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When Janine, Aiden Fesyo's long-term girlfriend, announces she's earned a promotion and is leaving, she also informs him that he has a four-year-old child out there somewhere. Janine vows the child will never be found. Aiden believes otherwise. In his search, he encounters people linked to members of the latest team on the "HorrorShow," a 3D sorreality contest where contestants pass through nine circuses on California Island to win a trillion-dollar prize. The team consists of a spangled banner of races and troubled pasts, assembled by the government to stave off bankruptcy. There's a gay Hispanic gymnast whose lover died of retroviral plague; a Native American stunt coordinator whose coward...
In a groundbreaking book that calls on the world's religions to look at what they have in common, author and scholar Brian Lepard offers hope to a world community that has become dangerously fractionalized by economic, social, religious, and political differences. In Hope for a Global Ethic Lepard cogently argues that different societies have much more in common than they might otherwise think, beginning with a profound historic and lasting belief in religion, and that our fearful and often suspicious view of other people may be overcome by exploring what is shared in these religions. Hope for a Global Ethic moves significantly beyond ideology to discuss the values that all people have shared through the faiths of the world. It is these values that offer hope in our fearful, disordered, and terrorized world.
[In this text, the author] provides [an] exploration of legal and moral justifications for humanitarian intervention ... He opens new analytic vistas and provides a foundation for resolving conflicts over the content of the law. He [also] applies the framework in masterly examinations of intervention in Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, and Kosovo.-Back cover.
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"Rules of the supreme court. In force February 1, 1914": v. 94, p. vii-xx.
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