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and urban design standards / American Planning Association.
--New Jersey: John Wiley, 2006 (Reference) JSA
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This book represents an enormous
understanding and simply would not have been possible without
the American Planning Association's steady hand at its helm. The
APA has served as content manager and content generator,
diligently working to ensure that readers will receive a
reference of the highest quality. |
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Eco-landscape / Ji-Seong, Jeong,
ed. --Korea: C A Press, 2006 (Reference) JSA |
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It is a compilation of all of the
trends for Eco-Landscape gathering more interest recently
together with environmentally friendly architecture. A variety
of the latest cases were suggested according to their use from
large-scale natural green facility to residential facility,
public facility, convenient facility, neighboring facility, etc.
In addition, it included details by case so that the readers can
use them for various purposes. |
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Aftermath: World Trade Center
Archive / Meyerowitz, Joel. --New York: Phaidon, 2006
(Reference) |
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This extraordinary archive of
pictures is the only existing photographic record of Ground Zero
after the attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11th
2001. Fenced off and classified as a crime scene, the area was
closed to all photographers, and only scant information was
available about the activities in the guarded enclosure that
became known as the Forbidden City. |
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Astronomy |
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The Universe: a biography /
Gribbin, John. --London: Allen Lane, 2007 |
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This book tells the life story of
the entire universe as it actually happened, from the very
beginning. The author makes cosmology accessible to everyone,
answering the most fundamental questions in science in the most
exciting appealing way possible. He reveals the secrets of the
cosmos and, crucially, how we have come to know them. |
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Death by black hole: and other
cosmic quandaries / Tyson, Neil DeGrasse. --New York: W.W.
Norton, 2007 |
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The book explores a myriad of
cosmic topics, from astral life at the frontiers of astrobiology
to the movie industry's feeble efforts to get its night skies
right. |
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Civil
Rights |
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Human rights, justice, and
constitutional empowerment / Raj Kumar, C., ed. --New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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This book is an outstanding
contribution to the subject of constitutional law and human
rights. It is also a critical evaluation of the human rights
jurisprudence that has been developed by the courts in India
over half a century. |
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Human rights year book 2006 /
Parekh, Pravin H., ed.--Delhi: Universal Law Publishing, 2006
(Reference) |
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Since its inception in 1989, the
International Institute of Human Rights Society celebrates Human
Rights Day every year. This year's theme is "Human Rights &
Social Justice under the constitution". The constitution of
India also has the theme of social justice intricately woven
into its fabric. |
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Economics |
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Ending poverty in South Asia:
ideas that work/ Narayan, Deepa, ed. --Washington, D. C.: The
World Bank, 2007 |
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The last two decades saw
substantial change in the countries of South Asia. All countries
of the subcontinent experienced more rapid growth than in the
earlier decades and also saw a definite reduction in the
incidence of poverty, resulting in the improvement of the lives
of hundreds of millions of poor people. The book offers no
pre-cooked blueprint for replication. Rather, it offers readers
a look at what has worked in practice and suggests a framework
for distilling the common elements across these case studies. |
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Foreign Relations |
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West Asia in turmoil:
implications for global security / Sisodia, N. S., ed. --New
Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2007 |
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This book tries to analyze the
evolving security environment in West Asia and its implication
for global security. This edited volume discusses critical
issues of our times: religious extremism, democratization, WMD
proliferation, international terrorism, external intervention in
the region, and energy security. |
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History |
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The Great war for civilization:
the conquest of the Middle East / Fisk, Robert. --London: Harper
Perennial, 2006 |
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Vivid personal reporting and
incisive, angry historical analysis make author passionate
eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle
East in to an unforgettable work. Thirty years at the heart of
world shaking events have compassionate, a chronicle of the
death by deceit of tens of thousands of men and women-Muslims,
Christian and Jew - and of the life and work of one of the
world's most acclaimed journalists. |
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The Iraq crisis and world order
/ Thakur, Ramesh, ed.--Tokyo: United Nations University Press,
2006 |
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The Iraq war was a multiple
assault on the foundations and rules of the existing
institutions for articulating global norms and enforcing
compliance with the demands of the international community. It
also highlighted the unwillingness of some key countries to wait
