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The Power Laws -- The Science of Success by Richard Koch

Publishers: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London Price: 18.

IN this fascinating sequel to the bestselling The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch explores the sciences to reveal the powerful patterns and universal principles that can be successfully applied to business today. His new book shows that we must turn to sci ence not simply to understand today's world, but to thrive in it. In this book he captures many more fresh and exciting insights from biology, physics and non-linear systems that transcend scientific boundaries and cast business in a whole new light.

New Reproductive Technologies -- Women's Health and Autonomy by Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta

Publishers: Sage, New Delhi

Price: 775.

SINCE the advent of the second feminist wave in the 1960s, women's control over their own fertility has been identified as being crucial to their emancipation. This important study of the interface between control over fertility and women's emancipation, outlines the technological developments that have taken place in the field of human reproduction in the second half of the twentieth century. The author discusses them under four heads: technologies to prevent conception and birth; technologies to assis t reproduction; technologies for prenatal diagnosis; and gene technologies.

Changing Frontiers of Techno-Entrepreneurship -- Review, Reflection and Cases of S&T Entrepreneurs (Ed) by Nagendra P. Singh

Publishers: Asian Society for Entrepreneurship Education & Development, New Delhi

Price: Rs. 360.

SCIENCE and technology graduates in India are generally seen as job seekers, rather than job creators. But there are a few exceptions too, who launch their own business. The present volume takes a close look at their problems, anxieties, hopes, aspiratio ns and opportunities. The book deals with the issues of the emerging opportunities for S&T based business in India, the entrepreneurial scenario, and the managerial issues for the S&T based entrepreneurs. The second section presents twenty-five case stud ies of S&T entrepreneurs.

Economic Survey of India (in Sanskrit) by Dr. V.R. Panchmukhi

Publishers: Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupathi

Price: Not Mentioned.

THE author who is also a reputed economist in international trade has endeavoured to offer an overview of macroeconomic development of India as also a profile of developments of select sectors such as agriculture, industry, international trade, prices an d social sector. Though the survey in Sanskrit is modeled after the Pre-Budget Economic Survey the Finance Ministry ritually comes out with every year on the eve of Budget, it is not mere translation of the Survey. In the process of producing an innovati ve work in economics, the author has coined copious new phrases and terms which are alphabetically set in the appendix.