• Architectural quality control: an illustrated guide / Nashed, Fred. --New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This book is targeted to all members of the architectural teams. It provides insights on how to execute each task properly since this is the first step in avoiding error-filled drawings. This is followed by a description of the checking procedure for the team member entrusted with each task as well as for the project architect and the project manager or office-wide technical adviser. The book includes a large number of drawings citing examples of anomalies from actual projects.

• Great new buildings of the world / Canizares, Ana G. --New York: Harper Design, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This book presents an illustrated journey through today’s architectural gems, from museums and auditoriums, to stadiums and city halls. With sites ranging from Seattle and Melbourne, to Tokyo and Taipei, each project expresses a unique style while integrating innovations in form, function, construction techniques, and materials.

• House design--Cologne: Daab, 2004 (Reference)
  

  This book provides insights into the technical, aesthetic, and social dimensions of house design. It examines virtually every aspect of a house, inside and out, from design and planning to construction and furnishing and offers fresh insights into the basic human needs of comfort, privacy, and safety, and also sheds new light on the classic intangibles that contribute to good architecture - intellect, beauty, and emotion. A full complement of photographs, floor plans, and line drawings enhances the usefulness and pleasure of this invaluable book.

• Sketch. plan. build: world class architects show how it's done / Bahamon, Alejandro.
  New York: Harper Design, 2005 (Reference)
  

  Often the most sophisticated buildings get their start as quick sketches in a moment of sudden inspiration. During the process of careful refinement, these same sketches take shape and emerge as the buildings we see before us everyday. Focusing on the design process of today’s most noteworthy architects, this book explores the reasoning, resources, and influences behind the projects of today’s most recognized architects. It starts with the sketch and then extends to the other drawings, running the gamut from architects such as Tadao Ando, Mario Botta, Alvaro Siza, Dominique Perrault, and Renzo Piano.

• Hariprasad Chaurasia: romance of the bamboo reed / Vasudev, Uma. --Gurgaon: Shubhi, 2005
  

  Hariprasad Chaurasia’s accession to stardom in Indian classical music has been of a man obsessed. His wide and varied experience started with secret tutelage away from the disapproving eye of a wrestler as father. But it was his tutelage under the reclusive, demanding, strict disciplinarian, Annapurna Devi, that marked the future for Hariprasad Chaurasia as a musician who has revolutionized the flute idiom and given it new classical dimensions. This book presents the biography of this great musician.

• Techniques of the modern artists / Collins, Judith.--London: Greenwich Editions, 2004 (Reference)
  

  The story of art in the present century is a fascinating one, not just in terms of the creative output of artists throughout the world, but also in terms of the materials and techniques they have used to give birth to their creations. Techniques and materials are the starting point and focus for this study. It presents a selection of the work of the major—and most influential—painters of the twentieth century. The core of the book is the 30 main paintings selected for detailed analysis, the various introductions setting these works firmly in the broad artistic context.

• Encyclopaedia of disaster management / Goel, S. L.--New Delhi: Deep and Deep, 2006 (in 3 volumes) (Reference)
  

  Disasters whether natural or man-made are causing a great loss to all—beings, animals, plants and resources—buildings, infrastructure and above all cause psychological problems. Disasters are increasing with the move to material civilization, urbanization, industrialization and greed. This encyclopaedia in 3 volumes critically analyses and provides suggestions to overcome the problems of disaster management. The volume 1 deals with the concept and theoretical framework essential for prevention, relief, mitigation, preparedness and rehabilitation; volume 2 deals with natural disasters like earthquake, cyclone, drought, flood, landslide, avalanches, etc.; volume 3 deals with disasters which are increasing with every passing year.

• The Surface texture book: more than 800 colour and texture samples for every surface, furnishing and finish / Martin, Cat. --London: Thames and Hudson, 2005 (Reference)
  

  Whether chosen or inherited, interior surfaces cannot avoid forming an impression and asserting their impact on a space. From rare and extravagant materials consciously selected to flaunt and exhibit status to the mass-produced, unadorned simplicity of white paint, the combination of walls, floors and ceilings create a specific identity for any room. This book highlights the extensive choices available. From high-profile finishes to budget chic, it shows some of the options for interesting and unusual ‘tactile’ interiors. It includes commercially available products from large multinationals, as well as local, one-off designers.

• Word origins: the hidden histories of English words from A to Z / Ayto, John
  London: A and C Black, 2005
  
  

  Tracing a word’s development back in time shows that in many cases what are now separate lexical terms were formerly one and the same word. The purpose of the book is to uncover the often surprising connections between elements of the English lexicon that have become obscured by centuries of language change. It provides a concise history of thousands of the most commonly used words. The range of information spans from the simplest derivations to the most obscure lexical relations. It demonstrates how the myriad influences on English have given rise to some unlikely connections between words.

• Outsourcing success: the management imperative / Patel, Alpesh B. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
  

  Outsourcing of business processes has been significant and growing trend. Many major corporations have outsourced overseas and the next wave will include many Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) moving outsourcing operations. The changes and implications for business are substantial. This book provides a comprehensive analysis and highlights the best practice and pitfalls to avoid.

