Descriptive statistics; Analysis and statistical techniques; Statistical method and supplement; Scientific method; Methods of sociological research; Fundamentals of the measurement of social and socio-psychological variables; Experimental method; Mathematics in research; Nature of probability theory; Matric theory; Factor analysis; Quality & cost in ECE; Case study and statistical quality control are elaborately discussed in the present book. This will certainly prove a veritable mine of information for scholars, students, academics and social scientists.

Research-an introductory approach; Social indicators; Social programme evaluation; Diagrammatic and graphic representation; Public presentation stage; Lesson from international communications research; Guidelines for writing research proposals; Interpretations and research report; Report writing skill; Inter-disciplinary approach; Miscellaneous information; Bibliography; and How to write references etc. are the major topics discussed in this book. Undoubtedly, this will prove of utmost use to all the concerned.

There is a growing awareness among the planners, administrators and social workers in the developing countries that social and economic development is a human process whose key ingredients and democratic participation and involvement of the people. The book contains judiciously selected articles, mainly on the theme of 'Social Attitude towards Children'. The topics viz. Child Care: A Global Perspective; State of the World's Children 1994; Child Development in the Third World: Spatial View Points; Bangladesh: From Disaster to Development; Growth of Child Population in India; Review of Research; Development of Religious Identity and Prejudice in Indian Children; Community and the Child; Social Policy, Children and their Families; Family as a Social System; Cultural Characteristics, Child Mortality and Survival; Context of Family in Child Development; Children of the Urban Poor; Problems and Opportunities; Trends in Well-Being Among Children; Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances; 'Homes' for Children; Child, Home, School and Peer Group; Learning and Perception; Evaluating and Recording Creative Learning; Why Creativity?; Relations between Piagetian and Psychometric Assessment of Intelligence, etc. are elaborately discussed. Students, scholars, teachers besides policy planners, NGOs and administrators will find this volume informative and useful.

"What comes from the lips," runs an Arabian proverb, "reaches the ears. What comes from the heart reaches the heart." Allama Iqbal, the renowned poet, said the same thing. "The world that comes from the heart evokes response; Without wings, it has the strength to fly." The assorted collection of reflections and recollections presented in this volume, coming as it does from the heart of the writer, is bound to strike a responsive chord in the hearts of all right-thinking Indians. The work is a distillation of the writer's vast and varied experience and knowledge of a wide spectrum of human behaviour observed as an academician and a judge, as a policeman and a prisons official, as a trainer and a researcher, as bureaucrat and a U.N. expert and, finally, as a finance man and a diplomat. The book encompasses subjects as diverse as religion, secularism, politics, diplomacy, good governance and development and such other burning issues of the day. The problems have not merely been identified but concrete and well-considered solutions offered. The book is bound to attract the interest of administrators, academicians, public men, police officials, students and scholars, besides citizens who are genuinely concerned about the welfare of the nation.