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New
Arrivals on Display : 30th November, 2007 |
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The following titles will be on display on the 'New Arrivals'
shelf until 30th November 2007. 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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Arts |
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Writers'
and Artists' yearbook 2007--London: A and C Black, 2006
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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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Child Welfare |
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The State
of the world's children 2007 / United Nations Children's Fund.
--New York: UNICEF, 2006 (Reference) |
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This reports on the lives of
women around the world for a simple reason: Gender equality
And the well-being of children go hand in hand. When women are
empowered to live full and productive lives, children prosper.
UNICEF's experience also shows the opposite: When women are
denied equal opportunity within a society, children suffer.
Eliminating gender discrimination and empowering women are among
the paramount challenges facing the world today. |
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Climate Change |
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Carbon
finance: the financial implications of climate change / Labatt,
Sonia. --New Jersey: John Wiley, 2007 |
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This is a comprehensive
guide that explores the financial implications of living in a
carbon constrained world - a world in which emissions of
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases can sometimes carry
a hefty price. Opening with a brief introduction to the Kyoto
Protocol and the policies that shape a carbon constrained
society, this book quickly moves on to outline the carbon
finance market place, and explain the speed with which it has
developed and the complexity of its growth. |
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Economics |
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Maharashtra development
report / India. Planning Commission. --New Delhi: Academic
Foundation, 2007 (Reference) |
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The Maharashtra Development
Report reviews the state's development experience and highlights
issues critical for its future progress. The report is expected
to serve as a useful reference and stimulate informed debate on
the policy issues facing the state. |
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United Nations development
aid: a study in history and politics / Bhouraskar, Digambar. New
Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2007 |
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This book presents for the
first time a comprehensive survey and critical analysis of these
programmes. The author explains in detail the political
struggles and considerations underlying the birth of each of
these programmes and some inherent flaws in their
conceptualization. In analyzing their growth and changes in
structures, the author discusses the modalities and chronic
problems encountered in implementation, in coordination at all
levels and in the evaluation of their impact on economic
development in the recipient countries. |
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World economic situation and
prospects 2007 / United Nations.--New Delhi: Academic
Foundation, 2007 (Reference) |
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The report highlights the
need for greater employment growth, which has not kept pace with
output growth. The global economic outlook also encompasses a
number of important downside risks: bursts in the housing
bubbles in a number of countries, uncertainties in oil prices
and mounting global imbalances. The report calls for
international macroeconomic policy coordination in order to
facilitate an orderly adjustment of global imbalances. |
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Globalization |
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Bound
together: how traders, preachers, adventurers and warriors
shaped globalization / Nayan Chanda.New Delhi: Penguin, 2007 |
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In this insightful and
entertaining book, author follows the exploits of traders,
peachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they
have shaped and reshaped the world. This is a wonderful book
that examines the globalisation process and its pattern over a
long period of time. Using a well-researched narrative with
relevant historical facts, the author provides us with a rich
and holistic perspectives on globalisation. |
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Human Resources |
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Manpower
profile India yearbook 2005.--New Delhi: Manak, 2006
(Reference) |
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This is an annual
publication of the Institute of Applied Manpower Research. It
provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on various
characteristics of human resource in India available from
different sources. It depicts how human resource generated
through the prevailing demographic factors is transformed into
manpower through a process of education and training, and then
utilized for various socio-economic activities. The Manpower
profile had been conceived of as a document providing at one
place, all relevant information on various parameters which
are crucial and useful for planning and research, indicating
the resources and their limitations. |
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Human Rights |
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Ethics in
action: the ethical challenges of international human rights
nongovernmental organizations / Bell, Daniel A., ed.--New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
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This book is the product of
a multilayer dialogue between leading human rights theorists
and high-level representatives of International human rights
non-governmental organizations (INGOs) sponsored by the United
Nations University, headquartered in Tokyo with centres around
the world. The project took the form of dialogues between high
level representatives of INGOs and academic theorists who work
on the subject of human rights. |
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Leadership |
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Alpha
male syndrome / Ludeman, Kate. --Boston: Harvard Business
School Press, 2006 |
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The business world abounds
with alphas-powerhouses who take charge, produce astonishing
results, and bring enormous value to their organizations. But
many alphas also unwittingly leave a path of destruction in
their wake. Often highly competitive, belligerent, and
impatient, these hard-charging leaders can sometimes run
roughshod over colleagues and employees, to the detriment of
their careers and their company's bottom line. This book
provides an in-depth look at what makes alphas tick and how to
better manage alpha behaviour- whether it's your own or that
of someone you work with or for. |
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Management |
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Coaching and mentoring: how to develop top talent and achieve
stronger performance Boston: Harvard Business School Press,
2004 |
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This book will help us
identify the individuals who could benefit from coaching and
mentoring and know the steps to take to do it right. Topics
includes: improving feedback skills, knowing when to coach and
when not to, planning and setting up coaching sessions,
distinguishing between coaching and mentoring.
