Briefings On Nuclear Technology In India

P.K. Iyenger started his research career in neutron scattering with Nobel Laureate B.N. Brockhouse in Conada, Contributing to path-breaking research on lattice dynamics. In India, he built up an internationally recognized neutron-scattering group; led the team that designed and built India’s fist plutonium fast-reachor, PURNIMA; and played a leading role, in the peaceful nuclear Explosion at Pokhran in 1974, for which he was awarded the Padma Bhusan.

Briefings on Nuclear Technology in India sketches the rapid growth of nuclear science that revealed the secrets of nature, and led to technologies for energy production and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his personal experiences over a lifetime, P.K. Iyengar elucidates the role of nuclear power in the country, and also provides deep insight into the complicated issues governing civil nuclear cooperation and its link to the non-proliferation regime.
ISBN: 9788129115294
Published by: Rupa & Co

Right Fit Wrong Shoe

Varsha Dixit, who considers Kanpur her hometown, is currently living with her husband and daughter in USA. Varsha considers herself a borderline obsessive-compulsive dreamer who thinks deep but writes light. A voracious reader of murder and grotesque mysteries.

What does a woman want? Shoes? Nope, Sex? Maybe, Money? Yes but nowadays her own . . . Hmmphh so then what does a today’s woman really, really deep, deep down want? Still your hearts and hold your breath. LOVE! And Right Fit Wrong Shoe shall give it to her.

The story is of a twenty six year old Nandini Sharma, who falls for the stinking rich and appropriately intelligent bad boy, next door----her neighbour, Aditya Sarin. Nandini, like every other person, inhabiting the planet India, has been ‘touched’ by Bollywood (that is about to become a global phenomena, if it has not already). She mocks certain death (Aditya) and suffers stoically for love (Aditya, again. Go Figure!) Right Fit Wrong Shoe begins at a point where all love stories end.
ISBN: 9788129115232
Published by: Rupa & Co

Child Labour In India

Besides tracing the genesis of child labour in India and aboard, the author delves into areas like the family lives of the child labourers, moral degeneration, the conditions of squalor and blight in which the children live. He also identifies the kaleidoscope of wants and deprivation in which the working children are ensconced.
ISBN: 8171920543
Author: Swain, B K
Published by: Dattsons

The Perplexity of Hariya Hercules

Manohar Shyam Joshi (1933 - 2006), a prolific writer, tried his hand at virtually every form of writing: novels, advertising copy and television scripts, and had a long and distinguished career as a journalist. His interests ranged from sports to philosophy and he could handle satire as well as he handled romance and tragedy. He is the author of one of the finest Hindi love stories, Kasap, such cult classics as Kuru Kuru Swaahaa and the novel Hariya Hercules ki Hairaani, and is the creator of the Hindi soaps Hum Log, Buniyaadand Mungeri Lal ke Haseen Sapne. He won the Sahitya Akademi award in 2005 for his novel Kyaap.
Master storyteller and the creator of such serials as Mungeri Lal ke Haseen Sapne, Buniyaad and Hum Log, produced in Tata Professor one of the most outstanding novels in modern Hindi literature. Translated brilliantly by Ira Pande and published in English for the first time, this little gem will establish itself as a classic.

Harihar Datt Tiwari, better known as Hariya Hercules is an infinitely patient man. He spends all his free time attending to his blind, infirm, chronically constipated father Girvan Datt Tiwari, who, before being afflicted with chronic bad luck, was a pillar of society. So when his father dies, Hariya, and everyone in the community, is stunned.
Girvan Datt-ji leaves behind a trunk containing some jewellery and a clutch of pornographic pictures in which he is himself an active, enthusiastic participant. In the trunk, Hariya also finds a letter to his father from Lama Rigyang Cho of Lahaul-Spiti. The letter describes a curse Girvan has brought upon the Tiwari family by stealing the trunk from the deity of Goomalling, a mythical place somewhere in the Himalayas. Ever the dutiful son, Hariya goes looking for Goomalling to return the cursed object and mysteriously vanishes.
After Hariya’s exit from the scene, the story of his journey, his motives and his perplexity becomes communal property and soon there are as many versions as there are people. But as the narrator tries to piece these accounts together, they continually shift and change, creating a dark, uncertain world of hearsay and half-truths. And Hariya becomes variously a comic, tragic and, to many, even a noble figure.
The Perplexity of Hariya Hercules establishes Manohar Shyam Joshi as one of the most outstanding writers of modern Hindi literature.
ISBN: 9780143067962
Published by: Penguin Book India

