This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical models of adjudication, Tom S. Clark presents a statistical model of law and uses the model to document the historical development of constitutional law. Using sophisticated statistical methods and historical analysis of court decisions, the author documents how social and political forces shape the path of l...

Blood flows through our arteries under pressure, this is called blood pressure. Blood pressure is highest when the heart is contracting, forcing blood into the vessels (systole). The heart muscle then relaxes and the blood pressure reaches its minimum value (diastole). Blood pressure that is too high is called hypertension, i.e. high blood pressure. If it is too low, this is called hypotension. The optimal values are at the upper value (systolic pressure) up to 120 mmHg and at the lower va...

A groundbreaking study of when, where, and whom police shoot in America’s largest citiesPolice shootings in America spark outrage and protest and raise questions about police use of lethal force. Yet despite the attention given to high-profile shootings, it is extremely difficult to draw wider conclusions about the frequency and outcomes of police gunfire because there is no systematic and centralized source of information on these incidents. This pioneering book d...

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN—WATCH NOW ON PRIME VIDEO!From Tom Clancy, the celebrated author of the Jack Ryan series, comes the #1 New York Times bestseller that puts CIA operative John Clark front and center....**His code name is Mr. Clark. His work for the CIA is brilliant, cold-blooded and efficient...But who is he really?In a harrowing tour de force, Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named John Kelly crossed the lines of ju...

In this #1 New York Times bestselling John Clark thriller, author Tom Clancy takes readers into the shadowy world of anti-terrorism and gets closer to reality than any government would care to admit...Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark has been named the head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, Clark is confronted with a violent chain of seemingly separate international incidents. But there is no way to predic...

Pre-order the pulse-racing new Jack Ryan thriller, TOM CLANCY DEFENSE PROTOCOL, now!________________NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN'Highly entertaining' Wall Street JournalHis code name is Mr. Clark. His work for the CIA is brilliant, cold-blooded and efficient...But who is he really?In a harrowing tour de force, Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named John Kelly c...

**THE CLASSIC SECOND THRILLER IN TOM CLANCY'S INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING JOHN CLARK SERIES'Action-packed' New York Times**Newly named head of an elite multinational task force, John Clark faces the world's greatest fear: international terrorism. And following each terrifying new outbreak - the ghosts from his own past.The challenge of a new mission is just what Clark needs, but the opportunities come faster than he expected. Hostage-taking at a Swiss bank....

Reclaims the theology of Christian conversion by integrating Karl Barth's doctrine of conversion within a constructive theological framework.This book delivers a doctrinally rich account of Christian conversion that challenges reductive, experience-based approaches. Drawing from Scripture and Barth's Church Dogmatics, Tom Dove introduces a fourfold framework that defines conversion as inseparably connected to Christ's person and work, purposive, a divine e...

Long overshadowed by fellow republicans Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, Tom Clarke was the man who made the Easter Rising possible. During an extraordinary life dedicated to Irish freedom he rose from humble origins and endured thirty years of struggle, imprisonment and exile before becoming a master conspirator in the Easter Rising. Endowed with a charisma and moral ascendancy, he held together a disparate group of followers and they, in turn, recognised his i...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our September 2017 issue (#132) contains:Original fiction by A. Brym ("Antarctic Birds"), Eric Schwitzgebel ("Little /^^^\&-"), Suzanne Palmer ("The Secret Life of Bots"), Jess Barber and Sara Saab ("Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics"), and Gu Shi ("Möbius Continuum").Repri...

Four-star General Wesley K. Clark became a major figure on the political scene when he was drafted by popular demand to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2003. But this was just one of many exceptional accomplishments of a long and extraordinary career.Here, for the first time, General Clark uses his unique life experience—from his difficult youth in segregated Arkansas where he was raised by his poor, widowed mother; through the horror of Vietn...

The UK's top Young Adult authors join together in this collection of new stories and poems on the theme of home. Contributors include: Tom Becker, Holly Bourne, Sita Brahmachari, Kevin Brooks, Melvin Burgess, Katy Cannon , Cat Clarke, Juno Dawson, Julie Mayhew, Non Pratt, Marcus Sedgwick, Lisa Williamson and Benjamin Zephaniah. £1 from the sale of every book will be donated to Crisis, the national homelessness charity. To find out more about Crisis, see www.crisis.org.uk