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Pollution |
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Vehicular pollution in Indian cities: measures to control
emissions / Satyanarayana, Y. New Delhi: Bookwell, 2007 |
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Deteriorating air quality is
a major environmental problem in most of the Indian cities.
Economic growth has triggered a boom in the number and use of
motor vehicles in India. There is a general perception that the
incidence of disease and premature deaths caused by vehicular
pollution is on the rise in most the Indian cities. During the
last few years, vehicular pollution is attracting the attention
from policy makers, judiciary including Supreme Court of India,
research Intuitions, non-governmental organizations and trade
associations in India. This book is a result of research study,
not only from Indian perspective, but also from the perspective
of experiences and knowledge generated within other countries. |
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Public Administration |
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The First
90 days in government: critical success strategies for new
public managers at all levels / Daly, Peter H.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006 |
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This concise, practical book
introduces a road map enabling new government leaders at all
levels to accelerate their transitions by addressing nine key
challenges, including: clarifying expectations, developing a
strategy, accelerating your learning, securing early wins,
building a team, achieving alignment, creating alliances,
avoiding predictable surprises, maintaining personal equilibrium
etc. |
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Social Problems and Services |
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Wasting
away: a study of the health status of wastepickers in Delhi /
Chintan Environmental Research. Delhi: Chintan Environmental
Research and Action Group, 2003 (Reference) |
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This is a study of the health
status of waste pickers in Delhi. It shows that recycling has a
substantial health cost which is borne by waste pickers. The
study demonstrates that this ill-health is due to both the
nature of their work and their living conditions. |
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Telecommunications |
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Telecommunications, transportation, and location / Kenneth
Button...[et al.].--Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006 |
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This book look at the
economics of the evolving interface between the movement of
people, goods and information (telecommunication).It illustrates
the increasing importance of information flows in relation to
how people move about, the ways that goods are transported and
on land-use patterns. The author show how the linkages involved
are not static but vary as technology develops, as social
priorities shift, and as policymakers adjust institutional
structures. The book contains both synthesis and interpretations
of what others have found in regard to these interactions as
well as work that extends earlier findings. |
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Trade |
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World trade
and development report 2007: building a development-friendly
world trading systemNew Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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The report proposes an agenda
for building a more development-friendly and sustainable trading
system. It offers recommendations from a development perspective
for revitalizing the Doha Round of trade talks in key areas of
agriculture, market access for industrial goods, services, trade
facilitation, intellectual property rights, and dispute
settlement rules among others. It further highlights the
potential of strengthening South-South Cooperation for building
a development-friendly trading system. |
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Transportation |
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Engines of
change: the railroads that made India / Kerr, Ian J. --Westport:
Praeger, 2007 |
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India's railroad history, as
related here, offer a unique lens on a larger story of triumph
over adversity. By 1905, India had the world's fourth largest
railway network- a position it retains in the early 21st
century. The railroads were at the organizational and
technological centre of many of the inter-related economic,
political, social, cultural, and ecological transformations that
produced modern India through, and out of, its colonial past. In
addition to this vast technical achievement, and, there is an
equally important and wide-sweeping human-interest tale to be
told with evocate vignettes of the triumph of the human spirit
in the face of great adversity. |
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Water Resource Management |
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Waterscapes: the
cultural politics of a natural resource / Baviskar, Amita, ed. --Ranikhet:
Permanent Black, 2007 |
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As a resource central to life
and livelihood, water has always been at the centre of intense
social action. Conflict and cooperation around water involve not
only claims to a material resource but also assertions of
cultural meanings. The contours of such collective action have
radically changed in recent years. As social relations and
institutional arrangements change, analyses of hydro-politics
become all the more urgently relevant. This book is essential
reading for everyone interested in the politics of environment
and development. |
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Women Empowerment |
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State of
World population 2006: a passage to hope, women and
international migration / United Nation Population Fund. -New
York: UNFPA, 2006
(Reference) |
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UNFPA, the United Nations
Population Fund, is an international development agency that
promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life
of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in
using population data for policies and programmes to reduce
poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every
birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every
girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. |
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