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The best field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent is now even better. Thoroughly revised, with 73 new plates and many others updated or repainted, the second edition of Birds of India now features all maps and text opposite the plates f...

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Bangladesh is a land of contrasts, from busy cities to the lush and fertile countryside, with fish ponds, lakes and rivers at every turn. The cuisine reflects the abundance of vegetables and fish, and has a distinctive taste defined in particular ...

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Vinnare i kategorin Etniska kokböcker i Årets Svenska Måltidslitteratur 2023.  Curry! Ni äter väl mycket curry? Det är en fråga jag fick under min uppväxt i Sverige, och jag svarade något f&oum...

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Made in Bangladesh explores the delicious cuisine of Bangladesh in 75 tantalising recipes. Taking you through the six Bangladeshi seasons summer, monsoon, autumn, late autumn, winter and spring with warming flavours and memories, Dina Begum's...

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Det har blivit dags för Sofia och Janne att återvända till Dhaka efter semestern i Sverige. Ett terrorattentat har under sommaren inträffat på ett av de ställen familjen brukar besöka och de kommer tillbaka till en förändrad och chockad stad. Sofi...

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Ett krig flätas oftast samman med ytterligare ett annat krig. När Safia Begum, hustru till en av de rikaste i landet lämnade sitt hem mitt i natten tillsammans med sin unge son som en protest mot sin makes andra äktenskap, så anade hon inte att he...

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A field guide to all the bird species found in India, Pakistian, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. This comprehensive and definitive guide is the successor to the bestselling Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinen...

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Sittande under ett träd i sin födelseby i Bangladesh, funderar den trettonårige Muazzam på meningen med livet. Han kommer fram till att han vill kunna hjälpa många människor, precis som det sägs i den ed han varje dag reciterar inför hela skolan: ...

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The aim of this book was to understand the central place aspects of Mahasthangarh and Uppkra according to analyze the definition of central place theory based on political, economical and religious aspects in archaeological perspective. Mahasthang...

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Today, the effect of global climate change is clear to all. It is clearly dangerous in developing countries such as Bangladesh. The industrial revolution caused major changes in technology, socio-economy and cultures in the late 18th and early 19t...

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The overall housing situation of Dhaka is not adequate at all. Dhaka is characterized by housing shortages, poor housing quality. The main victims of such unsatisfactory housing situation are the middle income people, who live in very poor quality...

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Farzana's Journey is a narrative about a young girl, who must walk a long distance to fetch her family's water. Her usual journey develops into an adventure as she meets animal characters, who relay a story about her ever-changing environment and ...

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Bangladesh har under de senaste årtiondena genomgått nästan osannolika förändringar. Detta är ett försök att skildra folket i Bangladesh på dess egna villkor. Författaren har lärt sig språket, bangla, och arbetat med bangladeshiska folkrörelser. D...

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Experiencing Climate Change in Bangladesh: Vulnerability and Adaptation in Coastal Regions provides a conceptual and empirical framework for understanding the vulnerability of coastal communities in Bangladesh to multiple stressors and presents th...

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Experiencing Climate Change in Bangladesh: Vulnerability and Adaptation in Coastal Regions provides a conceptual and empirical framework for understanding the vulnerability of coastal communities in Bangladesh to multiple stressors and presents th...

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Coastal Hazards in Bangladesh: Non-Structural and Structural Solutions provides a review of the study of Bangladesh's coastal region, an area whose location and physical geography present the prefect microcosm for the study of coastal hazards and ...

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Coastal Hazards in Bangladesh: Non-Structural and Structural Solutions provides a review of the study of Bangladesh's coastal region, an area whose location and physical geography present the prefect microcosm for the study of coastal hazards and ...

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The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, its lib...

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Triggered by the US-backed Pakistani junta's brutal measures against the Bengalis, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed the independence of East Pakistan on 26 March 1971. They needed the world's support, and India was their first ally. The Border Sec...

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The Association for Social Advancement (ASA) of Bangladesh recently topped Forbes magazine's first-ever list of the world's best microfinance banks. This is an extraordinary achievement for an organization that started life as a revolutionary move...

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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is loca...

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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is loca...

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Covering nearly 225 years, this volume tries to capture a broad spectrum of the situation of women performers from Gerasim Lebedeff's time (1795), who are considered to be the first performers in modern Bengali theatre, to today's time.

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This is a study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how those complaints are connected to and reveal the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his/her relation to power. The bo...

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Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Ba...

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Providing the poor with access to financial services is one of many ways to help increase their incomes and productivity. In many countries, however, traditional financial institutions have failed to provide this service. Microcredit and co-operat...

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Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Ba...

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Forbes Magazine ranks ASA of Bangladesh the world's best microfinance bank. But ASA started as a revolutionary movement aiming to place a peasant-led government in power in Bangladesh. This book tells how ASA's determined but practical-minded foun...

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1200 species of birds, in 20 orders and numerous families, are known in the Indian subcontinent. This handbook describes their distribution, habits, breeding biology, diet, voice, and other features.

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This is the second edition of this work, which, from its first publication in 1961, has become the standard reference on the taxonomy of Indian avifauna. It was the basis for the classic 10-volume "Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan&...

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