Biography

Bill Clinton was a dynamic and engaging president who constantly sought ways to connect with the people he served. The author has captured that energy with a clear analysis of the essential elements of Clinton's leadership style. The book is prescriptive guide that reveals the former president's complex leadership techniques, including his attention to public opinion, his ability to take quick corrective action, and his efficient damage control in the face of political and personal difficulty.

This penetrating portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once-brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. The author's tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe, the freedom fighter, and ends with Zimbabwe's president more than 30 years later. The author charts Mugabe's gradual self-destruction, and uncovers the complicity of some of the most respectable international players in the Zimbabwe tragedy.
 

This book invites aid agencies and governments to consider efficiency as a robust and reliable criterion to guide their decisions on continuing or discontinuing support for microfinance institutions (MFIs). This study presents the findings of a survey of 45 MFIs operating in 21 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Middle and North Africa.

This book presents real-life experiences of 20 planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME) trainers and facilitators from Africa, Asia and Europe and offers suggestions for effective PME support processes, with a focus on civil society organisations. The authors seek to embrace a total organisation approach to PME, one that looks at an organisation in its entirety, including its financial dimension, its environment, its collaborators and competitors, in a context informed by local and national cultures.

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.

Economics/Biography

Long before India dreamt of industrial self-reliance, Jamsetji Tata envisioned India's biggest industrial enterprise-its first steel plant. Established in 1907, the Tata Iron and Steel Company was born of the vision of Jamsetji Tata, an industrialist and patriot who foresaw India's future as an industrialised power. The author in this biography brings to life the story of this remarkable company from its early days to its maturity, its struggle as also its triumphs, and its eventual transformation into a global giant. In the process, he chronicles critical aspects of India's social and political history.

Education

Amartya Sen's capability approach and social justice in education / Walker, Melanie, ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

The capability approach has attracted attention across disciplinary boundaries in recent years contributing to debates in economics, political philosophy, health, and social policy. This book complements these discussions by considering the potential of the approach for work in education. It shows how the capability approach challenges some of the key assumptions of human capital theory and how it can provide substance for policy and practice in education concerned with social justice.

The authors use stunning imagery and the latest scientific discoveries to explain how our remarkable planet functions. Each chapter focuses on one of Earth's most powerful forces-meteor impacts, plate tectonics, the ocean, atmosphere, and ice- and explores its role in keeping Earth alive. These are the forces that drive our planet and shape its destiny. This illustrated book will tell the epic story of the birth, life, and future of our amazing planet.

The speeches compiled in this volume provide critical insights to the subject of infrastructure governance from different angles-policy making, urban and rural aspects, technology, connectivity, capacity building and participation. All point to a common goal, some directly and indirectly. The goal is one of inclusive growth.

The author uses Indian examples, case studies and corporate social responsibility role models from the Indian industry to explain the gap between Indian business needs and current practices. Practices and researches in economically developed countries have also been used extensively.

This is a book, which gives the management of innovation its rightful role in understanding modern capitalism and its restless nature. Based on robust analysis, the book provides a wide range of empirical evidence from a huge diversity of case studies, with around fifty case studies newly written for this edition. It analyses MTI in all parts of the world, in companies large and small, and in services, manufacturing, and resource-based business sectors.

Non-governmental Organizations

NGOs, in this ear of globalisation, have gained popularity to work in the development fields such as health, education, income generation, environment, micro finance, social forestry, rural development, etc. NGOs cannot replace the state, but may perform complementary as well as supplementary role. Besides an introductory chapter, the book has two sections. While the first section, comprising ten chapters, deals with development facets of NGOs, the second section, including three chapters, focuses on the organisational aspects. In a nutshell, the book adumbrates how far the NGOs can contribute and to what extent the state depends on them in this age of globalisation.

Politics and Government

The fifteen papers in this book analyse the various dimensions of coalition government at the Centre and in some of the states of the Indian federation against the background of a theoretical framework that seeks to integrate coalitions among parties, castes and communities and tribes, as well as classes at electoral, parliamentary, and cabinet levels.

This volume analyses a range of issues that impinge on party politics and challenges confronting the party system. The essays present a comprehensive picture of the origin, evolution, and transformation of political parties in India since Independence.

 

Public Services

Reinventing public service delivery in India: selected case studies / Chand, Vikram K, ed. New Delhi: Sage, 2006

This volume focuses on successful innovations in public service delivery in India and draws lessons for scaling-up and replication. It documents and analyses eight cases of innovation in service delivery across a range of sectors in India along with two additional papers on strategies to surmount larger strategic constraints to improved service delivery. By presenting these detailed case studies of how public services have been transformed across a range of sectors, this volume provides a deeper understanding of the key causal factors and processes involved in reform over time as well as some basic systematic issues that can potentially complicate the implementation reform.

