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New
Arrivals on Display : 30th June, 2008 |
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The following titles will be on display on the 'New Arrivals'
shelf until 30th June 2008. You are welcome to
reserve a book, if you wish to borrow any of them. Reservations will
be entertained on a first-come, first served basis and do remember
that if you have reserved more than one title, you will be given
preference only on one. May we remind you that now you can also
reserve the books through WEBOPAC from our website:
www.indiahabitat.org
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Archaeology |
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Archaeology: unearthing
the mysteries of the past / Santon, Kate. --Bath: Parragon,
2007 |
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This bestselling yearbook for
writers and artists is a comprehensive, up-to-date directory of
media contacts and contains a wealth of practical advice and
information. The features include hundreds of new contacts and
updated listings for book publishers and packagers, literary and
art agents, magazines, television and radio, prizes and
festivals and much more. |
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Architecture |
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Light zone city: light
planning in the urban context / Santen, Christa Van. --Basel:
Birkhauser, 2006 (Reference) |
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The face of the nocturnal metropolis is marked
decisively by light, and the number and variety of the light sources is
increasing to the point of light terror. In this book, the author embodies
her many years of experience as a practitioner and teacher of lighting
design. |
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Cinema |
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Bollywood: a history /
Bose, Mihir. --New Delhi: Roli Books, 2006 |
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The rise of Bombay as the film capital of the
world has been both remarkable and amazing. Bollywood takes the cinematic
techniques of Hollywood and uses them to produce movies that bear no
relation to the original but have a compelling appeal that in the last half
century has enthralled audiences throughout Eastern Europe, the Middle East
and North Africa. The movies themselves are a self-contained world with
their multiple song and dance routines, intense melodrama, and plots that
contain everything from farce to tragedy but always produce a happy ending. |
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Civilization/History |
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Can Asians think?: Understanding
the divide between East and West / Mahbubani, Kishore. New Delhi: Penguin
Books, 2004 |
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This book is a collection of absolutely first rate essays, elegantly
written and intellectually proactive. The author has an instinct for the
jugular when it comes to identifying a critical issue and setting forth a
powerful thesis connecting it. |
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The Elephant the Tiger and the
Cellphone: reflections on India in the twenty-first century /
Tharoor,Shashi. --New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2007 |
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For more than four decades after gaining
independence India, with its massive size and population, staggering
poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding,
somnolent elephant, comfortably resting on its achievements of centuries
gone by. The author analyses the forces that have made twenty-first
century India and could yet unmake it. He discusses the country's
transformation in his characteristics lucid prose, writing with passion
and engagement on a broad range of subjects, from the very notion of
Indianness in a pluralist society to the evolution of the once sleeping
giant into a world leader in the realms of science and technology. |
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Tournament of shadows: the great game and
the race for empire in Central Asia / Meyer, Karl E.
Basic Books, 1999 |
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The book traces the struggle for mastery of
Central Asia from the 1830s to the present. For centuries, rulers have
considered the vast Eurasian heartland as the key to world dominion. The
original great game- the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain
for mastery of Central Asia-was one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts
in history. |
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Customs & Etiquettes |
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Culture shock ! India:
a survival guide to customs and etiquette / Kolanad, Gitanjali.
Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2005 |
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This series is dynamic and indispensable
range of guides for those travelers who are looking to truly understand
the countries they are visiting. Each title explains the customs,
traditions, social and business etiquette in a lively and informative
style. |
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Economics |
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The retreat of
democracy: and other itinerant essays on Globalization,
Economics, and India / Basu,Kaushik. --Ranikhet: Permanent
Black, 2007 |
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This accessible and stimulating book on some
of the major political and economic issues of our time will delight all
readers and astonish anyone who thinks economics is unconnected with
literary elegance. The book begins with the author's widely cited essays
on globalization and democracy. These argue that while economic
globalization is occurring at breakneck speed and offer's large potential
benefits, political globalization has been painfully slow. The book then
moves to a wide terrain-idea in economics, anthropological observations on
social norms, the role of culture, and travel in India and abroad. |
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Why
investment matters: the political economy of International
investments / Kawaljit Singh.Moreton: FERN, 2007 |
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The
millions of dollars that are moved around the world every minute of day
profoundly affect who gets to eat and who doesn't who has job and who
doesn't; and who accumulates wealth and at whose expense. Influencing
investment decisions requires an understanding of how investment works.
