Product Description: Egyptian mythology is of highly complex character, and cannot be considered apart from its racial andhistorical aspects. The Egyptians were, as a Hebrew prophet has declared, a "mingled people", and this viewhas been confirmed by recent ethnological research: "the process; of racial fusion begun in the Delta at thedawn of history", says Professor Elliot Smith, "spread through the whole land of Egypt"...read more

The charge against Shane Stafford was 'Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm'. Stafford had attacked a gossip journalist called Gavin Legge. Legge had been engaged at one time to Shane's twin sister. In Shane's view Legge had not just let down his sister, but had subsequently hounded her to suicide. It was the custom of the hot-tempered Stafford clan to stick together. But reckless actions have unpredictable - and even more ominous - consequences.

Retired British Inspector Detective John Raven finds himself accused of murder and enmeshed in a web of blackmail, government intrigue, and patriotism while vacationing on the sunny coasts of Portugal and Spain

Product Description: When Straun Dunbar and his daughter's boyfriend are murdered in quick succession, Dunbar's daughter turns for help to ex-policeman John Raven, who travels to Prague to unravel the mystery

"London's favourite anti-establishment sleuth, John Raven, visits his photographer-girlfriend Kirstie in Paris. Kirstie, it seems, has inadvertently photographed three men involved in a high-class, multi-million-dollar forgery - the mastermind, financier Kent Tyler, sometime actor Rod De Wayne, and forgery expert Paolo Scotti. The threesome tries to retrieve the incriminating film, which sets Raven on their trail. And by the time Raven and Kirstie track down the villains, ringleader Tyler is set on eliminating his co-conspirators."

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Around the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do. Increasingly, experimental economists are even designing real-world markets. But, despite these facts, economists are still largely thought of as scientists who merely observe markets from the outside, like astronomers look at the stars. Do Economists Make Markets? boldly challenges this view. It is the first book dedicated to the controversial question of whether economics is performative--of whether, in some cases, economics actually produces the phenomena it analyzes. The book's case studies--including financial derivatives markets, telecommunications-frequency auctions, and individual transferable quotas in fisheries--give substance to the notion of the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way. Some chapters defend the notion; others attack it vigorously. The book ends with an extended chapter in which Michel Callon, the idea's main formulator, reflects upon the debate and asks what it means to say economics is performative. The book's insights and strong claims about the ways economics is entangled with the markets it studies should interest--and provoke--economic sociologists, economists, and other social scientists. In addition to the editors and Callon, the contributors include Marie-France Garcia-Parpet, Francesco Guala, Emmanuel Didier, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah, Petter Holm, Vincent-Antonin Lépinay, and Timothy Mitchell.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1909. Author: Donald A. Mackenzie Language: English Keywords: Anthropology Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive...read more

Product Description: Newly extradited to England from California on fraud charges, Philip Page teams up with maverick investigator John Raven to find out who has informed on Page in order to clear Page's name

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Product Description: The purpose of the series from which this book is taken is to help delineate various critical approaches to specific literary texts. Its authors are from a variety of critical schools and have approached their task in a flexible manner...read more

Retired Detective-Inspector John Raven becomes entangled in a web of love, drugs, and murder when he sets out to clear the name of an innocent au pair girl wrongly convicted of smuggling

A survey of Oriental myths and legends, discussing their origins and meanings, and drawing parallels and connections to the mythologies of other cultures