• The home house project: the future of affordable housing / Badanes, Steve. --Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004
  

  With a long history of accomplished community-based art projects under its belt, the Southeastern Center fro Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has taken an extraordinary leap forward in making the arts more relevant in today’s and tomorrow’s society. This book chronicles the remarkable multilayer initiative, provides inspired design for those who historically have been omitted from enjoying its benefits, and serves as a model that shows how cultural organizations can team with schools, business, and community groups to begin to effect meaningful change.

• Interesting times in India: a short decade at St. Stephen's college / O'Connor, Daniel. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2005
  

  Daniel O’Connor and his wife arrived in India in 1963, virtually the last days of the Nehruvian era, to live and work at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. This was the beginning of a relationship that was to last almost a decade. This book covers political events and social concerns, dotted with delightful vignettes of college life-from staff politics to the Shakespeare Society's theatre productions. It combines both popular history and personal memoir.

• Ambedkar: towards an enlightened India / Omvedt, Gail. --New Delhi: Viking, 2004
  

  Born in 1891 into an ‘untouchable’ family, Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was witness to all the decisive phases of India’s freedom movement. This biography presents with empathy Ambedkar’s struggle to become educated, overcome the stigma of untouchability and pursue his higher studies abroad. It portrays how he gradually rose to become a lawyer of international repute, a founder of a new order of Buddhism and a framer of India’s Constitution. Exploring Ambedkar’s various aspects—as scholar, lawyer, economist, religious leader and intellectual—it explains to a new generation of readers how he became a national and Dalit leader and an icon of the dispossessed.

• The illustrated encyclopedia of birds of the world: the ultimate identification guide to over 1600 birds, profiling habitat, nesting, behaviour and food / Alderton, David. --London: Hermes House, 2005 (Reference)
  

  There are at present an estimated 9000 bird species living on the planet, with new discoveries still being made in remote terrain. This encyclopedia presents some of the major avian species and families in existence, from America’s tiniest insect-catchers to the giant, flightless ratites of the African plains. The life cycle and behaviour of birds is unraveled in a full-colour photographic natural history section, detailing anatomy, flight, feeding, pairing and nesting, plus the key types of avian habitats and the birds. Tips are also provided on birdwatching and fieldcraft.

• The Kutch earthquake 2001: recollections, lessons and insights / Mishra, Pramod K. New Delhi: National Institute of Disaster Management, 2004
  

  The Kutch earthquake of 26 January 2001, was one of India’s most severe natural disasters. This book attempts to revisit the first few hours, weeks and months after the tragedy. It describes how the system, i.e., the government, the affected people and the society, responded to one of the greatest challenges of our time. The book also discusses the need to improve upon current practices, procedures and preparedness on a sustainable basis. It focuses on both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the disaster, documenting important aspects and initiatives for future reference.

• Traffick: the illicit movement of people and things / Bhattacharya, Gargi. --London: Pluto Press, 2005
  

  This book explores the underbelly of globalization—the illicit networks of money, drugs, people and arms that make up a multi-billion dollar illegal economy. The book argues that the official economy relies on this illegal economy. Without it, globalization cannot access cheap labour, it cannot reach vulnerable new markets, and it cannot finance expansion into the places most ravaged by human suffering. It examines the workings of the illegal economy, breaking it down into four main sections: organized crime, drugs, arms and people-trafficking.

• Liberalizing capital flows: India's experiences and policy issues / Kohli, Renu. New Delhi: Oxford University, 2005
  

  This volume presents an account of India’s financial integration with the world economy which coincides with a period of intense fragility in the global financial environment. India is opening up its capital markets at a time when openness to capital flows is being seriously questioned. The volume analyses the complexities and loopholes in India’s reform journey in the face of liberalization of capital movements. It aims to answer several critical questions: What constitutes an appropriate strategy for managing capital inflows in India?; What are the major stumbling blocks to complete account convertibility?; Is the domestic financial sector ready to face the impact of full capital account liberalization, etc. In answering these questions, the book provides a positive, strategic, and normative analysis of monetary and financial governance.

• Asian development outlook 2005: promoting competition for long-term development / Asian Development Bank. Manila: Asian Development Bank, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This annual provides a comprehensive economic analysis of 42 economies in developing Asia and the Pacific. This edition overviews aggregate trends and medium-term prospects by subregion—East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and the Pacific—in the context of global economic movements. It includes a chapter on promoting competition for long-term development in Asia. Restrictions to competition should be removed to enable markets to deliver the benefits of competition both to consumers and to sustainable economic growth. The key message is that government policy should promote competition to ensure sufficient resource allocation, while preserving incentives for innovation.

