Author: Wendy Jean
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509832173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The thing about being the unstolen one is that you’d better be strong, you’d better stay safe, you’d better not rock any boats or surely they will sink. People depend on you, people who can’t take any more stress in their lives and you’d better count yourself lucky because after all, you weren’t taken, you’re still here and you better be grateful for all that’s been given to you because your brother sure didn’t get anything . . . Bethany Fisher’s life has always been overshadowed by her missing brother. Four-year-old Michael was abducted when Bethany was a baby and no trace of him was ever found. Twenty years later, Bethany is a college graduate and has a small son of her own. But her life is thrown into turmoil one evening when her mother follows a man home from the supermarket and savagely beats him to death. What could have made this mild, middle-aged woman suddenly snap? Packing the emotional punch of The Lovely Bones, this powerful novel explores how the comforting lies we tell ourselves can be ultimately more destructive than confronting difficult truths.
Unstolen
Author: Wendy Jean
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509832173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The thing about being the unstolen one is that you’d better be strong, you’d better stay safe, you’d better not rock any boats or surely they will sink. People depend on you, people who can’t take any more stress in their lives and you’d better count yourself lucky because after all, you weren’t taken, you’re still here and you better be grateful for all that’s been given to you because your brother sure didn’t get anything . . . Bethany Fisher’s life has always been overshadowed by her missing brother. Four-year-old Michael was abducted when Bethany was a baby and no trace of him was ever found. Twenty years later, Bethany is a college graduate and has a small son of her own. But her life is thrown into turmoil one evening when her mother follows a man home from the supermarket and savagely beats him to death. What could have made this mild, middle-aged woman suddenly snap? Packing the emotional punch of The Lovely Bones, this powerful novel explores how the comforting lies we tell ourselves can be ultimately more destructive than confronting difficult truths.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509832173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The thing about being the unstolen one is that you’d better be strong, you’d better stay safe, you’d better not rock any boats or surely they will sink. People depend on you, people who can’t take any more stress in their lives and you’d better count yourself lucky because after all, you weren’t taken, you’re still here and you better be grateful for all that’s been given to you because your brother sure didn’t get anything . . . Bethany Fisher’s life has always been overshadowed by her missing brother. Four-year-old Michael was abducted when Bethany was a baby and no trace of him was ever found. Twenty years later, Bethany is a college graduate and has a small son of her own. But her life is thrown into turmoil one evening when her mother follows a man home from the supermarket and savagely beats him to death. What could have made this mild, middle-aged woman suddenly snap? Packing the emotional punch of The Lovely Bones, this powerful novel explores how the comforting lies we tell ourselves can be ultimately more destructive than confronting difficult truths.
Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law
Author: Andrei Marmor
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191654752
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from philosophy of language to their work on the nature of law and legal interpretation. By making this body of recent work available in a single volume, readers will gain both a general overview of the various interactions between language and law, and also detailed analyses of particular areas in which this interaction is manifest. The contributions to this volume are grouped under three main general areas: The first area concerns a critical assessment, in light of recent advances in philosophy of language, of the foundational role of language in understanding the nature of law itself. The second main area concerns a number of ways in which an understanding of language can resolve some of the issues prevalent in legal interpretation, such as the various ways in which semantic content can differ from law's assertive content; the contribution of presuppositions and pragmatic implicatures in understanding what the law conveys; the role of vagueness in legal language, for example. The third general topic concerns the role of language in the context of particular legal doctrines and legal solutions to practical problems, such as the legal definitions of inchoate crimes, the legal definition of torture, or the contractual doctrines concerning default rules. Together, these three key issues cover a wide range of philosophical interests in law that can be elucidated by a better understanding of language and linguistic communication.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191654752
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from philosophy of language to their work on the nature of law and legal interpretation. By making this body of recent work available in a single volume, readers will gain both a general overview of the various interactions between language and law, and also detailed analyses of particular areas in which this interaction is manifest. The contributions to this volume are grouped under three main general areas: The first area concerns a critical assessment, in light of recent advances in philosophy of language, of the foundational role of language in understanding the nature of law itself. The second main area concerns a number of ways in which an understanding of language can resolve some of the issues prevalent in legal interpretation, such as the various ways in which semantic content can differ from law's assertive content; the contribution of presuppositions and pragmatic implicatures in understanding what the law conveys; the role of vagueness in legal language, for example. The third general topic concerns the role of language in the context of particular legal doctrines and legal solutions to practical problems, such as the legal definitions of inchoate crimes, the legal definition of torture, or the contractual doctrines concerning default rules. Together, these three key issues cover a wide range of philosophical interests in law that can be elucidated by a better understanding of language and linguistic communication.
