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The Black Ballad
Where do the dead go when they rest? The poetic mystery of death has long been a fascination for the living. The images of warm hearths and a familial embrace are conjured for some, while others picture screaming in eternal torment at the hands of a demon. And yet, clerics have the power to pluck the dead back from that plane, thrusting them back into their mortal coils or even raising them into a state of eternal Undeath. Surely the gods would grow weary of their clerics pinching souls that rightfully belonged in their afterlife. Wouldn’t they? A partnership forged in fire and blood between musicians, artists, writers, editors, and more currently rests in your hands. The Black Ballad is a 10-chapter roleplaying campaign made alongside DiAmorte’s second album, a savage metal opera of cosmic proportions. This saga will let players decide the fate of the afterlife itself while immersing themselves in musical works focusing on loss, acceptance, and determination in the face of one’s own death. Will your campaign have the gall to challenge the will of divinity?
Knowledge, Freedom, and Taste
This volume presents original contributions from former students of Paul Guyer, the 2024 recipient of the International Kant Prize. The authors engage with central aspects of Guyer’s work on Kant’s critical philosophy, including his metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics.
Terminator and Philosophy
Are cyborgs our friends or our enemies? Was it morally right for Skynet to nuke us? Is John Connor free to choose to defend humanity, or not? Is Judgment Day inevitable? The Terminator series is one of the most popular sci-fi franchises ever created, captivating millions with its edgy depiction of the struggle of humankind for survival against its own creations. This book draws on some of history’s philosophical heavy hitters: Descartes, Kant, Karl Marx, and many more. Nineteen leather-clad chapters target with extreme prejudice the mysteries surrounding intriguing philosophical issues raised by the series, including the morality of terminating other people for the sake of peace, whether we can really use time travel to protect our future resistance leaders in the past, and if Arnold’s famous T-101 is a real person or not. You’ll say “Hasta la vista, baby” to philosophical confusion as you develop a new appreciation for the complexities of John and Sarah Connor and the battles between Skynet and the human race.
Echoes of the Past
Echoes of the Past is an edge of your seat psychological thriller about a woman desperate to save her daughter from the clutches of a mad town. Sasha and her nine-year-old daughter, Tara, move to a small town for a fresh start. Outrunning her abusive relationship, she settles down for a new life. Out in the fresh, New England air, she will be able to work through the post-traumatic stress and give her daughter a better life. But when the small-town experiences its first murder after she arrives, the citizens are whipped into a frenzy. The only person on her side is the town sheriff, but even he can’t talk sense into the crazed mob that forms. As Sasha’s past begins to haunt her, the townsfolk take matters into their own hands. Tara becomes the perfect bait to catch a killer. And the town of Carlisle isn’t afraid to hurt her to get what they want.
Ecosovereignty
In this book, Omar Dahbour develops the idea of ecosystem sovereignty, calling for a reinterpretation of some essential concepts in political philosophy, including territoriality, self-determination, peoplehood, and sovereignty, in order to make the case for peoples’ rights to protect and maintain their natural environments. In doing so, he theorizes current and historical struggles against resource extractions and land grabs, especially by food sovereignty and indigenous rights movements. The basic idea of ecosovereignty is that peoples living in relation to particular ecosystems have a collective right to ultimate authority over those systems and the resources they contain—provided the...
The Invisible Matrix
Why did we evolve to be altruistic? Why did we evolve to value a society of equals? How did we become capable of culture? For the first time promising clues to these puzzles are emerging from an unexpected field - computer science. Delicate living systems and bulky computers, according to a growing body of research, are both information systems engaged in the storage, transmission, and processing of information. This shared characteristic of life systems and our information technology devices gives us an opportunity to study human evolution using concepts from computer science. Such analysis points to the existence of an important 'invisible' adaptation in human beings. This 'invisible' adaptation is the reason we evolved to be cultural beings, who are altruistic, who value equality, and our aging elders. www.altruism-evolution.com
Chicagoland Stories
In the standalone thriller, City Spirits, Chicagoland Stories investigates the abduction of Chicago citizens by crews of men using vans. The victims, transported to sinister locations, suffer fates worse than death. An evil organization lusts for power. A serial killer reserves a few victims for himself to enjoy. Authorities are desperate. Meanwhile, in the small town of Wolanda, Pastor Paul Lemon struggles to revive a dead church, unaware of the evil experiments taking place in a mansion nearby. Small-town citizens are drawn into a supernatural battle for world domination, facing a powerful entity attempting to bring an ancient adversary back to life. Will the famous Chicago ghost, Resurrection Mary, save the day?
Conscientious Objection in Medicine
The Element examines ethical and conceptual issues about conscientious objection in medicine. Concepts analyzed include conscientious objection, conscientious provision, conscience, moral complicity, and moral integrity. Several ongoing ethical controversies are identified and critically analyzed. One is a disagreement about whether conscientious objection is compatible with physicians' professional obligations. The Element argues that incompatibilists fail to offer a justifiable specification of professional obligations that supports their position. The Element also argues that a challenge for compatibilists who support a reason-giving requirement is to specify justifiable and unambiguous c...
THE CRAFTSMAN'S SYMBOLOGY
The first book by Bro. Anthony Mongelli, Jr. This is the first in a three-volume set that treats nine symbols and emblems of the first degree of Freemasonry, that of Entered Apprentice. This first volume, Book 1, discusses the circumpunct (the point-within-a-circle), the twin pillars and the Masonic apron. The section on the circumpunct is perhaps the most exhaustive treatment of this astounding symbol. Bro. Mongelli seeks after the significance that these symbols and emblems have had amongst diverse cultures across time with an eye toward how those meanings may inform our own interpretation of them. This book is extensively researched, having referenced more than 160 works. Features a revised and expanded version of the essay "Some Words to Newly Made Masons." Each chapter is thoroughly footnoted, features copious illustrations and a complete reference list.
Wreake Valley Science Conference
To enable our students to stand under the spotlight of competition the science department at Wreake Valley Academy endeavoured to create a science conference. The event would draw upon the participation of every student studying Applied Science, Biology, Chemistry and Physics A level subjects. This book is a peer reviewed set of proceedings created by those students to support their presentations.