• Total quality management in education / Mukhopadhyay, Marmar. --New Delhi: Sage, 2005
  

  Management of quality at different stages and levels of education is a daunting task, not only in India but also the world over. In recent years, total quality management (TQM) has emerged as a viable alternative to achieve this goal. Judicious application of TQM to the contemporary scenario of education is no doubt urgently needed. This book covers the philosophical underpinnings of TQM, its instrumentalities, as well as methods of strategic planning and implementation in educational institutions. It emphasizes the optimization of the human resource potential in educational institutions and proposes a very practical and adaptable management model.

• The savage Freud and other essays on possible and retrievable selves / Nandy, Ashis. New Delhi: Oxford University, 2000
  

  This book deals with a wide range of human experiences: from alternative readings of plane hijackings and sati, to the hidden role of racism in a war crimes trial; from the vernacular cultures of psychoanalysis and popular cinema to the play of the absurd in criticisms of modern medicine. The essays presented are not historical reconstruction of the past; they are part of a political preface to a plural human future. These essays try to look at aspects of Indian public life while avoiding the loving embrace of these scaffolds of the culture of the Indian state. Some of the essays, in fact, can be read as attempts to demystify these scaffolds and provide a glimpse of the principles of dominance that sustain them politically.

• Banana wars: the price of free trade: a Caribbean perspective / Myers, Gordon. --London: Zed Books, 2004
  

  Bananas are taken for granted today as part of the diet of ordinary people in industrial countries. This book tells the story of how the US government, in response to grievances of one American corporation, led the World Trade Organization to nullify a European Community commitment to protect the livelihood of small Caribbean banana growers. The WTO’s own working practices also emerge as inflexible and myopic. The story illustrates the inadequacy of an international trading system dominated by free-trade ideology but lacking the flexibility necessary to enable very small and highly vulnerable states, like the Windward Islands, to receive the protection that they need in order to survive.

• Law relating to sexual harassment at the workplace / Jaising, Indira, ed. --Delhi: Universal Law, 2004
  

  In India, women are entering the formal labour workforce in unprecedented numbers. In light of this development, there is, more than ever before, a pressing need for the rights of women to be respected, protected and fulfilled, particularly in the workplace. Sexual Harassment at the Workplace (SHW) attracts five areas of law: Constitutional law, Labour Law, Service Law, Civil Law and Criminal Law. Given the number of remedies available under Indian law for a SHW complainant, this book seeks to set out relevant provisions under each of these five areas of the law.

• Your rights: the liberty guide to human rights / Addis, Megan, ed. --London: Pluto Press, 2005
  

  This book aims to provide an easily understood guide to the Human Rights Act 1998, explaining its relevance and impact in many different areas of law, ranging from rights of privacy to rights of peaceful protest. This edition has several new features including an overview of the Human Rights Act 1998; a guide on how to find freely available legal resources in the UK; updated and expanded chapters on: Rights of Suspects, Rights of Defendants, Rights of Prisoners, Right of Immigrants, Rights of Families and Children; and a foreword by Liberty’s new Director, Shami Chakrabarti.

• The editor's companion / Mackenzie, Janet. --Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2004
  

  As the knowledge economy takes shape, editors face many challenges: technology is transforming publishing, text is losing out to graphics, and writing is distorted by cliché, hype and spin. More than ever, editors are needed to add value to information and to rescue readers from boredom and confusion. This book explains the traditional skills of editing for publication and how to adapt them for all kinds of print and screen publications—from fantasy novels, academic texts and oral history to web pages, government documents and corporate reports. It provides advice on operating a freelance business and includes the ‘Australian Standards for Editing Practice’ as an appendix.

• Dealing with financial risk / Shirreff, David. --London: Profile Books, 2005
  

  The essence of financial risk management is imagining what things might go wrong and then guarding against them. In the past 30 years a whole industry has grown up around the idea that the behaviour of financial markets can be analysed and outsmarted by mathematical models. This book is a guide to the peaks and crevasses of financial risk management, leading the reader through the theory and practice of risk-taking: from swaps and futures to credit derivatives and the implications of Basel 2, dynamic hedging, Monte Carlo simulations, chaos theory, neural networks, Raroc (risk-adjusted return on capital), stress-tests, worst-case scenarios and all kind of games that are played in the cause of managing risk.

• 50 essential management techniques / Ward, Michael. --Mumbai: Jaico, 2005
  

  This book brings together a formidable array of tools designed to improve managerial performance. For each entry, the book introduces the technique in question, explains how it works, then goes on to show, with the aid of an entertaining case study, how it can be used to solve an actual problem. The 50 techniques, including some never before published, are grouped into eleven subject areas, ranging from strategy to learning.

