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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,...

The tale of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, 18th century castrato, celebrity, and heart-throb, and his elopement and love affair with his teenage pupil Doroethea Maunsell, a story that opens up a new history of attitudes towards sex and celebrity in Georgian Britain, and explores questions about the meaning of marriage that resonate in our own time....

A Practical Guide to Doing It BetterOver the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze evidence the...