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The ever-ambitious Irish rogue Phineas Finn is pulled back into the game of Parliamentary politics in this classic novel from Anthony Trollope.   After his beloved wife dies in childbirth, a bored and restless Phineas Finn is compelled to seek out the never-ending war of will and words within the English Parliament. Still considered a promising prospect of the younger generation, he is welcomed back into the fold.   Upon his return to London, Phineas renews his friendship with the wealthy widow Madame Max Goesler, whose offer of marriage he had once turned down. But he soon finds an enemy in Mr. Bonteen, who distrusts Phineas's loyalty to the party, and the two become harsh rivals. And when Bonteen is murdered, Phineas finds both his political fortunes and his very life in the balance.   With his trademark humor and humanity, Anthony Trollope takes readers on another adventure full of heart and hope. As with the captivating Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux will have you rooting for this irrepressible protagonist all over again.   Phineas Redux is the 4th book in the Palliser Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Reflecting on their facilitation of an online book club for LGBTQ+ youth, the authors discuss the importance of teaching queer histories, making space for youth critique, and following the lead of LGBTQ+ youth when reading and teaching queerly.

Hitherto unnoticed similarities between two short stories by Gustav Meyrink and two of the most renowned and widely read ghost stories of M.R. James are detailed through comparative literary analysis. Specifically, one early occult horror tale of Meyrink, The Plants of Dr. Cinderella (1905), shows no less than about 15 congruences beneath the plot level (concerning specific story requisites) with M.R. James’s ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ (1904), as does, to the same extent, a later, widely known Meyrink tale (The Cardinal Napellus, 1914) vis-à-vis M.R. James’s Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance (1911). Although direct, conclusive evidence is unavailable, a nexus of circumstantial evidence, building on extensive biographical and bibliographical inquiries, convergently attests to these assumed literary influences on Meyrink: for both cases, the chronology is intact and thus possible; Meyrink was expertly fluent in English and well-connected to England and English literature; and, these borrowings are reminiscent of other, already known originality issues surrounding Meyrink’s work. Altogether, these new discoveries shed fresh light on idiosyncrasies of Meyrink’s creative process, imagination, and literary production; on his still under-researched literary inspirational sources; as well as on the early reception of M.R. James’s ghostly fiction beyond the anglophone sphere.

Despite concerns about a slowdown in technological innovation-as expressed recently by the entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the economist Tyler Cowen, and others-humankind is poised to make transformational scientific and technological strides in the coming years. Driverless cars are being tested in major American cities. SpaceX is building a low-cost space-based internet service. Artificial intelligence, though falling short of the general humanlike intelligence of science fiction, is becoming useful in addressing complex tasks, including diagnosing cancer and live translation. Some innovations are also bringing intense controversy, such as the twin babies born in China who had their genes edited to make them (and their offspring) resistant to HIV. The researcher, He Jiankui, did so using a technique only discovered in 2012. Technology may not be advancing as quickly as it could be, but it is still advancing rapidly, and not just in the digital sphere. Although technological innovation can bring enormous benefits in material well-being, new technologies can also create social and economic disruptions, national security risks, and ethical dilemmas-all of which raise complex questions that democratically elected representatives must be prepared to consider soberly. For instance, advances in gene editing may lead to the amelioration of debilitating diseases, but also to the possibility of designer babies, do-it-yourself biohacking, and new forms of bioterrorism. The conventional wisdom is that law and policy lag behind advances in new technology-a gap that has only widened in recent years. If the mantra of Silicon Valley is \"move fast and break things,\" Congress's might well be \"move slowly and ignore things.\" Congressional inaction has created some messy situations, particularly where there is a lack of clarity about the scope of agency authority, or when states move to fill a gap left at the federal level. Federal inaction has stalled policy debates over issues such as autonomous vehicles, digital privacy, and cybersecurity, to name a few. The result is uncertainty that unnecessarily delays the benefits of new innovations, undermines America's global competitiveness, and obscures consideration of how legitimate harms and ethical questions can be addressed.A key challenge in the coming years will be: How can the nation better equip policy-makers to understand the implications of new innovations? Beyond the technical details, how can we improve the way in which they understand the value choices and trade-offs of different policy approaches?

