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  • Seven Modern Plagues

    and How We Are Causing Them

    Epidemiologists are braced for the big one: the strain of flu that rivals the pandemic of 1918-1919, which killed at least 20 million people worldwide. In recent years, we have experienced scares with a host of new influenza viruses: bird flu, swine flu, Spanish flu, Hong Kong flu, H5N1, and most recently, H5N7. While these diseases appear to emerge from thin air, in fact, human activity is ... Read more

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  • Florida Scrub-Jay

    Field Notes on a Vanishing Bird

    Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy AwardA portrait of a species on the brinkThe only bird species that lives exclusively in Florida, the Florida scrub-jay was once common across the peninsula. But as development over the last 100 years reduced the habitat on which the bird depends from 39 counties to three, the species became endangered. With a writer’s eye and an explorer’s spirit, Mark ... Read more

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  • The Ghosts by Gaslight MEGAPACK®

    From fog-shrouded railway carriages to candlelit séance rooms, from haunted manor houses to snow-swept country roads, the gaslight era produced some of the finest ghost stories ever written—and many of the best have been hiding in the yellowed pages of forgotten magazines for over a century.This collection gathers twenty tales of the supernatural from the Victorian and Edwardian periods, drawn ... Read more

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  • Criminalising Hate

    Law as Social Justice Liberalism

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents both a new theoretical framework for the criminalisation of hate, referred to as “law as social justice liberalism”, and a comprehensive analysis of hate crime laws that have been enacted globally. The book begins by reflecting back on 30 years of theorisation on hate crime laws, arguing that there has been a failure to adequately capture the distinct harms of hate-based ... Read more

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  • The Promise of Legality

    Critical Reflections on the Work of TRS Allan

    This book assembles critical contributions on the work of TRS Allan, the Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence and Public Law at the University of Cambridge, whose leading work in legal and constitutional theory spans almost 45 years.Allan has charted a distinctive path for legal, political, and moral theory and practice and has become a highly significant figure in the UK and in common law ... Read more

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  • Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process

    "The book does an outstanding job in covering all the necessary details on congressional rules and procedures, most of which are not easy to understand. [...] It has been and will remain to be a must-read for all the congressional politics students and Washington insiders."– Hong Min Park*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee*Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process examines the entire arc ... Read more

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  • Mysteries for Halloween

    Classic Ghost Stories, Occult Investigations, Haunted Crimes, and Uncanny Tales of Terror

    Mysteries for Halloween gathers an unusually capacious genealogy of the uncanny, ranging from classical marvel and Gothic romance to detective puzzle, psychological terror, spiritualist speculation, and supernatural satire. Its selections move among compact shock tales, antiquarian hauntings, sensational narratives, and eerie investigations, revealing how Halloween's atmosphere of threshold and ... Read more

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  • A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition

    A Legal Turn of Mind

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    In the common law world, Albert Venn Dicey (1835–1922) is known as the high priest of orthodox constitutional theory, as an ideological and nationalistic positivist. In his analytical coldness, his celebration of sovereign power, and his incessant drive to organize and codify legal rules separate from moral values or political realities, Dicey is an uncanny figure. This book challenges this ... Read more

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  • When the Lights Go on Again

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    Elaine West is a young girl growing up in Fresno, California in the wake of the Great Depression. While her family, like all families of the time, has struggled to make ends meet over the past few years, her life is generally happy and free from worry. Free, that is, until the attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor plunges the United States suddenly and unexpectedly into a global war.Now, the only thing ... Read more

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  • Halloween Mysteries

    A Witch's Den, The Black Hand, Number 13, The Birth Mark, The Oblong Box, The Horla, Ligeia…

    Halloween Mysteries is a compelling anthology that encapsulates a mesmerizing blend of tales, each echoing the chilling whispers and shadowy corners of the Halloween spirit. Encompassing an expansive range of literary styles from gothic to detective and beyond, the collection delves into the eerie, the unexplained, and the spectral. It not only celebrates the conventional hallmarks of horror and ... Read more

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  • "Without fear and with a manly heart"

    The Great War Letters and Diaries of Private James Herbert Gibson

    Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, Gibson enlisted against his father's wishes because he viewed the war as justified and felt he needed to do his part. "Without fear and with a manly heart" collects his personal letters and ... Read more

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