Attempts
Author: Gideon Yaffe
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191642231
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Gideon Yaffe presents a ground-breaking work which demonstrates the importance of philosophy of action for the law. Many people are serving sentences not for completing crimes, but for trying to. So the law governing attempted crimes is of practical as well as theoretical importance. Questions arising in the adjudication of attempts intersect with questions in the philosophy of action, such as what intention a person must have, if any, and what a person must do, if anything, to be trying to act. Yaffe offers solutions to the difficult problems courts face in the adjudication of attempted crimes. He argues that the problems courts face admit of principled solution through reflection either on what it is to try to do something; or on what evidence is required for someone to be shown to have tried to do something; or on what sentence for an attempt is fair given the close relation between attempts and completions. The book argues that to try to do something is to be committed by one's intention to each of the components of success and to be guided by those commitments. Recognizing the implications of this simple and plausible position helps us to identify principled grounds on which the courts ought to distinguish between defendants charged with attempted crimes.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191642231
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Gideon Yaffe presents a ground-breaking work which demonstrates the importance of philosophy of action for the law. Many people are serving sentences not for completing crimes, but for trying to. So the law governing attempted crimes is of practical as well as theoretical importance. Questions arising in the adjudication of attempts intersect with questions in the philosophy of action, such as what intention a person must have, if any, and what a person must do, if anything, to be trying to act. Yaffe offers solutions to the difficult problems courts face in the adjudication of attempted crimes. He argues that the problems courts face admit of principled solution through reflection either on what it is to try to do something; or on what evidence is required for someone to be shown to have tried to do something; or on what sentence for an attempt is fair given the close relation between attempts and completions. The book argues that to try to do something is to be committed by one's intention to each of the components of success and to be guided by those commitments. Recognizing the implications of this simple and plausible position helps us to identify principled grounds on which the courts ought to distinguish between defendants charged with attempted crimes.
''Chrono'' Series
Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Case on Appeal (Volume 1-Pages 1 to 672)
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Security Protocols XXVI
Author: Vashek Matyáš
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030032515
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Cambridge, UK, in March 2018. The volume consists of 17 thoroughly revised invited papers presented together with the respective transcripts of discussions. The theme of this year's workshop was fail-safe and fail-deadly concepts in protocol design. The topics covered included failures and attacks; novel protocols; threat models and incentives; cryptomoney; and the interplay of cryptography and dissent.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030032515
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Cambridge, UK, in March 2018. The volume consists of 17 thoroughly revised invited papers presented together with the respective transcripts of discussions. The theme of this year's workshop was fail-safe and fail-deadly concepts in protocol design. The topics covered included failures and attacks; novel protocols; threat models and incentives; cryptomoney; and the interplay of cryptography and dissent.
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XLI
Author: David Marcum
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1804243647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Featuring Contributions by: Stephen Herczeg, Margaret Walsh, Paul D. Gilbert, Will Murray, David MacGregor, Barry Clay, Mike Chinn, Tim Newton Anderson, Ember Pepper (2 stories), Martin Daley, Arthur Hall, Naching T. Kassa, David Marcum, Adrian Middleton, and a poem by Kevin Patrick McCann. 53 New Traditional Canonical Holmes Adventures Collected in Three Companion Volumes Throughout the original Holmes Canon, there were hints and teases of other intriguing cases - The Tarleton Murders . . . The Grice-Paterson Curse . . . The Abernetty Tragedy. Watson mentions over one-hundred-and-twenty of these, which have collectively come to be known as The Untold Cases. Now, once again MX Publishing brings us fifty-three of these adventures in three simultaneously published volumes, with all royalties going to support the Undershaw school for special needs children, located at one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's former homes. "Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine . . . ." - Dr. John H. Watson So wrote Dr. Watson in "The Problem of Thor Bridge" - and ever since, Sherlockians have been seeking to know more about these tales from the legendary Tin Dispatch Box. While Watson's original Literary Agent only edited the pitifully few sixty stories that make up the original Canon, there have since been literally thousands of traditional adventures about the true Sherlock Holmes - and yet there will never be enough! In 2018, MX Publishing presented Parts XI and XII of this acclaimed and ongoing series, Some Untold Cases, and then in 2020, Parts XXII, XXIII, and XXIV returned to that theme with Some More Untold Cases. Now that concept is revisited with more Sherlock Holmes adventures that further explore those many tantalizing references to some of Holmes's other Untold Cases, as mentioned in The Canon. Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes, described by the estimable Dr. Watson as "the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known."