Entitled as such to bring forward the law, the legislative institutions shall find the most appropriate expression in the legal language, in the content of legal norms and the manner this language is perceived by those to whom it addresses. In this respect, it mak es use of certain specific procedures for bringing forward legal rules, procedures whose purpose is to explain and express as clearly as possible the legal rules it decides upon. The important proceedings used by the legislator are presumptions and fictions where the presumption considers that something is true, without any evidence and without proving its existence and the fiction is a certain process of the legislator or the judge by means of which a fact is deemed to exist or to be established although it does not actually exist neither has it really been established. An important presumption one can operate with is the pre sumption to know the law upon its publication, an presumption otherwise considered to be conclusive, unlik ely to be challenged by anyone and under no circumstances. This presumption can have hard and undesirable effects in so that the individual called to account for the violation of law can bring evidence to testify he was actually in the effective impossibility of k nowing the law.

In this multiple-case study, I analyze the perceived importance of seven categories of institutional entrepreneurs (DiMaggio, Institutional patterns and organizations, Ballinger, Cambridge, MA, 1988) for the corporate social responsibility discourse of three multinational companies. With this study, I aim to significantly advance the empirical analysis of the CSR discourse for a better understanding of facts and fiction in the process of institutionalization of CSR in MNCs. I conducted 42 semi-structured face-to-face and phone interviews in two rounds with 30 corporate managers from three multinational companies. The data has been analyzed using qualitative (multiple coding) and quantitative (ANOVA, X² analysis) techniques. The findings indicate that one company is driven by civil society's influence on consumer's perception, the second company by direct attacks by civil society, agenda setting organizations and legislators, and the third by the pressure of large customers and legislators. The results suggest that the coping behaviors of MNCs at both extremes of the spectrum of perceived responsible behavior aim at (1) improving the business case for CSR and (2) increasing legitimacy in society, resulting in converging CSR perceptions, and fostering an institutionalization of CSR.

The year is 2025, and the occasion, judicial confirmation hearings by the US Senate's Committee on the Judiciary. A newly elected president has just nominated an accomplished, mid-career law professor to serve as the next Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. Until recent days, this account of anti-religious acerbity by a US senator would have sounded like the fanciful tale of a political satirist rather than a bona fide journalistic report. But on Jun 7, 2017, fiction became fact. Only the minor details of the historic exchange differ from those of the hypothetical narrative. The real hearing occurred before the US Senate Committee on the Budget. US senators can and should do better than to ascribe disrespectfulness, discriminatory propensities, and hatred to nominees for public office merely because those nominees hold theological views that contravene the claims of other religious adherents or the sentiments of secular elites.

Award-winning author Tim O’Brien was sent to Vietnam as a foot soldier in 1969, when American combat troops were gradually withdrawn from the country. A closer look at his Vietnam war stories reveals that he indeed touched upon almost all issues or problems of American soldiers in this “bad” war; yet not many peer-reviewed authors or online literary analysis websites could identify and discuss them all. The purpose of this article is to address the war details in O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods and its historical perspective, so that middle and high school readers can understand the meaning behind Tim O'Brien's stories and know the entire big Vietnam War picture. Specifically, this article discusses the following issues that are raised by O’Brien in this novel: the Mỹ Lai Massacre and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam War veterans. In addition, the Mỹ Lai Massacre cover-up, forgotten heroes of Mỹ Lai, and soldiers’ moral courage are also presented.

The goal of this paper is to analyse the state of women representation in the political environment in Ukraine before and after the adoption of the obligatory 30% quota, as well as to consider the attitude of the society regarding the introduction of such electoral quotas for women in general. The issue of electoral quotas for women is not new for the international community and especially for Europe. However, in Ukraine it has never had due attention: it was ignored both by the legislator and civil society. The year 2015 brought about significant changes in the country and this question was included on the agenda of the Parliament. As a result, the law Ukraine “On Local Elections” of 14.07.2015 has established an obligatory 30% quota for the representatives of one gender to be in stock in the party list. Nevertheless, one can still question whether the legislator has done everything to provide the real gender equality or this has been nothing more than another PR action. Based on the course of the local elections in 2015 and its results, I argue that this time such electoral quota is only political fiction and it is not aimed at achieving fundamental changes in the structure of the political system of the country.

The ever-ambitious Irish rogue Phineas Finn is pulled back into the game of Parliamentary politics in this classic novel from Anthony Trollope.  After his beloved wife dies in childbirth, a bored and restless Phineas Finn is compelled to seek out the never-ending war of will and words within the English Parliament.