, her ambitions and her plans.
Some of her revelations were so personal and sensitive that she made
author promise to keep them secret during her lifetime. |
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The Last lecture
/ Pausch, Randy. --London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008 |
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The author has combined the humour,
inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a
phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be
shared for generations to come.
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Napoleon: a
political life / Englund, Steven. --Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2004 |
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This sophisticated and masterly
biography brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern
history's most famous general and statesman. |
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Economics |
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Common wealth: economics for a crowded
planet / Sachs, Jeffrey D. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2008 |
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The book explains
the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces. We can
address poverty, climate change, and environmental destruction at a
very modest cost today with huge benefits for shared and sustainable
prosperity and peace in the future, or we can duck the issues today
and risk a potentially costly reckoning in later years. |
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How rich countries got rich and why
poor countries stay poor / Reinert, Erik S. New York: Carroll and
Graf, 2008 |
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From
Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East, the development of the
world's wealthy nations has been driven by a combination of
government intervention, initial protectionism, and the
strategically timed introduction of free trade and investments. The
author sets out his revisionist history of economics and shows how
the discipline has long been torn between the continental
Renaissance tradition on one hand and the free market theories of
English and later American economics on the other.
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India infrastructure report 2007: rural
infrastructure --New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007
(Reference) |
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The IIR 2007, the sixth
substantive report on infrastructure development in India describes
recent developments in rural infrastructure. Providing
infrastructure facilities to half a-million hamlets is a daunting
task. In this context the report focuses on better governance to
further improve rural infrastructure despite the diversity and
constraints. |
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The New paradigm for financial
markets: the credit crisis of 2008 and what it means / Soros,
George.--New York: Public Affairs, 2008 |
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The prevailing paradigm for financial
markets that markets tend toward equilibrium and deviations from it
are random is both false and misleading, he argues, and only by
exploring a new conceptual framework for how markets really work can
we avoid disaster and economic ruin. |
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State of the world 2008: ideas and
opportunities for sustainable economics / Gardener, Gary. London:
Earthscan, 2008 (Reference) |
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The report is the first global-level
publication to showcase a wide range of diverse innovations and to
demonstrate their near term potential to put whole societies on a
sustainable path. |
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The Trillion dollar meltdown: Easy
money, high rollers, and the great credit crash / Morris, Charles R.
--New York: Public Affairs, 2008 |
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This is indispensable to understanding
how the world economy has been put on the brink and the radically
reshaped political and economic landscape that will define the
post-crash era.
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History |
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The Long partition and the making of
modern South Asia: refugees, boundaries, histories / Vazira
Fazila-Yacoobali Zamind. --New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2007 |
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A remarkable exercise of ethno-history
from below. In addition to official sources, author has collected
testimonies in archives and interviewed survivors of partition to
offer an original and significant chronicle of the nation-making
process in both India and Pakistan. |
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Information Technology |
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The Oxford handbook of information and
communication technologies / Mansell, Robin, ed. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007 (Reference) |
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The production and consumption of
information and communication technologies (ICTs) are becoming
deeply embedded within our societies. The influence and implications
of this value an impact at a macro level, in the way our
governments, economies, and businesses operate, and at a micro level
in the way our everyday lives. This handbook is about the many
challenges presented by ICTs. It sets out an intellectual agenda
that examines the implications of ICTs for individuals,
organizations, democracy, and the economy. |
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International
Relations |
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Rivals: how the power struggle between
China, India and Japan will shape our next decade / Emmott,
Bill.--London: Penguin Books, 2008 |
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The book explores the legacies of
history, the likely future trajectories of China, Japan and India,
and the potential collisions and intersections between them which
will shape the twenty-first century. |
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Literature |
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The adventures of Amir Hamza: lord of
the Auspicious planetary conjunction / Ghalib Lakhnavi. New Delhi:
Random House, 2007 |
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This is a wonder
and a revelation - a classic of epic literature in an interpretation
so fluent that it is a pleasure to sit down and lose oneself in it.
The story line itself is endlessly diverting and inventive, and the
prose of the translation is beautifully rendered. For the modern
American reader, with its mixed Hindu and Muslim idiom, its tales of
love and seduction, its anti-clericalism, its stories of powerful
and resourceful women, and its mocking of male misogyny, is a
reminder of an Islamic world the West seems to have forgotten: one
that is imaginative and heterodox. |
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We the people of India: Gangland
democracy / Dhar, Maloy Krishna. Vitasta Publishing: New Delhi,
2008 |
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This is the story of a nation that
boasts of being the largest democracy. The novel undertakes tortuous
journeys through the political minefield and discovers that
moneybags, muscle power and criminal fringes have hijacked Indian
democracy. The author is psephologist and wants to bring about a
change in the system. |
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Non-governmental
Organisations |
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NGO accountability: politics,
principles and innovations / Jordon, Lisa, ed. London: Earthscan,
2006 |
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This book provides the first
comprehensive examination of the issues and politics of NGO
accountability across all sectors and internationally. It offers an
assessment of the key technical tools available including legal
accountability, certification and donor based accountability
regimes, and questions whether these are appropriate and viable
options or attempts. |
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Psychology |
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Coping with life stress: the Indian
experience / Hariharan, Meena. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2008 |
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This book provides a new perspective to the theories of stress and
coping. A holistic treatment of these topics, using Indian case
reports and analyses, makes this book unique. The book provides
several useful theoretical and practical inputs on effective coping
under varying internal and external conditions. |
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Religion |
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Muslim modernities: Tabish Khair's
essays on moderation and Mayhem 2001-2007 / Tabish Khair. –New
Delhi: Vitasta Publishing, 2008 |
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This is a collection of essays that embarks upon the difficult task
of making our planet full of binaries a little less chaotic. From
9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre, Iraq war, Danish Prophet
cartoons, the arrest of Dr. Haneef, to the Gujarat riots, author
analysis all the issues objectively in the book. |
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Standing alone in Mecca: a pilgrimage
into the heart of Islam / Nomani, Asra Q. New Delhi: Harper Collins,
2007 |
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An engrossing overview of Islam's internal debates as seen through
the eyes of a young single mother wrestling with her faith. |
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