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Ageing |
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The Longevity revolution: the
benefits and challenges of living a long life / Butler, Robert N.
New York: Public Affairs, 2008 |
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This is a comprehensive and thought
provoking book about the condition of aging in our society. The
author predicts more physical and mental illnesses and significant
changes in family structure, economics, long-term care, and health
care, as well as reviews the evolution of longevity, the politics of
aging, and the threats of a longer life span. Despite the attraction
on increased longevity, author i s not convinced that a long life is
always a better one. Charts, graphs, and tables, along with
extensive bibliographies and detailed footnotes citing published and
unpublished materials, support his points. |
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Arts |
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Faces of Indian art: through the lens
of Nemai Ghosh / Ghosh, Nemai. --New Delhi: Art Alive Gallery, 2007
(Reference) |
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This book offers a behind-the-scenes view into the creative
process of painting and sculpting. This is a private space of
introspection or feverish activity, with the artist in solitude and
in dialogue with his work. The book captures haunting portraits of
Somnath Hore in his last days, M.F. Husain starting and completing a
painting during the course of the shoot. |
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Biography |
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Gandhi's prisoner?: the life of
Gandhi's son Manilal / Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma.
Ranikhet: Permanent black |
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The biography explores major aspects
of the Mahatma and his family. It is both intellectual biography and
family history. Mahatma Gandhi had four sons. The second of these
was Manilal who through his work was the son that most closely
espoused and persistently furthered the moral and ideological vision
of his father. |
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The Oxford India Nehru/ Iyengar,
Uma, ed. --New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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This is an exceedingly useful
collection that illuminates many facets of Jawaharlal Nehru's
personality and public life. It also unfolds the career of the
Indian nationalist movement, Nehru's interactions with its principal
leaders, and his engagement with the mobilization campaigns. An
outstanding personality of twentieth century Indian history,
Jawaharlal Nehru was a pivotal figure in India's independence
movement and the country's first Prime Minister. An active
politician for most of his life, Nehru was also a renowned writer
and scholar. |
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Corruption |
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Global corruption report 2007:
corruption in judicial system / Transparency International.
London: Pluto Press, 2007 (Reference) |
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Transparency International's report
brings together scholars, legal professionals and civil society
activists from around the world to examine how, why and where
corruption mars judicial processes, and to reflect on remedies for
corruption-tainted systems. It focuses on judges and courts,
situating them within the border justice system and exploring the
impact of judicial corruption on human rights, economic development
and governance. |
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Performance, accountability and
combating corruption / Anwar Shah.
Washington: The World Bank, 2007 |
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This book brings together learning
modules on government performance accountability and combating
corruption. If we effectively fight corruption, it must seen in the
broader context of public management: governance, accountability,
and legal and institutional frameworks. The challenge for developing
countries is even greater because of scarce resources, poor auditing
and policing capacities, and struggling institutions such as the
courts and the media. This book assists in analyzing the problems in
ways that will enable us to develop the correct strategies to deal
with corruption. |
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Globalization |
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Globalisation in China, India and
Russia: emergence of national groups and global strategies of firms
/ Huchet, Jean-Francois, ed. --New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2007 |
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The book analyses globalization in
China, India and Russia. The three countries under study had
socialist economies and are now going through a process of
transition towards a market economy with various degree of success
and more importantly, using different methods as far as the
relationship between the state and the firms is concerned. |
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Law |
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Media, press and telecommunications
laws--Lucknow: Eastern Book Company, 2007 |
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This book is
timely and incisive examination of the law relating to public media
in India. The author comprehensively covers the field, analyzing
relevant statutes and cases, beyond a mere overview, the treatise
contains perspective commentaries and closely-reasoned critiques of
various aspects of media law.
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Reserved! How parliament debated
reservations 1995-2007 / Dhawan, Rajeev. --New Delhi: Rupa, 2008 |
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This book is about the third major crisis (1995-2008) over quota
reservations in the civil services and education. Affirmative action
through exclusive quotas for India's disadvantaged in public
services and education has caused strikes, protests and riots in
India. This book shows how courts retreat into compromise and
political parties show an embarrassing over-commitment to win votes
at all costs. |
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Literature |
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Freeing the
spirit: the iconic women of modern India / Singh, Malvika, ed.
