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 (also known as David Balfour) is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped (1886). It was first published in the magazine Atalanta from December 1892 to September 1893. The novel continues the story of the central character in Kidnapped, David Balfour.The book begins precisely where Kidnapped ends, at 2 pm on 25 August 1751, outside the British Linen Company in Edinburgh, Scotland.The first part of the book recounts ...

Unlike the "Rob Roy", the new historical novel written by Walter Scott "The Monastery" was taken by critics and readers rather cool. Nevertheless, the writer managed to brightly describe the dark and deaf Scotland during the tragic times of military defeat and at the same time - spiritual renewal, with the dying old religion and the emerging new, full political anarchy within the country and with the Scotch-typical thirst for political freedom. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Trotsenko p...

Moonfleet is a work of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898. The book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s, mostly for its themes of adventure and gripping storyline. It remains a popular story widely read and is still sometimes studied in schools.In 1757, Moonfleet is a tiny village near the sea in the south of England. It gets its name from a formerly prominent local family, the Mohunes, whose coat of arms include...

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A historical drama novel by famous writer Sir Walter Scott, 'Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since' was first published in the year 1814.

Upon his return to England after many years overseas, Arthur Clenman takes a curious interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in Amy’s father, William Dorrit, who has been imprisoned many years for outstanding debts in the Marshalsea. As their relationship progresses, Arthur learns that William’s imprisonment affects people beyond the walls as well, from kind Mr. Panks, a reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and talkative Flora Finching to Merdle, a coldhearted fina...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***Synopsis:The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to achieve higher goals with integrity.FIND AND ENJOY!

Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retir...

Every person around has a dream world which is influenced by the outer world. But when internal passions try to descend over practical tasks then characters like "Bartleby" are made. The story is rich in language and yet spare in actual action as the protagonist answers to any task as "I prefer not to". The end is very unusual making it more interesting to read.