E M Halliday: 3 books

The turbulent events that overtook Russia in 1917 are often called one of history's great turning points. In March of that year, a corrupt, outdated, careworn autocracy - the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty - was overthrown by a spontaneous uprising of Russia's long-oppressed masses. During the next...

Grigori Rasputin, the "Holy Devil" of Russian legend, was a well-meaning peasant with a psychiatrist's gift for healing and unusual opportunities for sexual conquest. The tsar, historian E. M. Halliday argues in this essay, might have done better to listen to him more, not less.

Based on the Commonwealth Harvard Alcohol Research and Teaching Program, this clinically oriented work is designed to give internists and primary care practitioners the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and care for patients with alcoholism.