• A and C detail: wall--Korea: A and C publication, 2005 (Reference)
  
  This book provides details about architectural drawings and details about different types of wall for ex. Metal walls that includes zinc galvanized steel plate wall, corten steel plate wall, aluminum panel wall, etc.; Wood walls; Stone walls; Concrete walls, etc.

• A and C detail: roof--Korea: A and C publication, 2005 (Reference)
  
  This book provides details about architectural drawings and details about roof for ex. Copper plate roof, zinc sheet roof, aluminium plate roof, exposed concrete roof; Toplight of different kinds e.g. chapel toplight, staircase toplight, wood structure toplight, truss toplight, floor level toplight, etc.; Ceilings of various types: lecture room ceiling, cafeteria ceiling, lobby ceiling, indoor ceiling, chapel ceiling, etc.

• A and C detail: stair--Korea: A and C publication, 2005 (Reference)
  
  This book provides details about architectural drawings and details about stairs e.g. Outdoor stair that includes half turn stair, straight stair, approach stair, etc.; Indoor stair including stair case, straight stair, wood stair, concrete stair; Steel stair; Handrails and Bridge.

• A and C detail: entrance window--Korea: A and C publication, 2005 (Reference)
  
  This book provides details about architectural drawings and details about Entrance and window. It provides information on different types of entrance like glass roof, aluminium sheet, windproof room; different windows e.g. zinc plate, copper plate, steel windows, keratwin panel; curtainwalls of different types e.g. SPG system, frame, parapet; Louver of different types e.g. CRC board, western red cedar, glass, aluminium and steel pipe.

• Restaurants by design / Riordan, John. --New York: Collins Design, 2006 (Reference)
  
  Featuring exciting spaces from around the world, this fascinating book explores the collaborative efforts between world-renowned chefs and some of today’s most visionary architects and interior designers. The book examines the particular design approach used in each eatery, from the layout and structure of the physical space to designs for the dishes, linens, lighting, and furnishings, and how they all complement and highlight the food.

• Dictionary of Indian art and artists: including technical art terms / Sheth, Pratima. --India: Mapin, 2006 (Reference)
  
  From Ajanta to Yantra—with over 1300 entries on painting, drawing, prints, sculpture, galleries and institutions, including more than 300 colour illustrations, this dictionary presents a comprehensive picture of the world of art in India. It focuses exclusively on the evolution and context of India art. It provides a roadmap for the artist, student, art-professional and art-lover to discover or advance knowledge on movements, monuments and institutions that represent the creative force of Indian art. Utililizing extensive cross-referencing, links are made between artists, concepts, techniques and various schools of art. Over 600 entries on artists and institutions trace the tradition and emergence of Indian art over the last century.

• Coins in India: power and communication / Ray, Himanshu Prabha, ed. --Mumbai: Marg, 2006 (Reference)

  This volume focuses on the socio-cultural connotations of coinage in terms of power, authority, and rule legitimization, placing numismatic studies in the context of cultural history. Coins function as money, because the users share cultural parameters regarding their value and acceptability. These cultural values form a continuum and are reflected in adhering to traditional designs in the old and new denominations, while at the same time introducing changes and modifications. It is this continuum that marks India’s coinage tradition of over 2,500 years, with inputs from Greek and Islamic coinage systems.

• Revolutionary wealth / Toffler, Alvin. --New York: Alfred A. Knope, 2006

  This book is about how tomorrow’s wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first century wealth, according to the authors, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. This book describes everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to what they call our “third job”—the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in our country.

• World development report 2007: development and the next generation / International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. --Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2006 (Reference)

  There has never been a better time to invest in young people in developing countries. Those who are 12-24 years of age number 1.3 billion and make up the largest youth cohort in history. They are, on an average, more educated and healthier than generations before them. They represent a potentially stronger base on which to build in a world that is increasingly demanding more than basic skills. This report discusses priorities for government action across five youth transitions that shape young people’s human capital: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families and exercising citizenship. Within these transitions, priorities for investment vary across countries. The report highlights three lenses that help assess priorities: expanding opportunities, enhancing capabilities, and providing second chances.

• Chennai not Madras: perspectives on the city / Venkatachalapathy, A. R., ed. --Mumbai: Marg, 2006 (Reference)

  Though the city of Chennai is over 350 years old, it has not received the attention that other metropolitan cities in India have. This book seeks to highlight the vernacular character of Chennai. The book begins with essays related to the Tamil identity of Chennai, the volume by positioning itself in opposition to a colonial and anglophile view of Chennai, attempts to demonstrate the possibility of writing a different history.

