Development pangs
GREEN IMPERIALISM: COLONIAL EXPANSION, TROPICAL ISLAND, EDENS AND THE ORIGINS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM R H Grove Oxford University Press, 1995 …
By God, it's Tipler!
THE PHYSICS OF IMMORTALITY Frank J Tipler . Doubledey (New York), 1994 Price: US $24.95
Mind over matter over...
THE WEB OF LIFE: A NEW SYNTHESIS OF MIND AND MATTER· Fritjof Capra·Harper Collins·1996·Price Rs 1,008
Stop gaps
CONTROLLING POLLUTION: INCENTIVES AND REGULATIONS· Shekhar Mehta, Sudipto Mundle and U Sankar· Sage publications, New Delhi·…
Misinformed choices
BETRAYAL OF SCIENCE AND REASON: HOW ANTIENVIRONMENTAL RHETORIC THREATENS OUR FUTURE·Paul R Ehrlich and Anne H Ehrlich· Shearwater …
Fact is stranger
BLACK HOLES AND TIME WARPS: EINSTEIN’S OUTRAGEOUS LEGACY·Kip S Thorne Papermac·1994·Price Rs 330
Heaving under a heavy burden
HEAVY METALS AND ENVIRONMENT·Mohammad Athar and Shashi B Vohora· Wiley Eastern Limited
Beyond politics
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM AND WORLD CIVIC POLITICS·Paul Wapner·State University of New York Press, Albany·1996
The altar is no alternative
SACRIFICING OUR FUTURE: THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE ENVIRONMENT·Ashish and Miloon Kothari·The Consumer Unity and Trust Society, …
End of the beginning
IN THE WAKE OF FREEDOM: INDIA’S TRYST WITH COOPERATIVES·L C Jain and Karen Coelho·Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi·…
Management for the locals
JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT - THE HARYANA EXPERIMENT· Madhu Sarin·Centre for Environment Education· Rs 245
Harmful traces
TRACE ELEMENTS IN HUMAN NUTRITION AND HEALTH·World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland· Pages 343
Cleansing chronicle
THE SANITARY CITY: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT·Martin V Melosi·John Hopkins University Press·Year&…
On loony ideas
Why do some ‘crazy’ endeavours click while others don’t? Safi Bahcall’s book probes the underlying mechanics
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Beyond DNA
Maurizio Meloni's book is a fascinating social and political history of human heredity spanning over 150 years
How green was the Capital
SAVING DELHI'S GREEN AREAS: A CITIZENS' ACTION GUIDE by Gitanjali Singhal Publisher: Kalpavriksh Price: Rs 30
Learning Gandhi
DECOLONIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT: HINDU SVARAJ REVISIONED by Makarand Paranjape Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi, and Newbury Park, London …
Between cup and lip
A VOICE FOR THE EXCLUDED Matthias Stiefel and Marshall Wolfe Publisher: Zed Books Ltd, London and New Jersy Price: Not stated
Dig and forget
Minerals and Ecology S P Banerjee Publisher: Oxford & 1BH Publishing Co Pvt Ltd Price: Not stated
Down under water
WATER IN AUSTRALIA: MANAGING ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND COMMUNITY REFORM Edited by Michael Johnson and Stephen Rix Publishers: Pluto Press …
Women and capitalism
LABBOUR AND GENDER: SURVIVAL IN MODERN INDIA U Kalpagam Publisher: Sage Publications Price: Rs 285(hb)/Rs 175(pb)
Bittersweet medicine
The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams Price: Not stated
Er this doesn't work
CHALLENGING THE PROFESSIONS Robert Chambers Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications Price: Not stated