• The Nehrus: personal histories / Mushirul Hasan. --New Delhi: Roli Books, 2006 (Reference)
  
  The Nehrus are the first family of Indian politics. From Motilal to Jawaharlal, Indira Gandhi to her sons Rajiv and Sanjay and more recently Sonia Gandhi—no other family has wielded such power over or captured the imagination of the Indian people. This pictorial biography presents a chronology of family’s history. It includes rare photographs from the private collections of family members and those closely associated with them. Tracing the roots from when the first Nehru migrated to the Mughal court to the present day, the book tells the story of a fascinating family whose history has come to be inextricably linked with that of modern India.

• W. Arthur Lewis and the birth of development economics / Tignor, Robert L. --New Jersey: Princeton
  University Press, 2005 (Reference)
  
  W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the twentieth century. In this book, the first intellectual biography of Lewis, Robert Tignor traces Lewis's life from its beginnings on the small island of St. Lucia to Lewis's arrival at Princeton University in the early 1960s. A chronicle of Lewis's unfailing efforts to promote racial justice and decolonization, the book provides a history of development economics as seen through the life of one of its most important founders.

• A Brief history of globalization: the untold story of our incredible shrinking planet/ MacGillivray, Alex.—London: Robinson, 2006
  
  Globalization is one of the most overused and least understood words in the world today. This book covers all angles, from fifteenth-century exploration to the rise of the multinational corporation; from the Great Wall of China to the birth of the football World Cup. It covers topics like: Global Intent; The Planet Shrinkers; Muscle: Planet on the Move; Juice: Money, Oil and the Global Casino; A World of Ideas: Religion Language, Culture and Communication.

• Economic sciences, 1991-1995 / Persson, Torsten, ed.- -Singapore: World Scientific, 1997 (Reference)
  
  Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) at their tercentenary in 1968 instituted an Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and placed an annual amount at the disposal of the Nobel Foundation as basis for a prize to be awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In connection with the Prize Awarding ceremony, which is held in Stockholm each December, the laureates give special Nobel Lectures, in which they present and reflect on their contributions. At the ceremony itself, a member of the Academy gives a brief speech with an elementary summary of the Prize winning contribution. These Nobel lectures and presentation speeches, together with the biographies. This book contains the preliminary introductions to the Nobel Memorial Prize speeches given by the Nobel Memorial Prize winners in Economics Science for the year 1991-95, a summary of their careers, including a brief discussion of other individual scholars who had helped, influenced, or worked with them, and the actual speech given at the time they received their award.

• Economic sciences, 1981-1990: the Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel / Maler, Karl-Goran, ed. --Singapore: World Scientific, 1997 (Reference)
  
  Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) at their tercentenary in 1968 instituted an Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and placed an annual amount at the disposal of the Nobel Foundation as basis for a prize to be awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In connection with the Prize Awarding ceremony, which is held in Stockholm each December, the laureates give special Nobel Lectures, in which they present and reflect on their contributions. At the ceremony itself, a member of the Academy gives a brief speech with an elementary summary of the Prize winning contribution. These Nobel lectures and presentation speeches, together with the biographies. This book contains the preliminary introductions to the Nobel Memorial Prize speeches given by the Nobel Memorial Prize winners in Economics Science for the year 1981-1990, a summary of their careers, including a brief discussion of other individual scholars who had helped, influenced, or worked with them, and the actual speech given at the time they received their award.

• Propelling India: from socialist stagnation to global power / Virmani, Arvind. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2006. Vol. 1 & 2
  
  These 2 volumes review the economic history of India from independence to the current period and then go on to make forecasts about the future of the Indian economy and its role in the world. The objective is not criticism for the sake of it. Throughout the focus is on policy and institutional reforms to solve identified policy mistakes and problems. Volume 1 shows that there have been two phases in India’s economic history. The period of socialist stagnation, till the end of the seventies in which India’s growth rate was among the lowest in the World and poverty increased despite professions of socialism. Volume 2 focuses on the wider and deeper economic reforms initiated in the 1990s. It outlines the reforms, analyses their effect and draws lessons for the future. Among the areas covered are governance problems and institutional reforms the BOP crisis, FDI, indirect tax and tariff reform, food policy and savings & monetary policy.

