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SPECIAL COMPUTER METHODS |
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1 Miner, Gary
Practical text mining and statistical analysis for non-
structured text data applications / Gary Miner and others
-- Waltham: Academic Press, 2012.
xl, 1053p. 24cm. +1DVD.
ISBN : 9780123869791.
006.312 MIN 138423
This book provides complete coverage of statistical and
analytical concepts, techniques and application for text
mining. It is aid professionals, practitioners,
researchers and advance students all those who need to
learn how to rapidly distil text information into useful
insights and actions for good decision making.
** Data mining
2 Pudi, Vikram
Data Mining / Vikram Pudi and P Radha Krishna.-- New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.
x, 342p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9780195686289.
006.312 PUD 138394
Designed to serve as a textbook for undergraduate
computer science engineering and MCA students, Data
Mining: Concepts and Techniques imparts a clear
understanding of the algorithms and techniques that can
be used to structure large databases and then extract
interesting patterns from them.
** Data mining
3 Russell, Matthew A
Mining the social web : analyzing data from face book,
twitter, linkedln, and other social media sites / Matthew
A Russell.-- Beijing: O-Reilly Media, 2011.
xx, 332p. ill. , 24 cm.
ISBN : 9781449388348.
006.312 RUS 138422
Face book, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous
amount of valuable social data, but how can to be find
out whose making connections with social media, what
they’re talking about, or where they’re located? This
book shows how to answer these questions and more. Each
book introduces techniques for mining data in different
areas of the social web, including blogs and email.
** Data mining, Online social networks, Artificial
intelligence Social networking.
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PARAPSYCHOLOGY and OCCULTISM |
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4 Weiss, Brian
Only love is real : a story of soulmates reunited / Brian
Weiss.-- New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2013.
176p., 21cm.
ISBN : 9780446672658.
133.9013 WEI 138407
A psychiatrist traces how he helped two of his patients
discover that they have been lovers over the centuries.
** Reincarnation, Spiritualism
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MENTAL PROCESSES and INTELLIGENCE |
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5 Gino, Francesca
Sidetracked : why our decisions get derailed, and how we
can stick to the plan / Francesca Gino.-- Boston: Harvard
Business Review, 2013.
viii, 260p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9781422142691.
153.83 GIN 138404
A psychologist and a business professor takes an in-depth
look at decision-making, explaining the pitfalls people
can avoid to stay on track with their decisions and reach
their goals.
** Decision making
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MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY |
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6 Nozick, Robert
Philosophical explanations / Robert Nozick.-- Cambridge:
Belknap Press, 1981.
xii, 764p. 22cm.
ISBN : 9780674664791.
191 NOZ 138408
The author develops new views on philosophy-s central
topics and weaves them into a unified philosophical
perspective. This book seeks philosophical explanations
and understanding, and thereby stays truer to the
original motivations for being interested in philosophy.
** Philosophy , Knowledge, Theory of , Values
7 Nozick, Robert
Socratic puzzles / Robert Nozick.-- London: Harvard
University Press, 1997.
viii, 400p., 24cm.
ISBN : 9780674816541.
191 NOZ 138410
Comprising essays and philosophical fictions, classics
and new work, the book ranges from Socrates to W. V.
Quine, from the implications of an Israeli kibbutz to the
flawed arguments of Ayn Rand. Author considers the figure
of Socrates himself as well as the Socratic method.
** Methodology, Socrates, Philosophy.
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SOCIAL INTERACTION |
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8 Bowles, Samuel
A Cooperative species : human reciprocity and its
evolution / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis.-- Princeton
: Princeton University Press, 2011.
xii, 262p. 25cm.
ISBN : 9780691158167.
302.14 BOW 138427
Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large
numbers to advance projects for the common good? This
book shows that the central issue is not why selfish
people act generously, but instead how genetic and
cultural evolution has produced a species in which
substantial numbers make sacrifices to uphold ethical
norms.
** Cooperation , Cooperativeness , Behavior evolution ,
9 Schultz, Majken (ed)
Constructing identity in and around organizations /
Majken Schultz and others.-- Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2012.
xx, 329p. 23cm.
(Perspectives on process organization studies, 2).
ISBN : 9780199677412.
302.35 SCH 138431
This book focuses on the notion of identity, in
particular how individual and organizational identities
evolve and come to be constructed through on-going
activities and interactions.
** Organizational behavior, Group identity
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SOCIAL PROCESSES |
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10 Reynolds, Sana
Guide to cross-cultural communication / Sana Reynolds,
Deborah Valentine and Mary Munter.--2nd ed-- Noida:
Pearson, 2011.
xxii, 129p. 20cm.
ISBN : 9788131756157.
303.482 REY 138392
This book describes a brief, professional, reader-
friendly guide for improving professional cross-cultural
communication skills. Help students communicate across
cultures with it, a handy reference containing
information on negotiations, business writing, and
speaking with those from diverse cultural backgrounds.
This text also includes business-related examples
throughout.
** Kulturkontakt, Intercultural communication
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SOCIAL GROUPS |
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11 Franco,Nicoletta Del
Negotiating adolescence in rural Bangladesh : a journey
through school, love and marriage / Nicoletta Del Franco.
-- New Delhi: Zubaan, 2012.
x, 279 p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9789381017173.
305.235095492 FRA 138306
In this book, author focuses on three main areas of
adolescents- lives: college and student existence, same-
sex and opposite-sex friendships and relationships, and
the issues surrounding marriage and the choice of a
husband or wife. In the process, she sheds new light on
issues that affect adolescents not only in Bangladesh but
also across South Asia.
** Teenagers -- Bangladesh -- Tarapur (Village) -- Social
conditions, Teenagers -- Bangladesh -- Chadnagar
(Village) -- Social conditions, Teenagers -- Bangladesh -
Tarapur (Village) -- Economic conditions.
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CULTURE and INSTITUTIONS |
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12 Morris, Ian
The Measure of civilization : how social development
decides the fate of nations / Ian Morris.-- London:
Profile Books, 2013.
xvi, 381p. : ill , 24cm.
ISBN : 9781781250198.
306.09 MOR 138418
This book presents a brand-new way of investigating these
questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-
term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking
numerical index of social development that compares
societies in different times and places, award-winning
author Ian Morris sets forth a sweeping examination of
Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since
the end of the last ice age. Morris reveals that for 90
percent of the time since the last ice age, the world-s
most advanced region has been at the western end of
Eurasia, but contrary to what many historians once
believed, there were roughly 1,200 years--from about 550
to 1750 CE--when an East Asian region was more advanced.
** Social structure, Social history, Economic history
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COMMUNITIES |
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13 Storper, Michael
Keys to the city : how economics, institutions, social
interaction, and politics shape development / Michael
Storper.-- Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
x, 275p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9780691143118.
307.76 STO 138430
The author identifies four contexts that shape urban
economic development: economic, institutional,
innovational and interactional, and political. The book
explores how these contexts operate and how they
interact, leading to developmental success in some
regions and failure in others.
** Cities and towns -- Growth -- Economic aspects ,
Regional planning -- Social aspects , City planning --
Social aspects ,
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POLITICAL SCEINCE |
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14 Devika, J
New lamps for old? : gender paradoxes of political
decentralization in Kerala / J Devika and Binitha V
Thampi.-- New Delhi: Zubaan, 2012.
lii, 235 p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9789381017180.
320.082095483 DEV 138307
Based on a number of interviews with women politicians of
many generations and women who have entered the three-
tier Panchayati Raj institutions since the mid-1990s in
Kerala, this book tries to initiate fresh debate on the
impact of the large-scale induction of women into the
institutions of local self-government India.
** Women -- Political activity -- India -- Kerala,
Panchayat -- India -- Kerala, Decentralization in
government -- India -- Kerala.
15 Papaioannou, Theo
Reading Hayek in the 21st century : a critical inquiry
into his political thought / Theo Papaioannou.-- New York
: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
ix,221p.;22cm.
ISBN : 9780230301627.
