New Releases by Christopher Bennett

In this thrilling narrative, we follow an unnamed Maritime Security Officer-referred to as Lieutenant Rivers-on board the USNS SBX-1, a high-tech vessel deployed for missile defense in the Arctic. The story begins with Rivers'' arduous journey to the SBX-1, where he grapples with the weight of his mission: to protect the ship from external threats and uncover the mysteries lurking beneath the ice. As tensions rise, Rivers and his crew thwart an attack from a shadowy group known as Project Aether, which seeks to harness the SBX-1''s capabilities for their own nefarious purposes. During intense skirmishes, they uncover plans related to the "Custodians," a secretive faction with ambitions tied to the ice wall, which they believe holds the key to otherworldly phenomena. The narrative delves into conspiracy theories, exploring the flat Earth theory and alien lore as Rivers experiences strange occurrences that bolster these claims. As the crew investigates, they find themselves in increasingly dangerous situations, facing adversaries who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. The climax unfolds during a fierce confrontation with the Custodians, who launch an incursion to breach the ice wall. Rivers leads his team in a desperate battle to protect their mission and uncover the truth. Their victory is bittersweet, as they realize that the Custodians are not defeated but merely regrouping for a more significant threat. In the epilogue, Rivers reflects on their harrowing experiences and the implications of their findings. The SBX-1 remains vigilant, symbolizing humanity''s defense against the unknown. As the crew prepares for future challenges, Rivers understands that their fight has only just begun, and the secrets of the ice wall may hold consequences far beyond their comprehension. The story encapsulates themes of bravery, the search for truth, and the enduring struggle against unseen forces, blending elements of science fiction and conspiracy theory while keeping readers on the edge of their seats.

Roy Boy is the compelling story of Christopher Bennett who was born and raised in the working-class suburb of Fitzroy in the 1950s and 1960s. In those days it was considered a slum area and the close-knit community had more than its fair share of ratbags, drunks and crooks. A cheeky and boisterous kid of migrant parents, Chris roamed the streets and nearby haunts for fun and adventure and found much more than he bargained for - including trouble with authorities and exile from his home and family.

This thought-provoking and timely book asserts that the dichotomy between leaders and managers described in much business literature fails to recognize how the two roles overlap. The book discusses techniques for senior executives based on history and neuroscience to enhance their "managerial leadership" in different environments. The ethical dilemmas of directors and executives are explored, with lessons from both leadership failures and successes. The Principles and Practice of Effective Leadership redefines "leadership" as a morally neutral activity, reflecting the impact of strategic, cultural and operational contexts on a leader’s effectiveness. The authors suggest there are universal but morally neutral techniques for effective leadership that depend on the context in which they are practiced. In Part 1, the careers and personalities of historical figures including Elizabeth Tudor, Napoleon, and Atatürk are examined. Part 2 deliberates on why leadership cannot be separated from effective management and concludes that leadership is managerial, and best encapsulated in the concept of "wayfinding." In Part 3, the authors discuss the techniques "wayfinders" can learn to be both effective and ethical, using a simple and practical framework. This insightful book is essential reading for professionals, coaches, consultants, and academics interested in techniques and ethics of leadership and executive education.

How do we punish others socially, and should we do so? In her 2018 Descartes Lectures for Tilburg University, Linda Radzik explores the informal methods ordinary people use to enforce moral norms, such as telling people off, boycotting businesses, and publicly shaming wrongdoers on social media. Over three lectures, Radzik develops an account of what social punishment is, why it is sometimes permissible, and when it must be withheld. She argues that the proper aim of social punishment is to put moral pressure on wrongdoers to make amends. Yet the permissibility of applying such pressure turns on the tension between individual desert and social good, as well as the possession of an authority to punish. Responses from Christopher Bennett, George Sher and Glen Pettigrove challenge Radzik''s account of social punishment while also offering alternative perspectives on the possible meanings of our responses to wrongdoing. Radzik replies in the closing essay.

