Sovereignty's Promise

Constitutional theory is traditionally concerned with the justification and limits of state power. It asks: Can states legitimately direct and coerce non-consenting subjects? If they can, what limits,

From the bestselling illustrator of the Growing Hearts series comes a sweet and charming board book series about all the things we want to promise childrenWith simple text and bestselling illustrator

"Where the willow meets the water, a tadpole met a caterpillar. They gazed into each other's tiny eyes and fell in love. 'Promise me that you will never change', the caterpillar says."And foolishly, t

年度曼布克獎得主。作者以一個南非白人家庭的葬禮為主軸，藉年輕一代家庭成員的口提出家庭對長期工作的黑人女傭沒有遵守的承諾，深入描述他們從種族隔離年代到現今社會的種種故事。Discover the Booker Prize-shortlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis.'Astonishing' Colm ToibinThe Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life.After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.In this story of a diminished family, sharp and

'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.'

As payment for retrieving the princess's ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.

Angry at being forced to keep her promise to a frog, the princess finally resorts to violent action, with unexpected results.

'Gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting.' Christy Lefteri, author of the million-copy bestseller The Beekeeper of AleppoTHEIR STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEARTTHEIR JOURNEY WILL FILL YOU WITH HOPEYOU WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR NAMESWhen they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father - that they will stay together, no matter what. Years later, at just 15, Livia is ordered to Auschwitz by the Nazis. Cibi, only 19 herself, remembers their promise and follows Livia, determined to protect her sister, or die with her.Together, they fight to survive through unimaginable cruelty and hardship. Magda, only 17, stays with her mother and grandfather, hiding out in a neighbour's attic or in the forest when the Nazi militia come to round up friends, neighbours and family. She escapes for a time, but eventually she too is captured and transported to the death camp.In Auschwitz-Birkenau the three sisters are reunited and, remembering their father, they make a new promise, this time

Tempted by the promise of fame and fortune, the Singing Mermaid joins a circus. The crowds love her, but the poor mermaid is kept in a tank by the wicked circus owner Sam Sly, and she soon longs to re

Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress, unforgiving of Bruce's failure, and the cou

The wait is over! John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, is back. It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way D

My brother, Jonah, and I just want to TALK to the magic mirror -- we're not planning on traveling into any fairytales today. Promise. Except we do wind up going through the mirror, this time into

A charming tale about being brave and sharing your worries, from the author and illustrator of You Are (Not) Small and That's (Not) Mine!Pssst! Monty the frog has a secret. Promise not to tell? He can

A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun . . . unless, of course, you re theHeffleys.The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns.Gas station bathrooms, craz

Set in the same world as The Promise of Amazing, this smart, surprising, and romantic follow-up to Robin Constantine's debut novel follows two New Jersey teens as they become friends and fall in love.

Written and drawn by the team behind the best-selling books, Avatar: The Promise and Avatar: The Search, Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, in collaboration with the Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of

Master Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Performance Tuning and Optimization Deliver on the promise of lower TCO and achieve operational excellence by implementing a comprehensive enterprise application mana

′Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.′An idyllic snapshot of a boy′s childhood alon

Pete has a hard time fitting in at his new school, but he soon learns that bullying and tolerating bad behavior is not in keeping with Mandell Elementary's "Promise."

In Monday with a Mad Genius, travel with Jack and Annie to Italy in the Renaissance, a time when every new morning brought with it the promise of artistic and scientific wonder. There, they meet none

Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in Aguascalientes, Mexico; and the promise of one day rising to Mama's positi

On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.Robots designed to care for people and neglected landscapes of digital trash. The promise of synthetic biology and the panic of living on a dying planet. Wonderful feats of intelligence and systemic acts of violence. Exhilaration and exhaustion. Rosi Braidotti argues that we must think about these apparent contradictions all together in order to make differences that actually matter.Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanitiesoscillates between evocations and transections of contemporary conditions, for which Braidotti offers what she calls the “posthuman convergence” as a new paradigm for situating and navigating their problems and possibilities. Reflecting on the knotted situation of the academic humanities, cognitive capitalism, and advanced climate change, she delivers an intersectional critique of hu

A hilarious read-aloud story, sequel to the fantastic There's Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah, featuring a wildly competitive gang of alliterative animals taking part in a beauty pageant - from slugs in santa suits to warthogs in wedding wear!Dress to impress with There's Nothing Cuter Than a Puppy, a laugh-out-loud full-colour picture book from award-winning, bestselling Ross Collins and Tom Nicoll.Donkeys in dungarees, walruses in woolly waistcoats, hyenas in hoop skirts . . .The Cutest Creature Contest is full of tough competition!But there can only be one winner and there's nothing cuter than a puppy!Or is there . . .?Author Tom Nicoll and award-winning illustrator Ross Collins promise glitz, glamour and goofiness galore in this hilarious picture book with special cameos from familiar faces.

