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New edition includes the sentencing and identifies Don Steenkamp as the murderer for the first time ... Just after dusk on Good Friday, 6 April 2012, the peace and quiet permeating the small Northern Cape town of Griekwastad was disrupted when a young teenage boy sped into town in his father’s Isuzu bakkie and screeched to a halt in front of the town’s nearly deserted police station to announce that his parents and sister had been brutally shot and killed on the family farm, Naauwhoek Based on interviews with all the role-players, including the investigating officers on the case, the forensic and ballistic experts, and family and friends of the deceased, this is the riveting account of what really happened on Naauwhoek farm on that fateful day, as told by the reporter who first broke the story ...

Wipf & Stock Publishers (Eugene, Oregon) is proud to publish the Jacques Ellul Legacy Series, a growing series of books by Ellul in reprint editions. Wipf & Stock also prints new translations of books by Ellul and secondary studies about Ellul. Editor: David W. Gill, Ph.D. President, International Jacques Ellul Society

When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state.

The monograph is a study of the local bifurcations of multiparameter symplectic maps of arbitrary dimension in the neighborhood of a fixed point.The problem is reduced to a study of critical points of an equivariant gradient bifurcation problem, using the correspondence between orbits ofa symplectic map and critical points of an action functional. New results onsingularity theory for equivariant gradient bifurcation problems are obtained and then used to classify singularities of bifurcating period-q points. Of particular interest is that a general framework for analyzing group-theoretic aspects and singularities of symplectic maps (particularly period-q points) is presented. Topics include: bifurcations when the symplectic map has spatial symmetry and a theory for the collision of multipliers near rational points with and without spatial symmetry. The monograph also includes 11 self-contained appendices each with a basic result on symplectic maps. The monograph will appeal to researchers and graduate students in the areas of symplectic maps, Hamiltonian systems, singularity theory and equivariant bifurcation theory.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 'The Collected Works of Rousseau' is a seminal collection of the Enlightenment philosopher's most influential works, including 'Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men' and 'The Social Contract.' Rousseau's writing style is characterized by his passionate advocacy for a return to nature and a rejection of the constraints of society. His exploration of the inherent goodness of man and the corrupting influence of civilization is a recurring theme throughout his works, making this collection a treasure trove for those interested in political philosophy and social theory. Rousseau's emphasis on individual freedom and the collective good shines through in his eloquent prose and thought-provoking arguments, making each piece in this collection a timeless classic. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Genevan philosopher and writer, was a key figure in the Enlightenment movement. His own experiences of injustice and inequality fueled his desire to challenge the prevailing social norms of his time, leading to the creation of these groundbreaking works. Rousseau's passion for social reform and his belief in the power of the individual to effect change are evident in every page of this collection. I highly recommend 'The Collected Works of Rousseau' to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of political philosophy and the Enlightenment period. Rousseau's insights continue to be relevant in today's society, making this collection a must-read for scholars and enthusiasts alike.