In Kierkegaard''s and Heidegger''s Analysis of Existence and its Relation to Proclamation (1950), Løgstrup offers an original critique of these key thinkers. Arguing against their idea that ''life in the crowd'' threatens individuality, he proposes an ethic beyond social rules: a requirement to care for a person whose life is placed in your hands.

Many U.S. students arrive on college campus lacking the skills expected for college-level work. As state leaders seek to increase postsecondary enrollment and completion, public colleges have sought to lessen the delays created by remedial course requirements. Tennessee has taken a novel approach by allowing students to complete their remediation requirements in high school. Using both a difference-in-differences and a regression discontinuity design, we evaluate the program''s impact on college enrollment and credit accumulation, finding that the program boosted enrollment in college-level math during the first year of college and allowed students to earn a modest 4.5 additional college credits by their second year. We also report the first causal evidence on remediation''s impact on students'' math skills, finding that the program did not improve students'' math achievement, nor boost students'' chances of passing college math. Our findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of the current model of remediation--whether in high school or college--in improving students'' math skills. They also suggest that the time cost of remediation--whether pre-requisite or co-requisite remediation--is not the primary barrier causing low degree completion for students with weak math preparation.

In the book Blender Recipe Book: 100 Recipes for Blender Cooking, author Christopher Bennett will show you how to make the most use of your blender, which you have probably overlooked or underused in your culinary excursions to date. Your blender is one of the most powerful tools in your kitchen. Maybe you have noticed at one point or another the force with which it operates, but until you take the time to experiment with and explore just what your blender is capable of, you cannot truly grasp just how powerful it is. Once you let your creative juices flow and stretch your imagination, seeing what is possible with your blender instead of just what you have seen done with it already, you can achieve true blender mastery and taking your cooking skills to the next level! This blender recipe book will open your eyes to the wonders of a blender diet, blender cooking, and blender recipes in general. All the recipes in Blender Recipe Book are quick and simple. These recipes cover a variety of dishes, including smoothies, cocktails, soups, pasta, lemonades, desserts, and pates. Whether you are following a strict diet or just looking for any foods that will tantalize your taste buds most effectively, you will find at least a few recipes to call your own within these pages. You can whip up most of these dishes in less than 15 minutes, and each recipe features a guiding photo. A whole cookbook about blenders! Just just think: you can read this blender book on your Kindle while you cook and unravel the mysteries of your blender step by step.

Der Planet Droplet ist eine Welt, die hauptsächliche aus Wasser besteht, ohne den kleinsten Flecken festen Bodens. Hier sollte es kein Leben geben, dennoch gedeiht es. Aili Lavena, die aquatische Pilotin der Titan, führt die Erforschung dieser geheimnisvollen Welt an und stellt sich der Gefahr des riesigen, wilden Ozeans. Eine der einheimischen Spezies entpuppt sich als empfindungsfähig und Lavena findet sich in einer heiklen Kontaktsituation wieder. Als schließlich gute Absichten großes Unheil anrichten, werden Lavena und Riker von der Mannschaft abgeschnitten und als vermisst gemeldet. So muss Troi ein lebensveränderndes Ereignis ohne ihren Ehemann durchstehen, während die Besatzung versucht, ein globales Chaos ungeschehen zu machen, das sie verursacht hat ...

Als die Titan in eine unbekannte Region des Raums vordringt, werden die Telepathen in ihrer Crew - einschließlich des Diplomatie-Offiziers Deanna Troi - von einem fremden Schrei der Qualen überwältigt. Das führt die Crew zu dem Ort eines schockierenden Blutbads: Eine Zivilisation interstellarer "Walfänger" macht Jagd auf eine bekannte Spezies intelligenter im Raum lebender Giganten. Entsetzt, aber entschlossen nicht vorschnell zu urteilen, beginnen Captain William Riker und seine Crew eine Untersuchung und entdecken einen kosmischen Laichgrund in einer Region aktiver Sternbildung - das Ökosystem einer verblüffenden Reihe vielfältiger, aber ebenso riesiger Lebensformen. Bei dem Versuch die Ausbeutung dieser Kreaturen zu beenden, überlässt Rikers Crew ihnen die Mittel, der Jagd auf sie ein Ende zu bereiten ... nur um zu entdecken, dass nicht alles so ist, wie es scheint.

