Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted. The evidence is clear: we have been unable to manage many long-term issues including climate change, nuclear waste disposal, natural disaster preparedness, infrastructure maintenance, and budget deficits. If voters and influential actors, such as interest groups and corporations, have dominant short-term interests, it may be difficult for elected politicians to act in the long-term interes...

Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted. The evidence is clear: we have been unable to manage many long-term issues, including climate change, nuclear waste disposal, natural disaster preparedness, infrastructure maintenance, and budget deficits. To solve long-term problems, do we need political systems that are less democratic, or even authoritarian?This idea, which Michael K. MacKenzie calls the "democratic myopia thesi...

HelenaI'm one of four Willow daughters. He's the first-born son of the Scafoni family. And we have history.For generations, the Scafoni family have demanded a sacrifice of us. A virgin daughter to atone for sins so old, we don't even remember what they are anymore.But when you have as much money as they do, you don't play by the rules. You make them.And Sebastian Scafoni makes all the rules.The moment I saw him, I knew he would choos...

This set contains Taken, Torn and Twisted.TakenI’m one of four Willow daughters. He’s the first-born son of the Scafoni family. And we have history. For generations, the Scafoni family have demanded a sacrifice of us. A virgin daughter to atone for sins so old, we don’t even remember what they are anymore.But when you have as much money as they do, you don’t play by the rules. You make them. And Sebastian Scafoni makes all ...

Otto Dix fought in the First World War for the better part of four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. Marked by the experience, he made monumental, difficult and powerful works about it. Whereas Dix has often been presented as a lone voice of reason and opposition in Germany between the wars, this book locates his work squarely in the mainstream of Weimar society.Informed by recent studies of collective remembrance, of camaraderie, and of the...

There's a ticking time bomb in your ministry. Is it you?The pressures of pastoring are endless, leading many to burnout and depression, sexual misconduct, or substance abuse. But moral failures can be averted and shipwrecked ministries can be repaired. Counselor Michael MacKenzie, a longtime expert in helping pastors at risk, deals with the issues beneath the issues, such as shame, fear, and pain. If we don't address our own weakness and brokenness, we will hurt ou...

GregoryMy brother was right. I always wanted my own Willow girl.What happened on that island didn’t break me. It twisted me. Corrupted me. Made me into a monster.Although, I guess, it’s true what she says. You can’t become something that wasn’t inside you all along.This was always going to happen. I was always going to take Amelia Willow. History and destiny sealed her fate. Sealed both of ours.For months, I’ve been ...

This set contains Taken & Torn: The Complete Story of Helena & Sebastian.TakenI’m one of four Willow daughters.He’s the first-born son of the Scafoni family. And we have history.For generations, the Scafoni family have demanded a sacrifice of us. A virgin daughter to atone for sins so old, we don’t even remember what they are anymore.But when you have as much money as they do, you don’t play by the rules. Yo...

POWERSHIFT is the latest collection in the INFINITE DIMENSIONS series of theme-based speculative fiction anthologies exploring new ideas in a time where the powerful and the powerless have a stake; because among the infinite dimensions, where the power shifts will determine the shape of the future.Proxy: One man rekindles the fire of a forgotten revolution, both to save his world, his soul and the people he loves.Co...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10930, the first step in a long series of efforts to regulate the ethical behavior of executive branch officials. A few years later Lyndon B. Johnson required all senior officials to report assets and sources of non-government income to the Civil Service Commission. The reaction to Watergate opened the floodgates to more laws and rules: the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, subsequent expansions of that act in the 1980s and 1990s, a...

SebastianTaking her is my right. Breaking her, my duty.I was always going to choose Helena. I knew it the instant I saw her.She’s different than the others. There’s a darkness about her. Something wild inside her. And it calls to the beast inside me.But she isn’t what I expected. With every word and every touch, she pushes me, burrowing deep under my skin, challenging the rules, and upending history.And all the while, I see how my br...

From the acclaimed author of The King's Mother and Bosworth 1485-a fascinating look at ten days that changed the course of history. With the world at war, ten days can feel like a lifetime.. On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. But victory over the Nazi regime was not celebrated in western Europe until May 8, and in Russia a day later, on the ninth. Why did a peace agreement take so much time? How did this brutal, protracted conflict coalesce into its un...