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The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable recent work.Topics explored in this collection include: the relation between necessity, acting freely, and freedom to act otherwise; different accounts of the capacity for free agency, and the ways in which it can be compromised; grounds for scepticism about free agency and discussions of the relation between free will and responsibility.

Since the 1970s Gary Watson has published a series of brilliant and highly influential essays on human action, examining such questions as: in what ways are we free and not free, rational and irrational, responsible or not for what we do? Moral philosophers and philosophers of action will welcome this collection, representing one of the most important bodies of work in the field.

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Reporter Jake Martin and lawman Edgar Quinn have come to Sanderson, a tiny south Georgia town, to escape their pasts and resurrect their careers. Jake settles in as editor of the local newspaper and writes about cow rescues and civic club meetings. Quinn becomes police chief and starts chaperoning high school spring dances and cleaning up Senior Week pranks. The town''s sedate routine is shattered when three local malcontents are killed one-by-one in sadistic rituals. Working together on the murders, Jake and Quinn discover they aren''t the only Sanderson residents running from their pasts. Jake and Quinn learn much about themselves, but can they learn enough about the people closest to them in time to prevent the killer from striking again? As Jake and Quinn come to realize, everyone at some point in their lives needs a second chance. In The Second Chapter of a Bad Dream, someone is willing to resort to extraordinary measures to get that second chance.

Kris Keller, a rising star reporter for an Atlanta newspaper, is called back to his struggling Southwest Georgia hometown to make final arrangements for his father who authorities say took his own life. In Fort Phillips, Kris encounters an ex-girlfriend, a high school rival and odd occurrences. He is told secretly that has father's death may not have been self-inflicted. Despite being estranged from his father, Kris feels obligated to investigate his death. As he does so, the town's secrets begin to unravel, putting Kris and those closest to him in peril. His quick trip back home becomes an extended stay as he struggles to save his career, his relationships and unlock the mystery of his father's death.

This study brings together a wide range of sources and perspectives in order to understand the basis of Roman rule in the Near East between 64 BC and AD 285. It provides a model for understanding how Roman frontiers and provinces worked and challenges preconceptions about how provinces were governed. It argues that the military orientation of the provinces meant that the army, and its personnel, were the main agents in developing the provinces and carrying out provincial-level administration throughout the Principate. The book tackles the main questions in Roman historiography concerning frontiers, and the nature of provinces, and grounds its arguments in the best available source material from the Near East and the latest archaeological research. In particular, it utilises the testimony of soldiers and provincials themselves (such as that found in the papyri from Dura-Europos) and offers a fresh perspective on the evidence.