It's fun to be a Baby-sitters' Little Sister!For New Year's Eve, Karen thinks everyone should make a promise. Hannie is going to stop biting her nails. Kristy promises not to talk to her boyfriend on the phone so much. And Karen makes the most promises of all ― nine!But pretty soon, everyone starts breaking their promises. And her brothers and sisters are calling Karen a spy!Poor Karen. Why is everyone being bad except her?

A stray dog stumbles upon the gift of friendship -- and maybe even the promise of home -- while wandering the delight-filled night market in Taipei.While resting on a stoop, Gogo smells something sweet and spicy on the breeze. It leads him to a place he's never been—a bustling night market where vendors sell delicious treats. As he wanders, sniffing for scraps, GoGo discovers something else as well: a little girl who has gotten separated from her parents. He knows he can help and guides her through the market . . . to where her worried parents wait for her—with open arms for their daughter and GoGo, their new pet!

The scale of China's innovation ambitions inspires worldwide commentary, much of it poorly informed. Focusing on electricity, telecommunication and semiconductors, this book offers a richly detailed account of China's innovation efforts. Massive application of human, policy and financial resources shows great promise, but institutional obstacles, conflicting objectives, ill-advised policies and Soviet-era legacies inject inefficiencies, resulting in a complex mosaic of success and failure in both technical and commercial dimensions. State Grid leads the world in high-voltage power transmission, while domestic semiconductors lag behind the international frontier. Electricity and telecom providers record impressive technical advances, but overinvestment and inefficient operation contribute to high costs and prices. Nuclear power combines technical excellence with commercial weakness. Cost reduction rather than new technology underpins commercial success in solar materials. The book's gra

On the last day of a family vacation, a little girl is as blue as the sea, and her shoes are filled with sand. What should she do with all of this sand? Together, she and her brother decide to plant the grains of sand, and imagine what will grow. A field of beach umbrellas, to wave hello to the sun? Or a forest of windmills, to fill the sails of a boat? Before drifting off to sleep, the girl has her dad promise they’ll go back for new grains of sand next year.Spare text will prompt readers to wonder and imagine their own possibilities, while illustrations in a palette of yellows and grays convey the sun-soaked joy and the lingering nostalgia of family vacations well remembered.

The body of a teenage boy is discovered in a Kansas field. The murder haunts Donna—a recent widow battling cancer—calling forth troubling details from long-suppressed memories of her past. Hoping to discover more about "disappeared" people, she turns to her son, Scott, who is fighting demons of his own. Addicted to methamphetamines and sleeping pills, Scott is barely holding on—though the chance to help his mother in her strange and desperate search holds out a slim promise of some small salvation. But what he finds is a boy named Otis handcuffed in a secret basement room, and the questions that arise seem too disturbing even to contemplate. With his mother's health rapidly deteriorating, he must surrender to his own obsession, and unravel Otis's unsettling connections to other missing teens . . . and, ultimately, to Scott himself.

獾先生Pete正準備享用水果大餐，卻被一隻小小的蒼蠅打擾。接著整片森林的動物都忍無可忍，一起把所有蟲子都趕走！看似安靜清爽，卻換來更大的麻煩……Emily Gravett 再次用詼諧韻文與細膩插圖，帶出自然界中每個生物的角色缺一不可。《Bothered by Bugs》在歡笑中傳遞生態平衡的重要，是一本富含觀察力與環保意識的共讀繪本。Another brilliant Pete the Badger story from the inimitable Emily Gravett: plenty of laughs and an important environmental message.Join in all the woodland fun with this funny picture book with an important environmental message, starring Pete the Badger, star of Emily Gravett's award-winning books Tidy and Too Much Stuff!. (We promise no bugs were harmed in the making of this book!)Pete the Badger is choosing a delicious recipe from his new fruit cookbook when his peace is interrupted by a teeny tiny fly. The fly becomes a swarm and soon all the animals are being bothered by bugs and insects of all kinds . . . before helping Pete to rid the forest of every single one. Disaster! Now nobody's around to clean up the poo, and come autumn, there's not a berry or a cherry to be found. But the lesson is learned, the bugs are r

