Vol. 4, No.7 (July), 2016

Compiled By: Poonam Mathur, ALIO Varsha Satija, SLIA Rajesh Kumar, LC

NEW BOOKS ADDED IN THE LIBRARY

1. Environmental Regulation and Competitive Advantage: A Study of Packaging

Waste in the European Supply Chain/ Esmond Birnie, William Thompson

This study focuses in detail on the environmental compliance/competitiveness relationship with respect to

the regulation of packaging waste. It emphasizes backward and forward linkages. An entire supply chain

is considered: packaging manufacturers and suppliers, food processors and the food retail sector, to study

the competitiveness effects of environmental standards on manufacturing companies and the vertical links

and supply responses. A variety of regulatory regimes is represented by including within the study

companies from Germany, Italy, the Republic of Ireland and the UK.

Pub: Edward Elgar

Call No. 363.7288 H927E Accession No.154202

2. Cloud Computing Law/Christopher Millard

The most comprehensive study of the legal issues surrounding cloud computing

Written by a team of experts in the field Compiles, updates and expands on cutting-edge research from the Cloud

Legal Project at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London

Analysis of the key legal and regulatory topics including data protection, standard form and negotiated cloud

contracts, law enforcement access to data in clouds, competition consumer protection and other regulatory and

governance issues

Pub: Oxford University Press

Call No. 343.0999 M645C Accession No.154200

3. Half Lion: How P.V. Narsimha Rao transformed India/Vinay Sitapati

When P.V. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited economic

crisis, violent insurgencies and a nation adrift. Despite being unloved by his people, mistrusted by his

party, a minority in Parliament and ruling under the shadow of 10 Janpath, Rao reinvented India, at home

and abroad. Few world leaders have achieved so much with so little power.

With exclusive access to Rao’s never-before-seen personal papers as well as over a hundred interviews,

this definitive biography provides new revelations on the Indian economy, nuclear programme, foreign

policy and the Babri Masjid. While tracing Rao’s life from a village in Telangana through his years in

power and humiliation in retirement, the book never loses sight of the inner man, his difficult childhood,

his corruptions and love affairs, his lingering loneliness. Meticulously researched and honestly told, this

landmark political biography is a must-read for anyone interested in the man responsible for transforming

India.

Publisher: Penguin

Call No. 923.254 S623H Accession No.154203

4.The Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten rules of change in…/Ruchir Sharma

Shaped by his 25 years travelling the world and enlivened by his encounters with presidents, tycoons and

villagers from Rio to Beijing, Ruchir Sharma's new book rethinks the dismal science of economics as a

practical art, based not just on crunching numbers but on live observation. He shows us how to read the

political headlines, the world billionaire rankings, the price of onions and popular news magazine covers

as signs of coming booms, busts and protests. Parsing the complicated flood of data on debt, trade and

capital flows, Sharma explains exactly which numbers are most telling for a nation's fortunes and when

they signal a turn for the better or worse.

Publisher: Penguin

Call No. 330.9 S531R Accession No.154204

5. India's Long Road: The Search for Prosperity/Vijay Joshi

India has been the subject of many extravagant predictions and hopes. In this powerful and wide-ranging

book, distinguished economist Vijay Joshi argues that the foundations of rapid, durable and inclusive

economic growth in India are distinctly shaky. He lays out a penetrating analysis of the country’s recent

faltering performance, set against the backdrop of its political economy and charts the course it should

follow to achieve widely shared prosperity.

Publisher: Penguin

Call No. 338.954 J83I Accession No.154205

6. Food Fortification: The evidence, ethics, and …/ Lawrence Mark

Food Fortification: The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food critically analyses mandatory

food fortification as a technology for protecting and promoting public health. Increasing numbers of foods

fortified with novel amounts and combinations of nutrients are being introduced into the food supplies of

countries around the world to raise populations' nutrient intakes. It is a technology that is becoming more

widely used to tackle a variety of public health problems such as micronutrient malnutrition.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Call No. 362.1 L421F Accession No.154206

7. The HD Diet: Achieve Lifelong Weight Loss with Chia/Keren Gilbert

HD is in high demand these days. It's only natural to want everything in sharp focus. But what

abouthealth in HD? The HD Diet shows readers how to choose the right foods to ensure a high-definition

life.