• Writing and producing for television and film / De Fossard, Esta. --New Delhi: Sage, 2005
  

  Role models from the visual media often spark in viewers the will to emulate desired behavior. The Entertainment-Education method combines emotional appeal and relevant knowledge in order to promote such behavior change. This book provides in detail on the Design Approach for determining and then articulating effective messages to be contained in the drama, along with guidelines and examples at every step.

• How to paint: a complete step-by-step guide for beginners covering watercolours, acrylics and oils / Gair, Angela. --London: New Holland, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This book explains how to approach landscape and still life painting as well as a wide range of painting skills including painting with a knife, impasto and drybrush painting. The step-by-step demonstrations, which cover a wide range of media, including oils, watercolours and acrylics help in developing one’s painting skills. Practical guidance is also being provided on choosing the best materials and tools.

• Book of quotations / Hamilton, Judy, ed. --New Lanark: Geddas and Grosset, 2004 (Reference)
  

  This book provides a large collection of the wit and wisdom of insightful men and women, of many nationalities, from the fields of politics, religion, literature, music, sport, art, the media, business, law, and stage and screen. Arranged by theme and with an index of famous people, this volume inspires to revisit time and time again. These inspirational and entertaining quotations are a timeless reminder of some of the amazing talents and personalities, from many generations and walks of life, who have enriched our lives and made the world a more interesting place.

• Writing and producing radio dramas / De Fossard, Esta.--New Delhi: Sage, 2005
  

  Throughout the world, the media is used in various ways to promote social awareness and initiate social development. Of all the available means of communication, radio is still the one with the maximum reach in most developing countries. This book offers practical guidance on how to design, write, and produce radio dramas aimed at motivating social change. Divided into three parts, the book begins by introducing the concept and use of Entertainment—Education in radio serial drama. It goes on to describe the duties of the program manager of such projects, and concludes with valuable tips for drama writers.

• WTO from Uruguay round to Doha: legal texts of the agreements / Goyal, Arun, ed. --New Delhi: Academy of Business Studies, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to GATT, is rapidly establishing itself as the third pillar of the Bretton Woods institutions alongside the World Bank and the IMF. The prolonged international negotiations which led to its establishment have produced complex set agreements which not only constitute the most profound revision of the rules governing world trade, but extend these rules into a range of issues and economic sectors not hitherto regarded as falling within its ambit. This book provides the legal texts of the WTO agreements from Uruguay to Doha Round.

• India and emerging Asia / Sharma, R. R., ed. --New Delhi: Sage, 2005
  

  In recent years, Asia’s economic and strategic environment has been transformed in a fundamental sense. The emerging ‘Asian Economic Community’—encompassing ASEAN, China, Japan, India and South Korea—is being widely viewed as the centre of gravity of the global economy. Against this background, this volume explores Asia’s dramatic re-emergence on the global scene as well as India’s role in ensuring peace, security, stability and development in the continent. The book offers new perspectives on Asia concerning nature of its politics and governance, the reasons for its insecurity, the need for greater regional cooperation, and its intrinsic strengths and weaknesses.

• Immolating women: a global history of widow burning from ancient times to the present / Fisch, Jorg. --Delhi: Permanent black, 2005
  

  Widow burning (sati) has been a widely known and much debated phenomenon, both inside and outside India. But its wider anthropological, religious, social, and political contexts are virtually unknown. This book offers a study on sati in a global context. It is seen as one among many manifestations of a ritualized and public act of ‘following into death’. The decisive feature is not the manner of dying (burning or being burned, which also occurs with witches and heretics), but the function and the intent: that is, accompanying a dead person into the hereafter.

• Globalizing India: perspectives from below / Assayag, Jackie, ed. --London: Anthem, 2005
  

  The concept of globalization itself needs critical examination, and one productive approach is to focus specifically on the local impacts of globalization in its various guises through comparative ethnographic investigations. This book provides a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society. It includes a series of critical discussions about important issues of economy and agriculture, education and language, and culture and religion, based on ethnographic case-studies from different localities in India. It also includes a major study of the history of globalization and India that sets current trends in perspective.

• Peoples, nations and cultures: an A-Z of the peoples of the world past and present / Mackenzie, John M., ed. --London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005 (Reference)
  

  Modern political geography, reflected in the 200 states into which the contemporary world is divided, offers at best a simplification of the world’s ethnic and cultural complexities. This book is divided into five regionally based sections: The Americas, Africa, Europe, South and Central Asia and the Middle East and East and Southeast Asia and Oceania. It presents a clear and concise history of the world’s major ethnic and cultural groupings. The peoples, nations and cultures covered include the inhabitants of present-day nation-states; minority peoples within nation-states; peoples dispersed over a number of nation-states; significant cultural but non-ethnic groupings; and extinct peoples.

• Financing urban shelter: global report on human settlements 2005 / United Nations Human Settlements Programme--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This report provides an assessment of current trends in the financing of urban shelter. It examines the characteristics and performance of conventional mortgage finance, highlighting its strengths and limitations. It further looks at the financing of social and rental housing, especially through subsidies, as well as emerging trends in meeting the specific shelter finance needs of urban poor households. The report shows that small housing loans, disbursed through housing microfinance institutions, are among the most promising developments in housing finance of the past decade. It also highlights the increasing popularity of shelter community funds for upgrading informal and slum neighbourhoods.

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