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BIBLIOGRAPHIES |
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1 Das, T K
The Time dimension : an interdisciplinary guide / T K Das
-- New York: Praeger, 1990.
xi, 344p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9780275926816.
016.115 DAS 142692
This is comprehensive bibliography of temporal
scholarship research on the subject of time and the
phenomenon of time itself. As the author notes in his
introduction, the nature of research insights on the
subject of time is difficult to comprehend within the
confines of any specific discipline since relevant
materials are scattered throughout the literature in
numerous scholarly fields. By bringing together the most
significant published works in a wide variety of
disciplines, this unique compendium enables scholars and
researchers to look beyond their own particular area of
expertise when selecting appropriate resource materials.
Throughout, the focus is on the time dimension itself as
a problematic or researchable phenomenon rather than on
narrow topics such as time management, time series
analysis, or forecasting. Organized by discipline, the
work begins with an initial chapter that lists
general works on the time dimension. Nineteen chapters
then list works in particular disciplines ranging from
anthropology and culture to biology, economics, futures
studies, history, linguistics, management studies,
psychology, and more. The final chapter lists
miscellaneous entries which could not be categorized into
any of the specific disciplinary headings. Within each
chapter, entries are arranged alphabetically by author or
editor. Nearly all sources are from scholarly journals
and books.
** Time-Bibliography.
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DIFFERENTIAL and DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY |
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2 Hofstede, Geert
Culture-s consequences: comparing values, behaviors,
institutions and organizations across nations / Geert
Hofstede.--2nd ed-- London: Sage, 2001.
xx, 596p. , 25cm.
ISBN : 9780803973244.
155.89 HOF 142707
This work explores the differences in thinking and social
action that exist between members of more than 50 modern
nations and will be the new benchmark for scholars and
professionals for years to come. It argues that people
carry `mental programmes- which are developed in the
family in early childhood and reinforced in school and
organizations, and that these mental programmes contain a
component of national culture. They are most clearly
expressed in the different values that predominate among
people from different countries.
** Ethnopsychology , National characteristics , Values--
Cross-cultural studies.
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SOCIAL PROCESSES |
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3 Stiglitz, Joseph E
Creating a learning society : a new approach to growth,
development, and social progress / Joseph E Stiglitz and
Bruce C Greenwald.-- New York: Columbia University Press,
2014.
xiv, 660p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9780231152143.
303.32 STI 142705
In this book, authors spell out the implications of this
insight for both economic theory and policy. Taking as a
starting point Kenneth J. Arrow-s 1962 paper -Learning by
Doing-, they explain why the production of knowledge
differs from that of other goods and why market economies
alone are typically not efficient in the production and
transmission of knowledge. Closing knowledge gaps, or
helping laggards learn, is central to growth and
development. Combining technical economic analysis with
accessible prose, Stiglitz and Greenwald provide new
models of °endogenous growth,° upending the received
thinking about global policy and trade regimes. They show
how well-designed government trade and industrial
policies can help create a learning society, explain how
poorly designed intellectual property regimes can retard
learning, demonstrate how virtually every government
policy has effects, both positive and negative, on
learning, and they argue that policymakers need to be
cognizant of these effects. They provocatively show why
many standard policy prescriptions, especially associated
with °neoliberal° doctrines focusing on static resource
allocations, impede learning and explain why free trade
may lead to stagnation, while broad based industrial
protection and exchange rate interventions may bring
benefits, not just to the industrial sector, but to the
entire economy. The volume concludes with brief
commentaries from Philippe Aghion and Michael Woodford,
as well as from Nobel Laureates Kenneth Arrow and Robert
Solow.
** Social learning, Information society , Progress
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SOCIAL GROUPS |
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4 Still, Clarinda (ed)
Dalits in neoliberal India : mobility or marginalisation?
/ Clarinda Still.-- London: Routledge, 2014.
xviii, 272p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9781138020245.
305.56880954 STI 142037
This book offers a varied picture of dalit experience in
different states in contemporary India. The essays draw
on factual research in rural and urban areas by experts
in the field. With case studies ranging from dalit
entrepreneurs in Bhopal to housewives in Tamil Nadu to ex
millworkers in Mumbai, the book contends that radically
progressive change and advance is attended by
discrimination and exclusion, as well as surprising new
areas of stigma.
** Dalits -- India , Caste -- India , Marginality, Social
-- India
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
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5 Mistry, Dinshaw
The US-India nuclear agreement : diplomacy and domestic
politics / Dinshaw Mistry.-- Delhi: Cambridge University
Press, 2014.
xii, 280p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9781107073418.
