This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war.

The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and the solider. This book will put these four elements under close scrutiny, and will explore how they fare given the following challenges:

• What role do the traditional elements of jus ad bellum and jus in bello—and the constituent principles that follow from this distinction—play in modern warfare? Do they adequately account for a normative theory of war?

• What is the role of the state in warfare? Is it or should it be the primary actor in just war theory?

• Can a just war be understood simply as a response to territorial aggression between state actors, or should other actions be accommodated under legitimate recourse to armed conflict?

• Is the idea of combatant qua state-employed soldier a valid ethical characterization of actors in modern warfare?

• What role does the technological backdrop of modern warfare play in understanding and realizing just war theories?

Over the course of three key sections, the contributors examine these challenges to the just war tradition in a way that invigorates existing discussions and generates new debate on topical and prospective issues in just war theory.

This book will be of great interest to students of just war theory, war and ethics, peace and conflict studies, philosophy and security studies.

In the 1960s, Tommy Bedford has the magnificent luck of escaping boarding school and moving to Hollywood to live with his older sister, rising ingénue Diane Reed, and her beau, suave cowboy actor Ray Montane. For a time, life is full and glamorous. But Hollywood has a darker side, and one day a shocking and deadly confrontation forces Diane and Tommy to flee.

Decades later, Tom Bedford has retreated into the isolated wilds of Montana. His biggest secret has corroded his life and ruined his marriage. Only when Danny, Tom's estranged son, is charged with murder while serving in Iraq is Tom finally forced to reckon with his demons. As he fights to save the son he has let slip away, Tom must confront the violence in his own past-and learn the true meaning of bravery.

Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers. Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith aim to change that. Their book guides the reader through the standard theories of knowledge while simultaneously using these as a springboard to introduce current debates. Each chapter concludes with a “Current Trends” section pointing the reader to the best literature dominating current philosophical discussion. These include: the puzzle of reasonable disagreement; the so-called “problem of easy knowledge”; the intellectual virtues; and new theories in the philosophy of language relating to knowledge.

Chapters include discussions of skepticism, the truth condition, belief and acceptance, justification, internalism versus externalism, epistemic evaluation, and epistemic contextualism. Evans and Smith do not merely offer a review of existing theories and debates; they also offer a novel theory that takes seriously the claim that knowledge is not unique to humans. Surveying current scientific literature in animal ethology, they discover surprising sophistication and diversity in non-human cognition. In their final analysis the authors provide a unified account of knowledge that manages to respect and explain this diversity. They argue that animals know when they make appropriate use of the cognitive processes available to animals of that kind, in environments within which those processes are veridically well-adapted.

Knowledge is a lively and accessible volume, ideal for undergraduate and post-graduate students. It is also set to spark debate among scholars for its novel approaches to traditional topics and its thoroughgoing commitment to naturalism.

In the 1960s, Tommy Bedford has the magnificent luck of escaping boarding school and moving to Hollywood to live with his older sister, rising ingénue Diane Reed, and her beau, suave cowboy actor Ray Montane. For a time, life is full and glamorous. But Hollywood has a darker side, and one day a shocking and deadly confrontation forces Diane and Tommy to flee.

Decades later, Tom Bedford has retreated into the isolated wilds of Montana. His biggest secret has corroded his life and ruined his marriage. Only when Danny, Tom's estranged son, is charged with murder while serving in Iraq is Tom finally forced to reckon with his demons. As he fights to save the son he has let slip away, Tom must confront the violence in his own past-and learn the true meaning of bravery.

Tom Bedford is living alone in the isolated wilds of Montana. Having distanced himself from his own troubled past, he rarely sees his ex-wife, and his son, Danny, is away in Iraq and hasn't spoken to him for years. Tom hasn't always been so removed from society. As a boy, his mother was a meteoric rising star in the glitzy, enchanted world of 1960s Hollywood. There, she fell in love with the suave Ray Montane, who played young Tom's courageous onscreen hero, Red McGraw, the fastest draw around. Tommy and his mother lived in a glamorous, Hollywood version of the Wild West. Everything was perfect, until the gold flaking on their magical life began to chip away, revealing an uglier truth beneath. Ray was not who he seemed. Tommy and his mother fell into a deadly confrontation with him, and they fled Hollywood forever, into the wilderness of the real West.

