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Book ReviewsNext Generation Business Handbook: New Strategies fromTomorrow’s Thought Leaders by Subir ChowdhuryPublisher: Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, c2004. Call No.: RBUS 658 CHOThis handbook offers the best thoughts and business strategies of renowned nextgenerationthinkers from the top 25 global business schools. They believe that to stayahead in today’s rapidly changing business environment, successful business leadersmust forecast the future and efficiently employ new concepts and methods to drivetheir competitive edge.Using the New Generation Business (NGB) Model of Subir Chowdhury, a topbusiness thinker and author, this book examines six key areas of business, such asleadership, strategy, customer management, entrepreneurship, people managementand networked business. It serves as a valuable tool for managers, consultants andresearchers to address emerging global leadership, cultures and people.Dinamika Bangsa Melayu: Menongkah Arus Globalisasi by Mohamed Anwar Omar DinPublisher: Bangi, Selangor: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Call No.: R 899.89928 DINBuku ini mengupas persoalan kecergasan atau kedinamikan bangsa Melayu dalammenghadapi cabaran dan tuntutan era globalisasi kurun ke 21. Ia merupakanhimpunan makalah terpilih oleh tokoh-tokoh berwibawa dalam bidang masing-masingyang dibentangkan di Seminar Peradaban Melayu: Menjana Abad Ke-21 anjuran JabatanPersuratan Melayu, Fakulti Sains Kemasyarakatan dan Kemanusiaan, Universiti KebangsaanMalaysia, dengan kerjasama Berita Harian (Malaysia), pada 19 Februari 1997.Sesuai sebagai bahan rujukan untuk semua lapisan masyarakat yang ingin memahamiserta mentelaah tentang kedinamikan bangsa Melayu. Walaupun lebih berbentukilmiah, Dinamika Bangsa Melayu – Menongkah Arus Globalisasi boleh dianggapsumbangan awalan untuk meneruskan kajian secara lebih mendalam lagi berkaitanisu-isu teras dalam dinamika bangsa Melayu.Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu MehtaPublisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Call no.: R 954.79205 MEHSuketu Mehta tries to recapture the memories of the Bombay of his youth aftermigrating to the US, only to find that the place he knew has changed beyondrecognition. He takes the reader into the violent world of the Muslim and Hindu gangsas he investigates the tragic 1993 Mumbai bombings.Written with the combined flair of a journalist’s observatory skills and a novelist’sempathy for each subject, Mehta’s encounters with a super-cop, Bombay’s “Godfather”,a bar dancer, a cross-dresser, Bollywood stars and struggling actors, are alltransformed into unforgettable real-life stories that are at times comical but mostlybitter-sweet.Portraiture by Shearer West.Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Call number: RART 704.942 WESbyPublisher: Call No.: R 894.811371 RAM RAMPortraiture is an accessible and concise treatment of the history and influence of theportrait, which invites readers to delve further into this genre of painting.The book explores the history of the portrait in Western art from ancient to moderntimes. Ranging from iconic representations of the powerful to group portraits ineveryday settings, the author draws commonalities of meaning in the relationshipof portraiture to society and self-image of subjects, observers and artists. Chapterson portraits in different life stages, from children to old age, as well as issues ofgender in both the subject and the artist are explored. Lastly, the author gives anintroduction to the complex arena of self-portraiture and its journey into modernistand contemporary art.26 27