2022 too short, too far: Five of 2022’s best books reviewed by DTE
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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
Behind the frontier
CONTESTED FRONTIERS IN AMAZONIA Marianne Schmink and Charles H Wood Publisher: Columbia University Press Price: $35
Everything else being equal
EQUITY IS GOOD SCIENCE by C V Seshadri Publisher: Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre, Madras Price: Rs 150
The Sixth Extinction
THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE by Edward Wilson Publisher: Cambridge: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press Price: $29.95
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 …
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, …
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 …
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
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
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 …