• World class in India: a casebook of companies in transformation / Ghoshal, Sumantra. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2001
  
  This book presents the stories of select Indian companies that have been able to spur their managers to overcome their resistance to change and begin the journey to becoming world class. The cases in this book have been chosen from a cross-section of industries in different sectors and range from family-run businesses to multinational corporations to government enterprises. They show how companies have transformed themselves bottom up, revamping their strategies, organization and management. The cases are open-ended and encourage readers to create their own interpretations.

• Indiastat e-yearbook 2006: socio-economic reference database of the post reform period in India: 1991 to 2005 / Thukral, R. K. ed. --New Delhi: Datanet India, 2006 (Reference)

  In response to the macroeconomic crisis of the late 1980s, a comprehensive programme of liberalization, privatization, and globalization was initiated in India in July 1991. This was aimed at rapid and substantial economic growth preparing India for integration with the global economy. The programme of economic reforms encompassed wide-ranging reform measures touching almost every aspect of the Indian economy. The phenomenal developments in the economy have tracked and presented in the Indiastat e-Year Book 2006. The yearbook traces the journey of economic reforms through statistical data at the national level for the post reform period and reveals what India has accomplished so far.

• India human rights, report 2005 / Chakma, Suhas, ed.--New Delhi: Rights Chronicle, 2005 (Reference)

  The poor state of human rights in India is a common knowledge. It is reported 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year. Yet, when information on human rights violations is documented, collated and analysed, the gruesome pictures of lawless law enforcement and human rights violations emerge. This book covers the events on human rights violations from January 1 to December 31, 2004.

• The United Nations system: a reference handbook / Alger, Chadwick F. --California: ABC-CLIO, 2006 (Reference)

  The UN System has emerged in response to the ever more rapid, and ever more distant, linkages among people across all political borders, through trade, migration, communication, and pursuit of natural resources. In addition, military weapons have been developed that have ever-greater destructiveness and have ever more distant range. As a result, most significant public policy problems flow across all political borders. Therefore, most of the departments of the U.S. government in Washington, and those of all other countries, have counterparts in the UN system. This book provides an overview of the United Nations System that not only include the United Nations, with its 191 members and headquarters in New York City, but also many subsidiary organizations of the UN, Specialized Agencies and Related Organizations with headquarters in many cities around the world.

• The Lost world of Hindustani music / Mukherji, Kumar Prasad. --New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2006

  Kumar Prasad Mukherji’s beloved ‘Kahansahebs’, ‘Panditjis’ and ‘Buwas’ may have been inspired by the divine, his recounting from legends and from personal memory shows us those greats as intensely human creatures. In this book, he traces the origins of their schools, from folk traditions to the courts of ancient emperors to the sound of the ankle-bells of dancing girls. He points to the time when notation crept into classical music, horrifying old masters accustomed to an art form that celebrated spontaneity and improvisation, but resulting in the preservation of ragas that would otherwise have been lost to time.

• Local governance in India: decentralization and beyond / Jayal, Niraja Gopal, ed. New Delhi: Oxford University, 2006

  This volume analysis the complexity of local governance, both rural and urban, in contemporary India. It argues that there is more to local governance today than a focus on decentralization. The essays illuminate some of the lesser known aspects of the interface between panchayats and other institutions of local governance, whether district administration or parastatal agencies and civil society organizations. The essays stress the continued domination of bureaucracy and local elites over elected local bodies and the persistence of rent-seeking in development works.

• How to do research: a psychologist's guide / Evans, Jonathan St B. T. East Sussex: Psychology Press, 2005

  Offering practical advice on all methodological aspects of research from literature review and interpretation of findings, to development of theories, writing and publication, this book provides a consideration of the major conceptual aspects of conducting research. The whole process of research, from philosophical underpinnings to key concepts in implementation, is critically examined and practical advice is provided.

