From a leading scholar of Palestine-Israel, a brief, essential history of the besieged strip of land, revealing the roots of the current crisis.

Everybody knows they exist: the Cosa Nostra, the Medellin Cartel, New York's Five Families, China's tongs. This book asks the question: how have mafias helped define the modern world?

In this origin story of humanity, scientific expert Madeleine Beekman makes the case that human language evolved to solve an existential problem for our ancestors: caring for extremely premature infants.