Grant Franklin is a divorced father of two girls, living in Sacramento, California. As a sales manager for a major sporting goods manufacturer, he travels the eleven western states to make a living. While on a trip across northern Nevada, he is informed via a phone call from the Sacramento Police Department, that his ex-wife and eldest daughter have been murdered in their beds by apparent burglars. His youngest daughter clings to life in a Sacramento hospital. The police catch the two directly responsible for the deaths, but due to an overzealous cop, the two are released because of an illegal search. The next morning, the two killers are found executed in a burned out car. The police seem to be unable to move on the case any further, so Grant, with the help of his old Navy buddy, and current Navy SEAL, Ron Mize, decide to take a shot at finding those responsible for the deaths of his ex-wife and daughter. When his youngest daughter recognizes a face on the front page of a newspaper during her recovery from her injuries, the search is on. It takes them from the artsy crowd of San Francisco, to the state capital in Sacramento, where deals are brokered for millions of dollars. From the big business in California, to a respected state senator, they rush headlong toward the answers, culminating in a confrontation in the sky over the Nevada desert.

Want to be free of the constraints that family life and social expectations impose upon you? Free to think, to dream, to expand your horizons – even beyond those you can imagine? Have you ever fancied exploring strange and unfamiliar worlds, meeting and getting to know new, exciting beings? When you see what bombs can do to children, would you blow up an arms factory? Would you go after someone who had robbed an old person, or risk your life to save a child? Could you be the one to bring hope and justice into a dark universe where people had given up on ever enjoying the light, or being free? In Ultimate Justice, the second in the ‘White Gates Adventure’ series, rejoin Jack and Jalli, Momori andMatilda from Trevor Stubbs’ first novel The Kicking Tree. Meet their children growing up on Planet Joh as they once again travel the universe to previously undiscovered worlds through the white gates the Creator provides for them. Each adventure is a task to bring some kind of hope to people they have never met – as well as some they already have. Anyone from the age of 14 will be able to relate to one or more of the characters in Ultimate Justice. Perhaps you take after Jalli, now a mother of teenage children, or Kakko her impatient daughter. Maybe you see yourself in Shaun, keen to get into the first team, or studious Bandi who, at the age of fourteen, meets Plato and the philosophers for the first time. Some will identify with the older generation, while others know what it is to be disabled like Jack. Young or old, quick or thoughtful, adventurous or down-to-earth: each has their own role to play in the Creator’s universe. In Ultimate Justice there is adventure, action, relationship, and exploration – outwards to the stars, but also inwards, to what makes us who we really are and what we can become...

While tracking down an escaped felon, FBI Special Agent Evan McGarry and his K-9, Blue, uncover a smoking hot lead on the location of dozens of missing children—including Evan’s own sister. The shocking discovery reopens cold cases throughout Colorado, along with painful wounds and the heartbreaking guilt Evan’s kept buried for decades. Three years ago, hospital custodian Marlie Foxe’s world imploded, causing her to cut herself off from the world. But when one of the missing boys turns up at her hospital, he only allows Marlie to get close. Now, Evan needs her help with the boy—and he won’t take no for an answer. When she finally agrees to work with him, Evan suspects there’s more to the woman than she’s letting on. She’s hiding something. The question is what. As Evan and Marlie unearth a cult targeting runaways, they’re forced to confront not only dangerous criminals but the truths they’ve both been avoiding—including the blistering passion they can no longer deny. But when more children disappear, they’ll have to risk more than just their hearts. Each book in the K-9 Special Ops series is STANDALONE: * Tough Justice * Burning Justice * Ultimate Justice

One of the most debated topics in law and politics is the role that science should play in setting policy. What does it mean to demand that politicians and the People themselves “follow the science” if science deals with questions of fact, not matters of moral or political values? This long-standing controversy has roots ranging from Plato’s philosopher-kings to Enlightenment skepticism to modern progressivism and the rise of the administrative state. ‘Science and Liberty’ explores the idea that a constitutional republic provides a fitting role for science while preserving the People’s liberty and right to self-government. It examines this topic from five perspectives: American, Historical, Philosophical, Scientific, and Moral. Providing direct access to primary historical sources, ‘Science and Liberty’ contends that America’s founders designed a constitution that was predicated on the Enlightenment theory that liberty precedes government and that presupposed the engagement of the People and their representatives at all levels of free debate. Early twentieth-century progressivism was openly hostile to these founding principles in its desire for efficient rule by scientific administrators. However, it is impossible to philosophically ground political and moral values in the findings of science, despite what modern theorists claim. Ultimately, the injunction to “follow the science” demands to substitute the values of “experts” for the values of the People themselves. By illustrating numerous examples from the hard and social sciences, ranging from physics to Biblical criticism to climate science, this book also explains that the People have a role to play in reasonably engaging with and critiquing modern science. ‘Science and Liberty’ will appeal to those interested in a variety of subjects, including law, politics, philosophy, and intellectual history, as well as scientific criticism, particularly from an American perspective. It is written to be accessible for all ages while also engaging with complex issues and sources relevant for those with advanced degrees.

An apparent period of atonement by the world's largest super-villains, including Lex Luthor, Brainiac and more, is the prelude to a shocking and deadly plot to destroy the Justice League! Can the world's greatest heroes prevail against impossible odds?

"Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands." —Michelle Alexander More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing Project, Marc Mauer has long been one of the country's foremost experts on sentencing policy, race, and the criminal justice system. His book Race to Incarcerate has become the essential text for understanding the exponential growth of the U.S. prison system; Michelle Alexander, author of the bestselling The New Jim Crow, calls it "utterly indispensable." Now, Sabrina Jones, a member of the World War 3 Illustrated collective and an acclaimed author of politically engaged comics, has collaborated with Mauer to adapt and update the original book into a vivid and compelling comics narrative. Jones's dramatic artwork adds passion and compassion to the complex story of the penal system's shift from rehabilitation to punishment and the ensuing four decades of prison expansion, its interplay with the devastating "War on Drugs," and its corrosive effect on generations of Americans. With a preface by Mauer and a foreword by Alexander, Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling presents a compelling argument about mass incarceration's tragic impact on communities of color—if current trends continue, one of every three black males and one of every six Latino males born today can expect to do time in prison. The race to incarcerate is not only a failed social policy, but also one that prevents a just, diverse society from flourishing.

The preparation of this volume began with a conference held at Trier University, approximately thirty years after the publication of the first Belief in a Just World (BJW) manuscript. The location of the conference was especially appropriate given the continued interest that the Trier faculty and students had for BJW research and theory. As several chapters in this volume document, their research together with the other contributors to this volume have added to the current sophistication and status of the BJW construct. In the 1960s and 1970s Melvin Lerner, together with his students and colleagues, developed his justice motive theory. The theory of Belief in a Just World (BJW) was part of that effort. BJW theory, meanwhile in its thirties, has become very influential in social and behavioral sciences. As with every widely applied concept and theory there is a natural develop mental history that involves transformations, differentiation of facets, and efforts to identify further theoretical relationships. And, of course, that growth process will not end unless the theory ceases to develop. In this volume this growth is reconstructed along Furnham's stage model for the development of scientific concepts. The main part of the book is devoted to current trends in theory and research.

Introduces the characters--heroes and villains--and major story lines of DC Comics' comic books about the interplanetary club of superheroes who work together to safeguard the universe.

With honesty, sensitivity, and concern for biblical truth, Sproul addresses the afterlife and the role of suffering in human experience.