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Based on a true story and set in a Massachusetts fishing village during the summer of 1817, this picture book pays tribute to the beauty and mystery of the ocean as it tells the story of the legendary Gloucester sea serpent. Full color.

Visit the author's website at www.theadventuretree.com The Adventure Tree Book II - "The Royal Magic Show" by Kelly Jones Come with Willow and Zak as they embark on a new journey. Travel with them to a far away kingdom. Enjoy a magic show. Then make your own adventure. The Adventure Tree - "The Royal Magic Show" is the second of a series of books that will follow Willow and Zak to places you never imagined... but can. A portion of the proceeds...

In this life, we are given the opportunity to make choices that will affect not only ourselves but also everyone in our world. This power bears a great burden. The ability to create either happiness or utter despair. You see, our lives are inter twined with one another. Each thread binds us all. If you were to remove or tamper with just a solitary thread, everything would eventually become untwined. For Neil Beardsley, nothing could be truer. ...

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An indispensable primer for those who want to protect their digital rights from the dark forces of big media.-Kara Swisher, author of aol.comThe first general interest book by a blogger edited collaboratively by his readers, Darknet reveals how Hollywood's fear of digital piracy is leading to escalating clashes between copyright holders and their customers, who love their TiVo digital video recorders, iPod music players, digital televisions, c...

In 1980 the Indian software industry was practically non-existent. By the 1990s the industry was one of the largest employers in manufacturing. Similar patterns of growth can be found in other emerging economies. So given that the software industry is commonly viewed as a high-techindustry, how is it that such spectacular growth has occurred in countries where high-tech industries would not seem likely to develop? This book examines the reason...

A provocative and controversial new biography offering a new understanding of one of America's greatest painters.

Nietzsche and R e is about the intellectual partnership of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Paul R e (1849-1901). Robin Small combines biography with philosophy to give the first full-length account of a friendship that made major contributions to modern thought before it ended in intellectual differences and a painful breakdown of personal relations. Drawing on a wealth of original scholarship, Small presents an absorbing and often dramati...

Debates surrounding institutional change have become increasingly central to Political Science, Management Studies, and Sociology, opposing the role of globalization in bringing about a convergence of national economies and institutions on one model to theories about 'Varieties of Capitalism'.This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety to examine current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight ...

For much of the twentieth century it was common to contrast the characteristic forms and preoccupations of modern ethical theory with those of the ancient world. However, the last few decades have seen a growing recognition that contemporary moral philosophy now has much in common with its ancient incarnation, in areas as diverse as virtue ethics and ethical epistemology. Christopher Gill has assembled an international team to conduct a fascin...

What is the nature of value and how can we have knowledge of it? Is something valuable because we desire it or do we desire it because it is valuable? These are the fundamental questions addressed and answered in this book. Graham Oddie argues that there are mind-independent irreducible facts about value, which are causally efficacious, and that we have knowledge of value by experiential acquaintance. Anyone working in ethics and metaphysics w...

Was the British empire given away in a fit of collective indifference as many have claimed? Englishness and Empire looks at connections between stories of nation and empire told in the media - the Second World War, the Coronation and Everest, colonial wars of the 1950s, immigration, Winston Churchill's funeral - and makes an important and original contribution to recent debates about the domestic consequences of the end of empire.

A leading expert on the life of Roger Williams offers this authoritative biography of the founder of Rhode Island and the first Baptist Church in America, and a colonist who befriended Native Americans and took seriously their culture and their legal rights. Illustrations.

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment "Questions relative to Hereditary Right, " discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner. As a critique of common law by a great philosopher, the Dialogue should be essential reading for anybody interested in English political thoug...

Suicide attacks have become the defining act of political violence of our age. From New York City to Baghdad, from Sri Lanka to Israel, few can doubt that they are a pervasive and terrifying feature of our political landscape. Based on a wealth of original information and research, and containing contributions from internationally distinguished scholars, Making Sense of Suicide Missions furthers our understanding of this chilling feature of th...

It is commonly held that Aristotle's views on politics have little relevance to the preoccupations of modern political theory with authority and obligation. Andres Rosler's original study argues that, on the contrary, Aristotle does examine the question of political obligation and its limits, and that contemporary political theorists have much to learn from him. Rosler takes his exploration further, considering the ethical underpinning of Aris...

Some time around their first birthday, children begin to engage in "triadic" interactions, i.e. interactions with adults that turn specifically on both child and adult jointly attending to an object in their surroundings. Recognized as a developmental milestone amongst psychologists for sometime, joint attention has recently also started to attract the attention of philosophers. This volume brings together, for the first time, psychological an...