Religion and Politics

Why the Dalai Lama matters: his act of truth as the solution for China, Tibet, and the World / Thurman, Robert. --Hillsboro: Beyond Words, 2008

The book is not only a book about Tibet or the Dalai Lama. It offers revealing, provocative solutions for a world in conflict, dealing with the very fundamentals of human rights and freedom. By revealing how this simple Buddhist monk has generated the support of world leaders while maintained his un-wavering commitment to non-violence, author suggests that power gained by force will no longer succeed in the face of such a determined act of truth.

Rule of Law

Rule of law in a free society / Menon, N. R. Madhava, ed. --New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008

This collection provides an overview of the concept and relevance of rule of law today, the institutions charged with upholding it, and the threats before it. Indian democracy has long been the subject of admiration around the world.

Since its inception in 2003, the annual Hindustan Times Leadership Summit has continuously sought to be a forum for change and contemplation. Imaging the India that can be was the theme of the most recent summit in 2007. From Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to entertainment luminaries Shah Rukh Khan and Bob Geldof, from scientists Daniel Schrag and V. Ramanathan to business leaders Harish Manwani and Nandan Nilekani, the speakers discussed their hopes and vision of an emerging global presence.

Water Resources

This book makes a case for reforming water governance in India through not only re-orientating policy priorities and approaches, but also restructuring the institutional framework away from the state and village dichotomy. The book has eminent scholars explores the issue from various angles-neo-classical and intuitional economics, deliberative democracy, public administration, collective action and political economy perspectives.

Water & Sanitation

The report provides a assessment of the developing crisis, identifies the key challenges to reaching the goal and provides the key elements of a strategy for putting in place the needed pro-governance frame work and financing water and sanitation in small urban centres.

New Additions in Author’s Corner

This book has been designed for undergraduates preparing for the final year MBBS examination in surgery. The instruments are classified accordingly to their use. The points for identification are outlined. The use of procedures is laid out in detail. The methods of sterilisation are also given with the instruments

This book is written to explore and explain how to spend our lives usefully by remaining concerned with the Supreme (Nature) by yogic principles. We are product of our past deeds (Karmas), deeds of our ancestors (Pittri Karmas). Our soul is a part of Universal Cosmic Energy (Mother Energy) and our endeavour should be to purify the energy within us and around us to perfection.

This book serves as an educational tool for everyone including the modern youth. What is the mind made up of? How does the mind work? What is the relationship between the mind, love and sex? All these questions have been discussed and explained in this book.

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This volume contextualises the theme of language and politics within an interdisciplinary framework, and draws attention to the intimate and complex overlap between culture and power at various levels. Rather than presenting the language question as simply one of communication in a multilingual country like India, this book analyses overlapping hierarchies centred around the identities of language, region, culture, cast, and religion.

Electronic documents added

The 2007 Benchmarking and Data Book of Water Utilities in India is a comprehensive compilation of information on the performance of Indian water utilities. It provides information from water utilities in 20 JNNURM cities and is based largely on 2005–2006 data. It comprises three parts. Part I is a summary of findings and brief comments thereon. Part II consists of comparison charts and tables of a number of important performance parameters. Part III gives the utility and city profiles.

Source: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Reports/Benchmarking-Data-Book-Utilities-in-India/2007-Indian-Water-Utilities-Data-Book.pdf

The Education for All Global Monitoring Report is the prime instrument to assess global progress towards achieving the six 'Dakar' EFA goals to which over 160 countries committed themselves in 2000. It tracks progress, identifies effective policy reforms and best practice in all areas relating to EFA, draws attention to emerging challenges and seeks to promote international cooperation in favour of education. 

Source: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001776/177683e.pdf 

The 19th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2008 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with human rights activists in the country in question. 

Source: http://www.wildaf-ao.org/eng/IMG/pdf/Human_s_Rights_Watch_2009_report-5.pdf

International Trade Statistics 2008 offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in world trade, covering the details of merchandise trade by product and trade in commercial services by category 

Source: http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2008_e/its2008_e.pdf

The present publication explores the prospects and challenges on the path "Towards Participatory and Transparent Governance." The publication focuses on issues such as public service ethics and trust in government; governance-oriented innovations to enhance state capacity; and e-government as a tool for participation and transparency. 

Source: http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan026997.pdf

This report speaks of not only the progress made in controlling malaria but also the challenges posed by it. The global burden of malaria remains enormous, though progress in malaria control has accelerated dramatically since 2006. The report states that half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria. An estimated 247 million malaria cases out of the 3.3 billion people at risk in 2006 caused nearly a million deaths, mostly of children under 5 years of age. The World Malaria Report 2008 describes the global distribution of cases and deaths. It also explains how the WHO-recommended control strategies have been adopted and implemented in Malaria-endemic countries, the sources of funding for malaria control and recent evidence that prevention and treatment can alleviate the burden imposed by the disease.

Source: http://www.who.int/malaria/wmr2008/malaria2008.pdf

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