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This collection of short stories, set entirely in the future, takes
in everything from robot politicians to time travelling students
and plenty of creatures that I would be unable to describe fully in
this small space, some of them human. Some stories are allegorical,
some are political whilst others are simply quick yarns. The
stories here also fit a particular time line of events; so whilst
you don't need to read all of the stories in order to understand
each individual story, most of the tales are all interconnected by
a certain history of events. The influence of the Venusian War, the
advancement of robot spies and the importance of the Sphere should
hopefully become clear in a few hours!
Space has never EVER been so silly, so join Captain Spaceington and
Co at the final frontier of laughter! From the space slugs wreaking
havoc at the Space Prettiest Flower competition, to the flativerse
where everything is two-dimensional (top tip: you can only enter
the flativerse when flattened by a giant mallet), life onboard the
SS Star Cat is never dull!
Highlighting the just war tradition in historical perspective, this
valuable study looks at contemporary implications drawn out in the
context of several important contemporary debates: within the field
of religion, including both Christian and Islamic thought; within
the field of debate related to the international law of armed
conflicts; within the field of policy relating to the use of armed
force where the issue is just war thinking vs. realism; and debates
over pressing contemporary issues in the ethics of war which cross
disciplinary lines. James Turner Johnson has been writing on just
war tradition since 1975, developing the historical understanding
of just war and seeking to draw out its implications for
contemporary armed conflict. He is frequently asked to lecture on
topics drawn from his work. This current book brings together a
number of essays which reflect his recent thinking on understanding
how and why just war tradition coalesced in the first place, how
and why it has developed as it has, and relating contemporary just
war reasoning to the historical tradition of just war.
From the time of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes, political theorists
have depicted the state as "sovereign" because it holds preeminent
authority over all the denizens belonging to its geographically
defined territory. From the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 until the
beginning of World War I in 1914, the essential responsibities
ascribed to the sovereign state were maintaining internal and
external security and promoting domestic prosperity. This idea of
"the state" in political theory is clearly inadequate to the
realities of national governments and international relations at
the beginning of the twenty-first century. During the twentieth
century, the sovereign state, as a reality and an idea, had been
variously challenged from without and within its borders. What will
be the direction of the state in the age of globalisation? Can
Catholic political thinking contribute to an adequate concept of
statehood and government? A group of German and American scholars
were asked to explore specific ways in which the intellectual
traditions of Catholicism might help our effort to rethink the
state. The debate, as represented in the contributions to this
book, is guided by the conviction that these intellectual resources
will prove valuable to political theorists as they work to revise
our understanding of the state.
Highlighting the just war tradition in historical perspective, this
valuable study looks at contemporary implications drawn out in the
context of several important contemporary debates: within the field
of religion, including both Christian and Islamic thought; within
the field of debate related to the international law of armed
conflicts; within the field of policy relating to the use of armed
force where the issue is just war thinking vs. realism; and debates
over pressing contemporary issues in the ethics of war which cross
disciplinary lines. James Turner Johnson has been writing on just
war tradition since 1975, developing the historical understanding
of just war and seeking to draw out its implications for
contemporary armed conflict. He is frequently asked to lecture on
topics drawn from his work. This current book brings together a
number of essays which reflect his recent thinking on understanding
how and why just war tradition coalesced in the first place, how
and why it has developed as it has, and relating contemporary just
war reasoning to the historical tradition of just war.
