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Architecture |
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Living in India: lives in style / Soni, Varun. –New
Delhi: Prakash Books, 2006 (Reference) |
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This book is an insight into how a modern, chic Indian lives - a
splendorous living that evokes envy, sets aspirations and
showcases to the world elegant and sophisticated living in
India. A major highlight of the book is the written word. The
book is not a technical analysis on architecture or interiors
but a peek into the Indian living trends, a 'walk-through' that
leads into different class of homes in India. |
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London's contemporary architecture+: a map-based guide /
Allinson, Ken. --Burlington: Elsevier, 2006 |
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This book is a practical and highly illustrated guide to the
best modern buildings. This guide book looks at London district
by district. It identifies the buildings most worth visiting and
offers essential information about the selected architectural
gems. |
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Bibliography |
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501 Must-read books--London: Bounty Books, 2006
(Reference) |
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The
book is like the wisest, cleverest, best -read and trusted
friend. The recommendations for inclusion in this comprehensive
book were made by a bibliophile and writer with a peerless
reputation, but the reviews themselves were compiled by
lecturers, writers and book lovers. This comprehensive guide
will inspire us to read more widely than we could have imagined
and to explore previously untrodden paths in bookstore or
library. |
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Biography |
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A Prattler's tale: Bengal, Marxism, governance / Mitra,
Ashok. --Kolkata: Samya, 2007 (Reference) |
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The
book offers a thought-provoking, incisive analysis of Bengal and
India. Ashok Mitra's memoirs, translated for the first time into
English from the Bengali original, Apila-Chapila (Ananda, 2003)
brings contemporary India alive. The partition of India found
author and his family in the new country of East Pakistan that
they were to live, like millions of other refugees, to a new
India where they had to re-build lives. |
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Civil
Rights |
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Right to information and good governance / Goel, S.
L.--New Delhi: Deep and Deep, 2007 |
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The
concept of Right to Information and Good Governance are
intertwined in this book. In a way they can be said to be two
sides of the same coin, or two aspects of the same aspiration,
viz., to strengthen, stabilize and broaden the working of the
democratic system. Right to Information Act, 2005 is a landmark
for good governance and can help the common citizens especially
the poor and underprivileged to get their due from the
Government. However, this will depend upon the implementation of
the Act in letter and spirit. |
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Democracy |
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Grass-roots democracy in India and China: the right to
participate / Mohanty, Manoranjan, ed.
New Delhi: Sage, 2007 |
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The
book describes both India and China have experienced economic
changes and growing social consciousness which have generated
new challenges for local institutions. This volume closely
studies the resultant grass-roots political experiences in these
countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the
process of democratization and highlights the growing demands
for participation and the complex power structures interjecting
them. |
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Disaster Management |
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Disaster management: text and case studies / Murthy, D.
B. N. --New Delhi: Deep and Deep, 2007 |
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The
book is an attempt to bridge the gap in the availability of
information on disasters. I spell out the need for better
disaster management that would bring relief immediately to the
victims of the tragedy. Moreover, a disaster should lead to
long-term development. This is what is highlighted in the
chapters. |
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Economics |
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Men of steel: India's business leaders in candid
conversations with Vir Sanghvi / Sanghvi, Vir. --New Delhi: Roly
books, 2007 |
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These are in-depth profiles on India's biggest business barons.
These are the men who are powering the new India's leap into the
21st Century: the faces behind the great Indian success story. |
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Mid-year review of the economy 2006-2007: India at a
structural break / Bhalla, Surjit S.
New Delhi: Shipra, 2007 |
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This book presents evidence on the determinants of economic
growth in India. There are two major puzzles about the Indian
economy: first, why was there so little acceleration in GDP
growth despite wide ranging economic reforms introduced in the
two-year period 1991 to 1993. Second, what has caused the
acceleration in economic growth since 2003. |
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The Origin of wealth: evolution, complexity, and the
radical remaking of economics / Beinhocker, Eric D. Boston:
Harvard Business School Press, 2006 |
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The
book provides a splendid, far-reaching survey and synthesis of
recent work by economists and other scholars to build a truly
dynamic theory of the economy. Building on these new ideas,
author shows how wealth is created through an evolutionary
process. |
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The Oxford companion to economics in India / Basu,
Kaushik, ed. --New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007
(Reference) |
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This unique volume, the first comprehensive resource of its kind
on the contemporary Indian economy, aims to address this need.
