Behind the frontier
CONTESTED FRONTIERS IN AMAZONIA Marianne Schmink and Charles H Wood Publisher: Columbia University Press Price: $35
Environment and the Middle Path
Like all religions, Buddhism is eco-friendly. But lofty ideals rarely translate into pragmatism
Everything else being equal
EQUITY IS GOOD SCIENCE by C V Seshadri Publisher: Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre, Madras Price: Rs 150
No kidding
Mr SUN TAKES A HOLIDAY IN SEARCH OF WATER MADAME AIR WANTS A CHANGE MEET THE SOIL FAIRY Dilip M Salwi Publisher: Ratna Sagar P Ltd, New Delhi …
Loose cannons
When the army and the government team up to form an assault team against villagers protesting against a firing range, all hell can break loose
Tools for sharing
PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION Edited by K Sadanandan Nair and Shirley A White Publisher: Sage Publications Price: Rs 250 (hb), 145 (pb)
A pollution whodunit
AN ENVIRONMENTAL ODYSSEY: PEOPLE, POLLUTION AND POLITICS IN THE LIFE OF A PRACTICAL SCIENTIST Merril Eisenbud Publisher: Macmillan India Ltd, …
BBC dreams about the machine
Two BBC serials take the viewer to the awesome world of computers, dramatising their history, and showing how they have become an integral part …
Tools for green diplomats
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEGOTIATION Edited by Gunnar Sjostedt Publisher: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Price: $45
Filling in the historical gap on forestry
History of Forestry in India Edited by Ajay Rawat Publisher: Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1991 Price: Rs 350
Two important years in the hee of Charles Darwin
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin - Volume 7 (1858-1859) Edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith Publisher: Cambridge University …
AIDS hits prime time on Doordarshan
Prostitutes are shown more frequently in TV programmes as culprits, whereas they are mostly victims of AIDS.
A wealth of anecdotal material
GLIMPSES OF INDIA'S STATISTICAL HERITAGE Edited by: J K Ghosh, S K Mitra and K.R. Parthasarathy Publisher: Wiley Eastern Limited, Delhi Price : Rs 60
Bharat ki Chaap gets a new identity
The TV serial of the late 1980s is now available as a video series. Although its message of self-reliance is a bit dated, it still is a useful …
Contemplating the tradition of protest
DISCOURSE OF ETHNICITY - CULTURE AND PROTEST IN JHARKHAND Susana B C Devalle Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi Price: Rs 260
One earth -- but whose future?
ONE EARTH ONE FUTURE - OUR CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT Cheryl Simon Silver with Ruth S DeFries Publisher: Allied East-West Press, New Delhi Price:…
Tackling drought in a village in Gujarat
Coping with Seasonality and Drought Martha Alter Chen Publisher: Sage Publications, Delhi Price: Rs 225
Two academics traces India's green history
This Fissured Land Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi Price: Rs 290
Understanding Adivasis
Tapan Bose's Jharkhand, 10 years in the making, has a participative view of the timeless, unspoilt lives of Adivasis stripped of their land
Projecting a distorted reality
A documentary for British children presents an inaccurate and oversimplified image of India.
All for a home
ADDO MILAD ULGULAN (Another Revolt) u-matic (Hindi) Sriprakash 40 minutes utes-Cendit & Kritika
Conservation the practical path
THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY David pearce and Dominuic Moran Earthscan Publications £12.95
Coal's dark future
THE POLITCS OF COAL'S DECLINE - THE INDUSTRY IN WESTERN EUROPE Mike Parker Royal Institute of International Affairs and Earthscan Publications …
Rio and Bioresources
BIODIPLOMACY: GENETIC RESOURCES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Edited by Vincente Sanchez & Calestous Juma African Centre for Technology Studies
Unintelligence quotient
THE BELL CURVE: INTELLIGENCE AND CLASS STRUCTURE IN AMERICAN LIFE Richard J Herrnstein & Charles Murray The Free Press US $30