This thoroughly revised third edition of Comparative Administrative Law builds on the legacy of the first two editions, providing a redefined and reinvigorated analysis of pressing issues through original chapters, a renewed group of contributors and a broader geographic scope, with particular emphasis on the Global South.Leading scholars offer novel perspectives, investigating the intersecting differences between common law and civil law, including cultural traditions and...

Renowned archeologist Blake Elgin discovers an unknown metal in Egypt's Western desert which will change everything we know about human existence, and shake humanity to its very core.A strange metal, of unknown origin, is discovered in archaeological digs around the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean. The only logical explanation? Atlantis. The Lost City. A dig is organised and the best archeologists in the world head to the outskirts of Khagra with the dream of proving the stuff ...

The Public's Law is a theory and history of democracy in the American administrative state. The book describes how American Progressive thinkers - such as John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woodrow Wilson - developed a democratic understanding of the state from their study of Hegelian political thought. G.W.F. Hegel understood the state as an institution that regulated society in the interest of freedom. This normative account of the state distinguished his view from later German the...

Blake gravitates towards the mystery of Atlantis. He is rattled by villainous forces - but his need to stay undefeated and rescue his loved ones remains indestructible.Demoralising and overwhelming challenges plaque Blake, a leading archaeologist with a big secret. When his wife Natasha is abducted, thanks to his reckless actions, he has to rely on Yelena, the doctor who once saved his life, but has since deeply betrayed him. Now his colleague Ledger is missing and in terrible dang...

Blake's life is tumultuous to say the least, and now that Ledger and Natasha are free, there's an imbalance in the world, forcing Ten to meet his match while executing his most difficult mission yet.Natasha and Ledger have escaped the clutches of captivity, but their journey is not yet over, as they fight to survive, Yelena comes face to face with her past. The best hitman in the world encounters dangers never before seen as he executes his toughest mission thus far. Coming face to...

Yelena battles against injustice and torture in the hopes to set herself free, but what is the cost of freedom, and is it a fate worse than death?The prospect of unimaginable wealth is too much for some of the team to bear. Who will sell out their friends and colleagues for the windfall of a lifetime? The Corporation reaches new and excruciating lows as Yelena attempts to fight back. The fight between good and evil comes to a head as the world faces horrors they could never dream o...

When all that you love is ripped away from you at the hands of the world' greatest evil, there's only one thing left to do: make a deal with the devil.When everything has been taken away from you, what do you have left to fight for? Watch as Freeman, one of the US's finest detectives, battles against the Corporation by making a deal with the devil. With the quest for Atlantis crawling ever closer, the archeologists face a battle they never anticipated. Will they get out alive?

Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environmental, and Place-based Writing is a powerful collection of mostly unpublished essays and poetry by both prominent American environmental writers and exciting new voices. The poetry and essays by more than fifty contributors offer the reader glimpses into places as diverse as a forest in West Africa, the moors of Ireland, the canyons of the Sonoran desert mountains, and the fields of New England, and they reflect the varied perspectives o...

It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights revolution have stood the test of time and which have proven to be mistaken or even catast...

In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time. Immigration poses practical problems for western democracies and also challenges the ways in which people in democracies think about citizenship and belonging, about rights and responsibilities, and about freedom and equality. Carens begins by focusing on current immigration controversies in North America and Europe about access to citiz...

This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist, and economist, Mancur Olson examines the extent to which the individuals that share a common interest find it in their individual interest to bear the costs of the organizational effort.The theory ...

In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format—and an even smaller percentage if you include their archive of Friedman's audio and television recordings, correspondence, and other writings. This book and the larger online collection are sorely needed and ...