Almanacs & Yearbooks

The World Almanac and book of facts 2007.--New York: World Almanac Books, 2007 (Reference)

The book has been entertaining and informing Americans for generations. This completely new and updated edition delivers authoritative information-information that would take thousands of hours to find elsewhere, if we could find it all.

Architecture

If the history of ancient India revolved around Patliputra, the history of modern India has been more or less Delhi-centric. Ever since it took over the reins, Delhi has been the seat of power. This led to a belief that whoever held Delhi, ruled India. Delhi is amongst the richest cities of the world in terms of monuments. These monuments constitute an inspiring sage of India's past; where history speaks through stones and bricks.
 

Business Presentation

Effective communication is a vital skill for everyone in business today. Great communicators have a distinct advantage in building influence and jumpstarting their careers. This practical guide offers readers a clear and comprehensive overview on how to communicate effectively for every business situation, from sensitive feedback to employees to persuasive communications for customers. It offers advice for improving writing skills, oral presentations, and one on one dealings with others.

Civil Rights

SAARC Human Rights Report 2006 / Chakma, Suhas, ed. --New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights, 2006 (Reference)

This report is covering the events of 2005 is the first such report by any organization or institution in the South Asian sub-region. It also indexes human rights records of the member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). This report is intended to increase awareness on the state of human rights in South Asia. If nothing else, the report shall remain an exercise of the right to dissent and freedom of opinion.

Collected Works

A beautifully translated selection of stories by one of the most revered of all modern Japanese authors, The book showcases the concise, delicate art of a writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Delineating the development of Shiga's rare genius, Lane Dunlop's masterly translation has provided English readers their first overview of the author's work.

Food Security

The Hunger Projects is a global strategic organisation working in 13 countries committed to the end of hunger. In India it is committed to ignite, kindle and sustain leadership spirit in women elected to village Panchayats. The Hunger Projects, working in 12 states of India, focuses on the mobilization and empowerment of elected women representatives in Panchayats
 

International Relations

The author's criticism of the Iraq war put him at odds with neo-conservative friends both within and outside the Bush administration. He explains how, in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American foreign policy. First, the administration wrongly made preventive war the central tenet of its foreign policy. In addition, it badly misjudged the global reaction to its exercise of benevolent hegemony. And finally, it failed to appreciate the difficulties involved in large-scale social engineering, grossly underestimating the difficulties involved in establishing a successful democratic government in Iraq.

Economics

This publication is a timely and valuable contribution towards a better understanding of the many development challenges faced by the nations of Asia and the Pacific. The survey also addresses the issue of gender discrimination. Restrictions on women's choices and opportunities carry significant socio-economic costs at all levels of society. The survey proposes action in our basic sectors: economic participation; education; health; and empowerment. In each are, examples of best practices illustrate the proven efficacy of the recommendations.

This year the preliminary results of the International Comparison Program are being released, providing new comparisons of price levels for more than 140 countries. The program, the largest single data collection effort ever undertaken, is a salutary example of what can be accomplished through global partnership, technical innovation, and systematic attention to building local statistical capacity.

This book reveals the results of an international survey that highlights the individuals whose ideas, philosophies, writings, and innovations in management have set the standard for excellence-introducing such powerful concepts as strategic intent, the tipping point, and system thinking into the business lexicon. Featuring profiles of these visionaries and trend setters, and overviews of their most important contributions.

History

Rescuing Afghanistan / Maley, William. --London: Hurst and Company, 2006

The book demonstrates that decades of conflict have created an extremely challenging set of problems for the Afghan people and the wider world. It shows that only a determined, credible, long-term commitment from the wider world of a type that is rarely if ever found offers the prospect of rescuing Afghanistan from the dangers it faces.

Management

The Carrot principle: how the best managers use recognition to engage their people, retain talent, and accelerate performance / Gostick, Adrian. --New York: Free Press, 2007

The book reveals the groundbreaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken, showing definitively that the central characteristic of the most successful managers is that they provide their employees with frequent and effective recognition. The book illustrates that the relationship between recognition and improved business results is highly predictable it's proven to work. But it's not the employee recognition some of us have been using for years. It is recognition done right, recognition combined with four other core traits of effective leadership. This exceptional book presents the simple steps to becoming a Carrot Principle manager and to building a recognition culture in your organization; it offers a wealth of specific examples, culled from real-life cases, of the ways to do recognition right.