This 12-week plan provides guidelines on incorporating hydrophilic ("water-loving") foods like oats,

beans, artichokes, spinach, and apples, along with nutrient-dense hydro-boosters like chia seeds, into a

well-balanced diet.

Publisher: Rodale

Call No. 613.25 G465H Accession No.154207

8. Irrational exuberance: Revised and expanded/Robert J. Shiller

In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning

economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, considers the behavior of

investors and markets in the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis. Tracking stock and bond prices as well as

the cost of housing in the post-subprime boom, Shiller shows how recent asset markets capture and

inherently reflect psychologically driven volatility. In other words, Irrational Exuberance is as relevant as

ever. Previous editions covered the stock and housing markets--and famously predicted their crashes.

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Call No. 332.632220973 S556I Accession No.154208

9. The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution/

Gregory Zuckerman

The Frackers by Gregory Zuckerman, bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever, tells the untold

story of the tycoons behind the US fracking controversy.

Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep decline and natural gas was

hard to find. The Iraq War threatened the nation's already tenuous relations with the Middle East. China

was rapidly industrializing and competing for resources. Major oil companies had just about given up on

new discoveries on US soil, and a new energy crisis loomed.

Publisher: Portfolio

Call No. 338.762233821 Z94F Accession No.154210

10. Power Hungry: The Myths of Green Energy, and the Real Fuels of the

Future/Robert Bryce

In this title, the author of "Gusher of Lies" examines the hard facts of supply and demand to underscore

the vast quantities of power we need, and how little of that horsepower can come from 'renewable'

sources - and then shows that the US has vast resources at hand, if only it dares muster the political will

needed to tap them. The popular appeal of 'green jobs' and a 'green collar economy' based on a 'clean

energy future' is obvious. But the sober reality is that it has taken the U.S. more than a century to build an

economy based on fossil fuels. Moving it off those carbon-based fuels will take decades and require

trillions of dollars of new investment.

Publisher: Public Affair

Call No.333.79 B916P Accession No.154211

11. Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy

Debate/Vaclav Smil

There are many misconceptions about the future of global energy often presented as fact by the media,

politicians, business leaders, activists, and even scientists-wasting time and money and hampering the

development of progressive energy policies. Energy Myths and Realities debunks the most common

fallacies to make way for a constructive, scientific approach to the global energy challenge.

Publisher: AEI Press

Call No.333.794 S641E Accession No.154212

12. Oil 101/Morgan Downey

OIL 101 is a straightforward guide to oil and an essential read for anyone coming to grips with where oil prices, the economy and society are headed.

In OIL 101, Downey provides the facts one needs to understand oil, from its history and chemistry, to refining,

finished products, storage, transportation, alternatives, and how prices are determined every day in global

wholesale oil markets and how those markets are connected to prices at the pump.

Publisher: AEI Press

Call No.333.794 S641E Accession No.154213

13. Dissenting Diagnosis/Arun Gadre/Abhay Shukla

Complaints about the state of medical care are increasing in today s India; whether it s unnecessary

investigations, botched operations or expensive, sometimes even harmful, medication. But while the

unease is widespread, few outside the profession understand the extent to which the medical system is

being distorted. Dr Arun Gadre and Dr Abhay Shukla have gathered evidence from seventyeight

practising doctors, in both the private and public medical sectors, to expose the ways in which vulnerable

patients are exploited by a system that promotes unscrupulous medical practices. Drawing on the frank

and courageous statements of these seventy-eight doctors dismayed at the state of their profession,

Dissenting Diagnosis lays bare the corruption afflicting the medical sector in India and sets out solutions

for a healthier future.

Publisher: Random House

Call No. 362.1 G125D Accession No.154214

14. The Rope: a novel/ Kanan Makiya

From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, here is a gritty and unflinching novel about Iraqi failure

in the wake of the 2003 American invasion, as seen through the eyes of a Shi‘ite militiaman whose

participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could never have

anticipated.

Pub: Pantheon

Call No. 823 M235R Accession No.154201