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Dispute Over Managing Common Rivers: Bangladesh-India relations in the troubled water of political mistrust by Nurul Kabir, Editor, NewAge
On the Question of Free Trade, Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
A Primer on the Wall Street Meltdown (bilingual: Bangla & English) by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
The US Financial Meltdown: Roots of the Economic Crisis in Overaccumulation, Financialisation and Global Apartheid by Patrick Bond, Director, Centre for Civil Society and Research Professor, School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Phulbari Resistance! (tentatively titled), Edited by Zakir Kibria & Pieter Jansen
The Familial Order, Not Easily Undone (bilingual: English & Bangla) by Rahnuma Ahmed
Marx Reloaded by Azfar Hussain, Oklahoma State University
‘Wetlands vs. Drylands’: Explaining the Retreat from Flood Control in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta of Bangladesh by Shapan Adnan, South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore
Lectures on the Ancient System of Irrigation in Bengal and Its Application to Modern Problems by Sir William Willcocks (Bangla translation)
Undermining Abundance: Counterproductive Uses of Technology and Law in Nature, Agriculture, and the Information Sector by Roberto Verzola
A (Crumbling) Wall of Money: Financial Bricolage, Derivatives and Power by Nicholas Hildyard, The Cornerhouse
Why Investment Matters (in Bangla) by Kavaljit Singh, Public Interest Research Centre
Climate Crisis: Social Science Crisis by Larry Lohman, The Cornerhouse
Modern Power and the Reconfiguration of Religious Traditions: Interview with Talal Asad (bilingual: English & Bangla)
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