A pair of teens visiting their wealthy cousin in a sleepy seaside town stumble upon a family mystery in this suspenseful Newbery Honor Book. Oliver and Janet sense immediately that something\'s wrong with Cousin Jasper, who barely acknowledges their arrival and remains strangely nervous and preoccupied. The brother and sister soon realize that the trouble is not confined to their cousin\'s house conflict

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pIra Brent Driggers examines the character of God as portrayed in the Gospel of Mark, paying particular attention to the way God factors into the unfolding conflict between Jesus and his disciples. Arguing that Mark depicts God as acting in two logically opposite ways, both independently of Jesus as a distinct character and through Jesus possessing him from his baptism, he adds a level of complexity

piDefectivei iInstitutions ioverturns the basis of institutionalism.i Faithi in classic institutions--exposed as clamorously inadequate by the failure of governance under neoliberalism--does not result in greater democracy, greater horizontality, or more equitable living. Nor does trust in the standing of decisions, in the authority of antecedent cases, in the coherence, strength, continuity, or solidity

The Making of the Modern Law Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises

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Lao-Tzu\'s Tao-te Ching the earliest version dated back to the late 4th Century, B.C. has been translated to western languages over 250 times. Perhaps it doesn\'t need another translation. But this great text has the power to command and compel writers. Its effect does not diminish over time rather, it ceaselessly invites new eyes. Translating the Tao is an act of reverence, is to become yet another

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pCritical social work encourages emancipatory personal and social change. This text focuses on the challenge of incorporating critical theory into the practice of social workers and provides case studies and insights from a range of fields to illustrate how to work with tensions and challenges. pBeginning with an outline of the theoretical basis of critical social work and its different perspectives,

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This book provides insight into the use of molecular and genomic techniques to the study of populations of critically important species at various geographical scales.

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