A city is more than its buildings and streets. A city is the people who live, work, and play in it and make it their own. This book brings together original essays and interviews which trace the history of the peoples in the city of Calcutta. Those who came and stayed; why they did so; and how they contributed in building the city. Once celebrated as the second city of the British Empire after London and more recently derided as the dying city, Calcutta is simultaneously associated with intellectual creativity, processions and palaces and a unique way of claiming the outsider as its own....
A city is more than its buildings and streets. A city is the people who live, work, and play in it and make it their own. This book brings together...
From early human development to the 21st century, the advances in understanding and controlling our own biology have been enormous. Average life span, reproductive choice, and treatment of disease have all profoundly changed. "After Eden" explores these central developments.
From early human development to the 21st century, the advances in understanding and controlling our own biology have been enormous. Average life span,...
