• Peter Eisenman: Feints / Cassara, Silvio, ed. --Italy: Skira, 2006
  
  Impregnated with “culture” in the broadest sense, oozing from the work of Peter Eisenman is the imposing mass of projects conducted for decades on the meaning and sense of design work. This book discusses the architectural work of Peter Eisenman. The architecture of Peter Eisenman does not intend to offer comfort with the simple suggestion of a hard-to-define aesthetics or the illusion of an evanescent technique. The unpredictability of his design work anchors it to the identification and clarification of his own objectives, specifying the value of the sign understood as fundamental conceptual expression and not as simple formal mystification.

• Chitrakar: the artist / Mukherjee, Benodebehari.--Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2006
  
  The four pieces of writing included in this book are broadly autobiographical. ‘The Artist’ (Chitrakar) is a selective reminiscence recapturing various pictures from the years of his childhood, apprenticeship and maturity, upto the time he became blind. ‘Master of the Household (Kattamashai) is a candid and complex fictionalized account of his struggle to come to terms with his blindness and continue to be creative, and the identity and ego problems that came with it. ‘The Creator (Kirtikar) is a simple, though telling, parable on the vanity of inordinate ambition that snaps the connection between the ends and the roots. And ‘Art Quest’ (Silpa Jignasa) is an informal causerie that outlines his vision on art, its basic elements and their differences in range and reference.

• Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur: life and legend / Singh, R. P. --New Delhi: Roli Books, 2005 (Reference)
  
  This book is the story of how fate catapulted Kanwar Mor Mukut Singh of Isarda to the throne of Jaipur, a state that he ruled as Sawai Man Singh II for 27 years before its merger with independent India. From being a ruler to serving as India’s Ambassador in Spain, he lived through a period of Indian history marked with glory and upheavals.

• Communicate or die: getting results through speaking and listening / Zweifel, Thomas D. New Delhi: Biztantra, 2006
  
  Often leaders have a great vision, but don’t know how to communicate their strategies and turn them into results. Just as often, a company’s staff has insight and information that never makes its way to the top. In short, the difference between a good company and a great one may lie in its ability to communicate. This book shows how to achieve breakthrough performance simply by changing the way you speak and listen. It tells How to become a master communicator who inspires others to take action; Climb the Matterhorn of Masterful listening and reach the peak of skillful communication; Harness the power of your speaking and listening to shape reality; Avoid the four deadly sins of speaking and minimize clutter in one’s language.

• Indiastat top 10 of India 2006: a year book touching all spheres of the nation / Thukral, R. K., ed. --New Delhi: Datanet India, 2006 (Reference)
  
  This book serves as an effective source of information on almost all socio-economic aspects prevailing in the country. It provides interesting statistics on various aspects of the economy, land, demography, agriculture, industry, infrastructure, housing, health & nutrition, education, labour & workforce, polity, travel & tourism, sports, media, market, crime & law and miscellaneous. It makes available the most recent data on the present socio-economic aspects. The various facts will sweep many persisting notions among the common man with factual data culled out from the most reliable sources.

• Region, nation, "Heartland": Uttar Pradesh in India's Body politic / Kudaisya, Gyanesh. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006
  
  This book interrogates Uttar Pradesh’s identity as India’s “heartland” and unravels the historical processes that have shaped this region. In looking at this constructed identity of the state it argues that UP’s existence as a “region” cannot be taken uncritically as a given, considering the complex and divergent traditions that have been constituent of the state. It makes the case that UP has been imagined in multiple ways and explores five such distinct, though overlapping, constructions through its modern history: UP as a “colonial heartland”, as a “nationalist heartland”, as a “Hindu heartland”, as a “Muslim heartland”, and finally as a “postcolonial heartland”. The book closely examines UP’s transformation from a colonial to a postcolonial society, looking at issues of identities, mobilization and governance.

