Product Description: In Kargil, Maine, Frank Dreavor, a town groundskeeper dies mysteriously, leaving no surviving family or heir. Tanner Cook is called in to clean up the Dreavor estate and while doing so discovers a path to the hidden first drafts of William Shakespeare’s priceless manuscripts...read more

Bad Year Economics explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and ancient and modern history, the contributors range widely in time and space across hunting, farming and pastoralism, across ancient states, empires, and modern nation states. The aim, however, is a common one: to analyse in each case the structure of variability - particularly with regard to food supply - and review the range of responses offered by individual human communities. These responses commonly exploit various forms of mobility, economic diversification, storage, and exchange to deploy local or temporary abundance as a defence against shortage. Different levels of response are used at different levels of risk. Their success is fundamental to human survival and their adoption has important ramifications throughout cultural behaviour.

Product Description: 2003 VANTAGE PRESS FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER

Reexamines the lives of composers from Bach to Gershwin and analyzes their medical histories to offer new diagnoses of their illnesses and health problems based on modern medical knowledge

Product Description: This book has the previous owner's name stamped on the inside cover; it also has a small amount of inked tick-marks on the inner leaves. The book is otherwise in absolutely pristine condition with crisp white pages and no other markings...read more