Widely considered two of the most controversial legal scholars, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt have been the subject of debate for almost a century. This book focuses on a limited but extremely important controversy between Kelsen and Schmitt: the answer to the question regarding the proper guardian of the constitution. This debate goes to the heart of political power and legal thinking. The work presents a detailed examination of the three key documents from 1927 to 1933 regarding this cont...

The Drowning Man is the story of Frank, unwilling resident of "another city, on another map". Following the discovery of his proscribed relationship with a man, he was forced to denounce his partner and move to the city to work for the totalitarian Party. Now, after several years, his ex has reappeared, and with him a spiralling set of circumstances that will draw Frank and the Party into an apocalyptic reckoning.As if Brazil had been directed by Wong Kar-Wai, or ...

This comprehensive second edition provides a pedagogical introduction to cell mechanics and mechanobiology. featuring quantitative descriptions of key concepts and solved examples throughout. The textbook demonstrates how understanding cellular responses to mechanical forces allows us to predict cell behavior and functionality in various environments.Introduction to Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology, Second Edition, asks key questions about the quantitative concepts that c...

Against the emergence of "the Internet of Bodies," Christopher O'Neill presents an incisive long history of biosensing technologies from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. As O'Neill shows, sensor technologies work by failing—if their mode of measure never quite captures the body, this is a feature and not a bug. Nobody and no body really fits into the Internet of Bodies, but the endless correction of biosensor errors works to endlessly extend the reach of the sensor society.

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of c...

Christopher Reid's poetry is shaped by incisive intent disguised as playfulness and by a powerful resistance to decorum and convention. Ordinary Morning Sunlight operates on a scale that is simultaneously quotidian and timeless, moving easily between here and elsewhere, past and present, life and death. Its structure is novel - a set of elegiac lyrics flanked by a pair of unlike verse narratives - but for all their disparateness the three parts share concerns, most notably that of...

A magical and chilling dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Between Two Fires.“You think you got away with something, don’t you? But your time has run out. We know where you are. And we are coming.”Andrew Ranulf Blankenship is a handsome, stylish nonconformist with wry wit, a classic Mustang, and a massive library. He is also a recovering alcoholic and a practicing warlock, able to speak with the dead...

From New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Golden comes a high concept horror novel about a man trying to protect his dead mother's body from the evil that is hunting them.Maggie Wise will take your eyes.When Malcolm was growing up, the local kids made up that chant about his mother, claiming she was a witch. He and his siblings did their best to ignore it. Now, Maggie is dying, and those same siblings have left Malcolm and his sister-in-la...

A gang of muscle-car obsessed vampires mess with the wrong woman in this thrilling horror from the New York Times bestselling author of Between Two Fires.Bram Stoker, quoting the ballad “Lenore,” said, “The dead travel fast.”Those words have never rung more true...Remember that car that passed you near midnight on Route 66, doing 105 with its lights off? You wondered where it was going so quickly on that dark, dust...

“A gunslinger adventure with good, clean fun!”With a stolen experimental starship and a pair of advanced synthetic limbs, he’s not your average bounty hunter.When he accepted the job on a backwater planet, Hunter thought it would be easy. He and his partner just had to track down a missing researcher. But when they find her, she’s fled a quarter of the way around the massive ring of twenty-seven gates and Hunter realizes all is not as he was told.Th...

Stable schools depend on retaining teachers, because when educators stay, students succeed.Teacher shortages dominate headlines, yet the problem is often misunderstood. Unfilled positions, underprepared teachers, and high turnover are treated as symptoms of a single national crisis, when in fact shortages vary widely by region, school, and subject. Ending Teacher Shortages reframes the issue and offers a clearer path forward. Tuan D. Nguyen and Christopher...

A stunning, first-of-its-kind, wordless picture book in the medium of stained glass about a group of kids riding through NYC, capturing the joy of Black childhood and the freedom of exploring a city that feels like it belongs to you, from Caldecott Honoree Christopher Myers.Setting out on a warm and glorious night, a group of kids grab their bikes to explore a city that for a moment in time feels like it belongs entirely to them. Riding from Harlem, through Central...