Infidel / Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. --Great Britain: Free Press, 2008

This is the remarkable story of author's life and her extraordinary transformation from devout believer to champion of women's right. The book shows that a determined woman can change more history than her own.

The Google story / Vise, David A. --London: Pan Macmillan, 2006

The Google Story takes us deep inside the company's wild ride from an idea that struggled for funding in 1998 to a firm that rakes in billions in profits, making Brin and Page the wealthiest young men in America. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, this fast-moving narrative reveals how an unorthodox management style and culture of innovation enabled a search engine to shake up Madison Avenue and Wall Street, scoop up YouTube, and battle Microsoft at every turn

Greed and grievance: economic agenda in civil wars / Berdal, Mats, ed. --Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2000 (Presented by Mr. Stephen McGurk, CO-0262B from International Development Research Centre (IDRC))

The authors consider the economic rationality of conflict for belligerents, the economic strategies that elites find war to be more profitable than peace. They strive consistently for policy relevance in both their analysis and their prescriptions.

Economics

A Better India, a better world / Narayana Murthy, N.R.--New Delhi: Penguin, 2009

The author who pioneered, designed and executed the Global Delivery Model that has become the cornerstone of India's success in information technology services outsourcing, shows us that s society working for the greatest welfare of the greatest number-samasta jananam sukhino bhavantu- must focus on two simple things: values and good leadership.

Capitalism with Chinese characteristics: entrepreneurship and the state / Huang, Yasheng.--Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

The book explains why China grew differently in the 1980s than in the 1990s and beyond, and what consequences this has today. The development of the Chinese private sector is a key to the future shape and performance of the Chinese economy. At present, the subject is widely misunderstood.

New history of India / Gautier, Francois. --New Delhi: Har-Anand, 2008

The author see more and more today that Indian history has to be rewritten according to the latest linguistic and archaeological discoveries, if Indian children are to understand who the are and where they come from. We know now that not only the history of India's beginnings were written by European colonizers, with an intension to downsize, downgrade and postdate Indian civilization.

The Shadow of the great game: the untold story of India's partition / Sarila, Narendra Singh. New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2008

The book is a basic challenge to the conventional wisdom on the partition of India. In this historical account, the great game of Asia reaches its climax in the partition of India in 1947. The author also traces the roots of the present Kashmir imbroglio and how the matter was dealt with in the UN.

Why I supported the emergency: essays and profiles / Khushwant Singh. --New Delhi: Penguin, 2009

This though-provoking collection includes essays on Indira Gandhi's government, the Nanavati Commission's report on the 1984 riots and riots themselves, as well as captivating pieces on the art of kissing and the importance of bathing.

Law

Courts, panchayats and nagarpalikas: background and review of the case law / Sivaramakrishnan, K C. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2009

This book is the outcome of a comprehensive study which seeks to bring out the genesis, the points of jurisprudence and what can be regarded as settled law common to both the panchayats and the municipalities pertaining to issues like elections, delimitation, reservation, planning and functional domain etc.

Management

Leadership in the era of economic uncertainty: the new rules for getting the right things done in difficult times / Charan, Ram. --New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill, 2009

The book offers clear guidelines for seizing opportunity and preserving in today's global economy. The author describes steps we can take right now to steer our organisation away from the pitfalls and position it for a new future.

Philosophy

A Study of time in Indian philosophy / Balslev, Anindita Niyogi. --Delhi: Moti Lal Banarsi Das, 2009

Based on Sanskrit source material, this book is unique attempt at presenting a comprehensive review of the widely divergent views about time in Indian thought. The author has translated technical doctrines from one tradition of thought into the language of another.

Short on democracy: issues facing Indian political parties / Sivaramakrishnan, Arvind, ed. Haryana: Imprint One, 2007

The book examine selected Indian political parties and related phenomena, providing explanations from a range of perspectives as well as offering possible directions which could help transform India's formal democracy into a substantive one.

Religion

Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform movements in South Asia / Beckerlegge, Gwilym, ed. --New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008

The book critically examines the process of formulation of religious identities in South Asia. The essays also document the different ways in which the latter negotiated the challenges posed by colonial modernity. The collection explores a number of Hindu and Muslim movements in different regions, and investigates, among other things, the interpretation of religious texts, proselytization, the apologetic use of art, and Hindu constructions of East and West.