The author explains the central role of transnational corporations (TNCs)
and other key players in determining investment patterns. |
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Human Rights |
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Inventing human rights:
a history / Hunt, Lynn. --New York: W.W. Norton, 2007 |
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Human rights is a concept that only came to
the forefront during the eighteenth century. In this extraordinary work of
cultural and intellectual history, author grounds the creation of human
rights in the rejection of torture as a means of finding the truth; the
changing idea of human relationships displayed by novelists, playwrights,
and artists, and the spread of empathy beyond insular communities |
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International Relations |
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The case for Goliath: how America
acts as the World's government in the 21st century / Mandelbaum
Michael.--New York: Public Affairs, 2005 |
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The book analyses the ways in which other
countries have come to accept, resent, and exert influence on America's
global role, and it assesses the uncertain prospects for sharing the
burden of global governance more widely, through a multilateral approach
to international security and the management of the global economy. |
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Management |
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Business superbrands: an insight
into India's strongest business brands--London: Superbrands, 2005
(Reference) |
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This book explores the history, development
and achievements of 60 of the strongest Business Brands in India,
revealing extraordinary findings along the way. The book opens with expert
comments from members of the Suerbrands Council comprising the most
influential business barons in the country |
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Strategic
human resource technologies: Keys to managing people / Ashok
Chandra. London: Response, 2007 |
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This book sheds new light on HR processes
and provides an important guide to the practicing HR professional. Based
on author's research and industrial experience. In recent years,
technology has transformed human resource management. While the task of
managing people in organizations is becoming ever more complex. |
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Trump 101: the way to success
/ Trump, Donald J. --New Jersey: John Wiley, 2007 |
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Being successful in business requires much
more than hard work and good ideas, we have to be persistent, tough,
confident, curious, flexible, passionate, patient, and in love with what
we are doing. The author himself becomes our personal mentor and coach as
he shares tips, tactics, and strategies, all designed to help us make the
most of our self. |
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Trump University
entrepreneurship 101: how to turn your idea into a money
machine / Gorden, Michael E.--New Jersey: John Wiley, 2007 |
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The book shows how to identify and analyze
business opportunities, select the most attractive and promising option,
and get us our business up and running. The book combines the talent and
wisdom of a successful entrepreneur with the business wisdom of Trump to
produce a one-of-a-kind guide to entrepreneurial success. |
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Military Science |
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Rising star: China's new
security diplomacy / Gill, Bates. --Washington: Brookings
Institution Press, 2007 |
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China's diplomatic strategy has changed
dramatically since the mid 1990s, creating both challenges and
opportunities for other world powers. Through a combination of pragmatic
security policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deft
diplomacy, China has established productive and increasingly solid
relationships throughout Asia and around the globe. Over the past decade,
China's approach to regional and global security affairs has become more
proactive, practical, and constructive, a trend favouring U.S. interests
in many ways. |
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Search for new genes /
Chopra, V. L, ed. --New Delhi: Academic Publications, 2007 |
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Recent progress in molecular biology
and biotechnology is impacting the life sciences as well as the lives of
people in unprecedented ways. Plant genetic transformation and molecular
market technologies have led to a paradigm shift in plant genetic resource
management and crop improvement. The book provides a comprehensive update
to the modern biotechnological options for biodiversity management, gene
prospecting, development of designer crops and bioremediation.
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Proposal Writing |
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Proposal that work: a guide for planning
dissertations and grant proposals / Locke, Lawrence F. New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 2007 |
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This book contains no direct instruction
concerning how to do research. Rather, the material herein deals with the
problem of how to write a research proposal. Although the two
capacities-skill in conducting research and skill in writing about plans
for that research have a close relationship, they are far from
coterminous.
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Quotations |
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Brewer's famous
quotations / Rees, Nigel. --London : Weidenfeld, 2006 |
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The book offers detailed insights into a
host of misremembered, misattributed and generally problematic quotations.
This is the perfect book for browsers, the ultimate source of information
on a vast range of problematic equations, and the final court of appeal on
the vexed issue of who really said what. |
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Sustainable
Development |
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Environmental
changes and sustainable development in the new millennium / Panwar, Mohan
Singh. New Delhi: Research India Press, 2007 |
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The book relates to an important and
emerging field of research in environment and development. This book has
focus on these two new fields. It describes the scientific management of
natural disaster management, environment and sustainable development,
watershed management, agricultural and horticultural development,
appropriate rural technologies, climate change and other relevant aspects
in the global and regional context. |
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