The understanding of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica has blossomed in recent years. In this volume, the authors use recent empirical studies to help us understand the patterns and nature of Mesoamerican warfare. Using evidence from ceramics, settlement pattern, epigraphy, ethnohistory, and ethnography, these projects define the martial nature of Mesoamerican societies and link it to ritual, political economy, and other cultural systems. The studies range from preclassic to post-contact and ...

With armed conflict in the Persian Gulf now upon us, Harvard archaeologist Steven LeBlanc takes a long-term view of the nature and roots of war, presenting a controversial thesis: The notion of the "noble savage" living in peace with one another and in harmony with nature is a fantasy. In Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage, LeBlanc contends that warfare and violent conflict have existed throughout human history, and that humans have never lived in ecological ...

This is the first one, a short read about 2hrs. I was introducing Danny and Lucy Trevor a Forensic Specialist and the work together for 20 years.Danny Quinn is a renowned detective with over 20 years of experience. He suddenly retired in the Mountains of Carolina after the passing of his wife, Lisa.But naturally, While settling into his new place—the local sheriff recommended by the N.Y. The chief of police knocked at his door."What can I do for you?" excl...

Ce livre est le premier et introduit Danny et Lucy Treveor.Danny Quinn est un détective renommé avec plus de 20 ans d'expérience. Il a soudainement pris sa retraite dans les montagnes de Caroline après le décès de sa femme, Lisa.Mais naturellement, pendant qu’il installait un étagère : le shérif local recommandé par la police de New York. Le chef de la police a frappé à sa porte.« Que puis-je faire pour vous ? » s'est exclamé Danny.On m'a dit : « Eh bien, j'...

These adventures were told to me in the old days by Arsène Lupin, as though they had happened to a friend of his, named Prince Rénine. As for me, considering the way in which they were conducted, the actions, the behaviour and the very character of the hero, I find it very difficult not to identify the two friends as one and the same person. Arsène Lupin is gifted with a powerful imagination and is quite capable of attributing to himself adventures which are not his at all and of disowning...

In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title "Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes" - the gentleman-burglar once more meets his enemy, the English detective Herlock Sholmes. If in the last story of "Arsène Lupin, gentleman-burglar" Sherlock Holmes arrives too late (the name was at a later date changed to Herlock Sholmes in reply to complaints and threats by Conan Doyle regarding copyrights), in the two stories that ...

This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.

Svelte, elegant, refined, seductive, Arsène Lupine, gentleman-burglar of her state, is the model of the dandy "Belle Epoque". His intelligence, his culture, his talents as an illusionist between Fregoli and Robert-Houdin are at the service of a stupefying nerve. But this accomplished man of the world is also an anarchist in the soul who plays social conventions with marvelous insolence.

A story of Arsène Lupin, the greatest, most ingenious and most daring criminal in modern fiction.

This story has to do with the final Will of a man named Mornington, who, in the year 1900, left behind the sum of $400 million francs. Of that, three-fourths went to his adopted country - which left $100 million francs to be distributed to his heirs. The executor of the estate was Mornington's friend, Don Luis Perenna (AKA Arsene Lupin). The problem, however, was that no one knew where (or even who) some of the heirs were. If no heirs were to be found within 3 months, the entire $100 milli...

A scientist makes televisual contact with three-eyed Venusians.

A detective yarn that is a corker. Arsène Lupin in the greatest predicament of his career. Instead of the old masterful conqueror of men and circumstances against tremendous odds, we find him, until almost the final chapter, pitted against foemen worthy of his steel, who outwit him time and time again and involve him in a struggle for his very life!