327.17470954 MIS 142048
This book examines the US-India nuclear deal in detail.
The agreement was finalised after three years of tough
negotiations with New Delhi. The author assesses the
different strategies adopted by the Clinton and Bush
administration towards this deal, the difficulties
encountered on the way, and the final outcome.
** Nuclear nonproliferation -- Government policy -- India
, Nuclear nonproliferation -- Government policy -- United
States , India. -- Treaties, etc. -- 2008 October 8
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LABOR ECONOMICS |
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6 Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi (ed)
Towards a new history of work / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya.-
New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2014.
x, 285p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9789382381358.
331.0954 BHA 142049
This collection of essays is the outcome of a conference,
organized by the Association of Indian Labour Historians
in collaboration with the V.V. Giri National Labour
Institute, on the histories of work, from the long-term
and comparative perspective.The book have been arranged
thematically into four sections in order to highlight
some issues in focus at the conference and also to allow
a cross-national perspective to develop. The first
section addresses the long run of history, extending to
the late medieval and early modern period. The second
section comprises papers on work communities and the
development of their identity. The third section looks at
two of the oldest occupations in history, that of
soldiers and sailors. In the fourth section it elaborates
on that perception of work, the complexities of self-
perception and the socially ascribed status of workers in
different domains.
** Working class -- India -- History -- Congresses ,
Working class -- History -- Congresses , Working class
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FINANCIAL ECONOMICS |
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7 Askari, Hossein
Risk sharing in finance : the Islamic finance alternative
/ Hossein Askari and others.-- Singapore: John Wiley,
2012.
xxiv, 285p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9780470829660.
332.091767 ASK 142052
How the Islamic finance approach to risk can serve as a
model for global reform The recent U.S. financial debacle
has affected the entire world and led to major reviews of
risk management in financial institutions. Perhaps a
simpler alternative is just to adopt the systems used for
centuries in Islamic finance. This book expounds upon
this novel idea, suggesting that the Islamic financial
system can be developed for use around the world by
providing a helpful paradigm for crafting global
financial reforms.
** Finance -- Islamic countries , Finance -- Religious
aspects -- Islam , Financial services industry -- Risk
management -- Islamic countries , Economics --Religious
aspects --Islamic countries , Islam --Economic aspects ,
Islamic countries --Economic policy
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ECONOMICS OF LAND and ENERGY |
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8 Batabyal, Somnath (ed)
Environment, politics and activism : the role of media /
Somnath Batabyal.-- London: Routledge, 2014.
viii, 221p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9781138795631.
333.72 BAT 142039
This book examines the role of the media in environmental
politics and activism in the 21st century. It highlights
how politics is mediated in myriad ways through
newspapers and news channels, through mobile telephony
and through social networking sites. Further, it shows
how the media creates and influences relevant discourses,
builds campaigns and awareness, and adopts and discards
issues.
** Mass media and the environment , Environmentalism in
mass media , Mass media and the environment -- India --
Case studies
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PRODUCTION |
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9 Werth, Barry
The Antidote : inside the world of new pharma / Barry
Werth.-- New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014.
x, 435p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9781451655667.
338.476151 WER 142035
In this book, the author draws upon unprecedented inside
reporting spanning more than two decades to provide a
groundbreaking closeup of the upstart pharmaceutical
company Vertex and the ferocious but indispensable world
of big pharma that it inhabits.
** Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated , Pharmaceutical
industry -- United States , Drugs -- Marketing
10 Seabrook, Jeremy
The Song of the shirt : cheap clothes across continents
and centuries / Jeremy Seabrook.-- New Delhi: Navayana
Publishing, 2014.
288p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9788189059644.
338.47687095492 SEA 142046
** Clothing trade -- Bangladesh , Clothing trade --
England -- Lancashire , Textile industry -- Bangladesh
11 Malone, Michael S
The Intel trinity : how Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and
Andy Grove built the world-s most important company /
Michael S Malone.-- New York: Harper Collins Publishers,
2014.
xviii,541p. , 21cm.
ISBN : 9780062380562.
338.7621395 MAL 142044
** Intel Corporation -- History , Intel microprocessors ,
Noyce, Robert N. -- (Robert Norton), -- 1927-1990
12 Mani, Braj Ranjan
Knowledge and power : a discourse for transformation /
Braj Ranjan Mani.-- New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2014.
424p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9789350980309.
