Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results. But, as all experienced ethnographers know, this fine-sounding advice rarely provides ample guidance in dealing with real people in real field settings. That is where this casebook differs. Selecting many key methods regularly used by anthropologists - participant observation, consensus analysis, simple surveys, scaling, freelisting an...

Robert Louis Stevenson's glorious passport to romance and high adventure.Here is the story of young David Balfour, whose miserly uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and schemes to have him kidnapped, shanghaied, and sold into slavery. But justice triumphs—after a spirited odyssey that includes a shipwreck, a hazardous journey across Scotland with a daredevil companion, intrigues, narrow escapes, and desperate fighting. Rich in action and characterization, this ...

The Lawyer's Guide to the Future of Practice Management provides law firm leaders with expert opinion on the very latest guidance and market knowledge on what today's legal marketplace might look like tomorrow, organized into four crucial areas of practice management - technology, people and culture, finance and strategy - before taking a horizon-scan of the future, and what law firms need to be aware of in the coming months and years.

Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson is a carefully prepared Good Old Pages Publishing digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring Robert Louis Stevenson's writing or building a library of endurin...

A gripping tale of sibling rivalry and greed takes readers on a fast-paced adventure that encompasses everything from encounters with pirates to a shocking discovery in the American wilderness.

☠️ A secret cave. A buried diamond. A boy's journey from innocence to destiny. ☠️ J. Meade Falkner's Moonfleet is one of the most thrilling and atmospheric adventure novels of the 19th century—a timeless story of courage, betrayal, and redemption set along the stormy Dorset coast of England. The story follows John Trenchard, an orphaned boy who stumbles upon a hidden world of smugglers, lost treasure, and dark secrets beneath his quiet seaside village of Moonfleet. Drawn into the shado...

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. The Man in the Iron Mask is the fourth and final volume.

King Solomon's Mines was published in September 1885, becoming an immediate best seller by tapping into people's excitement for the unknown: in this case, the unexplored regions of Africa. Haggard wrote the novel in a very short period, between six and sixteen months, on a bet with his brother to try to match Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island . In the process he created a new literary genre known as the "Lost World" genre, which would later influence other writers like Arthur Conan ...

The novel tells the story of Edward Waverley, a young Englishman of noble birth who finds himself caught up in the Jacobite uprising of 1745. Waverley is torn between his loyalty to the British Crown and his sympathies for the Jacobite cause, which aims to restore the exiled Stuart dynasty to the throne of England. The story follows Waverley's journey through various encounters and adventures as he becomes embroiled in the conflict."Waverley" explores themes such as loyalty, honor, love, a...

In Little Dorrit, the reader is thrown into the fascinating world of upper class luxury and the hardships of the working class in 19th-century London. The story follows the humble and caring Amy Dorrit, affectionately called Little Dorrit, growing up in the notorious Marshalsea prison where her father is incarcerated. When a mysterious foreign gentleman, Arthur Clennam, returns to England and enters Dorrit’s life, a beautiful and complicated love story unfolds, crossing the bounda...

"The Heroes: Greek Fairy Tales for My Children" by Charles Kingsley is a captivating collection of mythological stories that brings the ancient Greek heroes to life. From the courageous Perseus and the mighty Hercules to the clever Odysseus and the fearless Theseus, this book takes readers on an epic journey through the legendary exploits of these extraordinary figures. In these tales, readers will witness the heroes' extraordinary quests, battles against mythical creatures, encounters wit...

Twenty Years After is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of the D'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot Man in the Iron Mask). The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Th...