The book provides the foundation for a strong design sensibility intertwined with material knowledge. Divided into five sections-glass, concrete, wood, metal and plastic makes a through study of each material's properties, history, permutations and production techniques.

Crisis Management

In July 2004, a convoy of KGL trucks drove into Iraq from Kuwait carrying electronic equipment fro the American occupiers, when the worst happened-three Indian drivers, three Kenyans and an Egyptian were ambushed, detained by unknown Iraqi dissidents and accused of collaborating with the Americans. The book reveals for the first time the Indian crisis management team's handling of the situation over-forty-four days in occupied, lawless Iraq. The book gives an insight into the pressures that governments have to face as more and more innocent people become pawns in global chess games.

This book describes the practice of using private contractors to perform essential or inherent functions in the military and civilian sectors of government. It shows how such practices undermine the capacity, effectiveness, and moral of government officials, and it presents constitutional and statutory arguments to defend the public exercise of authority.

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a sub-regional association combining some geographically contiguous South and South East Asian countries located around the Bay of Bengal. The objective of this association is to provide trade and technological cooperation among its members in areas of trade, investment, tourism, transport, communication, technology, energy and fisheries. The book analyses the current state of affairs of the BIMSTEC-Japan economic relations and also provide a preliminary proposal for establishing closer economic ties between the two.

This book provides an introduction for health practitioners to climate change and its current and future health impacts. It describes the relationship between health and environment, gives facts and figures on greenhouse gas emissions and sets out the huge benefits to health of acting on climate change.

Ethics

The book showcases the insights, reflections, and recommendations of some of today’s most forward thinking and inspiring leaders, as they explore the challenges of leadership in the context of our global, 21st-century society. The book stresses the need for a new kind of leadership committed to promoting social welfare, justice, and opportunity.

Gender

This book supplements the already rich literature on gender by attempting to put in place a consistent framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating gender per se from its various indicators.

History

The author takes readers from the Plaza de Armas, the tree-lined square where Havana was founded by Spanish conquistadors in 1519, to the Malecon, the elegant boulevard along the shore where Fidel Castro rode a Soviet tank in triumph. The author reveals the essence of his native city through the events that shaped its fascinating history and the people who left their stamp on its cobblestoned streets.

1857 has become a metaphor for the struggle against foreign rule in India. This collection of essays reviews past debates and presents new research into the events constituting 1857. The anthology aims at recovering the indigenous voice in the discourse of 1857 and the experiences of the common people. The book attempts to understand the social, political and religious concerns of this struggle.

Real estate has witnessed phenomenal growth in recent years all over the world. This growth can be attributed to the growing retail, hospitality and entertainment industries, economic services and information technology (IT) enabled services. This handbook, written in Indian context, comes at a most appropriate time to serve as a guide to modes of acquisition, transfer and the implications thereof, and disposal of real estate from all relevant legal perspectives, both for foreign and domestic investors.

The State of the American empire: how the USA shapes the world / Burman, Stephen. --UK: Earthscan, 2007

The book traces the USA's attempts to balance national interest and global responsibility. It measures America's true effect on world trade and security, locates sites of resistance and levels of antagonism, and, looking ahead, considers the sustainability of its imperial role.

The book examines the theory and practice of NGO driven Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) keeping in mind existing critiques of dominant discourses of development, the micro-politics of decentralisation and the projectisation of community development. The authors delve into the extent to which CBNRM offers a vision for the future and question what role, if any, could NGOs play in this. They seek to understand the insights into CBNRM that intervening agencies generate through their work, by examining the outcomes of the interventions and the strategies used to achieve them.

The book explains why India has entered a new era of coalition politics and analyses the consequences and implications of this relatively recent phenomenon. Transition from single party domination to multiparty configuration or coalitions, the authors argue, is neither temporary nor an aberration. Dismissing the notion of bi-polarity, and resting the debate on whether coalition governments are here to stay, the authors debate on whether coalitions are at best a necessary evil or are better than single-party governments.

The author looks back to the consolidation of tribes into nations starting with Israel and the absorption of those nations into the empires of Hammurabi, the Pharaohs, Alexander, the Caesars, Charlemange, Genghis Khan, the Ottomans, and Hapsburgs, through incessant wars of territory and religion, to modern alliances and the global conflagrations of the twentieth century. The book is a combination of sweeping historical narrative with personal insight, wisdom, and analytic brilliance.

The Politics of change: a ringside view / Singh, N. K. --New Delhi: Penguin Book, 2007

These essays offer a penetrating analysis of a new era for India's pluralistic, vibrant democracy and the complex interplay of economics and politics involved in reforming the Indian economy. The analyses help understand why some initiatives have succeeded in transforming the economic landscape while others bills, schemes and initiatives which were launched with good intentions have either foundered because of the party in opposition or eventually emerged with scars after years of tussle. The book also highlights the challenges that India must face as its institutions evolve to keep pace with the task of governing and supporting the rapidly changing economic and social landscape.

This book is designed to help human resource managers and professionals to understand, develop, manage and map competencies within their organisations. The book includes more case studies, live examples and models offering invaluable insight to users in order to develop customised models of competency mapping for their organisations.

The leadership judgement framework is a tool leaders can use to develop the ability in their executive teams. This book is about how leaders put the energy into vision and strategy.

The book traces a vast and interdisciplinary canvas about the Dalits in India. The book also looks back at the aspirations and struggle of the marginalized Dalit masses and looks forward to a new humanity based on equality, social justice and human dignity. In the context of Dalit emancipation, it explores the social, economic and cultural content of Dalit transformation in modern India.

This book covering all important aspects of municipal Solid Waste Management (SWM) in great depth. The book covers very lucidly the present scenario of SWM in urban areas, the system deficiencies that exist, and the steps that need to be taken to correct SWM practices in compliance with Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling Rules 2000 ratified by the Government of India. The book shares examples of best practices adopted in various parts of the country and abroad.

New Additions in Delhi Documenta (For reference only)

This volume was first published as a catalogue and guide to the Indian art exhibition held at Delhi to coincide with the Durbar of 1902-03. This volume is a unique work of documentation of nineteenth-century Indian craftsmanship. The text is enriched with graphic representation of rare specimens of Indian history.

This book was first published exactly ten years ago and though it is getting harder to imagine, India's capital was not the venture capitalist magnet that it is now. This book is a photograph of sorts, a verbal image that captures a country and a capital as both began to go through a vast transformation: in short, as India began to shift from poor relation to rock star status.

New Addition in Electronic Documents

The World Trade Report 2009 focuses primarily on certain contingency measures available to WTO members in the import and export of goods. The legal framework for such measures is much less developed in services trade, although this is also discussed.

Source:- http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/anrep_e/world_trade_report09_e.pdf

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