Rural Marketing - Environment , Problems And Strategies

Rural Marketing—Environment, Problems and Strategies, attempts to rectify the lacunae of a near total absence of any comprehensive text on rural marketing. This is despite the fact that almost three-fourths of India’s population is rural and one-third of its national income is generated by the rural areas. In the present context of the downturn in the economy, many companies producing consumables and durables are being sustained by rural demand which has brought a sharp focus on rural markets. This Third Edition has been thoroughly revised in view of the above. Rural Marketing provides an in-depth analysis of the environment, the problems associated with rural marketing and also the strategies that can be successfully adopted.

This book offers an interesting reading for academicians, students and a new class of ‘forced entrepreneurs’ which is emerging as a consequence of the present economic upheaval. It also offers an interesting reading for general readers who are curious to know about the vibrant dynamics of rural India.
ISBN: 9788125930976
Author: T P Gopalaswamy
Published by: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd

Mergers, Acquisitions And Corporate Restructuring

Prasad Godbole is an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad. He holds PGDM in Finance from IIMA and AICWA degree from Institute of Cost & Works Accountants in India. Along with these, he also holds a LLB (Gen) degree from Mumbai University to his credit. He has not only been the CEO and CFO in a number of reputed firms but has also been the visiting faculty at management instuitutions like Mumbai Edutcational Trust, Mumbai, Chetana´s R K Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and management colleges of Sri Balaji Society, Pune. He is a highly accomplished professional with proven success of twenty-nine years in areas of strategic planning, financial and business restructuring, business process reengineering, corporate finance, commercial and statutory compliance across the tenures. Presently, he is running his own consultancy company focussing on strategic and financial consultancy, business processes reengineering and mergers and acquisitions.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring aims to give its readers a concise yet comprehensive coverage of the subject from all angles—strategic, legal, accounting, taxation, fund raising and valuation—a treatment which no other Indian book in the market has accomplished so far. The book not only caters to the syllabi of MBA students of most universities but also meets the needs of CA, CS and ICWA students. Given its holistic approach in the discussion of various issues, both students and practitioners would find this book of immense practical utility.
ISBN: 9788125931263
Published by: Vikas Pubishing House Pvt Ltd

Spoken English: A Hand-On-Guide To English Conversation Practice

M C Sreevalsan has worked as senior teacher and Head, Department of English, Medhane Alem Comprehensive Secondary School in Ethiopia. He has also worked as resource person, State Institute of Education, Kerala, to organise and conduct seminars and courses for secondary school teachers of English and as Senior Lecturer of Communication Skills, Department of Technical Education and Vocational Training under the Ministry of Higher Education—Science and Technology, Republic of Zambia. Since the retirement, he has been conducting Spoken English classes for college students and others in various walks of life. He has published articles in the Ethiopian Herald and has also co-authored a book titled Exercises in English for higher secondary school students.
Spoken English provides a lot of material for conversation practice from everyday situations and familiar topics. It includes a variety of sentence patterns and helps the learner read and repeat to gain fluency.

The third edition is much richer in expressions and dialogues on new kinds of situations besides having the regular pronunciation guide and short notes on stress and rhythm. It now provides complete material for developing English speaking skills and would make the reader more comfortable, confident and fluent.
ISBN:9788125931218
Published by: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd

Unleashing Nepal: Past, Present and Future of the Economy

Sujeev Shakya is a business executive with a societal conscience and is based in Kathmandu. He is a chartered accountant and also holds a graduate diploma in international marketing from Boston University. Since 2001, under the nom de plume ‘Arthabeed’, he has written a very popular fortnightly column in Nepali Times that delivers sharp economic analysis with humour and common sense.

