The Constitution allows the president to “fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.” In Justice Takes a Recess, Scott E. Graves and Robert M. Howard address how presidents have used recess appointments over time and whether the independence of judicial recess appointees is compromised. They argue that these appointments can upset the separation of powers envisioned by the Framers, shif...

Paul Ricoeur’s first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful textual analysis of specific arguments in the book ...

The dead are walking. The dead are screaming. The dead are killing.Opening the Necropolis of Wati was a mistake. Undead hordes are streaming from the tombs, causing terror in the streets. Zombies. Ghouls. Mummies. Soon the dead will outnumber the living.Valeros, Ezren, Harsk and Merisiel must find the Mask of the Forgotten Pharaoh. But can they trust anyone – including themselves?©2015 Big Finish Productions (P)2015 Big Finish Productions

Treasure for the TakingUnaware of the forces marshaled against him, Captain Phinneus Shae and the crew of the Talion are headed into uncharted waters. With a doggedly determined killer from his past on his trail and cold-blooded pirates all around him, Shae's contract to recover the treasure from a sunken ship seems destined to fail. But other, more nefarious individuals are after that same treasure, and whatever it is, it is destined to change the future of the Iron Kingdoms. Whet...

Discover the secret system quietly driving your business forward-or holding it back.At first, everything clicks. The product is taking off. The team is humming. Decisions are fast, execution is smooth, and growth feels effortless.Then, slowly, or sometimes all at once, progress stalls. Teams get tangled. Priorities blur. Work that used to flow now feels stuck. You try to fix it: more people, more process, more pressure. But nothing works for long. The harde...

The Symbolism of Evil is the final book in Ricoeur’s early trilogy on the will. While Freedom and Nature sets aside normative questions altogether and Fallible Man examines the question of what makes the bad will possible, here Ricoeur takes up the question of evil in its actuality. What is the nature of the will that has succumbed to evil? The question of evil resists reflection and remains inscrutable, leading Ricoeur to proceed indirectly through a study of the abundant resources contai...

Duncan Campbell Scott's "The Makers of Canada: John Graves Simcoe" presents a meticulously researched biography of one of Canada's pioneering politicians, emphasizing Simcoe's role as the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Scott's literary style is both descriptive and analytical, weaving together historical narrative with biographical detail to portray Simcoe as a visionary leader during a transformative period in Canadian history. The text immerses readers in the political and so...

40 years ago, the paranormal television show Beyond the Grave broadcast a very special Halloween episode - live from Collinsport, Maine. Presenters Tom Lacey and Kate Ripperton introduced the nation to the legend of 'Mad Jack', the local fisherman who had reportedly haunted the town's cemetery for over six decades.The terrifying events that followed have become infamous. Suppressed and denied by the authorities, the episode was thought lost forever... until now.Now, for the f...

Överrättsadvokaten Elliot Rook är själva sinnebilden av en framgångsrik jurist: bildad, aktad och pålitlig. Men han är även en bluff. I decennier har han hållit sitt förflutna väl dolt. Fram till nuEn oidentifierad kvinna från Mellanöstern hittas brutalt mördad i utkanten av Rooks hemstad Nottingham.Billy Barber, en ökänd fotbollshuligan och rasist, blir anklagad för mordet. Han envisas med att just Rook ska försvara honom och hotar med att avslöja hemligheter ur deras gemen...

Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as better grassland management;Assesses the wider role of dairy farming and how it can be improved in the developing world

In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate--it is certainly only very rarely that researchers into cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior in our species and in other primates come together to compare notes and share insights. This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman primates, does precisely that--and in doing so, offers a clear, in-depth look at the mutually enligh...

U.S. Marshal Will Tanner is one hell of a manhunter. But this time, he's chasing six men across three states with one gun and no backup. This isn't justice. This is a suicide mission.It starts with a prison break in Missouri. When notorious bank robber Ansel McCoy busts out, he teams up with five other outlaws. Then he and his gang rob a bank in Kansas. Now they're crossing state lines into Oklahoma Indian Territory. And that's where U.S. Marshal Will Tanner steps in. Other marshal...