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...

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 ...

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...

The Sunday Times bestselling author David Gemmell brings the myth and legend of Troy to life in this epic story filled with triumph and tragedy. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden."This is how the oldest tales should be read and known. Gemmell is a master of plot, but his triumph is creating men and women so real that their trials are agony and their triumph is glorious" -- CONN IGGULDEN" [...

"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...

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...

When a body is found during an evangelical visit to a remote Arctic settlement, Constable David Maratse must find the murderer before a frenzy of faith covers their tracks.The Thunder Spirits is the seventh in a series of novellas to feature Constable David Maratse in Greenland. Each novella is set during Maratse's career as a police constable, and features aspects of Greenlandic culture, tradition, and not least the stunning natural environment.Co...