The past decade has been an eventful one for Nepal. It has featured thwarted attempts at democracy, a royal massacre and a coup, and finally, Maoist guerrillas coming over ground, winning a popular electoral mandate and ending the centuries-old institution of monarchy.

Unleashing Nepal has been written at a time when many fundamental questions on economic rights are being raised by an ever more assertive citizenry. It narrates the chequered history of the Nepal economy—from the time of unification, through decades of autocracy, mixed economy and foreign aid dependence, to the ‘conflictonomics’ of the Maoist guerrilla war and a remittance economy driven by the labour of the Nepali diaspora. Acclaimed columnist and business executive Sujeev Shakya unflinchingly examines the squandered opportunities of the past, but also, importantly, looks at Nepal as a potential Asian Tiger.
ISBN: 9780143067771
Published by: Penguin Books India

The Lost Innocence

Author: Mohsin, Nadeem
ISBN: 8171696848
Published by: Commonwealth Publishers

Plight Of Child Labour

This book is a pioneering and explorative study on the problem of child labour manifested in various states of India with special emphasis on the tribal concentrated districts of Orissa. Besides, it focuses on the problems of the girl child, her inhuman exploitation, the declining sex-ratio, prostitution, etc., along with legislative enactments..
ISBN: 8171416276
Author: Bishoy, K N
Published by: Discovery Publishing House

India in Trumoil

A former member of the Indian Police Service, Ved Marwah has the unique distinction of serving in most troubled states, including Jammu & Kashmir, Northeast, Punjab and left extremism affected states of Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal. He has been governor of Manipur and Jharkhand with additional charge of Mizoram and Bihar; advisor to the government of Jammu & Kashmir and Bihar; member and convener of the Internal Security Group of the first National Security Council Advisory Board; special secretary, Internal Security, Union Home ministry; Guard; commissioner of police, Delhi; joint secretary, National Police Commission; first secretary, High Commission of India, London; and deputy commissioner of police, Kolkata.

In today''s world the line dividing external and internal security is getting thinner and thinner. It is no longer possible to dismiss internal security issues as local ''law and order'' problems. India in Turmoil gives an overview of the internal security situation in the country and how it is being dealt with in the worst-affected areas. The first-hand account of the resounding success of the security operations in Punjab and bungling in Jammu & Kashmir, the Northeast and the left extremism affected states makes compelling reading.
ISBN: 9788129114761
Published by: Rupa & Co

I Heart New York

Lindsey Kelk is an editor and brand manager. She is completely in love with New York and lives in London.

Adjusting tiaras at the foot of the aisle, Angela and her best friend prepare for the wedding of the year. But events don''t go quite as planned. And when a girl is in possession of a crumpled bridesmaid dress and a passport - and can''t go home - New York (for the very first time) seems like an excellent idea.

As Angela''s new friend Jenny Lopez points out, the only way to get over a broken heart is to get out there. She gives Angela a whirlwind tour of the city that never sleeps, and a New York makeover. Who hasn''t dreamed of starting afresh with a sassy New York wardrobe, a new haircut and a trip to the make-up counter?

Before she knows it, the new Angela is getting over her broken heart by having dinner with not one but two different boys. And, best of all, she gets to write about it in her fabulous new blog. But it''s one thing telling readers all about your romantic dilemmas. It''s another trying to figure them out for yourself…And that''s before she''s dealt with her mother asking her when she''s coming home and the fact she threw her mobile phone into the Jersey river.