320.092 HAY 138388
This book offers a new radical reading of Hayek in the
21st century. It investigates the moral dimension of his
political theory, arguing that it is based on the
methodological implications of an epistemologically
founded concept of morality.
** Political ethics; Political science -- Philosophy;
Hayek, Friedrich A. von -- (Friedrich August), -- 1899-
1992.
16 Zizek, Slavoj (ed)
The Idea of communism / Slavoj Zizek.-- London: Verso,
2013.
vii, 216p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9781844679812.
320.532 ZIZ 138350,v.2
Key theorists discuss the future of communism in New
York.
** Communism -- Congresses.
17 Evans, Brad (ed)
Deleuze and fascism : security, war, aesthetics / Brad
Evans and Julian Reid.-- London: Routledge, 2013.
xi, 204p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9780415589673.
320.533 EVA 138387
This book deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize
fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power
relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and
political conditions of formation. It shifts the theory
of fascism in International Relations from its prevailing
macro-historical moorings to focus on what Deleuze called
micro-fascism.
** Deleuze, Gilles, -- 1925-1995; Fascism; International
relations.
18 Levin, Martin A (ed)
Seeking the center : politics and policymaking at the new
century / Martin A Levin, Marc K Landy and Martin Shapiro
-- Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2001.
ix, 454p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780878408672.
320.60973 LEV 138438
This book analyzes policy outcomes in light of the
frequent alternation in power among evenly divided
parties. They show how the triumph of policy moderation
and the defeat of more ambitious efforts, such as health
care reform, can be explained by mutually supporting
economic, intellectual, and political forces.
** United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001
United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001 --
Decision making ; United States -- Politics and
government -- 2001-2009
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19 Mustafa, Daanish
Water resource management in a vulnerable world : the
hydro-hazardscapes of climate change / Daanish Mustafa.--
London: I B Tauris, 2013.
x, 245p. 24 cm.
ISBN : 9781848855366.
333.9115 MUS 138371
Attempts by governments and NGOs to provide modern
solutions to the management of local water resources, and
to alleviate the hazards of flooding, often create
unforeseen problems adversely affecting future water
resources and leading to increased vulnerability to
crises. The author-s outlines the need to develop an
integrative approach. Introducing the concept of hydro-
hazards cape he shows how diverse the social groups
affected by a hazard may view it differently, resulting
in a differing perception of the threat. Only by adopting
an approach that is attentive to the multiple values of
water in the communities affected, can one hope for any
measure of success. Examples from South Asia, Central
America, the Caucasus and the USA, illustrate how the
approach will help achieve long-term sustainability in a
future filled with climate change.
** Water resources development , Sustainable development
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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS |
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20 Frieden, Jeffry A
Global capitalism : its fall and rise in the twentieth
century / Jeffry A Frieden.-- New York: W W Norton, 2006.
xvii, 556p. 21cm.
ISBN : 9780393329810.
337.0904 FRI 138419
Globalisation is a result of policy decisions and the
politics that shape them. This book explores the golden
age of globalisation during the early years of the
twentieth century, its swift collapse in the crises of
1914-45, the divisions of the Cold War world, and the
turn again towards global integration at the end of the
century.
** International economic relations -- History -- 20th
century , Capitalism -- History -- 20th century ,
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th
century , International finance -- History -- 20th
century , Economic history -- 20th century ,
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PRODUCTION |
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21 Roy, Satyaki
Small and medium enterprises in India : infirmities and
asymmetries in industrial clusters / Satyaki Roy.--
London: Routledge, 2013.
xxii, 182p. 24cm.
(Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia, 11).
ISBN : 9780415642644.
338.6420954 ROY 138403
Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME) have found more
interest in the last few years, whereas industrialization
is no longer seen as a simple way of development. This
book analyses how SME clusters emerge in a developing
economy.
** Small business -- India, Industrial clusters -- India
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MACROECONOMICS and RELATED TOPICS |
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22 Chiarella, Carl
Reconstructing Keynesian macroeconomics / Carl Chiarella,
Peter Flaschel and Willi Semmler.-- London: Routledge,
2012.
li, 339p. 22cm.