The breathtaking graphic novel follow-up toSaving Sorya – Chang and the Sun Bear, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for IllustrationWhen Chang meets an elderly elephant named H’non, she makes a promise to rescue her from a lifetime of captivity. Together, they embark on a quest to find a new home where H’non can live as nature intended – wild and free.Created by environmental activist Trang Nguyen – who was featured as one of the environmental heroes in episode eight of the BBC’s Planet Earth III – and award-winning manga artist Jeet Zdung,Saving H'non: Chang and the Elephantis an inspirational adventure, based on a true story, about a young conservationist who overcomes the odds to give H'non the elephant the life she deserves after 50 years of hardship.Chang’s daring story is for any young reader, animal lover and intrepid explorer who’s ready for adventure!Praise forSaving Sorya – Chang and the Sun Bear'A beautiful, moving and uplifting tale of perseverance and overcoming challenge,

A beautiful and heart-warming dinosaur story from the author of The Bear and the Piano and Kid ChristmasLiz is sure that her next-door neighbour has a secret. He's got a very long neck, clumpy feet and a strange taste for green leaves... he's a dinosaur! Unfortunately, she's not the only one who's noticed. When Mr Wilson is taken away by scientists, Liz realises that everyone is free to live the life they wish and she must help save her friend.A delightful book perfect for children aged 3+· A beautiful story about acceptance and letting people live the life they want· Written and illustrated from the prize-winning and best-selling author of The Bear and the Piano, Grandad's Secret Giant and Kid Christmas· Young children will love being in on the secret that Mr Wilson is a dinosaur!"The Dinosaur Next Door brilliantly combines the joys of dinosaurs and cake... I promise you'll be rooting for Mr Wilson" - The Guardian

How far would you go to keep a promise? Told from alternating points of view, Hidden Truths is a story of changing friendships, the lies we tell, the secrets we keep, and the healing power of forgiveness.Dani and Eric have been best friends since Dani moved next door in second grade. They bond over donuts, comic books, and camping on the Cape.Until one summer when everything changes.Did Eric cause the accident that leaves Dani unable to do the one thing in the world she most cares about? The question plagues him, and he will do anything to get answers about the explosion that injured her. But Dani is hurting too much to want Eric to pursue the truth—she just wants to shut him out and move on. Besides, Eric has a history of dropping things he starts. Eric knows that and is determined that this will be the one time he follows through.But what if his pursuit brings him into direct conflict with another friend? Where does Eric’s loyalty really lie?

◎情感豐富的主題：故事講述了告別與重逢的承諾，帶來面對未來挑戰的祝福與能量。◎純真清新的畫風：作者以清新細膩的畫風，讓讀者感受到故事中的情感與美好。◎深刻的生命反思：作者對遺忘與離別有深刻的體悟，分享了生命價值與意義的思考。This is a story about longing and learning to say goodbye. Goodbye, is not a farewell to memories, but a promise of reunions yet to unfold. The wind, though invisible, is everywhere. Through seasons' turn, from spring's gentle bloom to winter's solemn grace, they bestow upon us full blessings and energy to face all the challenges of the future.◎代理經銷：白象文化更多精彩內容請見http://www.pressstore.com.tw/freereading/9786269860814.pdf

"Guardian of the Drowned Empire" 為風靡全球的奇幻愛情系列第二部，延續首集的禁忌之戀與命運挑戰，再掀高潮！莉莉安娜僅剩三個月準備決定命運的試煉，內憂外患環伺，敵人逼近，唯有倚靠戰士瑞安的保護。然而，愛火愈燃愈烈，誓言岌岌可危。隨著帝國邊境動盪，莉莉深入探尋自身神秘力量，卻也面臨更致命的選擇與犧牲。這場愛與命運的角力，將撕裂忠誠與欲望的界線。獻給喜愛宮廷奇幻與深情慢燒戀曲的讀者，這是一段你無法放下的魔幻旅程！Cleopatra meets Fourth Wing in this delicious binge-worthy and heart-wrenching romantasy!Guardian of the Drowned Empire is the second book in a sensational romantic series. Perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout, Danielle L. Jensen, and Rebecca Yarros.Loyalty will be tested. Lines will be crossed. Ancient promises will be reforged.Lyr has only three months to prepare for a test that will decide her fate. Despite Rhyan's promise of additional training, her life has never been in more danger, and her enemies inch closer every day.Staying safe means more time under Rhyan's protection. But the closer they become, the more their desire ignites, and the harder it becomes to resist temptation. Secrets can only remain hidden for so long.As new threats arrive at the Bamaria