This is a birthday present for my fiance. She is the love of my life and my best friend. I love her with all my heart.

Each June the world''s toughest mountain bike race is held. Covering over 2,650 miles with over 170,000 feet of climbing, the race course follows dirt roads, muddy tracks and snow covered mountains along the Continental Divide from Banff Canada to the Mexican border at Antelope Wells New Mexico. This is the Tour Divide, a unique race where the clock never stops and outside support is forbidden. It is the rider and their bike against the elements-and the internal demons. The Cordillera is the journal of the Tour Divide. 2016 saw the first ever sub-14 day ride. There was an unprecedented number of animal encounters. The weather was torrid. The Cordillera Volume 8 shares the stories of the successes, and challenges, of the 2016 Tour Divide. It shares the experiences of athletes plumbing the depths of endurance, in the transformational experience that is the Tour Divide.

The Path of War continues onward! Inside the pages of this tome, your options for martial characters more than double! Within Path of War Expanded you will find more maneuvers, stances, and feats for your existing martial disciples as well as a host of new options! There are new classes, archetypes, martial traditions, and even the new class template that provides a way to use a single archetype for different character classes. Path of War Expandedcontains: Three new base classes, from the ill-omened harbinger, to the psychic zealot, and finally the arcane mystic who all mix supernatural elements into their martial combat styles. Nine new martial disciplines like Cursed Razor, Eternal Guardian, and Sleeping Goddess A host of archetypes for the three original classes from Path of War and the three new classes from Path of War Expanded Martial archetypes for core and psionic classes, including options for the Aegis, Dread, and Marksman classes from Ultimate Psionics Class templates, which provides archetypes that work across multiple classes Martial style feats for all the different disciplines, including those originally found in Path of War like Iron Tortouise and Solar Wind More than a dozen new martial traditions And new and optional rules and clarifications to martial combat that will take your martial characters to a whole new level! Come and enjoy the spoils of battle with Path of War Expanded! This version of Path of War Expanded has black & white interior.

Exhibition catalog by Dr. Christopher Bennett; Published on the occasion of two concurrent solo exhibitions by Yun-Fei Ji and Sandra Eula Lee. Feb 3 - May 6, 2017, at Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana.

The scale of international investment in peace-building in Bosnia has been unprecedented. A plethora of international institutions, including the EU, the IMF, the OHR, the OSCE, the World Bank and the United Nations, as well as many development agencies, set about piecing the country together,a process cushioned by generous flows of aid. However, despite the massive international commitment in time, resources and effort, a decade and a half later Bosnia''s peace is at best paralyzed. War remains a risk because of the myriad of unresolved issues, zero-sum politics and incompatiblepositions of rival ethno-national leaders.In the face of paralysis, international officials repeat the mantra that there is no alternative to Bosnia''s European path and urge the country''s leaders to see sense, to temper their rhetoric and to carry out internationally approved reforms. To no avail.Christopher Bennett argues that the failure of peace-building is the failure of the ''liberal peace model''. Policy-makers have focused on ''what should be'' in terms of trying to reproduce Western liberal democracy, rather than ''what is'' in Bosnia, where ethno-national security concerns remaincritically important to most people.Bennett''s book offers a comprehensive analysis of stalled peace process. He concludes by proposing a paradigm shift in strategy aimed at ensuring a self-sustaining ethno-national security for all of its peoples.

