If humanity has learned anything from the horrors of the war against terror, it is that our one hope is democracy. This work argues that Canada has pursued an ethically cockeyed war against terror. In order to use military force abroad, the government fussed over the need for UN approval. At home, however, there are no such restraints. ...

Describes the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, & duality. This book focuses on adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representations of functors by sets of morphisms, & a means of manipulating direct & inverse limits. ...

Studies the universal constructions & properties in categories of commutative algebras, showing that the concepts arising in commutative algebra & algebraic geometry are not bound to the universe of rings but possess a universality that can be interpreted in various domains of discourse. ...

Rodl traces how the Fregean influence on analytic philosophy led to an unholy alliance of an empiricist conception of sensibility with an inferentialist conception of thought. He turns to Kant & Aristotle to untangle the relation of judgment & truth to time, & shows that investigating categories of the temporal can contribute to logic. ...

TV disaster mini-series, with Chicago about to bear the brunt of a triple-whammy storm front. Just days before he's about to retire, chief meteorologist Andy Goodman (Brian Dennehy) discovers three separate weather systems about to simultaneously hit his city: an Arctic front from the north, a tornado cluster approaching from the west, & a drought-inducing system moving up from the south. If that isn't bad enough, when the city's main generating plant is destroyed, there's no way of informing the greater population of the coming dangers. It soon falls to intrepid TV reporter Amy Harkins (Nancy Mc Keon) & Midwest Electric chief Mitch Benson (Thomas Gibson) to spread the word before the whole national grid collapses. ...

As hurricane Helena bears down on Bermuda, Donovan Nash & other members of the scientific research organisation Eco-Watch are called to fly in & extract key government people who have been studying Helena. For Nash, the routine mission turns deadly when an attempt is made on the life of the lead scientist
- & a woman from his past.
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