• Wonders of the world--Kent: Grange Books, 2004 (Reference)
  

  This book describes the wonders of the world in five continents: Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Oceania. It presents these wonders, which bear witness both of human ingenuity throughout the ages and of nature’s spellbinding beauty, and make us long to discover them with our own eyes, through outstanding photographs

• Architectural aesthetics / Sharma, Sangeet. --Chandigarh: Abhishek, 2005
  

  This book is an anthology comprising of twenty-four articles & essays on architecture. It delves into aspects of architecture comparing its relation with other allied fields like art, painting, poetry, music, metaphysics, spirituality, human emotions and primarily understanding of life through the noble profession of architecture. Covering wide range of topics and areas, the examples covered are from Chandigarh in India to site of stonehange in U.K. The collection offers fresh new perspectives on architecture and its histories within the arena of futuristic cultural studies.

• By design: why there are no locks on the bathroom doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and other object lessons / Caplan, Ralph. --New York: Fairchild, 2005
  

  This book shows how design affects our most significant human activities. A network of engrossing stories illuminate the process as it applies to industrial design, interior design, fashion design, graphic design, and the design of business and social situations. A concluding chapter examines design responses to radical technological developments and shifting consumer demands.

• The house to ourselves: reinventing home once the kids are grown / Lawson, Todd. Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 2004 (Reference)
  

  When kids leave the nest, many couples are suddenly free of many of the constraints that tied them to a particular house or neighborhood. This book includes a broad range of house types and locations, but all have several elements in common: a design that flexes to work for few as well as many, a home that reflects and deepens the individual owner’s passions, and a home designed for the “Golden Age” of life. The book will inspire couples to create a home that reflects all the possibilities of this special time in life.

• The spirit of Indian architecture / Bubbar, D. K. --New Delhi: Rupa, 2005(Reference)
  

  In recent times, when architecture has found many different expressions and there have sprung up more ‘instant’ experts, the questions still remains—Where is architecture headed today? Why are we getting more buildings but no architecture?, etc. This book addresses these and other such questions. It conceptualizes and coin terms such as ‘Humanised Architecture’, ‘Proportionate Dimensions’ and ‘Harmonious Space’. It also provides solutions for an organic and symbiotic way of development that can be scaled up right from a single dwelling to as large as a whole township.

• Agribusiness and society: corporate to environmentalism, market opportunities and public regulation / Jansen, Kees, ed.-- London: Zed Books, 2004
  

  This book examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness. How are they changing their R & D and business practices to develop new environmentally oriented products, services and methods of production? And what can they change of their own volition, and where is external direction a necessary condition of environmentally friendly innovation. These questions are explored through investigations of particular biotech and agribusiness companies—including Monsanto, Ciba Geigy, Dole, and Chiquita—and their behaviour in locations as diverse as California, Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Central America.

• Managing business in the 21st century: a handbook / Sen, Anindya, ed. New Delhi: Oxford University, 2005
  

  Business firms today are managed in fundamentally different ways as compared to thirty or even twenty years ago. Most firms including family-run businesses pay attention to the latest management techniques and concepts to maximize the firm’s growth. This volume brings together fourteen essays on significant theoretical concepts in management that is critical to business strategy in the twenty-first century.

• Manpower profile in India: yearbook 2004. New Delhi: Institute of Applied Manpower Research, 2004 (Reference)
  

  This is an annual publication of the Institute of Applied Manpower Research. It provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on various characteristics of human resource in India available from different sources. It depicts how human resources, generated through the prevailing demographic factors, is transformed into manpower through a process of education and training and then utilized for various socio-economic activities.

• Reclaiming development: an alternative economic policy manual / Chang, Ha-Joon. London: Zed Books, 2004
  

  ‘There is no alternative’—to neoliberal economics, the Americanization of the world’s economies, and globalization. This remains the driving assumption within the international development policy establishment. This book explains this dominant school’s main assertions about how economies develop and the policies that all countries ought to pursue. The authors then combine data and a devastating economic logic with and analysis of the historical experiences of leading Western and East Asian economies during their development, in order to question the validity of the neoliberal development model.

• Small is beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered / Schumacher, E. F. London: Vintage, 1993
  

  This book looks at the economic structure of the Western world in a revolutionary way. The book maintains that Man’s current pursuit of profit and progress, which promotes giant organizations and increased specialization, has in fact resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions. It challenges the doctrine of economic, technological and scientific specialization and proposes a system of Intermediate Technology, based on smaller working units, communal ownership, and regional workplaces utilizing local labour and resources.

