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Independent Elders, Interdependent LivesElders 85 years and older are the fastest growing segment of the population in the U.S. and in many other countries. Aging Our Way examines how the very old navigate the challenges of loneliness, disability, and loss, while staying healthy, connected, and comfortable....

This Handbook is the most comprehensive up-to-date study of the Russian economy available. Russian and western authors analyze the current economic situation, trace the impact of Soviet legacies and of post-Soviet transition policies, examine the main social challenges, and propose directions for reforms....

State Power in a Contemporary WorldEdited by Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein, Back to Basics asks scholars to reflect on the role power plays in contemporary politics and how a power politics approach is influential today....

When Peter sees the model ship in the shop window, he wants it more than anything else on Earth. But this is no ordinary model. The ship takes Peter and the other children on magical flights, wherever they ask to go. Time after time the magic ship takes them on different exciting adventures, to different countries, and to different times. And why...

Facts and Fictions of the Dark AgesThe story of King Arthur - probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary of medieval kings....

A BiographyThe first ever major international history of the world's most forbidding continent - from the eighteenth-century voyages of discovery to the fierce commercial and geopolitical rivalries of today...