The Polycentric Republic presents a compelling and innovative critique of modern social contract theory. It reveals how the social contract theory systematically neglects the interests and prerogatives of non-State associations and legitimates an imposing sovereign State that jeopardizes the freedom and integrity of communities and associations under its rule.Drawing on neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, institutional theory, and political history, the author invites us to re...

What does citizenship have to do with living a worthy human life? Political scientists and philosophers who study the practice of citizenship, including Rawlsian liberals and Niebuhrian realists, have tended to either relegate this question to the private realm or insist that ethical principles must be silenced or seriously compromised in our deliberations as citizens. This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy not only our integrity as...

Polycentric Governance and the Good Society: A Normative and Philosophical Investigation offers an examination of the idea of polycentric governance as one of the pillars of a flourishing human society. Rather than following the conventional path of suppressing complexity and diversity for the sake of reaching agreement on justice and political stability, David Thunder and Pablo Paniagua see complexity and diversity as assets that should be leveraged to make the "Open Society" a m...

Réunis pour leurs capacités hors du commun, Ilya et ses camarades vont devoir réussir leur première mission : récupérer un ado qui comme eux semble spécial et qui a été kidnappé.Mais au fur et à mesure de leur enquête, ils commencent à s'interroger sur la vision du monde qu'on leur a inculqué...

L'adolescence d'Ilya bascule dans le tragique lorsque son père est assassiné. Il se voit contraint d'emménager dans le manoir londonien de sa grand-mère qu'il n'a jamais rencontré.Alors qu'une nouvelle vie s'offre à lui, tout bascule à nouveau lorsqu'il écope d'une colle avec quatre autres lycéens. L'avenir leur appartient.Et ce ne sera pas sans aventures...

The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder.Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come.Shield of Thunder takes the reader back into the glories and tragedies of Bronze ...

Peril and strife strike on a double front for Honor Harrington and company. After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington has rooted out a plan designed to enslave the entire human species. Behind that plan lies the shadowy organization known as the Mesan Alignment. Task number one for Honor is to shut down and secure the wormhole network that is the source of the Star Kingdom's wealth and power—but also its greatest vulnerability. Yet this is an act that the ancien...

A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation.Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation with the New Mexico police. Identifying the dead isn't easy—some had been buried for years—and at first the cases look to be nothing but dead ends. Then one of the bodies turns out to be ...

"A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter provides a brilliant account of the harrowing drive into Baghdad by an American armor brigade." — Seattle Post-IntelligencerBased on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history: the surprise assault on Baghdad by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized). Three battalions and fewer than...

ROT & THUNDERThe Sobering Truth of World War One Trench WarfareParasites, Gangrene, Black Humor, and the Machinery of the Western FrontFor more than a century, the soldiers of World War One have been remembered through poetry, memorials, and the haunting phrase "The Lost Generation." They are often portrayed as tragic young heroes swallowed by industrial war.But the reality inside the trenches was far less romanti...

Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's Presidential Palace and Republican Guard headquarters.The product of dozens of interviews with commanders and men from the Second Brigade, it is more than just a book about a single battle. It is a riveting account of how soldiers respond ...

When his name was whispered, outlaws listened. When he rode, the frontier trembled.In the vast wilderness of Indian Territory, where federal law was just a distant rumor and justice came from the barrel of a gun, one man's presence changed everything. Bass Reeves didn't just enforce the law—he was the law, rolling across 75,000 square miles of the most dangerous territory in America like thunder across an endless sky.Born a slave, freed by war, forged by fire, Bass Reeves b...