American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century. The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide. The Court is a logical culmination of the global trends toward expanding human rights and creating international institutions. The U.S., which fostered these trends because they served American na...

Gunnar A. V. Borg was born in Stockholm on 28. November 1927. Educated at Stockholm University, he obtained his Ph. D. from the University of Lund in 1962. Subsequently he held various teaching and research appointments at the University of Umea in northern Sweden, where he also served as President of the Graduate School of Social Work and Public Administration in 1966-1967. In 1971 he was appointed Professor at Stockholm University, where he headed the Institute of Applied Psychology for ...

We are all part of the history of the world. Erich Scharf, always viewed his life as part of a chain, a Jewish chain. He loved and lived history from a Jewish perspective. Erich, was not a rigorous 'religious' Jew. If anything, his interests in Physics and Philosophy probably had as great an influence in molding his beliefs, as did his experiences with Zionism and being raised Jewish in 1920-30s Vienna, amidst the rise of fascism and virulent antisemitism. As a teenager, he survived the po...

Displaced from their world and missing their memories, Luis, Morgan, Timm, and Lee joined with Smithers to navigate through Boston against foes both mystical and mundane alike. Just as they seemed to be getting their footing, their presence was noticed. Like kicking a hornets' nest, they were soon beset on all sides by a multitude of forces: some antagonistic, some mysterous, and some even willing to offer a helping hand. only one question remains: will they be able to identify which is wh...

The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its unique position in the cosmos to one of mediocrity, Cope...

An accessible epic, full-color visual journey through all scales of the universe."A beautifully illustrated survey of the universe and its constituent parts, from quarks to galaxies and beyond. . . . A superb composite of scientific knowledge that will no doubt inspire readers of all ages to learn more about our enigmatic universe." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In The Zoomable Universe...

Based on a TTRPG game of epic preportions, Lost and Bound follows five heroes as they traverse the strange and dangerous world of Boston, Massachusetts after awakening in a mental hospital with no memory of how they got there. Are these heroes really blessed with magical skills and martial prowess, or just a group of lunatics who think that? Either way, Boston is never going to be the same.

**“Full of fascinating insights drawn from an impressive range of disciplines, The Ascent of Information casts the familiar and the foreign in a dramatic new light.” —Brian Greene, author of The Elegant UniverseYour information has a life of its own, and it’s using you to get what it wants.**One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the ...

One of The Barnes and Noble Review Editors' Picks: Best Nonfiction of 2012**Selected by The Christian Science Monitor as one of "21 smart nonfiction titles we think you'll enjoy this summer"Selected by The New Scientist as one of 10 books to look out for in 2012**We've long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it comes to an end. Often billions of times more massive than the Sun, they lu...

A leading astrobiologist argues that space travel is an evolutionary event at least as important as life’s first journey from sea to land"The Giant Leap is a detailed and provocative exploration of what it means for life as we know it to escape the bounds of the only planet where it has ever been." —Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the UniverseThe story of life has always been one of great transitions, of cross...

Have you ever wondered why you were doing something a certain way without any real reason other than "that's the way it has always been done" or "that is what everyone else seems to be doing"?It seems that everyone prefers the well worn pat of common practice. Are you guilty?

Written as the decade-long Syria conflict nears an end, this is the first book-length treatment of how the Syrian war has changed international law. In The Syrian Conflict's Impact on International Law, the authors explain the history of the current conflict in Syria and discuss the principles and process of customary international law formation and the phenomenon of accelerated formation of customary international law known as Grotian Moments. They then explore specific examples, includin...