Arts

This volume presents a collection of display prints that were omnipresent during India's struggle for independence, and have fundamentally revolutionized our understanding of the role of visual narrative. It also helps us explore, on the 60th anniversary of India's freedom struggle, new facets of the movement that may have gone unnoticed until now.

Biography

This book offers an insider's view of people and events that directly affected the course of Pakistan's political history. The author gradually widens the scope of his recollections from his boyhood and school days as a child in a peripatetic military family, to events of partition, his cadetship at Sandhurst and the huge affairs of state he experienced as the son of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, former Commander-in-Chief and President and Pakistan's first military ruler.

Civil Rights

The book attempts to outline the significance of the right to information, particularly in empowering ordinary citizens to combat state corruption and to play an important and active role in participatory democracy. Effort has been made to present the discussion in clear and systematic manner.

Economics

The report examines the region's key short and medium-term prospects and challenges in macroeconomic and selected social areas, especially from the point of view of minimizing human suffering; be it from economic hardships or social instability. The survey also explores critical long-term development issues relevant to all developing countries in the region.

The report provides users with a comprehensive dataset on a broad array of competitiveness indicators for a large number of industrialized and developing economies. This years edition features 131 economies, accounting for more than 98 percent of the world's GDP. The survey captures the perceptions of several thousand business leaders across the countries covered on topics related to national competitiveness, such as the country's institutional environment, governance standards, and business climate, as well as public health, education, and infrastructure, among other.

The report examines the state of technology in developing countries and the pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s. It reveals both encouraging and cautionary trends. On the one hand, the pace of technological progress in developing countries has been much faster than in high-income countries reflecting increased exposure to foreign technology as a result of linkages with high-skilled diasporas and the opening of these countries to international trade and foreign direct investment.

The Political economy of trade, finance, and development: selected essays of T.N. Srinivasan / Narayana, N.S.S. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007

The book explores recent attempts from within aid agencies to go against the current flow of top-down results based management by learning how to build lasting partnerships that transfer power to those at the receiving end of aid. The author offer a practical framework for understanding relationships in the international aid system and look at the relevance of organizational learning theory, which is widely used in business.

Environment

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the many environmental hazards that humans must face in this still-young country. The author not only evaluates the challenges but recognizes the successes of concerned individuals and organizations in creating awareness and in supporting policies that will best preserve a healthy earth.

The book places climate change, global warming, and the resulting instability in historical context and sounds an urgent warning for the future. The science of climate change is still young, and the interactions of climate with other historical forces are much debated, but the evidence mounts that climate loomed over the fate of societies from arctic Greenland to the Fertile Crescent and from the rain forests of Central Africa. The book looks at the present and then to the future to determine whether the accused killer is on the prowl, and what it will do in the future.

 

History

The author examines the debate on the nature of the rebellion and traces the developments in historiography over the last hundred and fifty years. Focusing on recent writings on the subject, he also investigates the neglected regional and social component and outlines possibilities for future research.

Human Development

The report shows that climate change is not just a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already destroying opportunities and reinforcing inequalities. The report argues, climate change poses challenges at many levels. In a divided but ecologically interdependent world, it challenges all people to reflect upon how we manage the one thing that we share in common: planet earth.

This is the fourth report looking at human development in Madhya Pradesh, following the first report published in 1995. While the previous reports identified areas of concern and gaps in programme implementation, this report advocates making basic infrastructure the priority. It further explores the deficit zones that need immediate attention for equitable growth in the state.

Management

The book fills the gaps between a business school education and the street knowledge that comes from the day-to-day experience of running a business and managing people. The author shares the business skills, techniques and wisdom gleaned from twenty-five years of experience and its guaranteed to make anyone's professional life more successful.

Politics and Government

The author points out that the country’s future rests on more than simply economic growth; it also depends on reform and innovation in all sectors of public life. Looking closely at India’s recent history, he examines the ideas and attitudes that evolved with the times and contributed to the country’s progress, as well as those that kept it shackled to old, unproductive and fundamentally undemocratic ways. The author argues, and only a safety net of ideas-from genuinely inclusive democracy to social security, from public health to sustainable energy can transcend political agenda and safeguard the country’s future.

Science

Leonardo da Vinci's pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. The author reveals that Leonardo was in many ways the unacknowledged father of modern science. The author explains that Leonardo approached scientific knowledge with the eyes of an artist. Leonardo's scientific explorations were extraordinary wide-ranging. The book is a important portrait of a colossal figure in the world of science and the arts.

Social Problems

.The book describes about the trends, issues and policies, approaches, effect of urban poverty on women, access to the basic services, and shelter in India in detail. It attempts to identify workable, practical measures to manage urban poverty effectively.

Sociology

This book examines the role of women as consumers and creators of the built space and focuses particularly on India and parts of South Asia. The essays included here explore the gender perspective from various angles. They cover a wide range of issues such as domestically and home, women labourers and construction work, the practice of architecture, education in general and in schools of architecture, women and leisure as well as women's relationship to the public sphere and housing in the vernacular mode.

Youth Development

The report highlights the unique aspects of youth development in various regions but emphasizes that young people the world over are ultimately constrained in their efforts to contribute to their own development and that of their communities by the absence of adequate opportunities to participate fully in the broader process of development. Priority must be given to enhancing the role of youth in all areas of social and economic development; this not only benefits young people themselves, but also fosters a sense of community and promotes national and international development.


 

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