Most Popular Books by Richard Adams

A quiet New England town is shattered by violence--and rises above it

The story of the American Civil War seen through the eyes of Traveller, Robert E. Lee''s horse.

In this bulletin an attempt is made to bring together in one place comprehensive statistics of fertilizer production, consumption, foreign trade, and kindred topics, as they relate to the United States . Also included are data on agricultural liming materials , gypsum, and peat. This compilation should serve, among other things, as an aid in charting the progress in the several phases of the subject; in evaluating national, regional, and State trends in the use of fertilizers and related materials; in forecasting their requirements for future use; in developing programs for expanding their production with respect to quantities and types of products and to plant location; in studies of the economics of their use in relation to farm income, crop production, and land-management practices; and in guiding their allocation in time of emergency.

This book argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without question. The entire spread‐out chain of command is unified in the general, who offers the only connection between the military and politics. Offering the sole connection between the military and politics, only the general can turn political directions into military command and capacitate war. Thus, the general has unique opportunity to resist unconscionable direction to launch an unjust war or to conduct or expand war unjustly. This book argues for reform, so the general has the right in law to refuse direction which is lawful, but awful. The legal capacity to refuse would mean the general would be expected to act responsibly, not merely as the unresisting pawn of politics. Such reform, creating legal opportunity for the supreme command to refuse lawful but unconscionable directives, might avert unjust war. This book will be of much interest to students of the ethics of war, civil‐military relations, and international relations.

Vaste ensemble symbolique issu de contes narrés par l''auteur à ses enfants. L''ensemble, à la fois féerique et parfois fantastique, baigne en un climat de fable où les lapins sont les protagonistes d''aventures mythiques. N''est pas indigne de figurer auprès des oeuvres de Tolkien comme l''a prouvé l''accueil des lecteurs anglais dès sa parution en 1972.