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Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. This  Very Short Introduction draws in philosophy, literature, and accessible maths to explain and illuminate Chaos Theory, showing the...

What Everyone Needs to KnowFor thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention, former special envoy to Sudan and director of USAID Andrew Natsios...

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The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915A major new biography of Sergei Witte, the most significant statesman of late        Tsarist Russia, based on his two memoirs and combining the life story of Witte        himself with the story of Russia at the end of the Tsarist age....

China's remarkable economic transition and capacity for growth has stunned the world. Throughout this transformation, China has been moving towards the creation of a labour market. Drawing on unique survey-based research, the authors document the transition and explain the causes and consequences of the move towards a labour market in China....

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the        brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront head-on some        significant ethical issues regarding our application of this information in the real        world- whether using brain images to establish guilt within a court of law,...