ISBN : 9780415668569.
339 CHI 138330,v.1
This book represents a complete reinterpretation and
restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed
investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes
characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour
markets and their interaction. It questions in a radical
way the evolution of Keynesian macroeconomics after World
War II and focuses on the limitations of the traditional
Keynesian approach until it fell apart in the early
1970s, as well as the inadequacy of the new consensus in
macroeconomics that emerged from the Monetarist critique
of Keynesianism. With its focus on Keynesian propagation
mechanisms, the research in this book provides a unique
alternative to the black-box shock-absorber approaches
that dominate modern macroeconomics.
** Macroeconomics , Keynesian economics ,
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INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE |
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23 Buthe, Tim
The New global rulers : the privatization of regulation
in the world economy / Tim Buthe and Walter Mattli.--
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
xvii, 301p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780691157979.
382.3 BUT 138433
Over the years, governments have delegated extensive
regulatory authority to international private-sector
organizations. This book examines who writes the rules in
international private organizations, as well as who wins,
who loses - and why.
** Commercial policy -- International cooperation ,
Foreign trade regulation , International finance ,
Standardization -- International cooperation ,
Complementarity (International law) ,
24 Rogowski, Roland
Commerce and coalitions : how trade affects domestic
political alignments / Roland Rogowski.-- New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 1990.
xvi, 208p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9780691023304.
382.3 ROG 138421
Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of
political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic
findings of economic theories of international trade, the
author suggests a startling new answer. Testing his
hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last
century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient
world and the sixteenth century, he finds a surprising
degree of confirmation and some intriguing exceptions.
** International trade --Political aspects --History ,
Coalitions --History , Political stability --History ,
World politics
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PROBABILITIES and APPLIED MATHEMATICS |
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25 Vikers, Andrew
What is a p-value anyway? : 34 stories to help you
actually understand statistics / Andrew Vikers.-- Boston:
Addison Wesley, 2010.
xii, 212p. : ill. , 23 cm.
ISBN : 9780321629302.
519.5 VIC 138417
This book presents the essential concepts in thirty-four
brief stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical
researcher, author blends explanations and humor with
minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret
the statistics they read every day.
** Mathematical statistics
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MEDICINE and HEALTH |
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26 Weiss, Brian L
Same soul, many bodies : discover the healing power of
future lives through progression theraphy / Brian L Weiss
-- NewYork: Free Press, 2004.
226p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9780743264334.
616.8914 WEI 138409
In this books the author breaks new ground to reveal how
progression therapy into future lives can help transform
to be in the present.
** Reincarnation therapy, Autogenic training
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MANAGEMENT and AUXILIARY SERVICES |
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27 Timpe, A Dale
Creativity / A Dale Timpe.-- Ahmeadabd: Jaico Publishing,
2005.
xvi, 383p. 24cm.
(Art and science of business management, 4).
ISBN : 9788172248635.
650.1 TIM 138395
An important element to make the creative process more
likely to occur and even flourish is an organisational
climate that is conducive to the free flow of ideas. The
environment under which people work can act as a
stimulant to bring out their innovativeness.
** Creative ability in business, Management -- Creative
thought
28 Forsyth, Patrick
Successful time management : creating success / Patrick
Forsyth.--3rd ed-- London: Kogan Page, 2013.
xiii, 176p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780749467227.
650.11 FOR 138369
Successful Time Management is packed with proven tips and
techniques to help to review and assess time management
and adopt new work practices to improve it. It includes
great time-saving ideas, practical solutions and
checklists, plus advice on: controlling paperwork,
organizing your e-mail inbox, delegating and working with
others, prioritizing to focus on key issues, getting and
staying organized.
** Time management
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OFFICE SERVICES |
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29 Barker, Alan
Improve your communication skills : creating success /
Alan Barker.--3rd ed-- London: Kogan Page, 2013. ix,
185p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780749467166.
651.7 BAR 138365
This book shows how to improve conversations and build
rapport with colleagues, hold interviews and staff
appraisals, learn the skills of persuasion, give
effective presentations, write emails, letters and
reports and write for the web.
