New Arrivals on Display : 30th November,  2008

Biography

This volume brings together the extraordinary lives of freedom fighters from Mahatma Gandhi to Birsa Munda, Sarojini Naidu to Bhagat Singh, Aurobindo Ghose to Subhas Chandra Bose-life stories that recount little-told events, capture their personalities and remind us of their role in our nationalist movement.

Cinema

This is an inspired account of Hindi films as a rich and textured archive of modern urban life in India. Challenging the nationalist idealization of the village, its ingenious portrayal of the cinematic city conclusively shows that urban modernity stands at the centre of the Indian postcolonial experience. This is the first book length study of a crucial and yet often overlooked dimension of the Bombay cinema.

 

Disaster Management

The report brings together the latest trends, facts and analysis of contemporary crises-whether natural or human-made, quick-onset or chronic. This vital report demands awareness on the reality of discrimination in the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance.

Economics

This book explains what consultants and IT Services firms do. It examines the industry's surprisingly captivating history, and in doing so, explains why the industry does things the way it does and what motivates the different players within. The book has a tremendous amount of factual, unbiased, researched material, well synthesized and presented in a very readable manner.

The book examines the real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. The author contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The author offers real hope for solving one of the great humanitarian crises facing the world today.

Economics and happiness: framing the analysis / Bruni, Luigino. --Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007

This book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of the burgeoning field of happiness and economics. The essays collected provide an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the theoretical, applied and partly experimental aspects of the whole field and discuss the economic, sociological, philosophical, and psychological contributions to the field. The book breaks new ground, particularly on the more recent directions of research on happiness, well-being, interpersonal relations and reciprocity.

The book is the essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping our world. The two countries have one thing in common: their transformation and the way they will transform the globe are as stunning as any the world has seen since America itself emerged onto the world economic stage. This is the story of how India and China are changing their destinies and, with that, changing the world's. As they move from the ranks of developing-world countries toward superpower status, India's slow-but-steady approach contrasts with China's rocket like rise.

This extensive volume provides a comprehensive view of the debates surrounding globalization and its impact on India. It offers diverse viewpoints against the backdrop of a blending of the economics and politics of globalization. Scholars across the social sciences, policymakers and media specialists, Marxists and liberals, discuss the diffusion of globalization and its causes the diffusion of globalization and its causes and consequences.

Ethics

The authors have brought together the main findings from the new science of genuine love, and translated them into helpful, practical advice that the reader can easily apply. In this book they examine the extraordinary benefits of giving. Their focus is practical, and encourages readers to make giving a driving force in their lives, leading to positive thoughts and actions.

Forecasts

The book looks at all the burgeoning threats to civilization, explaining the story and the science behind each one, and provides a clear-headed assessment of how serious they are and what can, and is likely to be done about them. Covering ecological crises, such as water shortages and habitat destruction, the dangers of nanotechnology and super plagues, and the cataclysmic effects of a super-volcano or a new ice age, Joel Levy's book is scarily engrossing. Examining the fate of ancient civilisations and explaining the lessons they can teach us, the book explores the likelihood of our survival when disaster hits.

History

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from East to West, passing through the heart of China, then up to the Coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The author recounts his travels along Route 312.

By 1857, the British East India Company was India's de facto ruler, having won the subcontinent by subterfuge and force of arms. Discontent was rising however, and in the following Spring, entire regiments of Indian troops turned on their British overlords and challenged the global trading powerhouse in open warfare. The brutal struggle that followed would forever break the Company's hold on India, and send shock waves reverberating across the British Empire. This sweeping, true-life drama combines powerful eyewitness accounts and painstaking historical investigation to present an intimate portrait of the British troops and the Sikhs, Gurkhas, and Afghan who fought alongside them, often against terrible odds. This is living history that reads like the finest action-adventure story.

This narrative history of the ancient Egyptian 4th dynasty builds an engaging and accessible picture of the kings who built the greatest pyramids. The book balances hard fact with clearly labeled theory, and will give the reader a unique view of the current state of knowledge about this fascinating period of time. The book is an unprecedented account of one of civilization's greatest achievements.

 

Management

Change to strange: create a great organization by building a strange workforce / Cable, Daniel M.Pearson Education: Delhi, 2007

The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) in Asia Pacific. This third edition covers 31 countries and economies, including North Korea for the first time. Each country chapter presents key ICT policies, applications and initiatives for national development.

Essentials of corporate communication: implementing practices for effective reputation management / Riel, Cees B.M. van. --London: Routledge, 2007

The new book addresses a topical and important area of study. The book features original examples and vignettes, drawn from a variety of US, European and Asian companies with a proven record of successful corporate communication, thus offering readers best practice examples.

Military Science

A Military history of India and South Asia: from the East India Company to the nuclear era / Marsto, Daniel P., ed. Westport: Praeger Security International, 2007

The book provides a overview of the military history of the region since 1700, covering the areas that later evolved into the states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The book provides lucid introductions to various topics, from the rise of the British East India Company, to the Indian Army in the First World War, to the current tensions between India and Pakistan in Kashmir. The book makes important contributions to the study of modern South Asian history, British Imperial history, and the and the history of war and society.

This book reveals what the numbers really show, and exposes the tiger that isn't. Seeing a pattern of stripes in the leaves, we run from what looks like a tiger. There are illusions in numbers too, often just as intimidating.

Political Science

This comprehensive volume looks at local governments in rural India as an opportunity to broaden the democratic structure and space for popular participation in local governance. It reviews select state models of decentralization in country and assesses the form of democratic development possible through the institution of local governance.
 

Public Administration

This compilation of e-governance case studies will help in sharing valuable information on successful models, evaluation of models and potential implementation issues that need to be addressed in large-e-governance projects. The primary objective has been to make the interactions transparent and drastically reduce the response time to citizens by removing the intermediary.

Spirituality

The power is the birthright of every human being, whether celebrated or unknown, rich or poor, strong or week. The book challenges our assumptions and teaches each of us how to access the true power that is within our grasp.
 

Books added to Delhi Documenta (For Reference Only)

This anthology is an act of audacity. How can Delhi Poetree all of eighteen months old, come up with a compilation of over seven hundred pages, across three languages and present it as the contemporary poetry of Delhi? The objective of the Delhi Poetree is to empower poets and poetry as agents of social change.

Bajaj, Manjul, A-3336

Gopika Nath, A-0938

Neerada Suresh, A-2773

Ramola Kumar, A-4442 

Singh, Bandeep, IN-787

New Electronic Documents added

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