• Delhi Fort: a guide to the buildings and gardens / Sanderson, Gordon. New Delhi: Asian Educational services, 2000 (Reference)
  
  This book provides information on Delhi Fort-the Palace of Shahjahan at Delhi. It gives a good idea of the former arrangement of the interior of the Palace. Describing the fort, it covers Lahore and Delhi gates, Diwan-I-Amm, Mumtaz Mahal, Peacock Throne, Moti Masjid, Hira Mahal, Hammam, Rang Mahal, etc.

• The International who's who 2007 / Elster, Robert J., ser. ed. --London: Routledge, 2007 (Reference)
  
  This reference book is the ultimate source of biographical information on the world’s most eminent, distinguished, influential and gifted personalities. It brings together the lives and achievements of more than 20, 000 of the world’s leading men and women. Almost every field of human endeavour is covered from heads of state, religious leaders, politicians, ambassadors and diplomats to those who have excellent in business, finance, technology, medicine and law, and the leading personalities from the worlds of film, music, fashion, sport, literature, the media and the performing arts.

• Encyclopedia of holidays and celebrations: a country-by-country guide, Vol. 1-3 / Dennis, Mathew, ed. New York: Facts on file, 2006 (Reference)

  This encyclopedia explores major holidays and festivals in 206 countries. The first two volumes are organized alphabetically by country. The third volume features articles that provide detailed information about major holidays celebrated around the world, as well as articles on the world’s major religions.

• Civil society and the aid industry: the politics and promise / Rooy, Alison Van. London: Earthscan, 2006

  Northern governments and NGOs are increasingly convinced that civil society will enable people in developing countries to escape the poverty trap. This book makes a critical appraisal of this new emphasis in the aid industry. It explores the roles of Northern governmental, multilateral and non-governmental agencies in supporting civil society, presenting in-depth case studies of projects in Peru, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Hungary, and gives detailed policy recommendations intended to improve the effectiveness and appropriateness of future projects.

• Economic survey: 2005-06 / India. Ministry of Finance. Economic Division. New Delhi: Ministry of Finance, 2006 (Reference)

  This publication provides information on economic survey of India in 2005-06. It covers topics like: Public Finance, Monetary and Banking developments, Securities, Markets, Prices and Food Management, External Sector, Industry, Agriculture, Infrastructure, Social Sectors, etc.

• Knowledge and the wealth of nations: a story of economic discovery / Warsh, David. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006

  This book tells the story of a single technical paper in economics—the events leading up to its publication in 1990 and some subsequent changes in our understanding of the world. It recreates the series of discussions among economists that began as early as 1979 and follows them to the publication of Romer’s paper and beyond, chronicling the heady swarm of new ideas and the internecine battles as Romer’s fellow economists struggled with them. It narrates the story of scientific discovery while drawing astute portraits of the economists involved, including towering figures such as Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes as well as a new wave of theorists that includes Robert Solow, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Lucas, and Romer.

• Delhi: past and present / Fanshawe, H. C. --New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1998 (Reference)

  This book presents a brief general history of the Delhi city. It includes historical and archaeological information about Delhi. It covers topics like: Delhi in 1857, Brief history of the kings of Delhi, Ancient Delhi of the early Hindu and Muhammedan periods; City of Modern Delhi or Shahjahanabad.

• Hyderabad: portrait of a city / Noopur Kumar.--Hyderabad: Noopur Kumar, 2006 (Reference)

  This book presents a mix of serious history, fascinating facts and captivating images of Hyderabad. It offers vignettes from the lives of the people and events that have shaped the city’s history interlaced with tales of romance, intrigue, war and victory. It also includes the rituals and routines of everyday life that make Hyderabad so special.

• The timechart history of India: an illustrated chronological chart of the history of India from the paleolithic age to--UK: Robert Frederick, 2005 (Reference)

  This book provides a substantial core of the history of the south Asian subcontinent. It has also significantly impacted the course of events in Central Asia, West Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and even trickled into parts of the African, European and American continents in the modern period. The format of this book enables the reader to absorb the rich course of India’s history through two sections. The first parts, the Timelines, are arranged as a 32-page fold-out concertina. While the 16 front panels track political, cultural and economic landmarks from the earliest Paleolithic Age human finds to the prevailing of political democracy, 12 back panels depict specific themes and phases in magnified chronological sequences. The second part, the 40-page booklet, is arranged as a series of narrative chapters, casting perspectives on various topics.

