Spreading root

OLD ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS: A STUDY OF JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN ANDHRA PRADESH·C S Rangachari and S D Mukherji·Winrock International …

Talking about pollution

AIR POLLUTION AND CONTROL· K V S G Murali Krishna· Kaushal and Co, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh· Rs 500, 345pp

History or just story

THE ECOLOGICAL INDIAN, MYTH AND HISTORY· Shepard Krech III· W W Norton Company, USA·pp318·US $27.95

Elusive cause

The wisdom of indigenous healers

Medicinal Plants of India - Vols I & II S K Jain and Robert A DeFillips Publisher: Reference Publications Price: US $94.95

Storehouse of water

HIMALAYAN GLACIERS: HYDROLOGY AND HYDROCHEMISTRY·Syed Iqbal Hasnain·Allied Publishers Limited·New Delhi·India· …

Tackling poverty

INDIA: REDUCING POVERTY, ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT, A WORLD BANK COUNTRY STUDY·Oxford University Press·New Delhi·260 pages

Godly indulgence: What makes the deities' diet

Food is an important part of culture, and religion too has not been able to escape from its richness. This has resulted in special foods for gods,…

Himalayan upheavals

NATURAL PREMISES: ECOLOGY AND PEASANT LIFE IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYA 1800- 1950·Chetan Singh·Oxford University Press·New Delhi&…

Forests under threat

OXIDANT AIR POLLUTION IMPACTS IN THE MONTANE FORESTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A CASE STUDY OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS·Paul R Miller, …

Himalaya's human face

HIMALAYA LIFE ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD·David Zurick and P P Karan·John Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London·1999&…

The enemy within

>> All About Bacteria, by Ravi Mantha, Harper Collins, Rs 299

Cleansing chronicle

THE SANITARY CITY: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT·Martin V Melosi·John Hopkins University Press·Year&…

Beyond DNA

Maurizio Meloni's book is a fascinating social and political history of human heredity spanning over 150 years

The earliest humans swam 100,000 years ago, but swimming remains a privileged pastime

This year the OECD reported that only one in four people in low-income countries can swim

Iatrogenesis unbound: Review of 'Healers or Predators?'

A rare anthology of medical cases investigated to expose the corrupt underbelly of healthcare

Nature's invaluable services

>> What has Nature Done for Us, by Tony Juniper, Profile Books, Rs 917

Unhealthy affair: Book review - Make Health in India

An exhaustive analysis of the challenges India faces in the health sector

How millennials react to climate change

Youths are rejecting cushy jobs perceived as harmful for the environment

Skin deep

Skin, A Biography by Sharad P Paul, Harper Collins, Rs 499

What to read and watch: Tortoise Under the Earth and other new releases

Two new books and two documentaries that caught our attention this week

Mammalian threads

A treatise on how science came to grasp evolution in mammals

Conservation of nature post-privatisation

The book Nature Conservation in the New Economy sheds light on how not to stray away from the idea of justice when dealing with a rapidly …

Living with hunger

Ash in the Belly by Harsh Mander, Penguin Books, Rs 350

How indigo spread

Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India by Prakash Kumar, Cambridge University Press, Rs 995