The number of amicus briefs has increased dramatically over the years, filed not only with the Supreme Court but also with regularity in federal courts of appeals, state supreme courts, and state intermediate appellate courts. This updated edition ofThe Amicus Brief answers these questions, among others:What are the functions of an amicus brief?When and how do you seek amicus support?How do you write an effective amicus brief?How do you ...

Enterprise Level Security: Securing Information Systems in an Uncertain World provides a modern alternative to the fortress approach to security. The new approach is more distributed and has no need for passwords or accounts. Global attacks become much more difficult, and losses are localized, should they occur. The security approach is derived fro

Despite more than half a century of theoretical work, the Casimir effect is still not as fully understood as some suppose. In this treatise, the author uncovers new puzzles and paradoxes concerning this mysterious phenomenon. In particular, he clearly demonstrates that the most sophisticated theories fail when confronted with dielectrics in which the refractive index is not uniform but gradually changes.

Forces of the Quantum Vacuum presents a number of theoretical approaches to Casimir, van der Waals and Casimir-Polder forces that have been fruitfully employed in mainstream research, and also reviews the experimental evidence for Casimir forces. Beginning with basic ideas in quantum mechanics and building its way to a sophisticated form of macroscopic QED, the book provides an inspiring training manual for graduate students to develop in a natural progression the ideas needed for modern t...

Enterprise Level Security 2: Advanced Topics in an Uncertain World follows on from the authors’ first book on Enterprise Level Security (ELS), which covered the basic concepts of ELS and the discoveries made during the first eight years of its development. This book follows on from this to give a discussion of advanced topics and solutions, derived from 16 years of research, pilots, and operational trials in putting an enterprise system together. The chapters cove...

"The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion" by William Simpson is a thought-provoking exploration of societal norms through the lens of an extraterrestrial visitor. The narrative presents a unique perspective on human behavior, morality, and the complexities of political systems. Through the eyes of the Martian, readers are invited to reflect on their own beliefs and the often arbitrary nature of societal constructs. Simpson's work challenges readers to question the status quo a...

A satirical examination of human morals, politics, and religion through the imagined perspective of an outsider.

Someone is stringing up blood drained corpses across the city, in what appear to be ritual killings, leaving the cops scrambling for answers before more bodies pile up. Meanwhile, Sun, a young woman recently added to the ranks of the blood sucking undead, feeds her hunger and rage on the men she feels deserve her wrath. Along with the police, more than one legendary vampire has their sights set on her too. A tale of blood, monsters, and those that walk amongst them seeking to help us all.

The Man from Mars His Morals Politics and Religion by William Simpson is a thought-provoking work of speculative satire that uses the imaginative device of a visitor from Mars to examine human institutions, beliefs, and social customs. Through the outsider’s curious and analytical perspective, Simpson explores morality, political systems, religious traditions, and the contradictions embedded within modern civilization. Blending humor, philosophical inquiry, and social criticism, the narrat...

Step into the imaginative and provocative world of William Simpson with The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion, an audiobook that explores human society, ethics, and beliefs through the eyes of an outsider. Simpson’s narrative combines speculative fiction with social commentary, inviting listeners to reflect on morality, politics, and religion from a fresh and thought-provoking perspective.The audiobook examines the peculiarities and ...

A memoir of an Allied soldier and former POW in Rome, and the unexpected support he received from the Italian people—and from a heroic Catholic monsignor.It is a widely held belief that the Italians in the Second World War failed to win much in the way of martial glory. But the scoffers tend to overlook the fact that most Italians had little or no feeling of animosity toward the Allies—and to wage war against an enemy with whom you have no quarrel is a contradictio...

In the early hours of 10 May 1940, Hitler's armed forces launched their invasion of France and the Low Countries. Shattering the tense peace of the Phoney War, German troops poured west over the borders of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, supported throughout by the Luftwaffe. Having been deployed to the Continent on the outbreak of war in 1939, the aircrew of the RAF's Advanced Air Striking Force had long trained and planned for, as well as anticipated, such a moment. Cons...