• Newswriter's handbook: an introduction to journalism / Stein, M. L. --USA: Blackwell, 2006 (Reference)
  
  In the 21st century, the demands placed on news professionals are greater than ever. Not only must journalists adhere to traditional standards of accuracy and fairness, but rapidly advancing technology and a more skeptical public are requiring that journalists be quick, be able to handle multiple tasks at the same time, and adhere to ever higher standards of ethical behaviour. This book lays emphasis on recent legal trends involving journalism, the ethical scandals that in recent years have strained the credibility of news organizations large and small. It shows how to develop news judgment, how to write accurately and fairly, how to organize a story and write it clearly, how to handle the complexities of honesty and ethics in journalism, and how to cover traditional beats and prepare to specialize.

• Creativity @ work / Ramachander, S. --New Delhi: Response Books, 2006
  
  This book encourages the reader to see things differently, to look at the familiar from a new perspective, and to approach everyday situations without the screen of judgement and conditioning. The basic premise behind the book is that the roots of creativity lie within each of us, not outside. The way to discover these wellsprings is by removing mental obstacles and preparing the mind for different kinds of perceptions and feelings. Significant feature of the book is the use of the mind map as a way to stimulate associative and divergent thinking. The use of cartoon and charts also helps the reader to go beyond the written.

• Creating we: change-i-thinking to we-thinking build a healthy, thriving organization / Glaser, Judith E. USA: Platinum Press, 2006
  
  This book goes to the root of the problem in organizations today, showing how “I-centric” work environments cause “unhealthy thinking” to form, dooming companies to failure. It shows how to help the team to create healthy environments and become a “WE-centric company that achieves extraordinary breakthrough success.

• Culture clash: managing the global high-performance team / Zweifel, Thomas D. --New Delhi: Biztantra, 2006
  
  Like it or not, all of us are touched by globalization. But few leaders are prepared for working across borders, and the costs of cultural blindspots can be immense-from lawsuits to lost opportunities. This book provides the reader the global and intercultural competencies it takes to manage across cultures anywhere in the world. I t tell how to: Parachute into any culture and get the job done while respecting local customs; Avoid costly mistakes in your cross-cultural interactions; Use the Global Results Pyramid to decode any national or corporate culture; Work with Global Integrator to navigate cross-cultural mergers and joint ventures; Orchestrate global meetings and teleconferences that create alignment.

• Making innovation work: how to manage it, measure it, and profit from it / Davila, Tony. New Delhi: Wharton School Publishing, 2006
  
  This book provides a roadmap to innovation its various facets, each facet matters, and how, and how they can be enhanced—separately and collectively—in any organization. It also debunks a few tenacious myths, starting with the oft-heard excuse that innovation is an inherently unpredictable and uncontrollable process. The book argues that innovation performance is indeed controllable and improvable, and they provide a powerful framework to do so. It demonstrates what works, what doesn’t, and how to use the management tools to maximize the value of innovation investments.

• Management in India: trends and transition / Davis, Herbert J., ed. --New Delhi: Response Books, 2006
  
  Over the last decade, globalization has had a tremendous and far reaching impact on Indian management culture, policy and leadership styles. This book presents the first comprehensive and in-depth examination of the emerging changes in Indian management culture both at the macro and micro levels and their impact on domestic and multinational businesses based in India. It analyse how the Indian business scenario is changing rapidly, while the attitude towards and orientation and practice of management has been correspondingly slow to change. Indian managers have found it difficult to change policies both at the enterprise and the employee level to match an increasingly global and international environment. The volume brings together diverse threads of management culture in India to weave a comprehensive tapestry of issues, which need to be urgently addressed by businesses in India.

• Negotiation: how to make deals and reach agreement in business / Pillutla, Madan, ed. New Delhi: Biztantra, 2006
  
  Effective negotiations are not those that result in the destruction of all opposition, but the ones that achieve outcomes that are more than the sum of their inputs. This book outlines crucial techniques for reaching business agreement. It will help one to identify what one wants from a situation, handle the negotiation process and achieve outcomes that bring benefit. It covers topics like: preparing to negotiate, types of negotiation situation, goals, outcome and leverage, co-operative and aggressive negotiation styles-how to use them and respond them, the psychological factors that can affect negotiations.

