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Love, Work, and Death
'Toaff is the acknowledged master of the social history of Umbrian Jewry.' - David Malkiel, Journal of Jewish Studies
Yoko Tawada in Dialogue
This book combines German and Japanese texts by Yoko Tawada with new English translations and a documentation of her time as Writer in Residence at the University of Oxford, including an exhibition of multilingual writing at the Taylor Institution Library in 2017.
Codes of the Underworld
How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic problems of whom to trust, how to make themselves trusted, and how to handle information without being detected by rivals or police. In this book, one of the world's leading scholars of the mafia ranges from ancient Rome to the gangs of modern Japan, from the prisons of Western countries to terrorist and pedophile rings, to explain how despite these constraints, many criminals successfully stay in business. ...