Culled from the collective wisdom of 200 distinguished
contributors, including economists, business leaders, policy
makers, and analysts, it collates facts with contemporary
thinking on the Indian economy, to provide an accessible account
of the diverse range of themes and issues relevant to India
today. |
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Geography |
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National Geographic family reference atlas of the world
/ National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C.: National
Geographic Society, 2007 (Reference) |
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The
second edition of this book offers a place to come for easily
accessible, coherent understanding of our fast-changing world.
From physical geography to geopolitics, from new weather
patterns to the geologic forces that for millennia have shaped
and reshaped the continents, this single volume tracks the
forces and trends that affect our lives. |
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Information Technology |
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Technology and offshore outsourcing strategies /
Brudenall, Peter, ed. --New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
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This book addresses the issues and strategies underpinning
outsourcing as a business model, and the elements that lead to a
successful outsourcing arrangement. Bringing together leaders in
strategic thinking within the global outsourcing community. |
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Management |
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Towards personal excellence: psychometric tests and
self-improvement techniques for managers / Sanghi,
Seema. --New Delhi: Response Books, 2007 |
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The
book contains six pilot-tested modules each with a cluster of
skills and a self-assessment questionnaire (with response
sheet), which enable the reader/user to record individual
strengths and weaknesses to keep track of the process of
learning. |
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Military Science |
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Ghost plane: the inside story of the CIA's secret
rendition programme / Grey, Stephen. London: Hurst and Company,
2006 |
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The
book tells the stories of individuals abducted at airports
around the world and transported for interrogation and torture
on a fleet of leased planes manned by CIA operatives. Grey
paints a disbursing ethical picture of the war on terror and
lays the responsibility for abduction and torture at the
doorstep of Washington, D.C. |
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Social Welfare |
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The Changing face of welfare: consequences and outcomes
from a citizenship perspective / Andersen, Jorgen Goul.
--Bristol: Policy Press, 2005 |
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The
book applies a dynamic and change oriented perspective to shed
light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the
welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of
the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding
social change. |
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Social Work |
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Handbook of social work with groups / Garvin, Charles
D., ed. --Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007 (Reference) |
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This comprehensive handbook describes current approaches to
working with groups in many different settings and for a variety
of purposes. Leading social work practitioners and scholars
outline influential theories of group work and address
contemporary issues in planning and implementing interventions. |
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Sociology |
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Life and words: violence and the descent into the
ordinary / Das, Veena. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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The
book is based o two events - the Partition of India in 1947 and
the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of Indira
Gandhi. The aim of the book is not to describe the moments of
horror. Rather, it talks of what happens to the subjects and
their world when the memories of such events unfold in their
everyday lives. |
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Tsunamis |
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26th December 2004 Tsunami: a geoscientific perspective
/ Rajamanickam, G. V., ed. New Delhi: New Academic Publishers,
2006 |
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This book is an integration of the research highlights of these
projects that were executed through research and academic
institutions and national agencies, on four major themes viz.
Coastal Geomorphology, Inundation Mapping, Water Quality and
Sediment characterization, in all the tsunami affected areas on
the Indian mainland and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. |
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Water
Resources |
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Handbook of water resources in India: development,
management, and strategies / Briscoe, John, ed. --New Delhi: The
World Bank, 2007 (Reference) |
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This handbook focuses on major water policy issues in India. It
examines the evolution of India's water management, discusses
the achievements of the past, and anticipates future challenges.
The volume explores the relationship of water with economic
growth, poverty, environment, energy, and rights and
entitlements. |
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