Warm, funny and unputdownable, I Heart New York is an unforgettable debut.
ISBN: 9780007328659
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star(New)

Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - The Great Railway Bazaar - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and also to learn what an old man will make of a young man''s journey. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a brilliant chronicle of change and an exploration of how travel is ''the saddest of pleasures''.
ISBN: 9780141041056
Author: Paul Theroux
Published by: Penguin Book India

Everything Beautiful

Simmone Howell is an award-winning short story writer whose first novel, Notes from the Teenage Underground, garnered impressive reviews. She is also a screenwriter and small press publisher and lives in Melbourne, Australia. Simmone’s short film Pity24 was awarded the 2004 AWGIE for short film screenplay by the Australian Writers’ Guild. Everything Beautiful, published by Bloomsbury in January 2009, tells the story of Riley, whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of Norma, her dad's new girlfriend.

She annoyed Norma so much she was sent away to summer camp. But Riley isn’t going down without a fight ...
When Riley’s Dad gets a new girlfriend, life turns upside down for Riley. She doesn’t like Norma and Norma doesn’t like her. But it is not until Riley finds herself shipped off to ‘camp’ that she realises just how bad things have become.
Determined to continue on her path of bad behaviour and general obnoxiousness, Riley Rose is sure that she can turn this ‘spiritual camp’ upside down. And when she meets Dylan Luck, recent paraplegic, she thinks she has found a fellow troublemaker.
What follows is a very surprising week for Riley. Truths are told and secrets revealed, and sex, cigarettes and booze prove to be a potent cocktail, but in the end Riley has learnt quite a lot about herself, Dylan and exactly why she appeared hell-bent on self-destruction
ISBN: 9780747597858
Author: Simmone Howell
Published by: Penguin Book India

On Kindness

The pleasures of kindness have been well known since the dawn of Western thought. Kindness, declared Marcus Aurelius, was mankind''s ''greatest delight'' — and centuries-worth of thinkers and writers have echoed him. But today many people seem to find these pleasures literally incredible. Instead of embracing the benefits of kindness, as a species we seem to be becoming deeply and fundamentally antagonistic to each other, with motives that are generally self-seeking. This book explains how and why this has come about, and argues that the affectionate life — a life lived in instinctive sympathetic identification with the vulnerabilities and attractions of others — is the one we should all be inclined to live.

''We mutually belong to one another,'' as the philosopher Alan Ryan writes, and the good life is one ''that reflects this truth''. What the Victorians called ''open-heartedness'' and the Christians ''caritas'' remains essential to our emotional and mental health, for reasons both obvious and hidden, argue the authors of this elegant and indispensable exploration of the concept of kindness.
Author: Barbara Taylor
ISBN: 9780241144336
Published by: Penguin Book India

Legacy of Blood

Michael Ford read English and Classics at Oxford University, before a stint teaching English in Greece. He worked in children's non fiction publishing for several years before becoming an editor of adult fiction in West London. The Fire of Ares: Spartan is his first children's novel.

Caroline Lawrence meets Gladiator!

Action, intrigue and amazing battle scenes, as boy warrior struggles for survival, set against fascintating historical backdrop of Anceint Greece.

After victory against the Persians, Lysander and the other young warriors from the Spartan barracks are in desperate need of a rest from battle. But a messenger has brought news that Taras, a distant outpost of the Spartan empire, is under siege. The citizens of Taras have organised an uprising and Sparta is in danger of losing a vital trading port. Lysander and the other boys set sail immediately for southern Italy.

They quickly discover that the men of Taras are far more organised than they thought, and will not be easily beaten. In the heat of battle Lysander finds himself in front of the great statue in the main square. The figure is wearing the Fire of Ares - he must be Lysander’s ancestor. Shocked, he knows that he must find out his connection to this town and its people, and in so doing uncover a little more of his mysterious heritage, hidden from him for so long.

ISBN: 9780747598596
Author: Michael Ford
Published by: Penguin Book India

Business Legislatiion For Management

M C Kuchhal served for about four decades as the faculty member of Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. He is also the author of renowned books like Secretarial Practice and Mercantile Law published by Vikas.
Dr Deepa Prakash is a faculty member of Mahatma Gandhi University´s Off-Campus Centre at Dubai (UAE). Earlier she taught undergraduate students in colleges of University of Delhi for about two decades.

