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  • Y2K

    Awaken

    by Kamm . ...
    In the quiet town of Westbrook, beneath the warm, glowing Texas sun, something has been stirring for decades. They look like us. They even walk among us. They can mate with humankind. But nothing could have prepared anyone for what is about to unfold."Y2K: Awaken" follows three extraordinary protagonists as they uncover the truth about their origins, confront the traumas of their past, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan

    Historical Perspectives and New Horizons

    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    With the spread of manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese cartoons) around the world, many have adopted the Japanese term 'otaku' to identify fans of such media. The connection to manga and anime may seem straightforward, but, when taken for granted, often serves to obscure the debates within and around media fandom in Japan since the term 'otaku' appeared in the niche publication Manga ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Maria Cross

    Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Catholic Writers

    The first literary phase in the brilliant and protean career of Conor Cruise O'Brien was his work as critic for Dublin literary magazine The Bell, which begat this collection of essays first published in 1952 (under the pseudonym 'Donat O'Donnell', as O'Brien was then a working civil servant.) In it, O'Brien set himself to a study of 'the patterns of several exceptionally vivid imaginations which ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Secure IT Systems

    30th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2025, Tartu, Estonia, November 12-13, 2025, Proceedings

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2025, held in Tartu, Estonia, during November 12-13, 2025.The 29 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Cryptography; Artificial Intelligence and Software Security; Network and ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Secure IT Systems

    29th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2024 Karlstad, Sweden, November 6–7, 2024 Proceedings

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2024, held in Karlstad, Sweden, during November 6–7, 2024.The 25 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. They focus on topics such as: Authentication; Cryptography; Cyber-Physical Systems; Cybersecurity and Policy; LLMs for Security; ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Classic Restaurants of Indianapolis

    Series series American Palate
    Indianapolis boasts a few restaurants more than one hundred years old. Eateries like the legendary Hollyhock Hill and St. Elmo's Steakhouse are classic staples in the capital city. But for every legendary local restaurant that exists today, several more are mere memories. Diners can no longer feast on heaping piles of coconut shrimp at the Key West Shrimp House or sip on a Brandy Alexander at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rights and Their Limits

    In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics

    by F.M. Kamm ...
    In this volume, F.M. Kamm explores how theories as well as hypothetical and practical cases help us understand rights and their limits. The book begins by considering moral status and its relation to having rights (including whether non-human animals have rights and what rights future persons have). The author then considers whether rights are grounded in duties to oneself, which duties are ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • To Katanga and Back

    A UN Case History

    July 1960: The newly independent Congo is hit by the secession of its mineral rich-province Katanga, led by Moïse Tshombe and backed by Belgium and Britain.June 1961: Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien arrives in Katanga as Special Representative of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, his task (under a UN resolution) to arrest and repatriate the mercenaries and foreign interests propping up ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Suspecting Glance

    The Suspecting Glance (first published in 1972) collects Conor Cruise O'Brien's four T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures as delivered at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in November 1969. The lectures were inspired by O'Brien's experience of holding the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities at New York University from 1965-9, and there teaching students in whom he noted burning radical convictions ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Peace, Perfect Peace

    Instinctively Frances fumbled in her handbag for a torch before she faced the lights and the certainty of the lifted black-out. For some time now she had taken streetlighting for granted, but in her present sense of withdrawal she had forgotten.Set just after World War II, Peace, Perfect Peace is a poignant and humorous tale about women readjusting and rebuilding their lives after the upheavals of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Passion and Cunning

    and Other Essays

    Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. B. Yeats is the title-piece for this superb 1988 collection of pieces on politics, religion, nationalism and terrorism.'O'Brien is a man of strong views, and he writes with verve and wit. Agree with him or not, one reads him with enjoyment.' Foreign Affairs'[ Passion and Cunning] displays once ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Reparations and Reparatory Justice

    Past, Present, and Future

    Changes at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African descent. The distinguished editors of this volume have gathered works that chronicle the historical movement for reparations both in the United States and around the world.Sharing a focus on reparations as an issue of justice, the contributors provide a historical primer of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD