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Based on the popular Netflix series! In the early 20th century,
esteemed writer Maurice Leblanc created Arsene Lupin, a French
Sherlock Holmes-type who became known as the gentleman thief.
Lupin's exploits, in pursuit of the rich, have been documented in
more than twenty stories and books, as well as in film. In January
2021, Netflix released a major hit in the entertaining Lupin
mystery-comedy series based on the stories. The Best Stories of
Arsene Lupin is a collection of the most engaging of Leblanc's
writing about Lupin, with a special foreword by West Point
associate professor of English and writer Matthew Carey Salyer.
Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as
both necessary and virtuous, it is variously depicted as enhancing
the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and
generating prosperity. It allows for complex political systems,
permits human communication, underpins financial instruments and
economic institutions, and generally holds society together.
Against these overwhelmingly laudable qualities, mistrust often
goes unnoticed as a positive social phenomenon, treated as little
more than a corrosive absence, a mere negative of trust itself.
With this book, Matthew Carey proposes an ethnographic and
conceptual exploration of mistrust that raises it up as legitimate
stance in its own right. While mistrust can quickly ruin
relationships and even dissolve extensive social ties, Carey shows
that it might have other values. Drawing on fieldwork in Morocco's
High Atlas Mountains as well as comparative material from regions
stretching from Eastern Europe to Melanesia, he examines the impact
of mistrust on practices of conversation and communication,
friendship and society, and politics and cooperation. In doing so,
he demonstrates that trust is not the only basis for organizing
human society and cooperating with others. The result is a
provocative but enlightening work that makes us rethink social
issues such as suspicion, doubt, and uncertainty.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm18713082Includes index.Cincinnati: Miami Print. and Pub.
Co, 1868. iv, 395 p.; 24 cm.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France's most brilliant
anthropologists, and The Anti-Witch is nothing less than a
masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic
revelation, where the line between researcher and subject is
blurred - if not erased - The Anti-Witch develops the contours of
an anthropology of therapy, while deeply engaging with what it
means to be caught in the logic of witchcraft. Through an intimate
and provocative sharing of the ethnographic voice with Madame
Flora, a "dewitcher," Favret-Saada delivers a critical challenge to
some of anthropology's fundamental concepts. Sure to be of interest
to practitioners of psychoanalysis as well as to anthropologists,
The Anti-Witch will bring a new generation of scholars into
conversation with the work of a truly innovative thinker.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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