女主角與家人搬進夢寐以求的郊區新家，擁有寬敞庭院與安靜街道，一切似乎完美無缺。然而，新鄰居 Mrs. Lowell 在見到她的丈夫後表情異樣，並透過聚會邀請他們到家中作客。女主角對 Lowell 家的女傭感到熟悉卻心生寒意，接著，深夜出門的丈夫、街頭的詭異身影，以及鄰居的警告，讓她懷疑這裡隱藏危機。故事以細膩筆法塑造懸疑氛圍，情節層層推進至驚人結局。郊區家庭生活與懸疑謎團的巧妙融合氛圍漸進升溫，讀來緊張卻欲罷不能善用視角與細節，鋪陳多重反轉A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker"You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way...I used to clean other people's houses--now, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve.Even though I'm wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell

Mongolia, a vibrant democracy landlocked between Russia and China, stands on the edge of becoming Asia’s next boom nation—one of the richest countries per capita in the region. Referred to as the “wolf economy” for its vast natural resources—copper, gold, and rare earth metals—today, it is also home to a growing number of cutting-edge tech startups and international lifestyle brands. Its vast steppe landscape lends itself not only to herding and tourism but also renewable energy production and filmmaking. This book is about the individuals who are fighting to strengthen the country’s democracy and diversify its economy. It is about innovators aiming to realize Mongolia’s promise as a hub for green energy, tech and lifestyle entrepreneurs who are shaking up traditional industries, and go-getters who have left high-flying jobs on Wall Street to return to the country they love and play their part in moving it forward. Unlocking a country’s potential is never easy. But if

From the #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes the steamy conclusion to Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy.Two curses.One prophecy.A reckoning all have feared.And a love more powerful than fate. All hail the king and queen of Hell.Emilia is reeling from a shocking discovery about her sister, Vittoria. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. She doesn’t just desire his body; she wants his heart and soul—but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her.When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, damning evidence somehow points toVittoriaas the murderer. Now, Emilia will do anything to get to the bottom of these accusations against the sister she thought she knew.Together, Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception to solve the murder and stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters, and the most treacherous fo

The story of a Palestinian family’s ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye.It’s 1967 in Nablus, Palestine.Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama pick the small fruits and she eagerly stomp stomp stomps on them to release their golden oil. Olives have always tied her family to the land, as Oraib learns from the stories Mama tells of a home before war. But war has come to their door once more, forcing them to flee. Even as her family is uprooted, Oraib makes a solemn promise to her beloved olive trees. She will see to it that their legacy lives on for generations to come.Debut author-illustrator Aya Ghanameh boldly paints a tale of bitterness, hope, and the power of believing in a free and thriving future.

身處國際地緣政治的咽喉要地，臺灣未來該往哪裡走？本書提出國政治理的關鍵議題、挑戰和機會。完成本書的作者是國內規模最大、歷史最悠久的公共行政相關系所──國立臺北大學公共行政暨政策學系。本書從憲政體制、政治思潮談起，進而深入國家資源分配、運作效能和公民參與的關鍵議題。特色在於採用3P架構來進行撰寫，promise為理論基礎或原則，problems為當前所面臨的問題，prospects為前瞻性建議。再者，本書以聯合國「善治」（good governance）的八項條件開展各章撰寫，企圖以知識分子的力量追求國家的「富」與「強」。其次，本書作者包括學術界以及借調政府的教師，授予作者博士學位的國家涵蓋臺灣、日本、美國、英國與德國等五國，此一組成在臺灣學術界中深具特色。最後，全書由同一系所教師共同完成此一「一系一書」的做法，也堪稱「創舉」。