Nick Cruz thought it would be easy: join the Rest In Peace Department, solve his own murder, float up to heaven. But he wasn't counting on his new boss, his new partner, or the demonic newborn he'd meet on his first day out. Add to that the hellish imp who's searching for an archangel's sword and Cruz is headed for a whole mess of trouble! Life after death has never been this hard.

Just because Roy Pulsipher and Nick Walker are dead, that doesn't mean their time in law enforcement is over. Roy and Nick are officers in the Rest in Peace Department, sworn to serve the Almighty and protect the living from evil's foul corruption. Their current case has them chasing a ghostly fanatic determined to undo all of creation—a threat with very personal connections to Roy's past, stretching back a hundred years. Collecting the four-issue miniseries. * Prequel to the upcoming film starring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges!

A prequel to the upcoming feature film starring Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Bacon, and Jeff Bridges! Just because Roy Pulsipher and Nick Walker are dead, that doesn't mean their time in law enforcement is over. Roy and Nick are officers in the Rest In Peace Department (R.I.P.D.), sworn to serve the Almighty and protect the living from evil's foul corruption. Their current case has them chasing a ghostly fanatic determined to undo all of creation - a threat with very personal connections to Roy's past, stretching back a hundred years into a weird, wild west and Roy's first days on the job. It's a twisted history that Nick is only starting to uncover, and one that could have him reconsidering ever joining the R.I.P.D.! --Amazon.com.

Welcome to the Rest In Peace Departmentthe devoted, yet dead, officers of divine law enforcement "patrolling the deadbeat_reporting to one boss." YepTHAT boss. Nick Cruz died an untimely death, at the height of his personal and professional life. Why did he join the R.I.P.D.? Well, not knowing the identity of his killer has left his soul a bit_restless. Now he hunts some of the most fiendish creatures, hoping for the chance to find out who set him up so he can get into heaven.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX'98, held in Oisterwijk near Tilburg, The Netherlands, in May 1998. The volume presents 17 revised full papers and three system descriptions selected from 34 submissions; also included are several abstracts of invited lectures, tutorials, and system comparison papers. The book presents new research results for automated deduction in various non-standard logics as well as in classical logic. Areas of application include software verification, systems verification, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, and system diagnosis.

Learn the core theory and explore real-world networking issues with this richly illustrated example-based textbook. It includes case studies and numerous laboratory exercises that connect theory and practice through hands-on experimentation with real networking devices. Its bottom-up approach is easy for students to follow and perfect for lab-oriented courses.

In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production. Through in-depth analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, this book charts the cause-and-effect of this influential trend. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The industry managed to meet these challenges by exploiting comics and their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off-guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never before. The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the once-dismissed medium of comics.

How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so? This book presents seventeen new essays on these questions, drawing together perspectives from philosophy and psychology. The first section explores the ethics of belief from an individualistic framework. It begins by examining the question of doxastic voluntarism-i.e., the extent to which people have control over their beliefs. It then shifts to focusing on the kinds of character that epistemic agents should cultivate, what their epistemic ends ought to be, and the way in which these issues are related to other traditional questions in epistemology. The section concludes by examining questions of epistemic value, of whether knowledge is in some sense primary, and of whether the ethics of belief falls within the domain of epistemology or ethics. The second section extends this traditional debate to issues concerning the social dimensions of belief formation. It begins with essays by social psychologists discussing the past three decades of research in 'lay epistemics'. It continues by examining Humean, Kantian, and feminist insights into the social aspects of belief formation, as well as questions concerning the ethics of assertion. The section concludes with a series of essays examining a topic that is currently of great interest to epistemologists: namely, the significance of peer disagreement.