SPOTLIFGHT
Come hither ye men; come hither ye women; come one come together" is a cry often associated with Indian villages, but this one emanates from …
Greening beams
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: PERSPECTIVES OF REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM Edited by R B Singh Oxford & IBH Publishing …
New battlegrounds
FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL· Michael Renner·WW Norton and Company, New York and London·1996· Price US $11
The numbers game
BILLIONS AND BILLIONS: THOUGHTS ON LIFE AND DEATH AT THE BRINK OF THE MILLENNIUM· Carl Sagan·Random House Inc, New York·1997&…
Fear is the key
harles Darwin spent 20 years perfecting his ideas on evolution and how it operates. What motivated him to channelise his energy and focus for so …
Hope for the living
Documentary film maker, Doordarshan newscaster, theatre artist and radio broadcaster, Ramesh Venkataraman's latest docu-fiction video, Zindagi …
The deadly sting
Experts follow the world's longest venomous snake, with a bite potent enough to kill an elephant, through the rain forests of peninsular India.
Centuries before Americas hosted sophisticated agrarian civilisations
Book >> 1491, New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus by Charles C Mann Vintage Books 2006
Mint tales
Book>> The Ascent of Money, A Financial History of the World By Niall Ferguson, Allen Lane London 2008 Price Rs 595
A love affair with ocean
Book Atlantic: Great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories • Harper Collins • Rs 695
Underbelly of black gold
Book>>Crude World, Twilight of the Oil Economy by Peter Maass Random House Price Rs 800
Fertile debate
Book>> Contested Grounds, Essays on Nature, Culture and Power edited by Amita Baviskar OUP Rs 650
The adventure of evolution
Book>> Remarkable Creatures, Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B Caroll Quercus books Indian price Rs 500
Brainkiller knowledge
BOOK>> IN THE SHALLOWS, WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO OUR BRAIN • By Nicholas Carr • Atlantic Books • `700
Power of resilience
Book>> Women, Gender and Disaster • edited by Elaine Enarson, P G Dhar Chakrabarti • Sage • Rs 850
From the blurbs
Medical Negligence and the Law in India, Duties, Responsibilities, Rights by Tapas Kumar Kole, OUP, Rs 950
The track lover
Book>> Blood, Iron and Gold • by Christian Wolmar • Transatlantic Books • Rs 90
Provocative old hat
Book>> The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature • Penguin • Rs 1,000
Shades of green
Book>> The Green Pen, Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia • edited by Keya Acharya and Fredrick Noronha
Telling children how not to go the dodo way
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Echoing the soul of rural India
Mud Laurie Baker Publisher: CAPART, New Delhi Price: Rs 25
A very summary preparation
Citizen's Report On Environment And Development, Sri Lanka, To UNCED 1992 Public Campaign On Environment and Development, Colombo Pakistan …
The women who are left behind
IN THE ABSENCE OF THEIR MEN: THE IMPACT OF MALE MIGRATION ON WOMEN Leela Gulati Publisher: Sage Publications, Delhi Price: Rs 200
Traditional irrigation fails themoney test
USER-FRIENDLY IRRIGATION DESIGNS Nirmal Sengupta Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi Price: Rs 185
Tears and the drama aside, the message survives
Prabhat Roy's award-winning Shwet Paatharer Thala is a tear-jerker, which nevertheless effectively preaches the lesson of family welfare.