New Delhi: Penguin books, 2006 |
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The book celebrates some of the most
remarkable, women of modern India who, defying all odds, transcended
the roles carved out for them to reach unimaginable degrees of
accomplishment. Each story is one of individual triumph in the face
of seemingly impossible obstacles; of strength, hope and tenacity.
The women in this anthology are true icons.
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Management
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The Game
changer: how you can drive revenue and profit growth with innovation
/ Lafley, A. G.
New York: Crown Business, 2008 |
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The book
discusses world of unprecedented change, increasing global
competitiveness, and the very real threat of commoditization.
Innovation in this world is the best way to win - arguably the only
way to really win. Innovation is not a separate, discrete activity
but the job of everyone in a leadership position and the integral,
central driving force for any business that wants to grow
organically and succeed on a sustained basis. This is a
game-changing book that helps us redefine our leadership and improve
our management game.
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The New age of innovation: driving
co-created value through global networks / Prahalad, C. K.
New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 2008 |
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This book is
about the nature of innovation - the locus, sources, and processes
of innovation and strategy in the new competitive context. The book
reveals that the key to creating value and the future growth of
every business depends on accessing a global network of resources to
co-create unique experiences with customers, one at a time. To
achieve this, CEOs, executives, and mangers at every level must
transform their business processes, technical systems, and supply
chain management, implementing key social and technological
architecture requirements to create an ongoing innovation advantage.
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Redefining global strategy: crossing
borders in a world where differences still matter / Ghemawat, Pankaj.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007 |
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The book
offers a reality-based view of globalization and practical tool to
help our business across borders profitably. Countering the
conventional wisdom about globalization, author argues that the
world is actually semi-globalised.
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Rural
Development |
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India:
rural governments and service delivery: / World Bank. --New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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This report examines responsibilities
within the decentralized government structure in rural India.
Administrative decentralization is necessary to implement political
decisions, and important precondition for fiscal decentralization.
Efficiency in the delivery of public services depends on
administrative efficiency and accountability. Today in India,
service delivery oscillates between the centralised and
decentralized models. |
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Social
Problems |
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Disappearing daughters: the tragedy of female foeticide / Aravamudan,
Gita.
New Delhi: Penguin books, 2007 |
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The author
uses the tools of investigative reporting to expose the imperatives
that drive this horrific phenomenon. The author unravels an
appalling story of deeply embedded and destructive patriarchal
beliefs, dis-empowered women who have no claim on their own bodies
and the active complicity of a ruthless and callous medical and
social system.
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Sociology |
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The Clash
within: democracy, religious violence, and India's future /
Nussbaum, Martha C.
Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2007 |
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This book
about India suggests a way to see America, both America as it faces
outward, relating to a world in which cultures are complex, not
simple; and America in relation to itself. Facing outward, it is
imperative to see the complexities and internal divisions that are
there, rather than to divide the world into good cultures and evil
cultures. The future of democracy in the subcontinent remains
precarious. Continuing extremist mobilizations remain a powerful
obstacle to social harmony.
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Gender justice, citizenship and
development / Mukhopadhyay,Maitrayee, ed. --New Delhi: Zuban, 2007 |
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This book is a
contribution to current efforts to re-energies and re-politicise the
gender equality agenda in international development. It brings
together leading scholars in the gender and development field, who
were asked to interrogate the concept of gender justice from
conceptual. Contextual and strategic angles.
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New cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in
the US / Rajan, Gita, ed.--Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007 |
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This book
offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel and
globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for
South Asians who live and work in the United States and explains how
their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are changing.
They are presented as the twenty-first century's new
cosmopolitanisms.
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Urban
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Making
planning work: a guide to approaches and skills / Hague, Cliff.
--Warwickshire: ITPL, 2006 |
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The book shows
why new urban skills are needed so urgently, and what can be done to
grow skills and enhance capacities. The author demonstrates how
successful development and governance of human settlements depends
upon collaboration and establishing effective partnerships, how much
can be achieved by working together, sharing skills, being creative,
and learning on the job.
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Planning
the good community: new urbanism in theory and practice / Grant,
Gill.
London: Routledge, 2006 |
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The book
examines new urban approaches both in theory and practice. Taking a
critical look at how new urbanism lives up to its theory in its
practice, it asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path
to the good community. The work of new urbanists has resulted in
beautiful urban districts that reveal the potential of planning to
create more attractive and meaningful urban landscapes.
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