Awareness growing about Amazon destruction
AMAZON WATERSHED -- THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION George Monbiot Publisher: Michael Joseph, London Price: Pounds 17.99
Technology and the public sector
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISES Sunil Mani Publisher : Oxford & IBH Publishing Co Pvt Ltd, Delhi Price : Rs 250
Muslim identity stays veiled
BOUNDARIES AND IDENTITIES: MUSLIMS, WORK AND STATUS IN ALIGARH E A Mann Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi Price: Rs 220
Focus is on linking child labour with fertility
CHILD LABOUR IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT - DIMENSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Edited by: Ramesh Kanbargi Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi Price: …
A passage to India through trade
TRADE, TARIFFS AND EMPIRE Basudev Chatterji Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price: Rs 490
Far too many irrelevant details
Handling of Forestry Seeds in India Ram Prasad and A K Kandhya Publisher: Associated Publishing Company Price: Rs 450
A case of computer breakdown?
India and the Computer: A Study of Planned Development C R Subramanian Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: Rs 250
Drowing in dung in Holland
A Vision from the South Mercio Games, Chandra Kirana, Somi Songanbele, Rajiv Vora Publisher: International Books of Utrecht Price: Not stated
Tribal women edged out of forests
Gender and Tribe - Women, Land and Forests in Jharkhand Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan Publisher: Kali for Women Price: Rs 160
Science backs the politically correct
DISCOURSES: SCIENCE AND OUTICS IN GLOBAL PVMONMENTAL COOPERATION Karen T Litfin Columbia University Press Price: $18
Living problems
HOUSING THE URBAN POOR POLICY AND PRACTICE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Edited by Brian C Aldrich& Ravinder S Sandhu-Vistaar Vistaar Publications …
Wrong route
CONSERVING WILDLIFE:EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION AMOACHES Susan K Jacobson Columbia University Press US $15
Defending the indefensible
NARMADA AND ENVIRONMENT: AN ASSESSMENT Y K Alagh, M Patha, and D T Buch Har-Anand Publications Rs 695
Developmental dilemmas
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN POOR COUNTRIES - NEGLECTED ISSUES Edited by Kartik C Roy and Cal Clark Oxford University Press Rs 290
Urban anxieties
TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES FOR CITIES: POLICY CONSIDERATIONS FOR URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Carl Bartone & …
Drinking problems
WATER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY Edited by Asit K Biswas, Mohammad Jelboli and Glenn Stout Publisher: Oxford University …
Thrashing out trash
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: MODES, ASSESSMENTS, APPRAISALS AND LINKAGES IN BANGALORE Edited by Isa Baud and Hans Schenk Publishers: Manohar …
Fuelling the movement
BIOGAS: THE INDIAN NGO EXPERIENCE·Soma Dutta, Ibrahim H Rehman, Preeti Malhotra and Venkata Ramana P·Tata Energy Research Institute,…
Rights over forests
THE SAGA OF PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT IN INDIA· N C Saxena·CIFOR Special Publication, Jakarta, 1997
The polluting reaper
MORALIZING THE ENVIRONMENT: COUNTRYSIDE CHANGE, FARMING AND POLLUTION·Philip Lowe, Judy Clarke, Susanne Seymour and Neil Ward· UCL …
Beneficial lessons
POLLUTION CONTROL IN THE SOUTH AND NORTH: A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY APPROACHES IN INDIA AND THE NETHERLANDS·O J Kuik,…
Tobacco wars
A QUESTION OF INTENT·David Kessler·Public Affair/BBS Pulications, New York· US $27.50
'There are more than 60,000 tree species in the world & my book had room for only 80!'
Jonathan Drori, author of Around the World in 80 Trees tells S S Jeevan about the phylogeny, ecological services, and the sociological …
Milan Kundera’s ‘remarkable’ work explored oppression, inhumanity – and the absurdity of being human
The focus of Kundera’s novels is their wrestle with questions of knowledge, the complexity of being and a constant uncertainty
Book Digest: Tracking COVID-19 cover-up, gene editing revolution and more
A history of the national capital to vision for a fossil-free world, DTE tracks new books on environment and development from leading authors