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1804243647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Featuring Contributions by: Stephen Herczeg, Margaret Walsh, Paul D. Gilbert, Will Murray, David MacGregor, Barry Clay, Mike Chinn, Tim Newton Anderson, Ember Pepper (2 stories), Martin Daley, Arthur Hall, Naching T. Kassa, David Marcum, Adrian Middleton, and a poem by Kevin Patrick McCann. 53 New Traditional Canonical Holmes Adventures Collected in Three Companion Volumes Throughout the original Holmes Canon, there were hints and teases of other intriguing cases - The Tarleton Murders . . . The Grice-Paterson Curse . . . The Abernetty Tragedy. Watson mentions over one-hundred-and-twenty of these, which have collectively come to be known as The Untold Cases. Now, once again MX Publishing brings us fifty-three of these adventures in three simultaneously published volumes, with all royalties going to support the Undershaw school for special needs children, located at one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's former homes. "Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine . . . ." - Dr. John H. Watson So wrote Dr. Watson in "The Problem of Thor Bridge" - and ever since, Sherlockians have been seeking to know more about these tales from the legendary Tin Dispatch Box. While Watson's original Literary Agent only edited the pitifully few sixty stories that make up the original Canon, there have since been literally thousands of traditional adventures about the true Sherlock Holmes - and yet there will never be enough! In 2018, MX Publishing presented Parts XI and XII of this acclaimed and ongoing series, Some Untold Cases, and then in 2020, Parts XXII, XXIII, and XXIV returned to that theme with Some More Untold Cases. Now that concept is revisited with more Sherlock Holmes adventures that further explore those many tantalizing references to some of Holmes's other Untold Cases, as mentioned in The Canon. Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes, described by the estimable Dr. Watson as "the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known."
Charles Dickens and 'Boz'
Author: Robert L. Patten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107380014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens' apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, and later to contain and extinguish him. His revision of Dickens' biography in the context of early Victorian social and political history and print culture opens up a more unstable, yet more fascinating, portrait of Dickens. The book tells the story of how Dickens created an authorial persona that highlighted certain attributes and concealed others about his life, talent and publications. This complicated narrative of struggle, determination, dead ends and new beginnings is as gripping as one of Dickens' own novels.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107380014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens' apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, and later to contain and extinguish him. His revision of Dickens' biography in the context of early Victorian social and political history and print culture opens up a more unstable, yet more fascinating, portrait of Dickens. The book tells the story of how Dickens created an authorial persona that highlighted certain attributes and concealed others about his life, talent and publications. This complicated narrative of struggle, determination, dead ends and new beginnings is as gripping as one of Dickens' own novels.
Changing Vessel
Author: Kelly Bauserman
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426936508
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Changing Vessel is a continuing journey into the sanctification process every Christian must go through. It highlights new insights into the Word of God, keeping strict adherence to the Word. How does the presence of, the thought of, the truth that Lord Jesus is alive, affect our daily lives? How should it affect our daily lives? It should at the very least bring peace and joy; if one is born of the Spirit, the Prince of Peace inside your heart, peace and joy should almost be tangible properties that other people can partake from you. The kind of peace that comes from knowing and walking in the Word and trusting in Lord Jesus Christ is all encompassing. The point of Changing Vessel is that Lord Jesus words even from two thousand years ago still apply, if you put them in todays perspective. There should be peace and joy in our lives knowing that we are loved, and that we will never be forsaken by Father God. We should be comforted knowing that all those who believe in Lord Jesus and obey Gods Word will have an Eternal Home in Heaven.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426936508
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Changing Vessel is a continuing journey into the sanctification process every Christian must go through. It highlights new insights into the Word of God, keeping strict adherence to the Word. How does the presence of, the thought of, the truth that Lord Jesus is alive, affect our daily lives? How should it affect our daily lives? It should at the very least bring peace and joy; if one is born of the Spirit, the Prince of Peace inside your heart, peace and joy should almost be tangible properties that other people can partake from you. The kind of peace that comes from knowing and walking in the Word and trusting in Lord Jesus Christ is all encompassing. The point of Changing Vessel is that Lord Jesus words even from two thousand years ago still apply, if you put them in todays perspective. There should be peace and joy in our lives knowing that we are loved, and that we will never be forsaken by Father God. We should be comforted knowing that all those who believe in Lord Jesus and obey Gods Word will have an Eternal Home in Heaven.
Historical Essays
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520220614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
Historical Essays provides an authoritative critical, annotated edition of Carlyle's essays on history and historical subjects.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520220614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
Historical Essays provides an authoritative critical, annotated edition of Carlyle's essays on history and historical subjects.