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.

Over years, there has been a tremendous amount of philosophical work in the Anglo-American tradition on the cluster of topics pertaining to Free Will. This collection selects some of this material and presents it an accessible format.

Should a journalist ever become a participant in the story he is covering? That's the ethical dilemma facing Clint Stockton in "Fifteen Minutes of Fame," the exciting first novel by Gary Watson. Clint, top reporter for the Advocate, a second-rate daily newspaper in Atlanta, is already at odds with his wife over his job when he begins following two murder investigations - the beating of a homeless man on a downtown street, and the shootings of three big-rig truck drivers. As his workload mounts and his personal life becomes even more stressful, Clint uncovers information about the killings...

Confined to a pod-like room in an Alzheimer's care facility, Oliver Mathews is in the fight of his life, racing to preserve his legacy in the form of one final gift for his son and daughter. Yet laid against the poignant backdrop of Oliver's darkening days is a deadly tale of medical intrigue, when a raging conflict of ethics among leading scientists escalates to murder and the ultimate act of preservation-a clone called Carpo. Leaving the Bones Behind is a poignant, thought-provoking, and utterly compelling new novel that symbolically merges one man's struggle with the moral ambiguity of...

Forensic anthropologist Erica Braxton, Joshua's daughter and a quadriplegic, downs a lethal barbituate in the opening scene of Gabriel's Covenant. Forty-five minutes later Frau Schroder, a registered anesthetist in Zurich, pronounces her dead. Joshua could have stopped the killing . . . her assisted suicide. He chooses not to.Why? There is an answer. It's buried inside Joshua and becomes curiously tangled in the history of Gabriel's Crossing, a rural Thornton Wilder, Grover's Corners kind of place where the living and the dead are sometimes not remembered, for reasons buried deep within the...

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....

A US president. Lost children. A relentless viral attack. Fate brings six Americans to Goma on Lake Kivu's north shore in central Africa-a landscape that churns under a seemingly demonic fog. They quickly find themselves drawn into the middle of an unimaginablehumanitarian effort catalyzed by the connection of a lost Sudanese boy to a president. He lives as if trapped inside a box and she, as Commander in Chief, risks everything to open it. Based on actual events this story confronts a stark reality-not all human life is valued equally. For some there is a hierarchy. And those who believe...