** Business communication , Business , BUSINESS and
ECONOMICS -- Business Communication -- General.
30 Gutmann, Joanna
Taking minutes of meetings : creating success / Joanna
Gutmann.--3rd ed-- London: Kogan Page, 2013.
viii, 181p.23cm.
ISBN : 9780749467241.
651.77 GUT 138370
A guide which shows how to confidently arrange meetings
and produce minutes. It provides advice about the
sections of a meeting as well as tips on how to create an
agenda, personal preparation, practice advice on taking
notes and how to improve the accuracy.
** Business meetings , Business communication , Corporate
minutes , Business records.
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT |
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31 Armstrong, Michael
How to manage people : creating success / Michael
Armstrong.--2nd ed-- London: Kogan Page, 2013.
ix, 173p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780749467081.
658.3 ARM 138362
Providing valuable insight into the functions and skills
required to be an effective manager - from how to manage
teams to successful recruitment - it will help you get
the best from your staff through motivation, reward and
leadership. With three brand new chapters on managing
virtual teams, enhancing employee engagement and managing
conflict.
** Management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc , Leadership --
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
32 Dixit, Avinash K
The Art of strategy : a game theorist-s guide to success
in business and life / Avinash K Dixit and Barry J
Nalebuff.-- New York: W W Norton, 2010.
xviii, 483p. 21cm.
ISBN : 9780393337174.
658.4012 DIX 138406
Using a diverse array of rich case studies - from pop
culture, TV, movies, sports, politics, and history - the
author shows how nearly every business and personal
interaction has a game-theory component to it.
** Strategic planning, Strategy, Game theory
33 Finch, Brian
How to write a business plan : creating success / Brian
Finch.--4th ed-- Philadelphia: Kogan Page, 2013.
viii,179p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780749467104.
658.4012 FIN 138363
Business plans are an essential and unavoidable part of
the business cycle. How to Write a Business Plan gives
the expert guidance you need to make an impact with your
written plan, including advice on researching
competitors, how to present your management skills and
experience and how to effectively communicate your
strategic vision.
** Marketing -- Management , Business planning , Business
writing , New business enterprises --Planning , Small
business --Planning
34 Awad, Elais M
Knowledge management / Elais M Awad and Hassan M Ghaziri.
-- Noida: Pearson, 2011.
480p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9788131714034.
658.4038 AWA 138393
This book is all about knowledge-- how to capture it, how
to transfer it, how to share it, and how to manage it.
Author takes readers through a process-oriented
examination of the topic, striking a balance between the
behavioral and technical aspects of knowledge management
and using it.
** Knowledge management, Information resources management
Kennismanagement
35 Harland, Christine (ed)
The Sage handbook of strategic supply management /
Christine Harland, Guido Nassimbeni and Eugene Schneller.
-- London: SAGE, 2013. xx, 519 p. : ill., 26 cm.
ISBN : 9781412924085.
658.7 HAR 138424
This handbook is a substantive, multidisciplinary
academic work that makes coherent analysis of supply
systems from the perspective of purchasing and supply,
operations management logistics, supply chain management,
service management industrial or relationship marketing,
and inter organization networks.
** Business logistics
36 Westwood, John
How to write a marketing plan : creating success / John
Westwood.--4th ed-- Philadelphia: Kogan Page, 2013.
x, 172p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9780749467128.
658.802 WES 138364
How to Write a Marketing Plan is a step-by-step guide to
every aspect of researching and writing a marketing plan,
using the development of a plan for a fictitious company
to help explain the process.
** Marketing -- Management
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37 Kloet, Jeroen de
China with a cut : globalisation, urban youth and popular
music / Jeroen de Kloet.-- Amsterdam: Amsterdam
University Press, 2010.
255p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9789089641625.