Teams can be a driving force for organizational performance and managers can play a key role in teams' ultimate success or failure. Highlighting the latest research on team development and dynamics-and including hands-on tools for improving communication, resolving conflicts, promoting interdependence, and more-this guide will help managers at all levels to motivate teams to achieve higher performance. It offers on-the-spot guidance, coaching, and tools on the most relevant topics in business. Each book includes the critical information that managers need on a given topic-from budgeting to hiring to communication to strategy-and offers interactive tools and worksheets that translate advice into action. Providing ready answers to day-to-day issues, these guides make sound, trusted mentoring advice available whenever managers need it.

The book examines the key aspects of traditional marketing strategy topics and presents an assessment and synthesis of recent thinking. It demonstrates how companies seek to create competitive advantage through the use of strategic marketing. Theory and practice are combined within a classic conceptual framework, posing and answering questions. This book also contains a wealth of examples and mini cases which highlight how strategic marketing is practiced by a number of international firms.

In the world of power, there are broadly two kinds of people: the Viles for whom only ends matter and the Naives for whom means are as important as the ends. This book challenges the common belief that a good man hasn't got a chance. It asserts that the path of goodness coupled with creativity and wisdom is the only way to an enduring victory. With real-life examples, practical tips and unique insights, this book enables the Naives to come to terms with the Viles. It also propels the Viles into understanding that riding roughshod over others may take care of the present but has no future. In many ways, this is a book of universal and abiding solutions. It has relevance to all walks of life.

Political Science

Comrades: the rise and fall of world communism / Harvey, Robert. --London: John Murray, 2003

This book is the first global narrative history of that defining human experience. It weighs up the balance sheet; why did communism occur largely in countries wrenched from feudalism or colonialism to twentieth-century modernism, rather than - as Marx had predicted-in developed countries groaning under the weight of a parasitic middle class. The author sets out the whole epic story for the first time, a panorama of human idealism, cruelty, suffering and courage, and provides an intriguing new analysis.

Sociology

Presented by Ms Ratna M Sudarshan, Director ISST (INS-023F)

This book is based on an action research project carried out in East Delhi by the Institute of Social Studies Trust between mid-2003 and mid-2005, with support from the IDRC, Canada. It explores the situation of the slum dwellers in selected areas, the challenges to organizing, and procedures and systems of interaction with officials and agencies responsible for service delivery. The book includes analyses and reflections drawn from other experiences and perspectives.

Rapid urban growth and suburban sprawl have heightened concern in many quarters about sustainable development. What exactly is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco is greener than Houston, or that Vancouver is a green city while Beijing is not? When does urban growth lower environmental quality, and when does it produce environmental gains? These are the questions that drive this smart and engaging book. The author surveys the burgeoning economic literature on the environmental consequences of urban growth. He discusses the environmental Kuznets curve, which theorizes that the relationship between environmental quality and per capita income follows a bell-shaped curve. The heart of the book unpacks and expands this notion by tracing the environmental effects of economic growth, population growth, and suburban sprawl.

Presented by Mrs. Meenakshi Singh, Assistant Director, NCR Planning Board, New Delhi

The Regional Plan 2021 is another milestone in the journey towards a balanced and harmonious development of the region. The Regional Plan includes sectoral programmes and policies that have been formulated keeping in view the ground realities and findings of the expert study groups addressing various aspects such as NCR policy zones, demographic profile and settlement pattern, regional land use and rural development, physical infrastructure, utility and service infrastructure, social infrastructure, environment including tourism, heritage, pollution and disaster management, institutional framework and economic and fiscal policy.

Travel

A sprawling portrait of India at the crossroads, the book is also an intensely personal story about coming to terms with a dazzlingly different culture, as the author's fate is entwined with a cosmopolitan Hindu family of old Delhi, and a guru who might just change his life.

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