Dharma and development: the future of survival / Paranjape, Makarand, ed. New Delhi: Samvad India Foundation, 2005

This book is inspired by two contrary trends: the failures of the development project, on the one hand, and, on the other, of the remarkable material improvement wrought by spiritual agencies, especially in India. This book attempts to answer such questions. It is divided into two parts. While the first explains the premises of this project, the second is series of eleven case studies examining the contribution of specific organizations to socio-economic development.

Sufism: the heart of Islam / Sadia Dehlvi. --Noida: HarperCollins, 2009

The book delves into the remarkable lives of the early Sufis, their literature, and their philosophies that emphasize the purification of the heart. It highlights the major Sufi orders, their popularity in the subcontinent and the impact of the teachings of the Sufi Masters of the devotional aspect of Islam.

Stranger to history: a son's journey through Islamic lands / Taseer, Aatish. --London: Picador, 2009

The author was raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his Pakistani father remained a distant figure, almost figment of his imagination, until author crossed the border when he was twenty-one to finally meet him. In the years that followed, the relationship between father and son revived, then fell apart. The book is the story of the journey author made to answer these questions-starting from Istanbul, Islam's once greatest city, to Mecca, its most holy, and then Pakistan, through Syria and Iran. Ending in Lahore, at his estranged father's home, on the night Benazir Bhutto is killed, it is also the story of author's own divided family over the past fifty years.

Resource convergence mantra: holistic planning approach through resource convergence / Sharma, Aruna. Mumbai: Aruna Sharma, 2005 (Presented by Mrs Aruna Sharma (IN-639; 1 copy is in Author’s Corner)

This book suggests an approach to planners, executors and stakeholders to cut through the tangled web in the form of resource convergence mantra. This is a paradigm shift in from planning for activities. This will be a tool for synchronized holistic approach.

Rural development in Punjab: a success story going astray / Dhesi, Autar S., ed. London: Routledge, 2008

The articles in this volume discuss major issues in Punjab's agrarian economy, and suggest policy responses and possible for the next stage of development. The book focuses on new institutional economics underlying the significance of synergies between state, market and revitalized local communities.

Fear and forgiveness: the aftermath of massacre / Mander, Harsh. --New Delhi: Penguin, 2009

The book compels us to acknowledge the flaws in our judicial, social and rehabilitative structures while showing that way forward must be one of sympathy, understanding and forgiveness.

Women's studies in India: a reader / John, Mary E., ed. --New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2008

This comprehensive reader sets out to provide a map of the development of women's studies and the ever-expanding terrain that it has been investigating. The introduction explores the growth of the field from the upheavals of the 1970s to the transformed conjunctures of the 1990s. In the process, the often elusive relationships between women's studies, the women's movement and the structures of higher education are highlighted.

New Additions in Authors Corner

(For reference only)

Singh, Uday Vir, A-5011

7 deadly sins of corporate mismanagement: what they don’t teach in business schools.

New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2009

This book elaborates the author's personal encounters with a number of situations of corporate mismanagement over a period of over 40 years during which he passed through unrighteous business environments. The basic issue thrown up by this disgraceful fall of one of India's internationally iconic IT-brands, besides frauds and financial malfunctioning, is that of corporate mis-governance.

New Additions in Electronic Reports

(For reference only)

Water in a changing world: The United Nations world water development report. UNESCO in collaboration with Earthscan, 2009

It is well known that water is life; what this report shows is that water also means livelihoods. It is the route out of poverty for individuals and communities. Managing water is essential if the world is to achieve sustainable development. This challenge is even more pressing as the world confronts the triple threats of climate change, rising food and energy costs, and the global economic crisis. All three are exacerbating poverty, inequality and underdevelopment. The current report provides a comprehensive analysis of the state of the world’s freshwater resources. It also, for the first time, shows how changes in water demand and supply are affected by and affect other global dynamics. It represents a considerable collaborative achievement for the 26 UN agencies that make up UN-Water and are engaged in the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), which leads the monitoring and evaluation behind the report.

Source: http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/wwdr3/pdf/WWDR3_Water_in_a_Changing_World.pdf

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