780.95109049 KLO 138360
This book explores the popular music industry in Beijing,
Hong Kong and Shanghai, providing a fascinating history
of its emergence and extensive audience analysis, while
also exploring the effect of censorship on the music
scene in China. China with a Cut pays particular
attention to the dakou culture: so named after a cut
nicked into the edge to render them unsaleable, these
illegally imported Western CDs still play most of the
tracks. They also played a crucial role in the emergence
of the new music and youth culture. The author-s
impressive study demonstrates how the young Chinese cope
with the rapid economic and social changes in a period of
intense globalisation, and offers a unique insight into
the socio-cultural and political transformations of a
rising global power.
** Music -- China -- 20th century -- History and
criticism , Music trade -- China -- History -- 20th
century , Music audiences -- China -- History -- 20th
century ,
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LITERATURE, RHETORIC and CRITICISM |
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38 Minto, Barbara
The Pyramid principle : logic in writing and thinking /
Barbara Minto.--3rd ed-- New Delhi: Pearson Education,
2009.
xiii, 177p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9780273710516.
808.06665 MIN 138425
This book shows that, how to communicate any ideas
clearly and succinctly. It explains how to: think
creatively, reason lucidly, and express ideas with
clarity define complex problems and establish the
objectives of any document, assess ideas and recognize
their relative importance, structure to be reasoning into
a coherent and transparent argument, and, analyze that
argument to confirm its effectiveness.
** Business writing, English language --Business English
39 Leonard, Philip
Literature after globalization : textuality, technology
and the nation-state / Philip Leonard.-- London:
Bloomsbury, 2013.
vii, 219p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9781441190710.
809.9335 LEO 138402
This book offers a detailed study of recent literary and
theoretical responses to technology, globalization, and
national identity. Focusing on texts of the the 1990s and
2000s, particularly novels and other writing by Mark
Danielewski, Hari Kunzru, Indra Sinha, and Neal
Stephenson, it charts a departure from narratives of
globalization which declare the collapse of national
cultures, and it considers how national sovereignty has
been reinvented and reasserted in the face of
technology-s transnational effects.
** Nationalism in literature, Technology in literature,
Globalization in literature.
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AMERICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH |
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40 Picoult, Jodi
The Tenth circle : a novel / Jodi Picoult.-- New York:
Washington Square Press, 2006.
ix, 385p. 21cm.
ISBN : 9780743496711.
813.54 PIC 138440
In this book, author offers her most powerful chronicle
yet as she explores the unbreakable bond between parent
and child, and questions whether you can reinvent
yourself in the course of a lifetime -- or if your
mistakes are carried forever.
** Fathers and daughters -- Fiction, Comic books, strips,
etc. -- Authorship -- Fiction, Rape victims -- Fiction.
41 Picoult, Jodi
Vanishing acts / Jodi Picoult.-- New York: Washington
Square Press, 2005.
xii, 418p. 21cm.
ISBN : 9780743454551.
813.54 PIC 138441
Working with the Search and Rescue bloodhound team to
find missing people, single mother Delia Hopkins
anticipates her upcoming nuptials, until a series of
unsettling flashbacks threatens to devastate her life and
the lives of those she loves.
** Young women -- Fiction , Adult children of divorced
parents -- Fiction , Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
42 Weisberger, Lauren
Chasing Harry Winston / Lauren Weisberger.-- London:
HarperCollins Publishers, 2008.
280p. , 20cm.
ISBN : 9780007262717.
813.6 WEI 138412
A trio of best friends in Manhattan agree to change their
lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible --
and within one calendar year.
** Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Female friendship -- Fiction, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
-- Fiction
43 Weisberger, Lauren
Everyone worth knowing / Lauren Weisberger.-- London:
HarperCollins Publisher, 2006.
367p. , 20cm.
ISBN : 9780007182657.
813.6 WEI 138415
Dripping with New York glamour, this bestseller will
capture the hearts of all those who loved The Devil Wears
Prada.
** Parties -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction,
Journalists -- Fiction, New York (N.Y.) -- Social life
and customs -- Fiction
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ENGLISH and OLD ENGLISH LITERATURES |
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44 Davis, Caroline
Creating postcolonial literature : African writers and
British publishers / Caroline Davis.-- New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013.
x, 255p. 22cm.
ISBN : 9780230369368.
