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The central theme of the book is the growth of absolutism in Russia throughout these years, and it traces in detail how the Russian variety of what was a contemporary European phenomenon came fully into being.

The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by a group of atomic scientists to symbolise the perils facing humanity from nuclear weapons. In 2007 it was set at five minutes before the final bell, including for the first time the threat of climate change as well as new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology. This book aims at an analysis of the evolution of our present predicament throughout the Anthropocene Era beginning in 1763, making special reference to the history of the period, the study of the subject and major advances in the natural sciences.

Adam Smith and Adam...

Dukes's gripping historical novel tells the tale of a desperate Albanian woman who will do whatever it takes to keep her independence and seize control of her future...even if it means swearing to remain a virgin for her entire life.

When eighteen-year-old Eleanora's father is shot dead on the cobblestone streets of 1910 Albania, Eleanora must abandon her dream of studying art in Italy as she struggles to survive in a remote mountain village with her stepmother Meria.

Nearing starvation, Meria secretly sells Eleanora into marriage with the cruel heir of a powerful clan....

Long out of print and much sought after, this important collection of essays was republished as a print on demand title

• Why does there seem to be less magic in the modern world? Could it be because we are all better magicians?
• Is it time to reinstate the charlatan in his vital role as initiator on the occult path?
• Is scientific thought declining in favour of magical thought? And is this inevitable?
• Have men traditionally played a leading role because of a deep sense of their own uselessness relative to women? And is this situation beginning to...

The Queen of Hearts, she found some tarts...so what, as a reform-minded twenty-first century feminist did she do with them? And when Tom, Tom, the Piper's son stole a pig and ran away with it, how would the modern age handle this young delinquent? What has gone wrong today with The House that Jack Built? Will technology-based health care for the elderly take proper care of Old Mother Hubbard? Many of the centuries old Nursery Rhymes reflect the times in which they were first recited. Here they are in a new jacket, rewritten for our own day--still with their...

Murder.
Mayhem.
Robots.
Strippers.
Thank you for calling tech support.

Forget Silicon Valley - the information age was born in the late 1990s in Austin, Texas, ushered in by Elliot Storm, founder and president of Storm Computer Corporation.

Phinnaeus Webb just started his job for Storm as a technical support specialist. But soon Phin has more questions than the hapless techno-weenies calling him for help.

What is going on in the basement?

Why are the hallways patrolled by a robotic spider?

Why do Phin's fellow technicians (along with dancers from a local...

The rules of behavior that may be considered to apply to today's pharmaceutical industry have emerged over a very long...

The Urals are best known as the boundary between Europe and Asia. A History of the Urals demonstrates the region's importance in its own right, as a crucible of Russia's defence industry in particular.

In the first English-language book to explore the subject fully, Paul Dukes examines the region's contribution to the power of the state in tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet times, offering a refreshing antidote to Moscow-centric interpretations of Russian history. The book contextualises more recent periods with chapters on the earlier years of the Urals and covers the key...