Architecture

Architecture in the United Kingdom / Jodidio, Philip.--Koln: Taschen, 2006 (Reference)

TASCHEN’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. This book covers the architectural details of United Kingdom.

Arts

Arts and crafts of Indus civilization / Choodamani Nandagopal.

New Delhi: Aryan Book International, 2006 (Reference)

This book draws attention on the ceramic designs, seals, sculpture, jewellery and lapidary in both Provincial and Metropolitan style from the sites like Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Lothal, Rangpur, Kalibanga, Surkotada and others. The content o the book is simple only to reaffirm our belief in the living tradition, which has the fragrance of the bygone area.

Atlases

Historical atlas of the holy lands / Farrington,  Karen. --London: Mercury Books, 2005 (Reference)

This book is an objective account of the geographical, social, and political environment of the Holy Lands, the crossroad of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Few places in the world have had a more tumultuous history. The region’s present-day conflicts are familiar news items, but equally world-shaping events took place there thousands of years ago.

Democracy

India: democracy and well-being: an inquiry into the persistence of poverty in a dynamic democracy / Sinha, Amarjeet. --New Delhi: Rupa, 2005

This book is an attempt to understand the nature of India’s political democracy and is implications for persistence of poverty and failure in securing human well-being for all, in spite of five decades of freedom. Policies of positive discrimination have surely contributed to making India’s democratic experiment dynamic, throwing up political leaders from all social groups, and expanding and broadening the circle of ‘elites’ or the powerful society.

Economics

Foreign direct investment and the world economy / Mody, Ashoka. --London: Routledge, 2007

Foreign direct investment (FDI) occupies a special place in he connection between economic development and globalization. FDI brings scarce capital and technology from rich to poor countries. The prospect is enticing: companies in rich countries can earn high returns while accelerating growth in poor countries. In the capital-hungry nations of the developing world, the possibilities appear endless.

Infrastructure: at the crossroads / World Bank.--Washington, D. C.: World Bank, 2006

The book brings together lessons from the last two decades of World Bank engagement in infrastructure. It analyzes trends in the Bank’s infrastructure lending, describes the evolution of the external environment and the Bank’s own strategic priorities, and presents lessons about project design and appraisal, poverty focus, private sector participation, environmental and social sustainability, the issue of corruption, and stakeholder communications.

Education

Making good citizens: education and civil society / Ravitch, Diane, ed.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001

This volume brings together leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines to probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education. Their original and proactive discussions cut across a range of important topics: the cultivation of democratic values, the formation of social capital in schools and communities, political conflict in a pluralist society, the place of religion in public life, the enduring problems of racial inequality.

Encyclopedias and Yearbooks

The Encyclopedia of the Indian diaspora / Lal, Bri V, ed.

This is the first comprehensive survey of Indian communities around the world. Over 30 contextual features show the initiatives taken by these communities and the contributions they have made both internationally and to their host societies, in areas as diverse as literature, cuisine, popular culture, sports and political life. The greater part of the book consists of 44 country/region profiles covering all parts of the world.

Guinness world records 2007 / Freshfield, Jackie, ed.--London: Guinness world Records, 2007 (Reference)

Guinness World Records 2007 is truly better than ever. This year's custom designed multi-foil cover is unique and created specifically for Guinness World Records after a year of collaboration. Also new to this edition are the photographs-they're all 100% brand new, bringing the over 3,000 new and fully updated records to life. Giant gatefold page spreads featuring kids' favorite record categories, like Extreme Bodies and the all-time Hall of Fame record holders, literally expand outside the book!

Globalization

Globalization challenged: conviction, conflict, community / Rupp, George.

New York: Columbia  University Press, 2006

History

India by the turn of millennium / Nag, P., ed.