• Four elements: water, air, fir, earth/ Rebecca Rupp.--London: Profile Books, 2006

  Water, air, fire and earth exert their mental influence at the mental border where the inner world of fantasy and imagination meets the outer world of fact. This book provides a scientific and historical survey of water, air, fire and earth, the ancient Greek’s fundamental components of matter. Though the Greek four have long since been displaced from modern chemistry, they continue to resonate in human experience and imagination, and each has an illustrious pedigree all its own.

• Capabilities, freedom, and equality: Amartya Sen’s work from a gender perspective / Agarwal, Bina, ed. -New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006

  This volume examines the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s ideas through the lens of gender. The book outlines the range and usefulness of his work from a gender perspective while also exploring some of its silences and implicit assumptions. The result is a collection of insightful essays which cover major topics in Sen’s work, such as the capability approach, freedom, social choice, justice, agency, ‘missing women’, and development and well-being. Perspectives have been drawn from both developing and developed countries, with most of the authors applying Sen’s concepts to cultural, geographic, and historical contexts which differ from his original applications.

• Social dimensions of sustainable transport: transatlantic perspectives / Donaghy, Kieran P., ed. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005

  This volume brings together leading transport academics to discuss society behaviour and public/private transport. Theoretical and empirical research from across North America and Europe form the basis of this book, which is composed of twelve chapters that fall into four logical sections. Chapters in the first section provide a contextual overview and survey trends in mobility behaviour and prospects of sustainable transport in the two continents. Chapters in the second section provide comparative assessments of difficulties posed by contemporary transport systems for three particular user groups (low-income, female, and elderly), interventions indicated and research needed. The third set of chapters survey recent developments in behavioural modeling that lend themselves to the study of the constellation of issues concerning STELLA Focus Group 3. The remaining chapters of the book address critical issues of equity and policy implementation.

• Groundwater in the enviroment: an introduction / Younger, Paul L. --Malden: BlackWell, 2007

  This book provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of groundwater systems and their management. Using straightforward language and analogies to everyday experiences, it explains the origins nature, and behavior of subsurface water without resorting to complicated mathematics. It draws on case studies and cutting-edge research from around the world, giving a unique insight into groundwater occurring in a wide range of different climate zones and geological settings. It explores how groundwater fits into the wider natural environment, especially in relation to freshwater ecosystems and considers the vulnerability of groundwater systems and the effects of pollution, climate change, land-use change, and overexploitation.

• Water: A shared responsibility: the United Nations World Water Development report 2 / United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization. : UNESCO, 2006 (Reference)

  This volume is a result of a joint undertaking of the 24 UN agencies comprising UN-water, and in partnership with governments and other entities concerned with freshwater issues, this volume, covering all regions and most countries of the world, provides an up-to-date global overview of the state and uses of freshwater, critical water-related problems and societies’ coping mechanisms. Drawing on an extensive database, expert analyses, case studies, and hundreds of graphic elements, it provides for a comprehensive assessment of freshwater issues to date, providing a mechanism for monitoring changes in the resource and its management and progress towards achieving development targets, particularly the Millennium Development Goals.

• Manorama yearbook 2006 / Mathew, Mammen, ed. --Kottayam: Malayala Manorama, 2006 (Reference)

  This edition of Manorama Yearbook, a 1000-page volume in new attire, has been designed as a special general knowledge edition that offers students, scholars and quizzers a great deal of new information. It carries two special features—one on 100 ‘must read’ books, followed by a piece on 100 famous evergreen literary characters. The other is a comprehensive survey of Indian and Asian cinema. Other subjects covered in this edition discuss issues like the constitution of India, natural disasters and disaster management, the growth of the Indian economy, banking, the present status of our wildlife, the Indian diaspora, IT and BPO, women’s careers, professional education and strategies for learning.

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