Trivial truisms

ECONOMYWIDE POLICIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT - EMERGING LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE Mohan Munasinghe and Wilfrido Cruz World Bank

Avoiding goitre

SOS FOR A BILLION: THE QUIEST FOR IODINE DEFECIENCY DISORDERS B S Hetzel and C S Pandav Oxford University Press

Human locusts?

BEYOND NUMBERS: A READER ON POPULATION, CONSUMPTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT Edited by Laurie Ann Mazur Island press

Chipping mines

Computers in the Mining Industry Edited by R V Ramani, B K Mozumdar, A B Samadar A A Balkema/Rotterdam

Dry study on an oceanic idyll

PEOPLES OF INDIA: ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS Edited by K S Singh Publisher: Oxford University Press/Anthropological Survey of India Price: Not …

The white man's ecological burden

ETHICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: THE GREENHOUSE EFFECTE Edited by Harold Coward and Thomas Hurka Publisher: The Calgary Institute for the Humanities (…

Environment's gender bias

WOMEN, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS A THEORETICAL SYNTHESIS Edited by Kosi Braidotti, Ewa Charkiewier, Sabina Hausler, …

Reading is believing

An essay on Moving Pictures, the magazine brought out by the Television Trust for the Environment, and its role in projecting TV, video and even …

Of green and greenbacks

TRADING UP: CONSUMER AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY · David Vogel · Harvard University Press · 1995

Private and public poverty

POVERTY: A GLOBAL REVIEW (HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL POVERTY RESEARCH) · Edited by Else Oyen, S M Miller and Syed Abdus Samad · …

Changing course

GRASSROOTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP· Ajit Kanitkar·Wiley Eastern Limited·Delhi·1995

Culture on nature

THE OXFORD BOOK OF NATURE WRITING·Edited by Richard Mabey· Oxford University Press, Oxford · 1995

Closing in on problems

URBANISATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH·Vibhooti Shukla· Oxford University Press, Delhi · 1996

The new wave

INDIAN MEGACITY AND ECONOMIC REFORMS A K Jain . Management Publishing House . 1996 . Price Rs 600

How to become a natural being

ECOLOGICAL IDENTITY: BECOMING A REFLECTIVE ENVIRONMENTALIST Mitchell Thomashow . The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusets Unpriced

Talking green

BIOTECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE - A DIALOGUE -Edited by M S Swaminathan . Macmillian . Madras . 1992 Price: Rs 320

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, …