The many storied monarchs of twelfth century England lived, fought,
loved, and died surrounded by their illegitimate relatives. While
their many contributions have too often been overlooked, these
illegitimate sons, daughters and siblings occupied crucial
positions within the edifice of royal authority, serving their
legitimate relatives as proxies and lieutenants. In addition to
occupying roles and offices at the centre of royal administration,
Anglo-Norman and Angevin royal bastards, exiled to the fringes of
family identity by a twist of fate, provided the kings of England
with military and political support from amidst the aristocratic
affinities into which they were embedded. Rather than merely inert
pieces on the dynastic game board or passive conduits of royal
association, these men and women were engaged participants in
contemporary politics, proactively cultivating and shaping the
thrones' relationship with its principal subjects. This book, the
first full length study dedicated to the subject, examines the
seminal conflicts and changing shape of the royal dynasty during a
period of turbulent and formative development in the nature and
institutions royal government through the rarely before accessed
perspective of the reigning monarchs' illegitimate family members
and deputies. More than that this study aims, as far as possible,
to illuminate and bring to life the lives, triumphs and tragedies
of these fascinating half-forgotten personages. The victims of a
rapid and profound demographic and social change which drastically
recontextualised their position with royal family identity and
aristocratic society, the bastards of the English royal family
found new methods to survive and thrive.
Sovereignty generally refers to a particular national territory,
the inviolability of the nation's borders, and the right of that
nation to protect its borders and ensure internal stability. From
the Middle Ages until well into the Modern Period, however, another
concept of sovereignty held sway: responsibility for the common
good. James Turner Johnson argues that these two conceptions --
sovereignty as self-defense and sovereignty as acting on behalf of
the common good -- are in conflict and suggests that international
bodies must acknowledge this tension. Johnson explores this earlier
concept of sovereignty as moral responsibility in its historical
development and expands the concept to the current idea of the
Responsibility to Protect. He explores the use of military force in
contemporary conflicts, includes a review of radical Islam, and
provides a corrective to the idea of sovereignty as territorial
integrity in the context of questions regarding humanitarian
intervention. Johnson's new synthesis of sovereignty deepens the
possibilities for cross-cultural dialogue on the goods of politics
and the use of military force.
This Companion provides scholars and graduates, serving and retired
military professionals, members of the diplomatic and policy
communities concerned with security affairs and legal professionals
who deal with military law and with international law on armed
conflicts, with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art
review of current research in the area of military ethics. Topics
in this volume reflect both perennial and pressing contemporary
issues in the ethics of the use of military force and are written
by established professionals and respected commentators. Subjects
are organized by three major perspectives on the use of military
force: the decision whether to use military force in a given
context, the matter of right conduct in the use of such force, and
ethical responsibilities beyond the end of an armed conflict.
Treatment of issues in each of these sections takes account of both
present-day moral challenges and new approaches to these and the
historical tradition of just war. Military ethics, as it has
developed, has been a particularly Western concern and this volume
reflects that reality. However, in a globalized world, awareness of
similarities and differences between Western approaches and those
of other major cultures is essential. For this reason the volume
concludes with chapters on ethics and war in the Islamic, Chinese,
and Indian traditions, with the aim of integrating reflection on
these approaches into the broad consideration of military ethics
provided by this volume.
iOS development is a real pleasure, that is until you have to try
and integrate the freewheeling development style of iOS with the
realities of enterprise software deployment. This book leads you
through the steps needed to create successful applications in the
enterprise, both for internal consumption and sale to end users.
You'll learn the pitfalls of concurrent project development, how to
interface Objective-C applications to legacy backend systems, how
to create unit tests and code metrics, how to implement automated
XCode builds, and more. The Apple App Store is a great marketplace,
but do you know how it can bite enterprise developers in the rear?
How do you maintain iOS applications for the long term? If you are
developing iOS applications in a corporate setting, you need to
read this book.
The sport of Full Contact Kickboxing demands the highest degree of
technical skill, physical conditioning and intellectual discipline.
Athletes must rely on their technical expertise by throwing all
kicks above the waist and winning the bout purely with kickboxing
techniques. A structured training programme is therefore essential.
Full Contact Kickboxing is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of
kickboxing training. Combining the expertise of an experienced
coach and kickboxing champion, it provides the motivation and
techniques needed to make better choices in and out of the ring,
and to become a disciplined and successful competitor. Featuring
over 380 photographs, this valuable training guide will help
readers to swiftly progress and gain a competitive edge. It will be
of great interest to all those interested in kickboxing principles,
from amateurs to professionals, from boxers to martial artists.