820.966 DAV 138386
This book explores the publishing of African literature,
addressing the construction of literary value,
relationships between African writers and British
publishers, and importance of the African market. It
analyses the historical, political and economic
conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial
literature.
** African literature (English) -- Publishing -- History
- 20th century, Publishers and publishing -- Great
Britain -- History -- 20th century, Publishers and
publishing -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
45 Harris, Robert
Archangel / Robert Harris.-- London: Arrow Books, 2009.
421p. ; 20cm.
ISBN : 9780099527930.
823.914 HAR 138411
When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a
secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is
determined to track it down, whatever the consequences.
** Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953 -- Archives -- Fiction
46 Harris, Robert
Lustrum / Robert Harris.-- Arrow Books: Random House,
2010.
452p. ; 20cm.
ISBN : 9780099522690.
823.914 HAR 138416
It was Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a
vast empire, seven men are struggling for power - Cicero
is consul; Caesar, his ruthless young rival; Pompey, the
republic-s greatest general; Crassus, its richest man;
Cato, a political fanatic; Catilina, a psychopath; and,
Clodius, an ambitious playboy.
** Cicero, Marcus Tullius, -- 106 B.C.-43 B. C.; Tiro, M.
Tullius -- (Marcus Tullius), -- 104 B.C. or 103 B.C.- --
Fiction; Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Fiction
47 Kinsella, Sophie
Confessions of a shopaholic / Sophie Kinsella.-- London:
Black Swan, 2009. 319p. ; 20cm.
ISBN : 9780552774819.
823.92 KIN 138413
The stories the Becky concocts become more and more
fantastic as she tries to untangle her increasingly dire
financial difficulties. Her only comfort is to buy
herself something - just a little something. Can Becky
ever escape from this dream world, find true love, and
regain the use of her Switch card?
** Young women -- Fiction; Shopping -- Fiction; Debt --
Fiction
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48 Simms, Breden
Europe : the struggle for supremacy, 1453 to the present
/ Breden Simms.-- London: Allen Lane, 2013. xxviii,
692p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9780713994278.
940.2 SIM 138414
This book tells the story of a group of competitive and
mutually suspicious dynasties, and also of a continent
prone to interference from -semi-detached- elements, such
as Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain and the United
States.
** Europe -- History -- 1492- , Europe -- History,
Military , Europe -- Politics and government
49 Simms, Brendan
Three victories and a defeat : the rise and fall of the
first British empire, 1714-1783 / Brendan Simms.--
New York: Basic Books, 2009.
xvii, 802 p. 24cm.
ISBN : 9780465013326.
941.07 SIM 138420
In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world
superpower through a series of sensational military
strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as
Britains key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat,
the author argues that Britains true strength lay with
the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The
House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of
European alliances that enabled Britain to keep the
continental balance of power in check while dramatically
expanding her own empire. These alliances sustained the
nation through the War of the Spanish Succession, the War
of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years War. But
in 1776, Britain lost the American continent by
alienating her European allies.
** Great Britain --Colonies --History --18th century ,
Great Britain --History --1714-1837 , Great Britain --
Foreign relations --1714-1837 , Great Britain --Foreign
relations --Germany , Germany --Foreign relations --Great
Britain
950 HISTORY OF ASIA
50 Eswaran, Eknath
Gandhi the man : how one man changed himself to change
the world / Eknath Eswaran.-- Ahmedabad: Jaico Publishing
, 1997.
213p. 23cm.
ISBN : 9788172245177.
954.035092 GAN 138396
The author grew up in Gandhi s India. He was in his
twenties when he first visited Gandhi to learn the secret
of his transformation. The secret not of Gandhi, the
political leader, but of Gandhi, the Man. Describing
Gandhi as a shy, tongue tied little man, Easwaran brings
sensitivity to the spiritual basis of Gandhijiès life and
stresses Gandhi s personal development as a spiritual
figure and political innovator. Also presented here are
photographs of Gandhiji that depicts his multifaceted
personality.
** Gandhi, -- Mahatma, -- 1869-1948, Statesmen -- India -
Biography
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