There's a war being fought in the dark corners of society. And some people were chosen to end it. • A dangerous unwanted guest and the man who has to face him alone in his own home. • A relaxing family vacation that turns into an unexpected horror. • A special delivery of a wondrous object and its terrible power. • A family's first home and the darkness that threatens to consume them. Four stories. Four events that seem unrelated. Yet, under the surface, a monofilament of reality connects each of them, multiplying its tendrils until the web is complete and the final curtain is pulled back. In the midst of it are three mysterious heroes and a dedicated detective, drawn into the battle. Will their efforts be enough to stop an enemy bent on drowning a city in terror? The Dark Corner is a supernatural suspense, paranormal miniseries of the same name by Easton Livingston. A collection of short stories, novelettes, and novellas, there are five stories in all, each connected to the other in slight ways with that connection becoming more pronounced in successive stories. In essence, it is a novel of stories, each story an episode in the lurking tale rumbling underneath the surface. Easton Livingston is a supernatural, superheroic, and science fiction author, weaving together action, fantasy, and suspense. Fans of The 4400, Stranger Things, and The X-Files television series are sure to enjoy his work. The Visitor is the entry point into his Reality Imagination Universe (RIU) . Become an RIU Citizen today and download The Dark Corner now to begin your journey.

"We have to pray to the beast." A dangerous gang has taken over the north side of Toledo, Ohio. In a brief time, they have gained hundreds of members, rivaling the police force. Local law enforcement struggle to contain their rise to power as they threaten to overtake the city. Detective Samuel Neff has been assigned a leadership role in the special task force created to deal with this problem. But when one of the most gruesome murders in the city's history turns out to be his gang informant, it prompts him to call in his friends, the Makarios Cadre. As the Makarios Cadre investigates, they find things aren't what they seem on the surface. Something is behind the gang's growth and operations. It's only when one of their own is kidnapped when they discover the depths of the darkness they face as they fight to rescue them. But can they do it before ancient history repeats itself? Start your journey into Easton Livingston's fifth novel, taking place in his Reality Imagination Universe. In this new series of supernatural suspense, he brings back the family team of investigative heroes who started it all in his book, The Dark Corner — the Makarios Cadre. Grab your copy of Pandilla now.

The Inter-State Application under the European Convention on Human Rights provides the first comprehensive monograph about the State-to-State human rights enforcement mechanism. The functions of the mechanism include also dispute settlement aspects, which are related to the compulsory jurisdiction of the Strasbourg Court. The study provides a full account of the development of the Inter-State Application under Article 33 ECHR and puts its case law in the relevant historical and institutional context. The analysis concludes with detailed reform considerations which are situated within the discussion about the role of the European Court of Human Rights. The focus lies on the possibility to address and improve systemic human rights deficits beyond the single case. The Court’s growing inter-State docket evidences the need for legal certainty. See inside the book.

"This monograph will prove to be one of the more valuable works ever written on the efficacy of modern era amphibious warfare. While many students of military affairs have assumed that large-scale forcible entry amphibious operations are a thing of the past, the authors have done an outstanding job, in just eight concise and well-written chapters, to demonstrate how amphibious warfare, in combination with other joint operations, can prove decisive on modern-day battlefields. Covering a little-known combat operation that incredibly involved two neighboring North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies--Greece and Turkey--the 1974 battle known in Turkey as Operation Star Drop-4 and erroneously in the West as Operation Attila, took place on the perpetually restive island nation of Cyprus. Moreover, the authors have finally brought to light what is "arguably only one of two such [amphibious] operations" fought since 1945 that involved a substantially opposed landing. The operation also included the heavy use of airborne, airmobile, naval surface, and other follow-on armored forces that proved decisive toward relative Turkish success on Cyprus in 1974"--