• Risk: how to make decisions in an uncertain world / Degraeve, Zeger, ed. --New Delhi: Biztantra, 2006
  
  This book overviews the principles of risk management and decision making. It will help one to analyse the risks, to choose the right way to handle them and improve the decision making. It covers the type of risk; probability and impact; how to respond to risks; the psychology of risks and decisions; the best way to react if things go wrong.

• Sourcing in China: Strategies, methods and experiences / Nassimbeni, Guido. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 (Reference)
  
  Global competition requires a global approach to sourcing activities and China now constitutes one of the most attractive sourcing regions. This book addresses the managerial demands of developing a production and supply base in the Far East. It highlights the inducements, advantages and obstacles faced by enterprises in the development of a sourcing channel in China. A classification of the various types of sourcing is proposed and a normative model is described that, on the basis if sine discriminating variables, suggests the most suitable sourcing choice. The book examines the paths leading to an effective sourcing channel and international purchasing office in China, giving concrete examples of successful sourcing experiences.

• Music contexts: a concise dictionary of Hindustani music / Ranade, Ashok Da. --New Delhi: Promilla, 2006 (Reference)
  
  All rich, durable and varied cultural traditions thrive because of their presence in multiple contexts. Hindustani music is no exception. Arts, culture and life have shaped the multifaceted personality of Indian music. Through this mechanism the performing and scholastic streams of Hindustani music have evolved to crystallize the totality of inherited and practiced musical knowledge. The book combines two approaches of presenting source material, namely, the thesaurus and dictionary approaches. While the thesaurus approach seeks to provide larger contexts, the dictionary format supplies factual information and meanings. Together, the approaches make it easier to appreciate the larger map of Indian music.

• The Mahabharata: an inquiry in the human condition / Chaturvedi Badrinath. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006
  
  The book shows that Mahabharata is the most systematic inquiry into the human condition. Its principal concern is the relationship of the self with the self and with the other. It not only proves the universality of the themes explored in the Mahabharata, but also how this great epic provides us with a method to understand the human condition itself. It shows that the concerns of the Mahabharata are the concerns of everyday life-of dharma, artha, kama and moksha. The book dispels several false claims about what is today known as ‘Hinduism’ to show us how individual liberty and knowledge, freedom, equality, and the celebration of love, friendship and relationships are integral to the philosophy of the Mahabharata, because they are integral to human life.

• Contemporary sociology: an introduction to concepts and theories / Abraham, M. Francis. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006
  
  This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, comparative and current approach to sociology. It includes Theoretical perspectives and research methods; Key concepts and theories in several branches of the discipline; Relevant issues in education, economy, population, stratification, minorities, deviance, urbanization and environment; Discussions on major social institutions and organizations in terms of contemporary theoretical orientations not only in sociology but also in other related social sciences, etc.

• Untouchability in rural India / Shah, Ghanshyam. --New Delhi: Sage, 2006
  
  This book is a focused and systematic documentation of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchablity in contemporary India. Based on the results of a large survey covering 565 villages in 11 states, it reveals that untouchability continues to be widely prevalent and is practiced in one form or another in almost 80 percent of the villages. Field data is supplemented by the information about the forms of discrimination which Dalits face in everyday life, such as: The ‘unclean’ occupations to them; The double burden of Delhi women, who suffer both gender and caste discrimination; The upper-caste violence with which any Dalit self-assertion is met. It also describe Dalit efforts to overcome deeply entrenched caste hierarchies and assert their right to live with dignity. It shows that the notion of untouchability continues to pervade the public sphere, including a host of state institutions and the interactions that occur within them.

• The UN Secretary-General and Secretariat / Gordenker, Leon. --Oxon: Routledge, 2005
  
  This book offers keen insight into the pulsing heart of the United Nations—the Secretariat and its head, the Secretary-General—and examines what this organization does and why. Behind the public face of the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, and his predecessors, an active corps of officials and advisers have unceasingly applied the decisions of the “debating UN”. The book sums up the history, structure and continuing operations of an ever-present global institution.

For more information, please contact:

Habitat Library & Resource Centre,
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi - 110 003.

Ph: +91-011-24682001-009 Extn: 2081-83
Fax: +91-011-24682011
E-mail: hlrc@indiahabitat.org
Web site: www.indiahabitat.org