Written in accordance within the UGC Model Curriculum for ‘Business Legislation’ paper for MBA, this book presents the subject matter tailor-made to the needs of management students.
Since business managers are not supposed to be experts in all or any of the business laws, but should be sufficiently aware of their scope to be able to operate their business within the confines, needless legal details have been avoided. The book approaches the subject in a simple and logical way so that even a student with no legal background is able to understand it.
The book is the outcome of the authors’ long experience of teaching ‘Business Law’ and ‘Company Law’ to students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses. This in fact has made it possible to teach law without the use of legal jargon; thus ensuring that even the most complicated provisions of various legislations are explained in an easily comprehensible manner.
ISBN: 9788125933007
Published by: Vikas Pubishing House Pvt Ltd

Gind

When Ongchu, a young vanara princess, is kidnapped by a rakshasan, Rishi Agastya entrusts Gind, a bold young vanara, with the dangerous mission of restoring her to Baulpur, her home beyond the Himalayas. As Gind, his father Karuppan, and Ongchu set out on their long, arduous journey from the island of Poompuhar, they are stalked by wild animals and magical beings, waylaid and terrorized by rakshasas, and thwarted by a wrathful Indra, the god of thunder. They meet an army of vanaras on a mission to rescue a human princess from the clutches of the wicked rakshasa king; help a giant vanara in his search for the magical herb sanjeevini; and winter with a band of yetis in the high Himalayas. Mysterious and momentous things are happening around the vanaras, but they are clueless about their own part in these events. What is Agastya’s secret purpose? Will the three vanaras make it to Baulpur? What are the shadowy forces at work?
Author: Harini Gopalswami Srinivasan
ISBN: 9780143330776
Published by: Penguin Book India

Armageddon's Children

The beginning of a major new fantasy series that will link the worlds of Shannara and The Word and the Void. Fifty years from now, our world is unrecognisable. Pollution and warfare have poisoned the skies, the water and the soil. Pockets of society still exist, living in highly fortified strongholds, while those outside the walls roam the landscape - either predator or prey. But even these isolated compounds are not safe; armies of demons and once-men assault their defences, and inevitably, one by one, they succumb. Civilisation has fallen and anarchy is the only law. Logan Tom and Angel Perez are the last two Knights to stand against the forces of chaos. These two extraordinary people have the ability to resist the dark tide, and to them will fall twin tasks: to find and protect a very old and a very new magic. They are humanity's last hope. Although the odds are stacked against them, Logan and Angel have the power to halt the destruction of the Old World. It will be up to others to usher in the New...
Author: Brooks Terry
ISBN: 1841494801
Published by: LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY

MY MOTHER MY STRENGTH

Editor: Jayashree Mohanraj
ISBN: 8129114372
Published by: Rupa Publications

NGOs And Child Labour

he book studies the widespread problem of child labour in many countries around the world, but the focus is on the prevalence of the menace in India. It also describes the laudatory role played by NGOs in curbing this discriminatory and despicable practice, and what more can be done to eradicate this growing evil from our society..
ISBN: 817141799X
Author: Narasaiah, M L
Published by: Discovery Publishing House

Child Survival And Child Work

The important of child welfare cannot be over-emphasized since the growth and development on the health and well-being of its children. The primary objective is to outline the options available for using the convention to create a legal environment favorable to the realization of the rights of the child in India. The child by reason of his physical and mental immaturity needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth..
Author: Sharma, A.k
ISBN: 8126134137
Published by: Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd

MIGRAINES FOR THE INFORMED WOMAN: Tips From a Sufferer

There is nothing that a migraineur fears more than a migraine attack. It is excruciatingly painful and comes with a flurry of stressful symptoms like nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and light and sound sensitivity. If you dread your episodes, this may be the book you need. Migraines for the Informed Woman- Tips From a Sufferer de-mystifies not just the why, what, when and how of migraine in an easy and simple way, but also gives you a positive perspective on what can be done to keep them managed and at minimum levels.
ISBN: 9788129115171
Published by: Rupa & Co