Escape From Leviathan

Author : J. C. Lester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 1908684089

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Escape from Leviathan by J. C. Lester Pdf

The most relevant and plausible conceptions of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare, and private-property anarchy do not conflict in theory or practice. Using philosophy and social science, Escape from Leviathan defends this bold, non-normative, thesis from contrary positions in the scholarly literature. Writers considered include David Friedman, John Gray, R. M. Hare, Robert Nozick, Karl Popper, John Rawls, Murray Rothbard, Alan Ryan, Amartya Sen, and Bernard Williams The rationality assumptions of neoclassical and Austrian School economics are reconciled and related to liberty and welfare. A new pre-propertarian theory of interpersonal liberty as the absence of (initiated or proactively) imposed cost is argued to be libertarian. Human welfare is defended as the satisfaction of unimposed wants. Practical anarchy is simply unconstrained private property. Related topics include free will, weakness of will, the nature of moralizing, intellectual property, and restitution and retribution. Critical-rationalist epistemology (theories can only be criticized and tested, not justified or supported) is applied throughout. This is a ground-breaking work that is also an excellent introduction to libertarianism and social thought.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486122144

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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Author : James S. A. Corey
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316134675

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Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey Pdf

From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series. Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why. Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe. "Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." —George R. R. Martin The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath ​Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion The Expanse Short Fiction Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers

Author : J. Lester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230511545

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Escape from Leviathan by J. Lester Pdf

The principal criticism of libertarianism is that it would damage human welfare. In response, this book considers an extreme libertarian thesis: there is no conceptual or practical clash among the most plausible accounts of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare, and private-property anarchy. Eschewing moral advocacy as a distraction, it offers a critical-rationalist defence of this objective thesis from many criticisms in the literature.

Author : James Byron Huggins
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948239875

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Leviathan by James Byron Huggins Pdf

With the creation of an unholy beast comes the end of the world in this diabolical thriller from the international bestselling author of Crux and Hunter. On an Icelandic Island, an illegal experiment intended to create the perfect biological weapon has transformed a once-innocent creature into the biblical Leviathan that once terrorized the world. Able to shatter steel and granite as easily as it can melt the strongest containment shields, Leviathan escapes from its pen and is loose in a vast underground chamber harboring soldiers and scientists. The installation cannot allow Leviathan to reach the surface. For if Leviathan reaches the world, it could well be the end of the Earth. They must hold the line, here, and destroy it . . . even if they must detonate a last-chance nuclear failsafe built into the chamber itself. But, first, they must fight with every weapon at their disposal to discover if the beast can be killed at all. It is a battle many will not survive. As soldiers and scientists are vaporized by Leviathan’s hellish flame, or ripped apart by the dragon’s claws and fangs, a lone electrical engineer is forced to join the fight. And in the midst of what might well be the last battle for Mankind, Connor must find a way—any way—to save his family and kill this powerful, bloodthirsty Beast of Legend that has never been killed before. Before it feasts upon the world. Praise for James Byron Huggins “Huggins writes like a man possessed.”—Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author “May be the thriller of the year.”—BookPage on Cain “Pure entertainment.”—Publishers Weekly on Hunter

Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781416987062

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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld Pdf

The first novel in a masterful trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld that School Library Journal hailed is "sure to become a classic." It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides of the war. But their paths cross in the most unexpected way, taking them both aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure….One that will change both their lives forever.

Author : Tucidides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633770083

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The English Works by Tucidides Pdf

Author : Peter Blegvad
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1590200527

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The Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad Pdf

Leviathan is an infant with a blank face who lives in the surreal world of babies along with his stuffed rabbit and pet cat.

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101562611

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Leviathan by Paul Auster Pdf

A “compelling” (Los Angeles Times) tale of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday – from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel "Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin. . . ." So begins the story by Peter Aaron about his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to Sach's death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are investigating the case invent an account of their own.

Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416971764

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Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld Pdf

Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warship.

Author : Arye L. Hillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521494267

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Public Finance and Public Policy by Arye L. Hillman Pdf

Markets and governments -- Institutions and governance -- Public goods -- Public finance for public goods -- Market corrections -- Voting -- Social justice -- Entitlements and equality of opportunity -- Choice of taxation -- The need for government.

Author : James S. A. Corey
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316332934

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Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey Pdf

The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series. “An all-time genre classic.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hugo Award Winner for Best Series The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. . . and the shattered emperor himself. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before. As nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win. But the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat. "Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." —George R. R. Martin The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath ​Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion The Expanse Short Fiction Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers

Author : James Michael Martinez,William Donald Richardson,D. Brandon Hornsby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 0847697312

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The Leviathan's Choice by James Michael Martinez,William Donald Richardson,D. Brandon Hornsby Pdf

One of the broadest and most balanced accounts of the capital punishment debate, The Leviathan's Choice explores the death penalty from four distinct perspectives--philosophical, theological, social science, and legal--and includes scholarly essays on both sides of the debate. An ideal reader for students and policy makers, this book is essential for everyone following the arguments surrounding the death penalty.

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903385830

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The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by Robert McCrum Pdf

Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --

Author : Jamison Fussner
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449786748

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Leviathan Awaits by Jamison Fussner Pdf

I read your book. Loved it. Great imagination and story. My wife and I both agree that the book would be great as a screenplay and turned into a movie possibly a Disney movie. Ill send it to Jude at NY Times. Congrats on an imaginative/creative piece of art. Larry Book, music publisher The facts of this novel are among the best-kept secrets of the world. So much, in fact, that you might rather believe the fiction than the possibilities of the facts. The story of this savant autistic boys adventures are possible with the help of his admiral grandfather and his ostentatious nanny. The news of the Russians Lake Vostok exploration will make a believer as the reality unfolds in the present-day media. Hitler himself wished to explore this pristine environment, with its magnetic anomaly. If he had the wherewithal in his time and had accomplished the mission, history may have been a lot different. You will want to study, after reading the research of the projects contained in the book. What is conspiracy, you decide. The information is public but not widespread. The unconventional relationships form a great alliance that will change the world as we know it.