• Accelerated project management: how to be the first to market/ Lewis, James P. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005

  Project management is essential if an organization is to gain the competitive edge that comes with being first to market. This book shows how one can reduce time on all the product development projects without adding unnecessary risk or cost. It shows how to adopt and improve upon these techniques in organization and dramatically increase project speed without sacrificing end-product quality in today’s high-stakes new product development race.

• Successful project management / Young, Trevor L. --New Delhi: Kogan Page, 2006

  Project management skills are in increasing demand in all types of organization and at all levels. Above all, the role of a project manager is to maintain a balance between the demands of the customer, the project, the team and the organization—and that presents a real challenge in the areas of time management and prioritization. This book will help all project managers to master this balancing act and to increase the probability of their project’s success. It includes: Project conception and start-up; managing project stakeholders; managing risks; project planning; project launch and execution; closure and evaluation.

• Global civil society 2005/6 / Glasius, Marlies, ed.--London: Sage, 2006 (Reference)

  Global civil society is diverse, creative and chaotic. That’s what makes it always interesting, often unpredictable and sometimes very powerful. Studying global civil society is a way of understanding globalisation, which is all too often seen as a predominantly economic phenomenon. These annual volumes have themselves become an occasion for enacting global civil society: each yearbook is a project that involves hundreds of people around the world in various ways…and they often fight it out around divergent understandings of critical issues. This volume enters the extreme zones we face today—the growing injustices which increasingly are only addressed by global civil society actors, but also the powerful innovations brought about by new technologies that can construct whole new global spaces for global civil society.

• World Trade Report 2006: exploring the links between subsidies, trade and the WTO / World Trade Organization. Switzerland: WTO, 2006 (Reference)

  This report is the fourth in a series launched in 2002. Like earlier reports, this report has taken up a current issue in trade policy, it also looks at subsidies. In addition to the core topic, the Report also takes a brief look at recent developments in trade and discusses some salient features of recent trade developments or a particular aspect of trade. This year, the report looks briefly at trade in textiles and clothing, flows of international receipts and payments of royalties and licence fees, trends in the trade of least-developed countries, and the impact of natural disasters and terrorist acts on international trade flows.

• Delhi, Agra, Rajasthan: an Indo-Muslim lifestyle / Benet, Philippe. France: ACR Edition Internationale, 2005 (Reference)

  This travel book narrates the history, architecture and different monuments of Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan. It provides information on places like Fortress hotels of Neemrana, Karni Fort, Devi Garh and Samode, Jaipur, The Fortress of Amber, Jaigarh and Nahargarh, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Ranakpur, Muslim Ajmer, Hindu Pushkar, etc.

• Temptations of the West: how to be modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond / Mishra, Pankaj. Picador, 2006 (Reference)

  This is a book concerned with history still in the making. It provides first-person reporting of major turmoil in eight Asian countries in recent years. These are standalone chapters: covered here are the legacy of the Nehrus in Allahabad, the Islam-Hindu conflicts in Ayodhya, the corruption of the Bollywood movie industry, Kashmir and its continuing Muslim-Hindu conflicts, Pakistan for more of the same, and Afghanistan and its continuing quagmire, plus brief chapters summarizing recent events in Nepal and Tibet.

• The Network society: from knowledge to policy / Castells, Manuel, ed. Washington DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006

  This volume explores the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its policy dimension, ranging from the knowledge economic, based in technology and innovation, to the organizational reform and modernization in the public sector, focusing also the media and communication policies. The network society is our society, a society made of individuals, businesses and state operating from the local, national and into the international arena. This book focus on transition societies of Portugal, Spain—and its different autonomies, Italy, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.

• The Voluntary city: markets, communities and urban planning / Beito, David T., ed. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2006

  This book assembles a rich history and analysis of large-scale, private and voluntary, community governance to restore the validity of city life. Such systems provide education, transportation, housing, crime control, parks and recreation, healthcare, employment, and more, by being more effective, innovative, and responsive than those provided through special-interest politics-as-usual and bureaucracy. It reveals how the process of providing local public goods through the dynamism of freely competitive, market-based entrepreneurship is unmatched in renewing communities and strengthening the bonds of civil society.

• Tsunami: the world's most terrifying natural disaster / Tibballs, Geoff. London: Carlton Books, 2005 (Reference)

  Before 26 December 2004, while many people knew what a tsunami was, few had any idea of the wholesale destruction that one could cause. All of that changed in just a few minutes as a powerful earthquake deep in the Indian Ocean triggered the deadliest tsunami in history. This book, illustrated with powerful photography and containing dozens of graphic eyewitness accounts, chronicles in details the terrifying events surrounding one of the worst disasters in modern history—a catastrophe that served as a terrifying reminder of the awesome power of nature.

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