By exploding five nuclear devices on May 11 and 13, 1998 at Pokhran, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government hijacked India's independent, peace-oriented nuclear policy and twisted it out of shape, writes Subir Ghosh

Networks and networking have become some of the most important ways of organising for social change. They are powerful tools in the hands of people and groups concerned with influencing the complex social, economic and political forces that shape society and people's lives. Networks and networking organisations need effective planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME) methodologies and techniques to help set their goals and strategies, work efficiently and effectively, be accountable to their stakeholders, measure the effects and impact of their work and feed this knowledge into future planning and making of strategies, says Subir Ghosh

Traditional economics prescribes that trade depends on the efficient combination of labour, capital and raw materials - enhanced by storage, transportation and financing facilities. The role of trade in enhancing development is beyond doubt. Trade has the potential to increase consumers' purchasing power in rich and poor countries alike. Thanks to trade, buyers can access goods that are manufactured more economically and are of higher quality. Persistent trade deficits identify the weak areas of agriculture, industry and services. Trade surpluses highlight competitive industries. Trade may create unemployment for one, and a job for another. Trading centres have emerged over time at crossroads all over the world, leading to prosperity for cities and nations lacking natural resources, but strategically located and efficiently operated. Excerpts

The author is also a marketing and public relations consultant serving business, industry, non-profit corporations and individual authors. She now combines those skills, as the world's first 'Author's Advocate', to help aspiring writers succeed as a published author. She has some innovative approaches, such as a writer's contract with himself to write a definite number of minutes or hours every day. Excerpts

The murder of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey on Christmas night in 1996 inspired sensational headlines throughout the nation--and plunged idyllic Boulder, Colorado's justice system into an ongoing nightmare. In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, bestselling author Lawrence Schiller explores both the child's mysterious death and the exhaustive, yet often mishandled, investigation that has, in the two years since the crime, failed to produce either a plausible scenario or a killer, says Amazon.com