• World economic situation and prospects 2005 / United Nations. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This report provides an overview of recent global economic performance and short-term prospects for the world economy and of some key global economic policy and development issues. One of its purposes is to serve as a point of reference for discussions on economic, social and related issues taking place in various United Nations entities in the first half of 2005.

• Education in the digital world / Sharma, Ramesh C., ed. --New Delhi: Viva Books, 2005
  

  The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in various educational settings has become the key to the success of educators. Due to the impact of ICT, the world of education has undergone tremendous change in the recent past, and this book critically examines the developments in this area. The book covers in detail the following:

Changes in education; Informal learning; Online learning and mentoring; Learning Objects; Distance education and online learning; In-service teacher training; Plagiarism in the digital environment; Professional development of teachers. The book will be useful to all those interested in using technology in education to enhance their teaching and learning in the digital world—face-to-face, distance and online.

• Festivals of the world: the illustrated guide to celebrations, customs, events and holidays / Breuilly, Elizabeth. --London: Hodder Children's Books, 2002 (Reference
  

  Throughout history and through all the great cultures and faiths of the world, people have celebrated their special days as times of fun, feast, party, travel, reunion and enjoyment. It has always been that people need to relieve the monotony of ordinary working life with festivals. This book looks at the ways in which major religions celebrate the events and teachings of their faith and how different cultures commemorate landmarks in their history. Topics covered include: How yearly cycles of festivals reflect the hopes, fears and successes of humans; The teachings, stories, myths, legends and symbols central to each festival and The foods, music, costumes, plants and animals associated with festivals.

• The Saudi enigma: a history / Menoret, Pascal. --London: Zed Books, 2005
  

  Saudi Arabia is a major piece on the world geopolitical chessboard. Despite the suspicion that has enveloped the country since 9/11, Saudi Arabia remains the key US ally in the Arab Middle East, a role secured by its continuing position as the world’s largest oil exporter and its ever-growing influence in the Muslim world. This book illustrates the emerging autonomous—and Islamic—manifestations of Saudi national identity, fiercely reformist rather than medieval, complex and varied rather than merely a justification or support for the rule of the al-Saud royal family.

• Security in the 21st century: the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq / Conte, Alex. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2005
  

  This volume examines international security issues by way of case studies of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Each of these raises significant issues concerning the use of force between states and the role of the United Nations in maintaining international peace and security. It examines international terrorism and the intervention in Afghanistan, including the controversial policy of pre-emptive strikes in the war on terror, and discusses the role adopted by the United Nations in the political and economic reconstruction of states subjected to conflict. Analyzing events in Iraq since 1990, the book assesses the legality of the current war and leads to an examination of the role of the UN in maintaining peace and security and possible options for reform and accountability.

• Cases in the Muhammadan law of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh / Fyzee, Asaf A. A. New Delhi: Oxford University, 2005
  

  This book, originally published in 1965, was written by Fyzee as a companion volume to his erudite and authoritative ‘Outlines of Muhammadan Law’. Since then it has been a source book for the Indo-Anglican interpretation of Muslim law. This volume presents original forty-three cases along with the author’s commentary and extracts from judgments, as well as ninety-three new cases relating to significant developments since its original publication. The themes covered in the original edition have now been extensively revised and updated. New judicial rulings from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been added to all of its nineteen chapters.

• Digital library use: social practice in design and evaluation / Peterson, Ann, ed. New Delhi: Ane Books, 2005
  

  The world has changed radically with the emergence of the Internet. Information retrieval used to be a specialized topic known by a few experts and practiced by a few librarians. Today, millions of ordinary people all over the world routinely search the Internet in an attempt to find useful information to solve their problems. This emergence has made the process of organizing and searching digital collections a critical international need. A successful digital library is a place where a group of users (people) can effectively search a group of documents (collection) via an information system (technology). This volume views digital libraries (DLS) from a social as well as technological perspective. Topics considered include documents and society; the real boundaries of a “library without walls”; the ecologies of digital libraries; usability and evaluation; information and institutional change; transparency as a product of the convergence of social practices and information artifacts; and collaborative knowledge construction in digital libraries.