• Cases on information technology planning, design and implementation / Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi, ed. Hershey: Idea Group, 2006 (Reference)

  Information technology has reformed and restructured the inner workings of companies, organizations and government agencies over the past several decades, and will continue to do so well into the future. Managers and administrators are constantly in search of new tools to be used in support of greater utilization and management of information technology applications in their prospective organizations. This book brings together a variety of real-life experiences of how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology. Cases included in this publication present a wide range of issues related to systems development, design and analysis of modern information systems applications without pitfalls.

• Asia Pacific interior design awards--China: Metto International, 2005 (2 Vol. Set) (Reference)

  Cultures in Asia and Pacific region have unique features respectively, and they have similar cultural and historical backgrounds as well. Similar experience and feelings arise in world civilization to jointly create oriental modern interior design culture advancing upon ecological culture in the 21st century. Divided into categories by function - student, , residential, club, hotel, institution, commercial, restaurant/bar, corporate and model apartments these 2 volumes present the works of the winning designers in the Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards from 2004.

• Indlish: the book for every English-speaking Indian / Sanyal, Jyoti. --New Delhi: Viva Books, 2006

  Unfortunately many Indians equate ‘impressive’ English with incomprehensible English. The clumsy Victorian English hangs like a dead albatross around each educated Indian’s neck. Our feudal culture frowns on directness of expression. Indian English is often no more than an Indian language in disguise. In this funny, quirky book the author launches an all-out war against bad English and offers modern-day antidote to archaic Indlish.

• The 360 degree leader: developing your influence from anywhere in the organization / Maxwell, John C. -New Delhi: Pearson education, 2006

  The middle of an organization is often the optimal place to practice, exercise, and extend one’s influence! In this book, the author shows how 99% of all leadership in most organizations takes place in the middle. And he shares the secrets of how to increase one’s influence-from wherever he or she is. The book explodes the myths of leadership. It even includes a section telling the big boss how to create a better working environment so that leaders in the middle can florish.

• Cases on the human side of information technology / Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi, ed. --Hershey: Idea Group, 2006

  The growth of modern information technology has created a challenge in the organizational and managerial areas of IT. While technological advances often make tasks easier, the human side of a task is still affected. This book provides many real-life examples of how organizations have handled human side issues in the overall utilization and management of IT. It presents information to assist educators and professionals in the implementation of strategies for the benefit of the company or organization.

• Managing innovation: new technology, new products, and new services in a global economy / Ettlie, John E. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006

  Although technology can cause problems, it can also have enormous beneficial impact on society: the computer, the airplane, antibiotics and so on. This book is about technological change from the broad perspective of all managers and professionals who must thrive and prosper in modern organizations. Most new products and services require at least some, if not extensive changes in operations and information systems. This book is organized into four sections. The first section introduces the innovation process and surfaces the major issues and theories for managers in this field. The second section is devoted to planning innovation (strategy, R&D management, and economic justification), and third section is devoted to implementing these plans (product innovation, operations strategy and process innovation). The concluding section is devoted to managing future technologies and reinforces the central theme of the book: integration issues must be confronted and managed in order to capture value from technological innovation in organizations.

• Security and South Asia: ideas, institutions and initiatives / Rajagopalan, Swarna, ed. New Delhi: Routledge, 2006

  This volume deals with both traditional and non-traditional security issues in South Asia. Each essay is linked to the other in a chain of ideas and approaches. The essays examine how security is understood and how important strategic relationships are formed; approaches to and choices made in the areas of military structure, arms production, and investments in science and technology; how and why civil society groups are mobilized towards political ends; the role of state and non-state actors in preparing for and responding to natural disasters.

• Indian performing arts: a mosaic / Banerjee, Utpal K. --New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, 2006 (Reference)

  Performing arts are a delight of the artists who have excelled in visual, oral-aural and moving art forms. Music, dance and theatre have coexisted for millennia in India and have entered the 21st century in their full glory. Now, over the past once century, cinema has elevated itself to a distinctive art form. This book captures the rich tapestry of music, dance, theatre and cinema—covering painting as well—at the turn of the new millennium and touches upon the pulsating vibrations of their contemporary creativity. The book has been enriched by a wealth of pictures and photographs.

• Information technology and indigenous people / Dyson, Laurel Evelyn. --Hershey: Information science, 2006 (Reference)

  Indigenous people around the world are becoming more interested in information technology because they see it as a way to preserve their traditional culture for future generations as well as a way to provide their communities with economic and social renewal. However, the cost of the new technologies, geographic isolation, and a lack of computer literacy have made it difficult for indigenous people to adopt IT. This book provides theoretical and empirical information related to the planning and execution of IT projects aimed at serving indigenous people. It explores many cultural concerns with IT implementation, including language issues and questions of cultural appropriateness, and brings together cutting-edge research from both indigenous and non-indigenous scholars.

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