The book describes the position of India in this fast transforming world is unique. Developments and underdevelopment do co-exist in all sectors. Compulsions, priorities and practices and their combinations have resulted what India is today. India is itself a model. Nevertheless, it is interesting to analyze the development paradigm in the second largest populated country of the world, which is also the largest sovereign, socialist, democratic republic being administered by a parliamentary system of government.

International Relations

Indian foreign policy: challenges and opportunities  / Sinha, Atish, ed.

New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2007

This is the standard, comprehensive, authoritative book on Indian foreign policy. The World is now engaged with India – already established as a major power, advancing in every sphere of development: political, diplomatic, socio-economic, scientific, technological, and cultural. The distinguished foreign affairs analysts, scholars and eminent diplomats invited by the Foreign Service Institute to write chapters for this book on Indian foreign policy.

Literature

The home and the world / Tagore, Rabindranath. --New Delhi: Srishti, 2004 (Reference)

The novel fictionalizes the tragic predicament of a woman who is exposed to a remarkable freedom in her personal and political choices. It also experiments with a narrative mode that concurrently deploys three autonomous autobiographical voices. Finally, the novel dramatizes a volatile debate between a recklessly militant nationalism and a more considered stance in the wake of the partitioning of Bengal in 1905.         

Nehru's India: select speeches / Mushrirul Hasan, ed. --New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007

The speeches selected and introduced by author in this important collection help to answer these questions in Nehru’s own words. We have seen through them the development of Nehru’s vision for free India and the actual process of transforming the blueprint into reality. His ideas for India’s internal development were inextricably linked to its role and position in the world. The challenges facing newly independent India – both social and economic – reflected in Nehru’s speeches, also echo many current debates on the space for minorities, communal harmony or issues of poverty, entrenched interests, inflation, and productivity.

Management

Knowledge creation and management: new challenges for managers / Ichijo, Kazuo, ed.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2007

The book presents the latest management ideas in knowledge creation and management in readable and non-technical chapters. Knowledge continues to be critical – perhaps the critical – factor for firms in today’s competitive environment. Leading experts have contributed chapters in their fields of expertise. Each distills his or her subject in a chapter that is accessible to managers who want to learn what can be applied to their organizations without the distracting details of research methodology.

Non-governmental Organizations

The aid chain: coercion and commitment in development NGOs / Wallace, Tina.

The book presents three country case studies looking at the chain of aid money from donors in the UK, to UK NGOs, to partners and field offices in Uganda and South Africa, and how they use and account for their funding. The book examines how far local strategies and projects are influenced by changing donor policies and other external forces, and how far by internal imperatives.

Sociology

More urban less poor: an introduction to urban development and management / Tannerfeldt, Goran.--London: Earthscan, 2006

The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment. Unplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and slums are not explained by poverty alone. Urbanisation and economic development go hand-in-hand and the productivity of the urban economy can and should benefit everyone.

Sustainable Development

Trade and environment review 2006 / United Nations Conference on T.

The review examines some specific examples and sectors to show what governments and other key stakeholders in developed and developing countries could do limit the trade-restricting effects of environmental requirements and to maximize their contribution to sustainable development in developing countries. The review also elaborates on how countries could seize the export opportunities arising from more stringent environmental requirements and growing markets for environmentally preferable products.

Travelogue

Know India better--New Delhi: Authors Press, 2006 (Reference)

This book is an anthology of the best articles selected from the ‘Know India Better’ section of One India One People Magazine. It takes readers on a discovery of India. It features places of interest, monuments, cultures etc., so as to draw attention to the rich heritage of Indian philosophy and culture, art and architecture, religion and science.

Water Conservation

Groundwater management in India: physical, institutional and policy alternatives / Dinesh Kumar, M. --New Delhi: Sage, 2007

The central focus of this book is groundwater management in India: the economies that groundwater generates, the socio-economic impact of its intensive use, and the physical, institutional and policy options for its management. The book provides the fresh analysis of the socio-ecology of groundwater, based on a synthesis of macro and micro level data on the hydrological, social, economic and institutional parameters.

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