• Indiraji: through my eyes / Usha Bhagat. --New Delhi: Viking/ Penguin, 2005
  

  This book reveals the special relationship Usha Bhagat shared with Mrs. Indira Gandhi: one which went beyond the purely professional yet was not quite that of friends. It provides fascinating vignettes of Indira Gandhi as an attentive mother and affectionate grandmother, a thoughtful friend, a sensitive artist and creative intellectual, thereby offering hitherto completely unseen aspects of her personality.

• The Truth about Hillary: what she knew, when she knew it, and how far she'll go to become president / Klein, Edward. --New York: Sentinel, 2005
  

  This book presents secret documents and stunning evidence from sources closet to Hilary Clinton to show just how much she has been willing to lie, bully, cheat, and manipulate people in her quest for power. The author reveals a pattern of chronic bad behavior during a decades long effort to become America’s first woman president, no matter what the cost.

• The People / Canovan, Margaret. –Cambridge: Polity, 2005
  

  This book analyses one of the most influential but least studied of all political concepts. Despite continual talk of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people has been neglected by political theorists who have been deterred by its vagueness. The book argues that it deserves serious analysis. It analyses the political issues signaled by the people’s ambiguities. Overall, this study sheds a fresh light on debates about popular sovereignty.

• State, NGOs and disaster management / Samal, Kishor C. –Jaipur: Rawat, 2005
  

  This book analyses the impact of 1999 Super Cyclone in Orissa, on the livelihood of poor and vulnerable groups and the response of outside agencies including government and NGOs in relief, construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation. It also details strategies adopted by weaker sections, particularly dalits and women, to cope up with the situation. The book concludes that it is not the government alone which can cope up with the catastrophe of such magnitude. There has to be, in a coordinated manner, the widest possible mobilization of various groups, organization and institutions including local, national and international bodies.

• World economic and social survey 2005: financing for development--New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This survey provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus. It finds that the Consensus was not only a landmark in its approach to development cooperation but also a watershed in drawing attention to the need for implementation, including of actions that had long been recognized as necessary but largely neglected in practice. Its overarching conclusion is that while gains have been made in some areas, an immediate and substantial scaling up of effort is needed, especially in the poorest countries.

• Climate change begins at home: life on the two-way street of global warming / Reay, Dave. London: Macmillan, 2005
  

  Climate change is one of the greatest threats to humankind in the 21st century. The next hundred years could see coastlines and islands submerged, and a surge in heatwaves, hurricanes, droughts, floods and therefore in pests, disease, famine and displacement. While government and industry dither, author urges each of us to cut our personal greenhouse gas emissions by 60%--the level necessary to halt the current trend according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The book explores the climate impact of housing, gardening, food, money, work, transport, death even.

• Global ethics and civil society / Eade, John, ed. –Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005
  

  This volume examines the impact of global transformations on concepts of civil society. Divided into two sections, it evaluates changing notions of ethics and how these transformations are operationalized. The first part deals with the theoretical aspects while the second examines the practical impact of the evolution of global ethics and norms on society. Providing solid case studies, this volume contributes to the theoretical literature in the field and will prove a useful library reference work or graduate reader in the areas of globalization, civil society, ethics, human rights, citizenship and cosmopolitanism

• Pears cyclopaedia: 2005-2006 / Cook, Chris, ed. –London: Penguin Books, 2005 (Reference)
  

  This edition of the encyclopedia contains many of the original’s favourite topics and a host of new features. There are major sections ranging from world affairs and economics, through literature and music, to science, medicine and the environment; a detailed world gazetteer (with updated census figures); as well as sections on subjects as diverse as sporting winners, classical mythology and money matters.

• Building sustainable peace / Keating, Tom, ed. --New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2006
  

  This book seeks to explore the potential and pitfalls of peacebuilding and pre- and postconflict reconciliation processes. The essays in this collection address, inter alia, the following issues: the factors that have encouraged foreign governments and international institutions that intervene in an effort to contribute to the process of resolving civil wars and reconciling divided societies; the different techniques that have been used in the peacebuilding process; the role of various nongovernmental actors and regional organizations; and the experiences of peacebuilding efforts in different parts of the world.

• The Cultured landscape: designing the environment in the 21st century / Harvey, Sheila, ed. London: Routledge, 2005
  

  Landscape provides the setting for our lives and therefore directly or indirectly influences everything that we do. There are very few landscapes that are still entirely natural, untouched by humankind. This book is divided into 4 parts. Part 1 addresses cultural, philosophical and moral implications of landscape. Part 2 traces the development of the design context, arguing that the achievement of a “radical approach must be based on a clear understanding of the place to be changed” and “involves the creation of external places for purposes of utility with beauty”. Part 3 moves on to the wider environmental agenda and who stands to benefit from the landscape design process. The last part draws upon the earlier essays to conclude with an imaginative prediction for the directions that creative landscape can take in the 21st century.