• Harvard business review on managing projects--Boston: Harvard Business School, 2005
  

  This collection of articles provides managers above the day-to day grind of project management to understand the big-picture reasons behind why projects fly—and why they fail. Why are some bad projects so hard to kill—and why do some good projects tank? What does it take to make a project succeed? The book will help managers make decisions that enable the right projects to succeed.

• The results-driven manager: getting people on board--Boston: Harvard Business School, 2005
  

  The Results-Driven Manager series collects timely articles from Harvard Management Update and Harvard Management Communications Letter into highly relevant books that help managers sharpen their skills, increase their effectiveness, and gain a competitive edge. Even the most respected leaders struggle to develop the right blend of leadership styles to overcome resistance to change. This book provides critical strategies and tools for managers to effectively implement change initiatives. It provides tips on: How to stay focused on the goal; Avoid being marginalized; Energize your team and Communicate a sense of purpose.

• An ordinary person's guide to empire / Roy, Arundhati. --New Delhi: Viking, 2005
  

  This book brings together fourteen essays of Arundhati Roy, written between June 2002 and November 2004. In these essays, she draws the thread of empire through seemingly unconnected arenas, uncovering the links between America’s war on terror, the growing threat of corporate power, the response of nation states to resistance movements, caste and communal politics in India, the role of NGOs, and the perverse machinery of an increasingly corporatized mass media.

• Galileo Galilei-when the world stood still / Naess, Atle. --New York: Springer, 2005
  

  The mathematician and physicist Galileo Galilei is one of the most famous scientists of all time. This book presents a gripping account of this great figure in European history. The story of his life and the age in which he lived, of his epoch-making experiments and discoveries, of his stubbornness and pride, of his patrons in the house of Medici, of his enemies and friends in their struggle for truth—all is brought vividly to life in this book.

• The performing arts of India: development and spread across the globe / Lowen, Sharon, ed. Gurgaon: Shubhi, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The classical performing arts of India, with millennia of antecedents, languished during the colonel period and were revitalized during India’s pre-Independence conscious reclaiming of heritage. This book originated from the issues of Indian classical performing arts in the world context of presentation, performing arts in the world context of presentation, performance, training and learning traditions in today’s milieu by students and artists from non-traditional backgrounds. Many of the ideas presented here were first shared during seminars in the ‘90’s bringing together artists, gurus, and arts scholars, in conjunction with a unique series of classical Indian dance and music festivals that changed the perception that non-Indian practitioners of these arts could be regarded as artists and not simply students.

• The photography bible / Lezano, Daniel. --United Kingdom: David and Charles, 2004
  

  This is a comprehensive guide to everything to do with photography, with up-to-the-minute information on the very latest digital cameras, scanners, printers and software, as well as the last word on film, cameras and accessories. It guides through all the essential photographic techniques, from taking perfect portraits or composing wonderful landscapes to creating moody black-and whites, illustrated throughout with a selection of stunning photographs. It works as a complete reference to the hardware, software and techniques of photography in the 21st century.

• Global corruption report 2005: transparency international / Transparencey International. London: Pluto Press, 2005 (Reference)
  

  Corruption not only plunders economies; it also shapes them. Bribery in the construction sector steers money away from schools and hospitals and into the building of giant power of stations that stand idle and dams that devastate the environment. This report shows how the corrupt exploit the vast sums that are poured into the building sector, and what can be done to stop them. The report presents strategy to deal with the problems it analyses. Detailed case studies of large-scale infrastructure projects provide evidences for the worldwide perception that the construction industry is the most corrupt business sector.

• Social work practice and men who have sex with men / Joseph, Sherry. --New Delhi: Sage, 2005
  

  Society at large tends to marginalize homosexuality even through men who have sex with men have always existed within it. Despite the marginalization of homosexual individuals and groups, there is a growing recognition of the need to protect their rights and freedom. This book analyses the extensive data collected through formal networks of such people in Kolkata, and places them in a socio-ecological perspective. It argues that understanding the stress that men who have sex with men experience and their coping strategies will assist sympathetic groups and professionals to work with this community.

• The water business: corporations versus people / Holland, Ann-Christin Sjolande. --London: Zed Books, 2005
  

  Privatisation of water supplies began in England in 1989 under Margaret Thatcher. In the ten years that followed, nearly 10 billion UKP went in profits to the new water companies. Today, two giant corporations, Veolia and Suez, control 80% of the international private water market. They have some 300 million customers. Protests have broken out in developing country after country—Bolvia, Argentina, Ghana, South Africa. The water giants are switching to new markets in China, North America and Europe. Meanwhile well over a billion people still lack access to clean water supplies. This book tells the graphic story behind these facts and figures.

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