As the year 2017 has drawn to a close, the aspirants of most of competitive exams will need a refresher of past year's events and happenings that grabbed eyeballs domestically and abroad. Disha's Current Affairs & Success Mantra is a complete roundup of all those events and happenings that made headlines in 2017 along with the ‘Success Mantra’ containing all those tips & techniques that will help you manage time, plan for exam preparation, revision, exam stress, how to prepare notes, Do’s & Don’ts and healthy food habits and many more.

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter bring fresh perspective, deep scholarship, and a real and actionable solution, Final Five Voting, to the grand challenge of our broken political and democratic system. Final Five Voting has already been adopted in Alaska and is being advanced in states across the country. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and it isn't designed or optimized today to work for us—for ordinary citizens. Most people believe that our political system is a public institution with high-minded principles and impartial rules derived from the Constitution. In reality, it has become a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between the players. Tragically, it has therefore become incapable of delivering solutions to America's key economic and social challenges. In fact, there's virtually no connection between our political leaders solving problems and getting reelected. In The Politics Industry, business leader and path-breaking political innovator Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radical new approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis—and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework—to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change—a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits and campaign finance reform. The result: true political innovation. The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open your eyes to the true dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide real solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all. THE INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION The authors will donate all royalties from the sale of this book to the Institute for Political Innovation.

1. The book is the complete Preparatory Guide for Banking Awareness 2. Entire syllabus has been split into 11 chapter 3. Each chapter contains theories and solved problems for revision 4. Unsolved problems have been accompanied after every chapter 5. Banking Glossary have provided after every chapter 6. 5 Practice Sets have been given for self-analysis The updated edition of “Banking Awareness” serves as an extremely valuable asset for aspirants who are preparing for banking recruitment exams. Especially designed according to the latest pattern, this book is divided into 18 chapters, giving proper coverage in Economy, Banking and Finance Sector, etc. All the relevant & important chapters & topics on Banking Awareness are covered in the book concisely in a reader-friendly manner. Most of the practice questions given in the book are incorporated from various previous years’ question papers & solved Papers in a Chapterwise manner. 3 Practice sets, abbreviation and glossary are given at the end. This book not only serves as study guide but also as a practice tool to test your banking knowledge. It is highly recommended for the aspirants to sharpen their Problem solving skills with intensive practice of numerous questions provided in the book, and prepare them to face their exam with confidence. TOC Indian Banking and its History, Indian Banking Structure, Reserve Bank of India, Banking Regulation System, Banking Innovation in India, Banking Services in India, Financial Reforms in Banks, Banking Committees and Financial Standards, Financial Institutions in India, Money and Financial Market, Capital Market, Insurance and NBFCs, Tax System in India, Public Finance and Budget, Indian Economy, Industry and Trade, International Organisation and World Bank, Important Government Schemes, Practice Sets (1-3), Abbreviation, Glossary, Financial and Banking Current Affairs.

At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective. The theory of ecologically unequal exchange posits that core or northern consumption and capital accumulation is based on peripheral or southern environmental degradation and extraction. In other words, structures of social and environmental inequality between the Global North and Global South are founded in the extraction of materials from, as well as displacement of waste to, the South. This volume represents a set of tightly interlinked papers with the aim to assess ecologically unequal exchange and to move it forward. Chapters are organised into three main sections: theoretical foundations and critical reflections on ecologically unequal exchange; empirical research on mining, deforestation, fisheries, and the like; and strategies for responding to the adverse consequences associated with unequal ecological exchange. Scholars as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the spirited re-evaluation and extension of ecologically unequal exchange theory, research, and praxis.