• Indian literature in English translation / Naikar, Basavaraj. –Jaipur: National, 2005
  

  This anthology deals with texts translated into English from ten Indian languages like Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdu. It focuses on texts like Abhiyatri, Avadheswari, The Home and the World, Muktadhara, etc. The Indian writers discussed in this anthology include Sudraka, Kalidasa, Akkamahadevi, Chamarasa, Jai Shankar Prasad, Premchand, etc. The anthology offers glimpses of Indian Literature in English Translation thereby helping the reader to have a broad perspective of national literature.

• Handbook on the knowledge economy / Rooney, David, ed. --Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005
  

  This handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and intellectual capital; knowledge and innovation systems; policy analysis for knowledge-based economies; and knowledge management.

• The Ten faces of innovation: IDEO's strategies for beating the devil's advocate and driving creativity throughout your organization / Kelley, Tom. --New York: Currency Doubleday, 2005
  

  The role of the devil’s advocate is nearly universal in business today. It allows individuals to step outside themselves and raise questions and concerns that effectively kill new projects and ideas, while claiming no personal responsibility. Over the years, IDEO has developed ten roles people can play in an organization to foster innovation and new ideas while offering an effective counter to naysayers. This book reveals the strategies IDEO, the world-famous design firm, uses to foster innovative thinking throughout an organization and overcome the naysayers who stifle creativity.

• Mantras of change: reporting India in the true of Flux / Lak, Daniel. --New Delhi: Viking/ Penguin, 2005
  

  This book brings to the fore the face of a new India, a country that is in a constant and prolonged state of social and economic ferment, largely driven by the aspirations of people at every level, fuelled by the many forces that are beyond the control of the government or the increasingly powerful private sector. The essays in the book talk about the information technology boom and its impact, the sexual revolution, environmental degradation, the breakdown of family structures and, of course, poverty and caste.

• Humankind: a brief history / Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. –Oxford: Oxford University, 2004
  

  This book shows how our concept of humankind has changed over time, tracing its faltering expansion to its present limits and arguing that these limits are neither fixed nor scientifically verifiable. It shows how our current understanding of what it means to be human has been shaken by new challenges from science and philosophy. Controversially, the book proposes that we have further to go in developing our concept of humankind and that we need to rethink it as a matter of urgency.

• Human development in South Asia 2004: the health challenge. The Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre 2005 (Reference)
  

  This report on the challenge of health underlines the imperative of focusing on a human-centred economic growth policy in South Asia that is based on improved health and education. The report argues that South Asia’s strategy of economic growth needs to be reoriented in order to address the needs and concerns of the majority of its people. This is a unique perspective as most analysts tend to be concerned with the growth of per capita output and not the number of people in poverty, nor the number of children and women dying due to preventable causes. It looks at the broader policy implications of this delink of government policies and people’s lives.

• A Companion to gender studies / Essed, Philomena, ed. –Malden: Blackwell, 2005
  

  This book presents a unified and comprehensive vision of its field, and its new directions. It demonstrates in action the rich interplay between gender and other markers of social position and (dis)privilege, such as race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. It provides ideas of concern to Gender studies, of the leading experts in the field, including the engagements and entanglements with Women’s Studies and Masculinity Studies.

• The Urban village: a charter for democracy and local self-sustainable development / Magnaghi, Alberto. --London: Zed Books, 2005
  

  This book introduces the concept of self-sustainable local development, based on each locality’s territorial specificities and traditions. It proposes, in addition to conventional indices of wealth and income, other criteria of social progress—including quality of life, social solidarity, and the development of non-commercial caring relations. It argues that only when local communities value their local heritages and build themselves on a basis of local economic self-government, they will be able to resist the colonization and marginalization that globalization so often inflicts on them.

• Age of fear: power versus principle in the war on terror / Amitav Acharya. --New Delhi: Rupa, 2004
  

  The new ‘post-September 11 era’ is an age of fear, power is no longer an adequate guarantee against fear. In fact, power begets fear. The more powerful a nation is, the more fearful it becomes. This book examines how this transformation came about. It looks at three kinds of fear, which define international politics today: fear of ‘postmodern’ terrorism, fear of American unilateralism, and fear of the state apparatus empowered by the war on terror.

• Springs of life: India's water resources / Pangare, Ganesh. --New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2006 (Reference)
  

  Water links our lives, binds us together and links us to the plants, animals, vegetation and the earth itself. This book provides an exhaustive account of water in India, and documents the natural beauty of the water bodies, the ways in which communities live and interact with water, particularly in hostile ecosystems, the resilience of people living in water stressed regions and their common sense solutions to local water problems.

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