Selena & Julie are sisters As children they were closest companions but as they grow towards maturity a rift develops between them There are greater rifts however Julie goes missing at the age of seventeen It will be twenty years before Selena sees her again When Julie reappears she tells Selena an incredible story about how she has spent time on another planet Selena has an impossible choice to make does she dismiss her sister as a damaged person the victim of delusions or believe her & risk her own sanity in the process? Is Julie really who she says she is & if she isn't what does she have to gain by claiming her sister's identity? ...

The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas & the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language the Rig Veda (c 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1000 individual Sanskrit hymns A work of intricate beauty it provides a unique insight into early Indian mythology religion & culture This selection of 108 of the hymns chosen for their eloquence & wisdom focuses on the enduring themes of creation sacrifice death women the sacred plant soma & the gods Inspirational & profound it provides a fascinating introduction to one of the founding texts of Hindu scripture
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A classic of science fiction from SF legend Gordon R Dickson winner of three Hugo awards a Nebula award & an inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame Humans & alien adversaries contend on a world whose inhabitants resemble bears both in appearance & in temperament A BEAR OF A CHOICE! Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans & their adversaries the Hemnoids Therefore making friends with the Dilbians & establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance which may be a problem since the bearlike Dilbians stand some nine feet tall & have a high regard for physical prowess They&re not impressed by human technology either A real man er bear doesn&t need machines to do his work for him But Dilbians are impressed by sharp thinking & some have expressed a grudging admiration for the logical (and usually sneaky) mental maneuvers that the human "shorties" have used to get themselves out of desperate jams Just maybe that old human craftiness will win over the Dilbians to the human side If not humanity loses a nexus & the Dilbians will learn just how unbearable Hemnoids can be! ...

Five leading thinkers on the concept of rights in an era of rightlessness Sixty years ago the political theorist Hannah Arendt deprived of her German citizenship as a Jew & in exile from her country observed that before people can enjoy any of the inalienable Rights of Man before there can be any specific rights to education work voting & so on there must first be such a thing as the right to have rights The concept received little attention at the time but in our age of refugee crises & extra-state war the phrase has become the center of a crucial & lively debate Here five leading thinkers from varied disciplines including history law & politics discuss the critical issue of the basis of rights & the meaning of radical democratic politics today" ...

In The Right to Maim Jasbir K Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state sexuality & biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical & methodological frameworks Puar uses the concept of debility-bodily injury & social exclusion brought on by economic & political factors-to disrupt the category of disability She shows how debility disability & capacity together constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations Puar's analysis culminates in an interrogation of Israel's policies toward Palestine in which she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure & enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies Tracing disability's interaction with debility & capacity Puar offers a brilliant rethinking of Foucauldian biopolitics while showing how disability functions at the intersection of imperialism & racialized capital ...

' We should write because it is human nature to write' Julia Cameron For those jumping into the writing life for the first time & for those already living it the art of writing will never be the same after reading this book Provocative thoughtful & exciting The Right to Write will draw you back again & again as you seek to liberate & cultivate the writer residing within you This isn't a book of rules which can stifle creativity
- it's a book about using writing to bring clarity & passion to the act of living The secret is in breaking loose from the grip of your established thought process to unleash the wave of creativity which is striving to express itself With the techniques & illustrative stories in The Right to Write you'll learn how to make writing a natural & intensely personal part of your life You'll also discover the details of Cameron's own writing processes the ones she uses to create her poetry plays essays novels & bestselling books including the world famous The Artist's Way
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In 2009 Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975 when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker & naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide In the years that followed Demjanjuk was twice stripped of his American citizenship & sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as " Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka--only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history Finally in 2011 after eighteen months of trial a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler's SS in the murder of 28060 Jews at Sobibor a death camp in eastern Poland An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuk's bizarre case The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention & a vital meditation on the law's effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history ...

In The Righteous Mind psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationships Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' & 'freedom' mean such different things to different people? Why is it so hard to see things from another viewpoint? Why do we come to blows over politics & religion? Jonathan Haidt reveals that we often find it hard to get along because our minds are hardwired to be moralistic judgemental & self-righteous He explores how morality evolved to enable us to form communities & how moral values are not just about justice & equality
- for some people authority sanctity or loyalty matter more Morality binds & blinds but using his own research Haidt proves it is possible to liberate ourselves from the disputes that divide good people'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times'A truly seminal book' David Goodhart Prospect'A tour de force
- brave brilliant & eloquent It will challenge the way you think about liberals & conservatives atheism & religion good & evil' Paul Bloom author of How Pleasure Works ' Compelling a fluid combination of erudition & entertainment' Ian Birrell Observer' Lucid & thought-provoking deserves to be widely read' Jenni Russell Sunday Times Jonathan Haidt is a social & cultural psychologist He has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1995 & is currently a visiting professor of business ethics at New York University's Stern School of Business He is the co-editor of Flourishing Positive Psychology & the Life Well Lived & is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

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Though an Englishman by birth he reacted violently against the political order of eighteenth-century England & in favour of radical reform RIGHTS OF MAN & COMMON SENSE are the two short books in which he elaborates his political & social theories in vivid simple prose which can still be read with pleasure & excitement today 360 pages Paine Thomas ...

Humane humorous & deeply felt this is a unique book about reading The Rights of the Reader which has sold over a million copies in France grew from celebrated French writer Daniel Pennac's experiences of teaching in challenging schools Central to the book is his belief that readers have rights to read what how where & when they want &
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- the right NOT to read This fresh new translation combines the talents of award-winning translator Sarah Adams & renowned artist Quentin Blake who illustrates & introduces the work

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