• Contexts of ageing: class, cohort and community / Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs.
  Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005
  

  Ageing is not what it used to be. As life in the West grows longer and more leisurely, states and individuals are presented with new challenges in organizing the lifecourse. These challenges affect both the beginnings and the ends of adulthood. This book acknowledges that for many people looking forward to retirement, later life has changed for the better. It examines the history of welfare states, the emergence of consumer society, the growth of individualization and the reconstitution of identity and community. It argues that the third age, its origins, and its contradictions are central to understanding the future of our society.

• Healthy aging: a lifelong guide to your physical and spiritual well-being / Andrew Weil.
  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
  

  Behind this book is the authors’ belief that although aging is an irreversible process, there are myriad things we can do to keep or minds and bodies in good working order through all phases of life. The book is divided into two parts. In Part One-“The Science and Philosophy of Healthy Aging”-it explains how the body ages, and it explores the impact of gender, genes, environment, and lifestyle on an individual’s experience and perception of the process of aging. In part Two-“How to Age Gracefully”-it details an easy-to-implement Anti-inflammatory Diet that will protect the immune system and aid the body in resisting and adapting to the changes that time brings. It provides extensive practical advice on exercise; preventive health care; stress management; physical, mental, and emotional flexibility; and spiritual enhancement—all of which can help one to achieve and maintain the best health throughout the lifelong process of aging.

• The book of life: a compendium of the best autobiographical and memoir writing / edited by Eve Claxton.-- London: Ebury Press, 2005
  

  This book presents an intensively captivating, diverse collection of the best memoir and autobiographical writing through the ages. Organised into four parts, the book begins in childhood and takes the reader on a thought-provoking journey spanning the length of an entire life. The first entry is from St Augustine, reflecting on his infancy; the last is by the English archaeologist Margaret Murray, who wrote her autobiography when she was 100 years old.

• The art of cinema: an insider's journey through fifty years of film history / B D Garga.
  New Delhi: Penguin, 2005
  

  This book provides an insider’s view of Indian and international cinema over the years. Even, as it discusses the contribution of men behind the screen—the director, editor, cinematographer—it profiles some of the greatest masters of Indian cinema, like Himanshu Rai and P.C. Barua, Bimal Roy and Raj Kapoor, while critically analyzing some classic films from the golden era of cinema in India—Devdas (1935) and Sant Tukaram (1936) to Mother India (1957) and Mughal-e-Azam (1960). It also contains fascinating essays that highlight the contribution of the Soviet masters of international cinema; address important issues like film censorship, sex in Indian films and the relationship between film and politics; and provide a memorable account of the origins of cinema in India and the country’s many cinematic milestones.

• Global corruption report 2006 / Transparency International. --London: Pluto Press, 2006 (Reference)
  

  Fighting corruption in the health sector is a complex challenge. Three of the UN’s eight Millennium Development Goals—intended to halve poverty by 2015—relate directly to health: reducing child morality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. This report demonstrates that fulfillment of these goals by the target date is severely hampered by the pervasiveness of corruption in the health care system. The report charts the corruption-driven collapse of a number of regimes that rose to power promising moral integrity and fiscal probity. It also shows how institutions, laws and mechanisms, ostensibly aimed at fighting corruption, can be rendered toothless if they are not granted the resources and independence necessary to perform.

• A crack in the edge of the world: the great American earthquake of 1966 / Simon Winchester.-- London: Penguin Books, 2005
  

  Just before dawn on 18 April 1906 and for little short of a minute the earth very briefly shrugged. For the inhabitants of the western part of North America the effect was immediate and horrifying: a massive earthquake roared through the city of San Francisco, tearing through the main thoroughfare of the town in huge undulating waves, as the entire surface of the earth, and everything that stood upon it, seemed to lift up and roll in from the ocean. This book follows the story of the city that was built on the dreams of the American gold rush and was destroyed in less than a minute. It reveals the world beneath our feet and, in telling what is in essence a universal story of man’s confrontation with a most pitiless nature, helps to make sense of our world now.

• Disaster management and civil society: earthquake relief in Japan, Turkey and India / Alpaslan Ozerdem and Tim Jacoby.--London: I. B. Tauris, 2006
  

  Natural disasters have a profound impact upon the societies they affect but one important aspect that has yet to receive attention is how the relationship between state and society is affected in the aftermath of such events. How the state responds to such events can generate powerful forces within society for political, economic and social change. A key objective of this book is to establish comparative categories and conclusions by assessing the impact of severe earthquakes on state development and civil organization. Key topics to be addressed include the relationship between disaster mitigation, preparation, response and reconstruction and the capacity of civil society organizations to scrutinize the state and represent the interests of the citizenry.

• Agenda unlimited / edited by Sunita Narain.--New Delhi: Down to Earth and CSE, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The Centre for Science & Environment (CSE) in Delhi has been ploughing a lonely but daring furrow for nearly a quarter of a century. CSE’s magazine Down to Earth has been detailing stories of little-known men and women who have become green crusaders not as an antidote to depressing news and views that follow in their wake, as is the case with news magazines, but as the main dishes on their fortnightly menu. It has now wisely compiled them in this book and categorized the struggles of ordinary, unknown people, with a sprinkling of well-known activists like Annasaheb Hazare in Maharashtra and Rajendra Singh in Rajasthan, according to the natural resource they are engaged in saving. The sagas of grassroots people who haven’t ever made it to the media are in that sense far more revealing. The editorial team, led by the intrepid Sunita Narain, states that these are “nuggets of inspiration in an otherwise bleak and increasingly filthy landscape”. These they certainly are, and by assembling them in this manner, their contribution to this country is considerably enhanced: the parts are as great as the sum. There is still hope for this country, if people can surmount such tremendous obstacles to make a difference.