As a man, Tom has put all of that behind him--or so he thinks. Unexpectedly, his ex-wife calls, frantic: Danny has been charged with murder. In the chaos of war, his son has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry. The Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Tom, forced into action, is now suddenly alive again and fighting to save the son he'd let slip away. To succeed, he must confront the violence in his own past, and he finds that these two selves--the past and the present--which he'd fought so long to keep separate, are inextricably connected. As father and son struggle to understand one another, both are compelled to learn the true meaning of bravery.

Beautifully interlacing the past and present, the author of The Horse Whisperer reminds us that we are tied to the glories and mistakes of our own history. The Brave lives up to its name, as one the most courageous and full-hearted novels of our time.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the girl’s savage horse, and her own wounded heart. She comes for hope. She comes for her child. And beneath the wide Montana sky, she comes to him for what no one else can give her: a reason to believe.

Ogni giorno, nel dormitorio deserto del collegio, Tom solleva il coperchio del suo baule di legno e parla col cowboy Flint, il suo unico amico. È il 1959, Tommy Bedford ha otto anni, e quando l'adorata sorella Diane viene a prenderlo ad Ashlawn, nel cuore dell'Inghilterra, decisa a portarlo con sé a Hollywood, per lui si avvera un sogno che nemmeno aveva osato sognare. Perché Diane, astro nascente di quella stagione dorata del cinema, sta per sposarsi con Ray Montane, uno dei cowboy del piccolo schermo per cui Tom stravede. Ma nella vita pazza e vacua delle stelle del Sunset Boulevard basta poco perché un'esplosione di brutalità trasformi il sogno in tragedia: e quando il cowboy Ray si rivela per quello che è, non un eroe buono ma un uomo capace di una violenza feroce e meschina, il destino di Tom giungerà crudelmente a compimento. E la sua vita non sarà mai più la stessa. A cinquant'anni, il ragazzino che un tempo amava i cowboy è un uomo solo e amareggiato, che si è rifugiato nel Montana a coltivare il proprio dolore. Fino a quando irrompe nella sua vita Danny, il figlio ormai estraneo, partito per l'Iraq, che ora rischia la corte marziale per un'accusa di omicidio. Il dramma del figlio diventerà il dramma del padre, e costringerà Tom ad affrontare anche il proprio passato, e a liberarsi del segreto bruciante che ha piegato la sua esistenza. Trovando, per la prima volta, il coraggio di guardare la vita in faccia, e tornare finalmente ad amare.

This new edition continues to illustrate the application of statistical methods to research across various disciplines, including medicine, engineering, business/finance, and the social sciences. Thoroughly revised and updated, the authors have refreshed this book to reflect the changes and current trends in statistical distibution theory that have occured since the publication of the previous edition eight years ago. The introductory chapters introduce the fundamental concepts of the distributions and the relationships between variables. For each distribution that follows, the key formulae, tables and diagrams are presented in a concise, user-friendly format. Key facts and formulas for forty major probability distributions are presented, making the book an ideal introduction to the general theory of statistical distributions as well as a quick reference on its basic principles. 

Newly added coverage includes the exploration of connections between distributions using conditioning; discussion of distributions not addressed in the previous edition (such as Generalized Student-t, binomial distribution, and triangular distribution); and a thorough review of conditional probability, conditional expectations, and joint and marginal distributions. A new chapter on statistical inference has also been added, illustrating modeling strategies and the use of conditioning in model building, while also presenting an overview of both classical statistical inference and Bayesian statistical inference.

There's little love in eight-year-old Tom Bedford's life. His parents are old and remote and the boarding school they've sent him to bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. The only comfort he gets is from his fantasy world of Cowboys and Indians. But when his sister Diane, a rising star of stage and screen, falls in love with one of his idols, the suave TV cowboy Ray Montane, Tom's life is transformed. They move to Hollywood and all his dreams seem to have come true. Soon, however, the sinister side of Tinseltown casts its shadow and a shocking act of violence changes their lives forever.

What happened all those years ago remains a secret that corrodes Tom's life and wrecks his marriage. Only when his estranged son, a US Marine, is charged with murder do the events resurface, forcing him to confront his demons. As he struggles to save his son's life, he will learn the true meaning of bravery.

Powerfully written and intensely moving, The Brave traces the legacy of violence behind the myth of the American West and explores our quest for love and identity, the fallibility of heroes and the devastating effects of family secrets.

In una mattina d'inverno Grace, unica figlia di Annie, una giovane donna in carriera, e di Robert, un avvocato, viene travolta da un camion mentre è in sella al suo cavallo. La ragazzina, in seguito alla caduta, deve subire l'amputazione della gamba, ma anche Pilgrim, l'amato cavallo di Grace, è gravemente ferito e dovrebbe essere abbattuto. Tornati a casa, sia Grace che Pilgrim manifestano i sintomi di un grave trauma psicologico: Grace ha perso completamente la gioia di vivere, Pilgrim sembra in preda a una oscura follia e nessuno lo può avvicinare. Consapevole del legame che unisce sua figlia all'animale, sicura che guarirà solo se guarirà Pilgrim, Annie ricorre all'aiuto di un cowboy che ha il 'dono' di saper ammansire i cavalli selvaggi.

Che cosa hanno da dire la storia e l'archeologia sulla morte, sepoltura e risurrezione di Gesù? Due tra i più celebrati scrittori sul tema del Gesù storico condividono le loro più grandi scoperte. Evans e Wright esaminano gli eventi della vita di Gesù da un punto di vista storico, con la preoccupazione di vagliare le prove esistenti, in modo da ipotizzare ciò che più probabilmente accadde a Gesù negli ultimi giorni della sua esistenza terrena. Gli autori, come molti altri cristiani, riconoscono che determinare ciò che davvero ebbe luogo è vitale per la fede cristiana. La storia è quindi di cruciale importanza per comprendere il dramma e il significato travolgente degli ultimi giorni di Gesù sulla terra.. Craig A. Evans è Payzant Distinguished Professor di Nuovo Testamento e direttore del programma di specializzazione presso l'Arcadia Divinity College, in Canada. Tra i suoi libri più recenti troviamo: Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls, scritto insieme a John J. Collins, e Fabricating Jesus. N.T. Wright è vescovo di Durham, nella Chiesa d'Inghilterra. È autore di oltre quaranta libri, tra cui le famose 'guide per tutti' al Nuovo Testamento dal titolo Simply Christian e Surprised by Hope.

A new and exciting insight into the detective responsible for hunting Jack the Ripper.

The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.

• Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our collective intellectual heritage
• Questions why such linguistic diversity exists in the first place, and how can we can best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us
• Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, and draws on a wealth of vivid examples from his own field experience
• Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual ‘last speakers’ and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries

The fourth novel from the author of the internationally bestselling }The Horse Whisperer{ who has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. An epic thriller journeying from the streets of New York to the Rocky Mountains.

The phenomenal number one bestseller, which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1995, and which became a film starring Robert Redford.

New jacket design for this reissue of Evans' searing novel of love and loyalty.

Sotto il ghiaccio che copre un lago nel Montana appare il volto di una ragazza assassinata. È Abbie, giovane figlia di una ricca coppia della borghesia di New York: era fuggita da casa per unirsi a un gruppo di ecoterroristi responsabili di una serie di attentati e dell'uccisione del dirigente di una compagnia petrolifera. I genitori di Abbie, Ben e Sarah, si ritrovano per riconoscere il corpo della figlia. Sono separati da quattro anni, da quando Ben se n'è andato con un'altra donna; ed entrambi sanno che quella crisi familiare è alla radice della fuga di Abbie. Il romanzo di Evans ha il ritmo di un thriller e ruota attorno a un doppio mistero: la tragica morte di Abbie e la fine improvvisa del grande amore che per decenni ha legato i genitori.

In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honor, the acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Horse Whisperer gives his millions of readers another hero...

The Smoke Jumper

His name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his best friend and fellow “smoke jumper,” Ed Tully. Julia loves them both--until a fiery tragedy on Montana's Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them, and burns a brand on all their hearts.

In the wake of the fire, Connor embarks on a harrowing journey to the edge of human experience, traveling the world's worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but never happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, again and again he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, he must walk through fire once more...

Connor Ford e Ed Tully non potrebbero essere più diversi: Connor è un cowboy taciturno con la passione della fotografia, Ed è un musicista esuberante ed estroverso. Però sono amici per la pelle e hanno in comune due passioni: la prima è passare le vacanze a paracadutarsi in zone impervie per spegnere gli incendi che divampano nelle foreste, la seconda è Julia Bishop, la ragazza di Ed di cui si innamora anche Connor. Quando un fulmine scatena un inferno di fuoco nella foresta in cui i tre giovani stanno trascorrendo l'estate, le loro vite verranno cambiate per sempre.