Each June the world''s toughest mountain bike race is held. Covering over 2,650 miles with over 170,000 feet of climbing, the race course follows dirt roads, muddy tracks and snow covered mountains along the Continental Divide from Banff Canada to the Mexican border at Antelope Wells New Mexico. This is the Tour Divide, a unique race where the clock never stops and outside support is forbidden. It is the rider and their bike against the elements-and the internal demons. The Cordillera is the journal of the Tour Divide. 2015 was an epic year with ideal racing conditions. This saw both the men''s and woman''s records fall. After two weeks of racing, the first three men finished within 46 minutes of each other. The Cordillera Volume 7 shares the stories of the successes, and challenges, of the 2015 Tour Divide. It shares the experiences of athletes plumbing the depths of endurance, in the transformational experience that is the Tour Divide.

It''s no secret that the sales and marketing game has changed drastically for business owners over the last few years. What used to work yesterday, if it hasn''t evolved, has become dormant, unproductive, and simply ineffective. With so many options and ways to market your business, how do you choose what marketing techniques and sales methods will convert best for your business? How do you effectively measure your business marketing performance? How do you develop and execute your sales and marketing strategy, tailored to your business needs? The book gathers a series of strategic marketing tips that if read and executed, will indeed improve the reader''s average leads and customer conversions. Monday Morning Marketing was written to give the reader the feeling that they''re getting one to one coaching, with their very own personal business marketing coach. This book is written for the person who''s seriously considering starting his or her own business, as well as for seasoned entrepreneurs who are ready to take their business to the next level. This book is also for experienced business owners who have not become complacent but still seek to find new innovative ideas and methods to consistently increase their leads and convert more customers.

What is morality? How do we define what is right and wrong? How does moral theory help us deal with ethical issues in the world around us? This second edition provides an engaging and stimulating introduction to philosophical thinking about morality. Christopher Bennett provides the reader with accessible examples of contemporary and relevant ethical problems, before looking at the main theoretical approaches and key philosophers associated with them. Topics covered include: life and death issues such as abortion and global poverty; the meaning of life; whether life is sacred and which lives matter; major moral theories such as utilitarianism, Kantian ethics and virtue ethics; critiques of morality from Marx and Nietzsche. What is this Thing Called Ethics? has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout, with a new final chapter on meta-ethics. With boxed case studies, discussion questions and further reading included within each chapter this textbook is the ideal introduction to ethics for philosophy students coming to the subject for the first time.

Each early June the world''s toughest mountain bike race kicks off from Banff Canada. The race course follows dirt roads, muddy tracks, and snow covered mountains along the Continental Divide to the Mexican border, some 2,750 miles in total. This race, this cannonball run of pain, is called the Tour Divide and is unique in the world of sport: the clock never stops and no outside support is allowed. The Cordillera is the journal of the Tour Divide. The Cordillera is about things that break - broken bodies, broken bikes, broken spirits. Between these covers are people at their lowest, their most physically and emotionally depleted. Volume 6 of The Cordillera describes the 2014 race. But as always, the Cordillera is about focusing and getting on with the job of trying to reach Antelope Wells. The common thread to all stories is the incredible strength of the human spirit, and what can be achieved if we really try.

Each early June the world''s toughest mountain bike race kicks off from Banff Canada. The race course follows dirt roads, muddy tracks, and snow covered mountains along the Continental Divide to the Mexican border, some 2,700 miles in total. This race, this cannonball run of pain, is called the Tour Divide and is unique in the world of sport: the clock never stops and no outside support is allowed. The Cordillera is the journal of the Tour Divide. The Cordillera is about things that break - broken bodies, broken bikes, broken spirits. Between these covers are people at their lowest, their most physically and emotionally depleted. Volume 5 of The Cordillera describes the 2013 race. But as always, the Cordillera is about focusing and getting on with the job of trying to reach Antelope Wells. Even if your frame has cracked and is being held together by duct tape. The common thread to all stories is the incredible strength of the human spirit, and what can be achieved if we really try.