Rare photographs recall interiors of late Victorian mansions belonging to William H. Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, U.S. Grant, and many others. New informative text.
Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for
centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life,
encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and
the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as
well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was
the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than
an archaic word? In Philology, the first history of Western
humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English,
James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the
study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the
modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance,
if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common
origins--and what they still share--has never been more urgent.
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Star Cat (Paperback)
James Turner, Yasmin Sheikh
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In the deepest depths of space, there is only one crew brave enough
to take on the universe's most dangerous villains . . .
Unfortunately, they weren't available for this book, so you'll have
to make do with the crew of the . . . STAR CAT! Join Captain
Spaceington and his team as they blunder across the universe
getting into all sorts of hilarious hi-jinks and escapades as
Captain Spaceington tries to prove that he is worthy of the Bravest
Captain Medal. Space has never been this silly!
James Turner Johnson goes beyond the examination of moral
restraints on the occasion and conduct of war to a critical study
of the moral thinking that has aimed at its prevention. This
scrutiny of the peace issue" in Western society covers nearly two
thousand years of history and three traditions of the search for
peace: the just war tradition of setting limits to war, the
sectarian pacifism of withdrawal from the world and its evils, and
the Utopian world-perfecting pacifism that finds the cure for
discord among nations in the establishment of a new, more nearly
universal, and rightly constituted political order. Revealing the
historical depth of all three traditions, the book shows that
contemporary "nuclear pacifism" derives from forms of thought that
are centuries old. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
In this volume, a sequel to Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation
of War, James Turner Johnson continues his reconstruction of the
history of just war tradition by analyzing significant individual
thinkers, concepts, and events that influenced its development from
the mid-eighteenth century to the present.
Originally published in 1984.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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The Sacred and the Secular University (Hardcover)
Jon H. Roberts, James Turner; Introduction by John Frederick Wilson; Foreword by William G. Bowen, Harold T. Shapiro
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American higher education was transformed between the end of the
Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period,
U.S. colleges underwent fundamental changes--changes that helped to
create the modern university we know today. Most significantly, the
study of the sciences and the humanities effectively dissolved the
Protestant framework of learning by introducing a new secularized
curriculum. This secularization has long been recognized as a
decisive turning point in the history of American education. Until
now, however, there has been remarkably little attention paid to
the details of how this transformation came about. Here, at last,
Jon Roberts and James Turner identify the forces and explain the
events that reformed the college curriculum during this era.
The first section of the book examines how the study of science
became detached from theological considerations. Previously, one of
the primary pursuits of "natural scientists" was to achieve an
understanding of the workings of the divine in earthly events.
During the late nineteenth century, however, scientists reduced the
scope of their inquiries to subjects that could be isolated,
measured, and studied objectively. In pursuit of "scientific
truth," they were drawn away from the larger "truths" that they had
once sought. On a related path, social scientists began to pursue
the study of human society more scientifically, attempting to
generalize principles of behavior from empirically observed
events.
The second section describes the revolution that occurred in the
humanities, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, when the study
of humanities was largely the study of Greek and Latin. By 1900,
however, the humanities were much more broadly construed, including
such previously unstudied subjects as literature, philosophy,
history, and art history. The "triumph of the humanities"
represented a significant change in attitudes about what
constituted academic knowledge and, therefore, what should be a
part of the college curriculum.
"The Sacred and the Secular University" rewrites the history of
higher education in the United States. It will interest all readers
who are concerned about American universities and about how the
content of a "college education" has changed over the course of the
last century.
" Jon Roberts and James Turner's] thoroughly researched and
carefully argued presentations invite readers to revisit
stereotypical generalizations and to rethink the premises developed
in the late nineteenth century that underlie the modern university.
At the least, their arguments challenge crude versions of the
secularization thesis as applied to higher education."--From the
foreword by William G. Bowen and Harold T. Shapiro
In this volume, a sequel to Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of
War, James Turner Johnson continues his reconstruction of the
history of just war tradition by analyzing significant individual
thinkers, concepts, and events that influenced its development from
the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Originally published in
1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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