Laws Of Attrition

Recommendations -- Methodology -- I. Background -- II. The "Foreign Agents" law -- III. NGO inspections -- IV. Treason law -- V. The "Dima Yakovlev Law" -- VI. Restrictions on public assemblies -- VII. Internet content restrictions -- VIII. Other elements of the crackdown -- IX. Russia's international legal obligations -- Acknowledgements.

Nature has designed laws that govern the process of healing that cannot be changed or altered in any way other than usage in the natural working order. Through the engagement of these laws, the autonomic nervous system requests reconstruction. This process illustrates the need sequence which allows the request to be given by the hypothalamus.

Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons. In area after area, judges and lawyers, working out the logical implications of legal principles, have come to believe that administrators should be granted broad leeway to set policy, determine facts, interpret ambiguous statutes, and even define the boundaries of their own jurisdiction. Agencies have greater democratic legitimacy and technical competence to confront many issues than lawyers and judges do. And as the questions confronting the state involving climate change, terrorism, and biotechnology (to name a few) have become ever more complex, legal logic increasingly indicates that abnegation is the wisest course of action. As Law’s Abnegation makes clear, the state did not shove law out of the way. The judiciary voluntarily relegated itself to the margins of power. The last and greatest triumph of legalism was to depose itself.

Chiara knew she was missing something. She never dreamed it was everything. Awakened to the seedy underbelly of her utopia, Chiara thought that was the worst of it. Then Director Cygnus, her benefactor turned worst enemy, stole her beloved brother. A brother he's promised to return when she repairs the cold fusion energy source she created for him. If only he'd keep that promise! Also, if her suspicions are correct and he's using her inventions for evil instead of good, Chiara can never give him the technology. How does she pretend to grant Cygnus's desires to achieve her own objectives, yet defeat him in the process? Her only choice is to ally with Deran, the sole person who seems willing to share what he knows about the world they live in. Still, Chiara can't help but ask herself-is the swoon-worthy mechanic worthy of her trust, or is he another tool wielded by the almighty conglomerate controlling their world? But fortune never favored cowards. For Chiara to save her family, she must take risks. Even trust someone in a world where trust equals death. This is the second book in the Laws of Attrition series. For a better reading experience, please read the books in series order

Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Antulio J. Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated to include an expanded chapter on manipulation through cyberwarfare and new further reading.

Best job in the world. A lab to die for. What is she missing? As head of her conglomerate-controlled world's R&D labs, Chiara Baschet has everything a brilliant scientist and inventor extraordinaire could ever want. She's free to explore any idea, indulge every innovative whim. But exhilarating as the work is, Chiara rarely sees her family. Separated from them when she was six years old, the only time she gets with them now is when she completes a project. Successfully. Cygnus, the mysterious director of Cirrian Conglomerate, grants or denies her access to them based on her performance, and only his influence ensures they share Chiara's comfortable and luxurious lifestyle. Then the director assigns an impossible task-creating a cold fusion energy source-and Chiara's world implodes. Because this is a project beyond even her ingenuity. In desperation, Chiara attempts to solve the unsolvable, but her quest to protect the ones she loves leads her to realize nothing in her world is what it seems. First Law of Attrition is a riveting sci-fi dystopian saga full of hope, tragedy, and awakening. Perfect for fans of Red Rising and The Maze Runner.

Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws. Angela S. García compares restrictive and accommodating immigration measures in various cities and states to show that place-based inclusion and exclusion unfold in seemingly contradictory ways. Instead of fleeing restrictive localities, undocumented Mexicans react by presenting themselves as “legal,” masking the stigma of illegality to avoid local police and federal immigration enforcement. Restrictive laws coerce assimilation, because as legal passing becomes habitual and embodied, immigrants distance themselves from their ethnic and cultural identities. In accommodating destinations, undocumented Mexicans experience a localized sense of stability and membership that is simultaneously undercut by the threat of federal immigration enforcement and complex street-level tensions with local police. Combining social theory on immigration and race as well as place and law, Legal Passing uncovers the everyday failures and long-term human consequences of contemporary immigration laws in the US.