This is a book composed to shed some light on the two worlds that are currently at war within the African American Conmmunity. A war that is wage between the highly educated and the less sophisicated African American. Who''s right or who''s wrong is not the question, for both sides raises valid points in the defense to justify its existance. Instead the question is how can the two come together to ensure a possibility of survival as one. This is a compelling fictional story that takes its reader on a historical journey through the judical, educational, and political disparities that has played a profound impact in the destruction of the African American family. This story touches upon the importances of family structure no matter whether it''s inside or outside of the home by emphazing the dire need of having both parents being actively involved during the crucial early stages of their childrens'' development.

Hyper-Raman spectroscopy is a nonlinear optical probe which can be used to explore the multi-photon properties of molecules. Three studies are presented in this dissertation. The first study is a combined experimental investigation of the surfaceenhanced hyper-Raman scattering with a theoretical study of the electronic states of the Rhodamine 6G molecule. This study demonstrates that hyper-Raman spectroscopy can be used to probe electronic states which are one-photon inaccessible. The second study involves a comparison of experimentally measured resonance hyper-Raman spectra to first-principles calculations of the resonance hyper-Raman scattering. This study shows the utility of coupling hyper-Raman spectroscopy and hyper-Raman calculations to define the multi-photon properties of the molecule. The final study compares the experimentally collected surface-enhanced hyper-Raman spectra of Rhodamine 6G to the theoretical simulations of the resonance hyper-Raman for identical excitation energies. In this study, the mechanism of vibronic coupling in the hyper-Raman effect is fully explained, demonstrating the capability of hyper-Raman spectroscopy predicting the two-photon absorption mechanism.

The Park Grass Experiment (PGE) was started in 1856 as an investigation into the impact of organic and inorganic fertilisers on hay yields and is now the world''s longest running ecological experiment. Functional ecology involves describing plant communities by traits, which give an indication of how the community responds under different stresses and the effect on the rest of the ecosystem. Describing communities by traits removes some of the complexities associated with a taxonomic approach. A comprehensive long term dataset was re-analysed in relation to functional traits (CSR (competitiors, stress tolerators and ruderals) and functional diversity indices) and how they correlate with nutrient treatment and productivity and their power to explain variance in predicting community stability. The most abundant species on the PGE were sampled to investigate the effect of different fertilisers on leaf traits and the link between leaf traits and productivity. The leaf traits were also used to investigate the palatability of the species and communities on the PGE. Biomass samples were taken from the PGE and separated into species. Leaves were also taken from the most abundant species for analysis of specific leaf area (SLA), leaf dry matter content (LDMC), leaf nitrogen content (LNC) and leaf tensile strength. The palatability experiment was conducted as a preference experiment of leaf discs of the different species to snails and locusts. The community CSR signature varied across the treatments; community C increased and community S decreased with nutrient input. The response of the communities to drought was best described by functional diversity. Species found on the plots that had greater productivity have higher SLA and LNC than those from plots with lower productivity. Intra-specific differences in SLA and LDMC were observed and mirrored the inter-specific response to productivity. Community-weighted palatability decreased with fertilisation; this was due to the changes from dicots to monocots. Dicots were generally more palatable and more abundant in low fertility plots but monocots did show a positive correlation between palatability and fertility. Different traits correlated significantly with either productivity (SLA) or palatability (tensile strength), suggesting that a suite of traits is required when making inferences about ecosystem function.

Christopher Bennett presents a theory of punishment grounded in the practice of apology, and in particular in reactions such as feeling sorry and making amends. He argues that offenders have a ''right to be punished'' - that it is part of taking an offender seriously as a member of a normatively demanding relationship (such as friendship or collegiality or citizenship) that she is subject to retributive attitudes when she violates the demands of that relationship. However, while he claims that punishment and the retributive attitudes are the necessary expression of moral condemnation, his account of these reactions has more in common with restorative justice than traditional retributivism. He argues that the most appropriate way to react to crime is to require the offender to make proportionate amends. His book is a rich and intriguing contribution to the debate over punishment and restorative justice.