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Intrigued by a disturbing photograph of a woman, a young journalist in Calcutta embarks on a quest to learn the story behind the violent incident captured on film -- a strange odyssey that leads him to a volatile remote corner of India mired in civil strife and sustained by timber, drugs, and guns. Yet the truth he hopes to uncover is as uncertain as the mysterious woman he seeks, smoldering dangerously on the border between illusion and reality.

Set in the remote, northeastern hills of India, The point of return revolves around the father-son relationship of a willful, curious boy, Babu, and Doctor Dam, an enigmatic product of British colonial rule and Nehruvian nationalism. Told in reverse chronological order, the novel examines an India where the ideals that brought freedom from colonial rule are beginning to crack under the pressure of new rebellions and conflicts. For Dr. Dam and Babu, this has meant living as strangers in the same home, puzzled and resentful, tied only by blood. As the father grows weary and old and the son...

How far would you go to resist oppression? What would you choose to remember, and what to forget?

It is 1932 in occupied Bengal. A young revolutionary prepares to storm a whites-only club in Chittagong, an act of defiance that will end in her taking her own life. The sign above the club reads No Dogs, No Indians.

Decades later, an aspiring intellectual born in post-independence Kolkata is in love with all things British: Shakespeare, cricket, The Beatles. But as he contemplates the past and imagines his children's future, he begins to question his own...

The book provides a platform for dealing with the flaws and failings of the soft computing paradigm through different manifestations. The different chapters highlight the necessity of the hybrid soft computing methodology in general with emphasis on several application perspectives in particular. Typical examples include (a) Study of Economic Load Dispatch by Various Hybrid Optimization Techniques, (b) An Application of Color Magnetic Resonance Brain Image Segmentation by Para Optimus LG Activation Function, (c) Hybrid Rough-PSO Approach in Remote Sensing Imagery Analysis, (d) A Study and...

»Eine grandiose Kulturgeschichte des Krebses.« SPIEGEL 

Krebs ist ein Überlebenskünstler: Er verändert sich, er passt sich an, er entwickelt sich weiter, er wächst. Er ist uns biologisch so nahe, dass wir uns oft selbst zerstören, wenn wir ihn vernichten. Die Suche nach der »Heilung« von Krebs hat sich allmählich zum Maßstab unseres wissenschaftlichen und medizinischen Fortschritts entwickelt.  

In seinem bahnbrechenden und preisgekrönten Buch erzählt der renommierte Onkologe Siddhartha Mukherjee die faszinierende Geschichte der...