until definitive proof before acting to meet the danger of the
world's most destructive weapons falling into the hands of the
world's most dangerous regimes. |
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The Emergence of the Delhi
Sultanate 1192-1286 / Sunil Kumar. --Ranikhet: Permanent black,
2007 (Reference) DD |
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The author charts the history of
the structures that sustained and challenged this regime, and of
the underlying ideologies eliding its sometimes ephemeral from
that gave meaning to the idea of the Delhi Sultanate. |
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Management |
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The Way of the dog / Burch,
Geoff. --New Delhi: Wiley India, 2007 |
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The author taps into the core of
great personal development writing. He focuses on the two big
questions - what do you want to do with your life and how do you
do it? The book offers timeless, accessible, fast-paced, funny
and memorable advice. Inspiring lifestyle wisdom is brought out
through simple storytelling. |
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Idea mapping: how to access
your hidden brain power, learn faster, remember more, and
achieve success in business / Nast, Jamie. --New Jersey: John
Wiley, 2006 |
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This book enables those with
creative minds to clearly lay out their thinking process and
those who are more process minded to become creative. If your
organisation is looking for a pragmatic, step by step guide to
idea mapping, this is it. |
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Trump-style negotiation:
powerful strategies and tactics for mastering every deal / Rose,
George H.--New Jersey: John Wiley, 2006 |
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The author lays out the strategies
behind his most critical negotiations for Donald Trump and other
New York real estate moghuls. In an easy to read conversational
style, he opens up the Trump playbook to give you the eight keys
to successful negotiation. This book is full of rules,
principles, tips, and tactics, we can apply to our own
negotiations in business and life. |
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I didn't see it coming: the
only book you'll ever need to avoid being blindsided in business
/ Widmann, Nancy C. --New Jersey: John Willey, 2007 |
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This book provides savvy advice
and strategic insights for recognizing and dealing with the
situations that can threaten your career. This book will help
you develop the skills you need to read the room, correctly
assess what is happening around you, and control your career
destiny. It shows you why you need an exit strategy, how to
navigate the political terrain, how (and why) to differentiate
between colleagues, and why it's important to follow the money.
The authors of this utterly unique career guide are three high
powered former executives from major corporations. |
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Mass
media |
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Media policy and globalization
/ Chakravartty, Paula.--Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007 |
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This volume takes a fresh look at
media and communications policy and provides a comprehensive
account of issues that are central to the study of the field. It
moves beyond the specifics of regulation, by examining policy
areas that have proved to be of common concern for societies
across profound gaps in the study of policy by demonstrating the
centrality of historical, social and political context in
debates that may appear solely technical or economistic. |
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Politics & Govt. |
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Frontline Pakistan: the
struggle with militant Islam/ Zahid Hussain. --New Delhi:
Viking, 2007 |
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Based on exclusive interviews with
key players, author reveals how Musharraf took the momentous
decision to support America's war against the Taliban, whom
Pakistani intelligence had helped to power in the first place.
He also describes with devastating detail the blowback unleashed
by the jihadis when their former allies turned on them. |
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Religion |
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Mother Teresa: Saint or
celebrity? / Alpion, Gezim.--London: Routledge, 2007 (Reference)
AWS |
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Mother Teresa was one of the most
prominent religious figures of the twentieth century. During her
lifetime, as well as posthumously, the figure, work and legacy
of Mother Teresa generated, and continue to generate, a huge
level of interest and heated debate. |
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Sociology |
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Indian cities in transition /
Shaw, Annapurna, ed.--Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007 |
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This book seeks to understand the
nature of change that Indian cities are undergoing from a
multidisciplinary perspective. There are seventeen essays in the
volume, encompassing the work of urban planners, geographers,
demographers, social anthropologists, economists and political
scientists. They examine the processes of demographic,
environmental, economic, political and social change, and their
impact on Indian cities. |
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Tours
and Travel |
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501 Must-visit
destinations--London: Bounty Books, 2006 (Reference) |
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Fifty or sixty years ago traveling
abroad for most people was an unrealizable dream. Only the
wealthy with a lot of time on their hands could afford to travel
to a foreign country. The most remote places on earth are today
accessible to the intrepid traveller. Some of the must-visit
destinations featured are great wonders of nature, but the
majorities are creations of human beings. |
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