This book is the only regular in-depth, source of accurate biographical information of eminent personalities in India. It is revised and updated annually, providing new facts about existing entries and bringing carefully selected new entries. Listed here are the most important figures from the world of politics, business & finance, art, entertainment, medicine, education, law, science, sports, in fact every sphere of activity. It is an outstanding reference book which improvers from edition to edition.

The book offers a glimpse into different aspects of a diplomat's life from the point of view of his wife, its glitter and glamour, its protocol and surprises and coming to terms with foreign soil and diverse cultures.

 

The is a visionary work encompassing multiplicity of dimensions of the unprecedented impact of the two great nations, India and China, on the world's industrial, business and also political future of few hundred years. The author reminds the global business community of the fundamental significance of the economic rise of China and India.

The book explores the theme of understated gender stereotypes in the corporate domain in India, while delving into the antecedents and outcomes. The book argues that a basic transformation at the level of policy making, along with a collective will for changing the mindset of the people, is needed to overcome gender differences in organizations as well as educational institutions.

Jack Welch is a global business legend. The author presents the insights, visions, and philosophies that have guided Welch during his extraordinary career at GE and his post GE-life. The book offers an objective assessment of Welch's career from the management principles that helped him excel to the controversy surrounding his compensation package and provides lessons in leadership that cannot be found anywhere else.

This handbook is the first guide to environmental policy evaluation in practice. Beginning with an introduction to the general principles to evaluation, it explains the particular complexities native to the environmental sphere and provides a comprehensive toolkit of evaluation methods and techniques which the practitioner can employ and refer to again and again.

Governance

The book takes the discourse on governance beyond its self-inflicted narrow perspective by providing an integrated treatment of various relevant issues, for example, the role of the state or the idea of civil society. The central argument of the book that any serious engagement with good governance must go beyond an exclusive reliance on the state or the market and explore different models of partnerships, including public participation, is relevant and indeed timely in the present crisis.

The book brings together the latest data to chart recent and emerging trends, the atlas vividly demonstrates regional differences in health and its determinants. It shows how healthy, poverty and inequality are inextricably linked, and how health in every part of the world is affected by global changes.

This handbook deals with the evolution of the human development approach, concepts, measures, and policy perspectives on human development. Human development assumes a special significance in today's world of in increasing affluence, expanding technological innovations, rapid globalization.

The book defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers engage in the same modes of reasoning that all actors use in deciding what to do; open-ended moral reasoning, empirical reasoning, and deduction from authoritative rules. This book addresses common-law reasoning, when prior judicial decisions determine the law, and interpretation of texts. In both areas, the popular view that legal decision makers practice special forms of reasoning is false.

This is a comprehensive guide on the tax implications upon intellectual property. The book seeks to explore the conundrums that exist when intellectual property comes under the purview of germane tax laws prevalent in India. It analyses the tax consequence of intellectual property transactions under the various dimensions of tax law.

The book discusses the theories, concepts, assumptions, and mechanics underlying valuation, investment, financing, and dividend decisions and working capital management. It also discusses sources and instruments of short term and long term finances, mergers and acquisitions, international financial management and the interface between financial and corporate policies.

The author argues in this book that every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as author's research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover--in some cases, coming back even stronger-even after having crashed into the depths. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.

The book tells the story of the challenges facing two aspiring entrepreneurs in creating their own business. The book features advice, delivered through one minute insights, from real-life entrepreneurs and thinkers, giving practical guidance on the best way to realize our entrepreneurial goals.

This issue is focused on application of IT in Mass Communication. This reference book provides up to date information on the various media at the centre and state levels as well as on professional organizations.

This work canvasses nuclear weapon abolition, proposals placed on the table since 1945 and the obstacles and issues which a realistic program for abolition confronts today.

The book presents leading-edge analysis on the theory and practice of participatory evaluation around the world. Ten countries are covered in the book's case studies. This book enables novices and professionals alike to jointly assess the extent to which the benefits of development are shared-and by whom..

This volume is an attempt to bring together the essence of Satyagraha, and the enriching contributions of all those who had come together at New Delhi in 2007 .World leaders, Nobel laureates, and social activists from around the world share their thoughts on peace, nonviolence, empowerment, and poverty, the cornerstones of Gandhian philosophy in this commemorative volume that celebrates 100 years of Satyagraha, the nonviolence movement pioneered by Gandhi. Rare, archival photographs bring the charisma and power of Gandhi and his Satyagraha to life while reminding readers of the relevance of the movement and how widespread it has become.

The book treats the subject analytically, with the incisive eye of an insider. The instruments of governance and their components are subjected to micro analysis in terms of their past performance; the macro results of these actions have been summarized. The author bases the examination of the constitutional institutions from the perspective of his close proximity to and experience of working with these agencies, for over forty years. The analysis throws up a number of specific directions for remedial action and could start a meaningful debate towards serious reform.

This is the story of the hundreds of women images lodged in Tihar Jail, Delhi; their largest prison in Southeast Asia. Over the years, the jail has earned itself the reputation for being one of the leading reformist prisons in this part of the world, though the author and photographer learn that this does not take away the pain and desolation of a life in confinement. Candid photographs capture the lives of these inmates, telling the story of hope in despair. This book is about the women, their individual and collective strength and the spirit of survival they continue to display even in their darkest hours.

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