338.9 MAN 142045
** Knowledge economy , Balance of power
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LAW OF NATIONS |
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13 Liu, Wei
China in the United Nations / Wei Liu.-- Hackensack:
World Century Publishing, 2014.
xviii, 221p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9781938134449.
341.2351 LIU 142036
This book examines China-s participation in the United
Nations (UN). There are two research components. First,
the author seeks to find a pattern of China-s
multilateral diplomatic behavior in the UN by examining
China-s behavior toward peacekeeping operations and arms
control issues during different leadership periods under
Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin respectively.
Second, a model is proposed to explain this pattern of
behavior. By marrying rationalism and constructivism,
this model argues that the amelioration of China-s
external security environment changes in its projected
self-image. Furthermore, China-s consistently strong view
of sovereignty determines its evolving pattern of
behavior in the UN.
** United Nations -- China -- History , LAW /
International , United Nations
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MILITARY SCIENCE |
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14 Gates, Scott
Unconventional warfare in South Asia : shadow warriors
and counterinsurgency / Scott Gates and Kaushik Roy.--
Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
xiii, 199p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9781409437062.
355.02180954 GAT 142047
Framing the debate using case studies from across South
Asia as well as China, Afghanistan and Burma and using a
wealth of primary and secondary sources, this book takes
a closer look at the organization and doctrines of the
-shadow armies- and the government forces which fight the
former.
** Irregular warfare -- South Asia , Counterinsurgency --
South Asia , Insurgency -- South Asia
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SOCIAL PROBLEMS and SOCIAL WELFARE IN GENERAL |
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15 Denny, Simon (ed)
Social enterprise : accountability and evaluation around
the world / Simon Denny and Fred Seddon.-- London:
Routledge, 2014.
xvi, 252p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9780415626095.
361.25 DEN 142016
This book introduces and explains the terminology
surrounding social enterprise and brings much-needed
rigour to proceedings by demonstrating how this can be
measured, evaluated and held accountable.Wrapping up with
the ground-breaking use of a General Self-Efficacy scale,
a reflective critique of social finance and a challenge
to the actual concept of social enterprise, the book
discusses the potential disadvantages that can arise from
the commodification of social enterprise activities,
resulting in a fascinating summary of current thinking
surrounding this topic.
** Social entrepreneurship , Social responsibility of
business , Nonprofit-Organisation
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SCIENCE |
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16 Watts, Duncan J
Six degrees : the science of a connected age / Duncan J
Watts.-- London: Vintage Publication, 2004.
368p. , 20cm.
ISBN : 9780099444961.
500.2 WAT 142699
** Science-Philosophy, System theory.
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ENGINEERING |
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17 Dubinskas, Frank A (ed)
Making time : ethnographies of high-technology
organizations / Frank A Dubinskas.-- Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1988.
232 p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 0877225354.
620.0068 DUB 142709
This book presents four field-based ethnographic studies
of the social and cultural construction of time in modern
high-technology organizations. It shows how time and the
constitution of scientific and technical knowledge are
intimately linked. The essays describe and analyze
differences in the ways knowledge bases and technical
expertise are built in high-energy physics laboratories,
hospital radiology departments, solar energy cell design
jacket, and start-up biotechnology firms.
** High technology industries--Management
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MANAGEMENT and AUXILIARY SERVICES |
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18 Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs
Fighting for time : shifting boundaries of work and
social life / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L Kalleberg.
-- New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
x, 354p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9780871542861.
650.11 EPS 142708
This book opens with an exploration of changes in time
spent at work both when people are on the job and the
number of hours they spend there and the consequences of
those changes for individuals and families.
** Time management , Hours of labor , Work and family ,
Time measurements , Time --Social aspects , Work --Social
aspects
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT |
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19 Taylor, Liz
Practical enterprise risk management : how to optimize
business strategies through managed risk taking / Liz
Taylor.-- London: Kogan Page, 2014.
xi, 315p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9780749470531.
658.155 TAY 142057
This book addresses the real need for organizations to
take more managed risks in order to maximise business
strategies and achieve long term goals. Based on ISO
31000 and applying current best practice, it provides
templates and examples that can be adapted for any
industry.
** Risk management , Strategic planning , Success in
business
20 Strycharczyk, Doug
Developing resilient organizations : how to create an
adaptive, high-performance and engaged organization /
Doug Strycharczyk and Charles Elvin.-- London: Kogan Page
, 2014.
xiii, 246p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9780749470098.
658.3 STR 142055
The book provokes business leaders into thinking about
the future - in particular two hugely important factors.
