Biography

The story begins as an expression of the author's love and regard for Amrita but further deals with Amrita and Imroz's relationship, society's strong reaction against it, the demands of the family, the price and the profound impact it had on Amrita's creativity.

This is a late fifteenth-century book of the recipes of the eccentric Sultan of Mandu (Madhya Pradesh). It contains recipes for cooking a variety of delicacies and epicurean delights, as well as providing remedies and aphrodisiacs for the Sultan and his court. It also includes important sections on the preparation of betel leaves as well as advice on the logistics of hunting expeditions and warfare.

Decorative Arts

This is a unique compendium of Indian crafts. It is a resource of the craft repertoire that reflects the diversity of the country, its cultural milieu and the relationships that nurture creativity and ingenuity. This encyclopaedic publication maps the crafts of the country, and captures the traditions that have enriched the day-t-day lives of Indian people while being a source of livelihood for generations of crafts people.

Dementia

This book outlines the existing research studies on dementia and explores the caregiving scenario in the country. This book will help the gap between the dementia-related literature of the West and caregiving practices in India.

Development Aid / Fundraising

This book addresses the question of how development aid has shaped the nature and growth of the voluntary sector, especially non-government organizations (NGOs), in India. It explores what difference it has made to the size, complexity, style of functioning, values and future direction of the sector, and the impact it has had on its relationship with government and business, in a rapidly globalizing world, the book acquires significance because it helps to increased external resources have impacted the NGO sector, an increasingly important entity in the world.

This revised edition provides much-needed information on developing a case for support, giving trends, donor motivations, planning, setting up a development operation, impact of new technologies on fundraising, return on investment estimates, planning timetables, and importance of the Internet. This comprehensive guide to fundraising remains a good resource for anyone working in the nonprofit sector.

Economics

The book presents the latest data and appraises issues pertaining to the economic reforms of India and China-two major contenders for global power. The two countries have followed different paths to economic growth and yet both have emerged as fast growing economies. Thus, it is interesting to know comparative views of the growth stories of the two countries to see where they are heading.

Employment / Labour

As the Indian economy looks to grow further in the coming decades, it faces the key challenge of increasing the earnings. This report finds that though labour market outcomes have been improving since the 1990s and job growth has been on rise since 2000, unemployment and underemployment continue to be areas of concern.

Gerontology

This collection of essays in this book is divided into three sections-spiritual discourses, socio-economic issues and discourses on end-of-life care for the aged and dying. The first section provides a rich spectrum of cosmologies and religious beliefs-Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic-that interprets the place of death in our lives.

The book explains how organizational change is about changing the way in which people think and act. This book suggests four fundamental ways of altering the mindsets of managers: tuning to external environment and people's mindsets inside the organization; influencing and persuading people and strengthening communication; constructing change initiatives on the basis of cross-functional collaboration and challenging goals; and creating positive contexts that enable people to have faith in their own capabilities.

The book presents a systematic and scientific way of measuring the maturity level of HRD, its systems and strategies, competencies, culture and values, and business impact through a score card.

The book to distill the principles of complex adaptive systems and adaptive management into practical guidance for policy makers. It describes the concept of adaptive-policy making and presents seven tools for developing such policies.

The topics covered in this book are: a survey of Indo-Kazakh relations; the geopolitical scenario in Central Asia; China's policy towards the region; the imperatives of regional cooperation; the stakes of major powers and MNCs; the role of international organizations like SCO, CICA and CSTO; non traditional threats to regional security, and the potential for India to contribute to the politico-economic process in progress in Kazakhstan and the region as a whole.

This book is a collection of essays written by some of the world's best-known scholars and analysts on Pakistan. It highlights how Pakistan continues to battle multiple challenges to its sovereignty, identity and survival as a nation-state. The book documents and analyses, among other things, the geopolitical scenario, the ethnic conflicts and civil-military relations in Pakistan, and explores its immediate future, all of which have a great and immediate relevance not only to India but also to the international community.

This volume contains essays about Germany-observations, impressions, recollections, but also forthright considered judgments. These essays depict a country which is still the planet's third-largest-provides a firm foundation for future growth; whose educational system, despite obvious shortcomings, is an conducive to innovation as ever; whose intellectual and cultural life is vibrant; a nation lastly, that is in the process of growing together, if not without considerable pain, after forty years of brutal division during the cold war.

This is history as first draft, written not in hindsight but as events unfolded against the backdrop of nation's transformation. It captures the country's mood and its politics over these two decades and highlights the things that don't change. This book is both riveting history and a primer on the future.

This empowering book will teach, inspire, and coach us to break the habits of insecurity that prevent us from realizing our spontaneous inner potential for genuine happiness.

Sita is one of the defining figures of Indian womanhood, yet there is no single version of her story.  This book presents essays, conversations and commentaries that explore different aspects of her life. It revisits mythology, reopening the debate on her birth, her days in exile, her abduction, the test by fire, the birth of her sons and, finally her return to the earth -offering fresh interpretations of this enigmatic figure and her indelible impact on our everyday lives.

The author has assembled highlights of Einstein's groundbreaking scientific works. Collected here are Einstein's own writings on the theory of relativity, as well as his reflections on politics, religion, and the ultimate significance of his scientific discoveries.

New Additions in Delhi Documenta

(For reference only)

This is a composite of writings on Delhi by a group of young people who have over several years, sustained among themselves and with others around them a relationship of conversing about the city. This collection chronicles the loss of home and livelihood through urban eviction: encounters with the agencies of the state; love stories gone awry; the fragility relationships; and the sustained effort to build life in anticipation of beauty and pleasure.

New Addition in Electronic Documents

Half of the world's population is at risk of malaria, and an estimated 243 million cases led to nearly 863 000 deaths in 2008. The advent of long-lasting insecticidal nets and artemisinin-based combination therapy, plus a revival of support for indoor residual spraying of insecticide, presents a new opportunity for large-scale malaria control. The World malaria report 2009 describes the global distribution of cases and deaths, how WHO-recommended control strategies have been adopted and implemented in endemic countries, sources of funding for malaria control, and recent evidence that prevention and treatment can alleviate the burden of disease.  

Source: whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241563901_eng.PDF

According to the World Wealth Report 2009, worldwide High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) wealth drops 19.5%to $32.8 trillion and the world’s High Net Worth population now stands at 8.6 million.

The report has built a strong and lasting reputation as the industry benchmark for HNWIs market sizing—originally at a global and regional level but increasingly at a country level. The report includes three sections covering:

HNWI market sizing and review of global economic drivers impacting HNWI behaviors

Investing behaviors and asset allocation trends of HNWIs

Key industry issues facing financial services institutions, financial advisors and HNWIs alike.  

Source: www.at.capgemini.com/m/at/tl/World_Wealth_Report_2009.pdf 

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