• The IMF and the World Bank at sixty / edited by Ariel Buira. London: Anthem Press, 2005
  

  Sixty years after their creation, the IMF and World Bank play roles quite different from those their original founders had envisaged. They are facing a number of challenges, some new resulting from the changes that have occurred in the world economy, others the outcome of their approaches to the problems of stabilization and development, and of their own governance structure. This book presents a selection of research papers prepared for the G-24 that address these challenges and suggest the need for reform.

• Environment and human well-being: a practical strategy / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Environmental Sustainability.--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Task Force on Environmental Sustainability highlights the critical importance of maintaining functional ecosystems, which provide food, water, fuel, climate regulation, and other essential services to the world’s poorest people; curb the pollution of water and air; and mitigate climate change. The report identifies direct investments in environmental management as well as the structural

• Geographica's world reference: over 1,000 pages of global information. San Diego: Laurel Glen Publishing, 2000 (Reference)
  

  This encyclopedia charts the transformation of the world in space and time; from the very origins of the universe, through human and landform evolution, to the impact of è-commerce. The effects on people and places are described with detailed maps, fact files, and photographs giving a comprehensive view of today’s world.

• Combating AIDS in the developing world / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and Access to Essential Medicines, Working group on HIV/AIDS
  London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Working Group on HIV/AIDS underscores the importance of scaling up both essential HIV prevention services and antiretroviral treatment.

• Coming to grips with malaria in the new millennium / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines.--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Working Group on Malaria of the Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines proposes an operational framework for scaling up integrated packages of effective antimalarial interventions with the aim of improving health nationally while also promoting economic development locally.

• The argumentative Indian: writings on Indian history, culture and identity / Amartya Sen.--London: Penguin Books, 2005
  

  India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly differing convictions, widely divergent customs, and veritable feast of viewpoints. This book brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize winner economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporaryIndia, including its thriving democracy, in the light of its long argumentative tradition. Sen argues that external views also affect the national perception of identity through an interactive process, especially in the post-colonial world. He also discusses aspects of India’s rich intellectual heritage, including philosophies of governance outlined by Kautilya and Ashoka in the fourth and third centuries BCE to Akbar in the 1590s; the history and continuing relevance of India’s close relations with China in the first millennium; its old and well-organized calendars; the films of Satyajit Ray; and the debates between the visionary poet Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi about India’s past, present and future.

• The daily drucker: 366 days of insight and motivation for getting the right things done / Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello.-- New York: HarperBusiness, 2004
  

  This book provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. These 366 daily readings have been harvested from Drucker’s lifetime of work. At the bottom of each page, the reader will find an action point that spells out exactly how to put Drucker’s ideas into practice.

• Halving hunger: it can be done / UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Hunger
  London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Task Force on Hunger underscores that the goal to reduce hunger by half by 2015 is achievable with proven, effective, targeted interventions. It calls for concrete steps to reduce hunger across the world through actions in several key areas, including investments to improve the agriculture production of food-insecure farmers, improvements in the nutritional status of the chronically hungry and vulnerable, investments in productive safety nets, promotion of rural markets and off-farm employment to increase the incomes of the hungry, and restoration and conservation of natural resources essential for food security.

• Health, dignity, and development: what will it take? / UN Millennium Project.
  Task Force on Water and Sanitation.--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Task Force on Water and Sanitation emphasizes that achieving the water and sanitation target and investing in water infrastructure and management are crucial to the achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals.

• A home in the city / UN Millennium project. Task force on improving the lives of slum dwellers.--London: Earthscan, 2005 (Reference)
  

  The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by adopting practical approaches to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to eradicate poverty by scaling up investments in infrastructure and human capital while promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability. The task forces have identified the interventions and policy measures needed to achieve each of the Goals. In this report, the Task Force on Improving the Lives Slum Dwellers identifies the strategies needed to meet one of the most important challenges of our times. Cities in developing countries need to improve the lives of slum dwellers and manage a projected near doubling of the urban population over the next three decades. This report lays out a road map for progress. Using successful examples from around the world, it shows ways to provide adequate shelter, improved public services, and core urban infrastructure.

• Identity and violence: the illusion of destiny / Amartya Sen.
  New York: W. W. Norton, 2006
  

  In this book, Amartya Sen argues that conflict and violence are sustained today, no less than in the past, by the illusion of a unique identity. Indeed, the world is increasingly taken to be divided between religions (or ‘cultures’ or ‘civilizations’), ignoring the relevance of other ways in which people see themselves through class, gender, profession, language, literature, science, music, morals or politics, and denying the real possibilities of reasoned choices. When good relations among different human beings are identified in this way, human beings are deeply miniaturized and deposited into little boxes. Through his penetrating investigation of multiculturalism, fundamentalism, terrorism and globalization, Sen brings out the need for a clear-headed understanding of human freedom and a constructive public voice in global civil society.

• Fair trade for all: how trade can promote development / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton.--Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
  

  In this book, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author address one of the key challenges facing world leaders today. They put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and poorest countries. Their approach is designed to open up markets in the interests of all and not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimize the costs of adjustments. Beginning with a brief history of the World Trade Organisation and its agreements, the authors explore the issues and events which led to the failure of Cancun and the obstacles that face the successful completion of the Doha Round of negotiations. Finally they spell out the reforms and principles upon which a successful agreement must be based.

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