Firstly, developing a positive, confident mindset in the
workforce through developing mental toughness. Secondly,
applying real leadership behaviours that engender trust
from staff. The most important thing though is to be
alert to change and what it means for all stakeholders.
** Organizational change , Employees -- Training of ,
Leadership
21 Ashdown, Linda
Performance management / Linda Ashdown.-- London: Kogan
Page, 2014.
vi, 202p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9780749469979.
658.3125 ASH 142056
This book offers an overview of the field strongly
aligned to organizational and HR strategies and
objectives. Drawing on the author-s practical experience
of working in HR, it contains case studies, interviews
and activities to support the reader in applying their
learning in the workplace.
** Performance -- Management , Employees -- Rating of ,
Personnel management
22 Soundarapandian, M
Corporate social responsibility and sustainable
development / M Soundarapandian.-- New Delhi: Concept
Publishing, 2014.
2 v. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9789351250326.
658.4080954 SOU 142053,V1, 142054,V2
** Social responsibility of business -- India --
Congresses , Sustainable development -- India --
Congresses , Social responsibility of business
23 Kakabadse, Andrew (ed)
How to make boards work : an international overview /
Andrew Kakabadse and Lutgart Van den Berghe.-- New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
xi, 389p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9781137275691.
658.422 KAK 141988
This book offers a unique view of the thinking and doing
of governance. The outside-in perspective offers a
holistic framework highlighting how global cultural,
social and political diversity impact boards of
directors. The inside-out perspective emphasizes how
governance and boards can effectively realize sustainable
value creation.
** Boards of directors , Corporate governance ,
International business enterprises -- Management
24 Kurbel, Karl E
Enterprise resource planning and supply chain management
: functions, business processes and software for
manufacturing companies / Karl E Kurbel.-- Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 2013.
xii, 359p. , 26cm.
ISBN : 9783642315725.
658.7 KUR 141987
This book is about running modern industrial enterprises
with the help of information systems. Enterprise resource
planning (ERP) is the core of business information
processing. An ERP system is the backbone of most
companies- information systems landscape. All major
business processes are handled with the help of this
system. Supply chain management (SCM) looks beyond the
individual company, taking into account that enterprises
are increasingly concentrating on their core
competencies, leaving other activities to suppliers.
** Enterprise resource planning , Business logistics ,
Business
25 Leboff, Grant
Stickier marketing : how to win customers in a digital
age / Grant Leboff.--2nd ed-- London: KoganPage, 2014.
viii, 255p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9780749471088.
658.872 LEB 142058
This book describes how companies need to move away from
the old marketing system of shouting messages at people,
to a new model of customer engagement, where they will
attract customers by providing value and becoming
-sticky-.
** Marketing , Internet marketing , Information
technology -- Social aspects
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AMERICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH |
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26 Grisham, John
The Street lawyer : a novel / John Grisham.-- New York:
Dell Books, 2010.
438p. , 19cm.
ISBN : 9780440245957.
813.54 GRI 142702
A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his
own company to defend the homeless. It happens after
Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held
hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police
sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the
experience changes his life. Michael was in a hurry. He
was scrambling up the ladder at Drake and Sweeney, a giant
D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was
good and getting better, a partnership was three years
away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time
to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of
panhandlers. No time for a conscience. But a violent
encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael
survived, his assailant did not.
** Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction, Washington (D.C.).
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ENGLISH and OLD ENGLISH LITERATURES |
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27 Kinsella, Sophie
Wedding night : a novel / Sophie Kinsella.-- New York:
The Dial Press, 2014.
446p. , 20cm.
ISBN : 9780812984279.
823.914 KIN 142700
** Single women-Fiction , Marriage-Fiction.
28 Wickham, Madeleine
Cocktails for three / Madeleine Wickham.-- New York: St.
Martin-s Griffin, 2006.
300p. , 21cm.
ISBN : 9780312349998.
823.914 WIC 142706
** Periodicals-Publishing-Fiction , Female friendship-
Fiction , Women publishers-v Fiction, London (England)-
Fiction.
29 Wickham, Madeleine
The Gatecrasher / Madeleine Wickham.-- New York: St.
Martin-s Griffin, 2008.
313p. , 21cm.
ISBN : 9780312381073.
823.914 WIC 142704
** Swindlers and swindling-Fiction.
30 Wickham, Madeleine
The Wedding girl : a novel / Madeleine Wickham.-- New
York: St. Martin-s Griffin, [2009].
327p. , 21cm.
ISBN : 9780312628208.
823.914 WIC 142701
** Weddings-Planning-Fiction, Impediments to marriage-
Fiction.
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