• Information science and journalism: a symbiosis / Mahapatra, Rabindra K. --Jaipur: Rawat, 2004
  

  The role played by the journalists in collecting information and reporting news is highly significant. In bringing facts to the public, they normally follow the path of truism and to do so they depend upon relevant, concrete and background information, possible causes and future consequences of the events or facts in their report. In this study, the information needs and seeking behaviour of working journalists in Orissa have been analysed. Different dimensions of library use by different types of journalists have been depicted. How information is being used in their professional work is also discussed in detail.

• Capturing customers' hearts: leave your competition to chase their pockets / Clegg, Brian. London: Pearson Education, 2000
  

  Customer service has been a crucial focus for at least 15 years now. Survey after survey has shown that really good customer service is still the exception. And with the customer expectations higher than ever, and the competition not standing still—especially with the emergence of the wired world—an outstanding customer relationship is the only safe way of building differentiation. This book looks at companies where the product or the company itself generates a special reaction in the customer, something much more than brand loyalty—true affection.

• Innovation management: strategy and implementation using the pentathlon frame work / Goffin, Keith. --Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
  

  Managing innovation is a complex challenge. Practitioners must take ideas from diverse sources such as strategic planning, human resource management, financial planning and project management. This book is based on a framework called the Innovation Pentathlon, which helps them perceive the strengths and weaknesses of an organization and choose the appropriate means of improving performance. It first describes the research literature, uses this to identify the most important tools and techniques, and then shows how these should be adapted to specific situations. All of the important concepts are clearly explained and extensive mini case studies illuminate how they can be applied in practice.

• The one thing you need to know: about great managing, great leading and sustained individual success / Buckingham, Marcus. --London: Smion and Schuster, 2005
  

  This book reveals the central insights that lie at the core of: Great Managing, Great Leadership and Great Careers. For great managing, the controlling insight has less to do with fairness, or team building, or clear expectations (although all are important). For leadership, the controlling insight is the opposite—discover and capitalize on what is universal to all your people, regardless of differences in personality, race, sex, or age. For sustained individual success, the controlling insight is the need to discover what you don’t like doing, and know how and when to stop doing it. Overall, this book offers crucial performance and career lessons for business people at every level.

• Local initiatives: collective water management in rural Bangladesh / Duyne, Jennifer E. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 2004
  

  This book illustrates how people in rural Bangladesh, without any institutional or material support, manage their water resources to make their environment safer or more productive. Case studies of over seven hundred local initiatives show that people have an underestimated capacity to design, construct, maintain and operate relatively complex water management systems and to mobilize large amounts of human, material and financial resources. The book examines conditions under which people get together to pursue common goals through a systematic, comparative analysis of the four regions covered by the research project.

• In a minority: essays on Muslim women in India / Hasan, Zoya, ed. New Delhi: Oxford University, 2005
  

  Muslims women have been the subject of considerable debate in India, chiefly around the conflicting claims of personal law, identity, and gender. The essays in this volume present the diversity of Muslim women’s lives in all its complexity. They analyse patterns of employment and the low participation of Muslim women in the labour market; explore gender differentials in educational attainment and its links to other aspects of social inequality; and examine the influence of religious and other factors on the access of Muslim women to property and work. The volume further explores constraints on educational advancement and draws out the linkage between rights and empowerment.

• Transport terminals and modal interchanges: planning and design / Blow, Christopher. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005
  

  This book is a compendium of architectural and engineering achievement, revealing the benefits of an integrated approach to planning. The movement towards multi-modal interchanges has only recently come of age. The book reviews the trend for the first time, explaining how separate modes of transport are brought together and linked through ‘joined up thinking’, enabling transport designers and authorities to exploit interchange opportunities more effectively. International case studies are used to show how existing examples were planned and designed, and ideas to improve transfer and mobility in future projects are also outlined.

• Flowing upstream empowering women through water management initiatives in India / Ahmed, Sara, ed. --Ahmedabad: Centre for Environment Education, 2005
  

  Water resource management is and issue that is of paramount significance in a country where equitable access is still a major concern. Both men and women have specific needs when it comes to the issue of water. This book focuses on the problems faced by women in the process of rural water management, integrating the scientific and social dimensions associated with the issue. The book recommends solutions to the problems identified so as to enhance the capacities of women as water managers. The book highlights problems of rural women from different parts of India, notably in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Jharkhand.

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