Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior ...

A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution. By the author of Hierarchy of the Forest.

In this landmark work of history, Ferguson vividly brings back to life this terrifying period and makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the ...

This book examines the reason for the Russian involvement in the Balkan peninsula.

Comprehensive survey of the transformation of the Soviet Union from a largely agrarian economy to a world superpower.

This is the first ethnohistory of Siberia to appear in English, tracing the history of the native peoples from the Russian conquest onwards. James Forsyth compares the Siberian ...

This book surveys the possibilities for future alignments both among the new states of the former Soviet Union, and between the new states and their neighbours.

An introduction to modern Russian culture, from language and religion to literature and the arts.