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Robin illustrates the central role that fear has played and continues to play in the wielding of power, particularly in politics and the workplace....

A bumper bind-up of two fantastic stories about the friends from the After School Club. In Alex's Back, Alex has decided to keep her life simple. With one best friend and out-of-school stuff kept to a minimum, things were going fine. But everything gets complicated when she's asked to keep a secret, and then there's the secret about...

This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology of Hungarian to appear in English. Hungarian (Magyar) is a Finno-Ugric language spoken by over thirteen million people in Central Europe. P'eter Sipt'ar and Mikl'os T"e;orkenczy here place the emphasis on descriptive coverage rather than theoretical issues, therefore ensuring that...

What is the Russian Mafia? Drawing on reports from undercover police operations, documents from the Gulag archives, and in-depth interviews conducted over several years with vicitms of the mafia, criminals, and officials, this unique book provides compelling answers to the question, and challenges many widely-held views....

Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960From the antiwar movement to Robert Caro's recent book, LBJ has been denounced as        the self-serving villian of American politics. But the truth, as Bancroft        prize-winner Robert Dallek writes in this unequalled account of Johnson's life, was        far more complex--and far more interesting. Based...

This book addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, integrating an array of information from archaeology and other disciplines including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology....