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The sun climbs slow: the International Criminal Court and the search for justice
Par Erna Paris. 2009
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent tribunal of its kind, mandated to challenge criminal impunity on the…
part of national leaders and to promote accountability in world affairs. Independent and transnational, its indictments cannot be vetoed in the Security Council. Paris explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America's opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and the implications for the world at large. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.The Teheran contract
Par Gayle Rivers, James Hudson. 1981
The spirit of change: China in revolution (Spirit Of Change Ser.)
Par Margot Morcombe, Mark Fielding. 1999
This book is an inquiry-based study for senior history students. The sources provide ample material for readers to question, analyse…
and evaluate, subsequently developing an understanding of the past and guiding readers through the causes, events, leadership, ideology and aftermath of the revolution. This book addresses the curriculum requirements of the West Australian senior history syllabus and those of syllabi in other states. 1999.The rights of nature: a legal revolution that could save the world
Par David R Boyd. 2017
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings…
of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it. Lawyers from California to New York are fighting to gain legal rights for chimpanzees and killer whales, and lawmakers are ending the era of keeping these intelligent animals in captivity. In Hawaii and India, judges have recognized that endangered species--from birds to lions--have the legal right to exist. Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems--rivers, forests, mountains, and more--have legally enforceable rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities. 2017.The rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II
Par Iris Chang. 1997
An account of the Japanese occupation of Nanking, China, that began in December 1937. Describes a prolonged orgy of rape,…
torture, and murder that resulted in an estimated 350,000 deaths. Also explores why this massacre has been ignored by many historians. Descriptions of sex and violence. c1997.The Ottoman endgame: war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923
Par Sean McMeekin. 2015
Between 1911 and 1923, a series of wars--chief among them World War I--would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor…
states. It is a story we think we know well, but Sean McMeekin shows us that we know far less than we think. Drawing from his years of ground-breaking research in newly opened Ottoman and Russian archives, the book brings to light the entire strategic narrative that led to an unstable new order in postwar Middle East--much of which is still felt today. 2015.The other Nuremberg: the untold story of the Tokyo war crimes trials
Par Arnold C Brackman. 1987
Recounts a tale of mass inhumanity inflicted upon prisoners of war, civilians, Asian labourers and even the Japanese populations. Unlike…
the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo trial received little press at the time and has been almost forgotten since. c1987.The mind's eye
Par Oliver W Sacks. 2010
Neurologist uses case studies to illustrate the brain’s ability to adapt to lost senses. Discusses a concert pianist who can…
no longer read music, a writer who is unable to read print after suffering a stroke, and Sacks’s own macular melanoma and its effects on his visual perception. 2010.The master spirit of the age: Canadian engineers and the politics of professionalism, 1887-1922
Par J. Rodney Millard. 1988
Explores the issues that shaped engineers' perception of their work and its place in society. Determined to raise their status,…
schools and societies were organized and, eventually, engineers obtained licensing and regulatory powers. c1988.The making of a country lawyer: An Autobiography
Par Gerry Spence. 1996
Chronicles Spence's first forty years, before he gained fame for winning a multimillion-dollar verdict on behalf of the dead plutonium…
worker Karen Silkwood. Tells of his mother's suicide when Spence was ten, his own alcoholism, and his affair with the woman who became his second wife. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1996.The law of the land: a history of the Supreme Court (The modern scholar)
Par Kermit Hall. 2003
Utah State University professor, Kermit L. Hall delivers a course that explores the Supreme Court as a living, breathing institution.…
Listeners will come to know the court through a thorough study of its most significant decisions. 2003.The last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857
Par William Dalrymple. 2007
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or…
panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable culture. 2007.The last days of the Raj
Par Trevor Royle. 1989
Royle looks at the last few years of the two centuries of British rule in India leading up to independence…
on 15 August 1947. The changing political climate of the 1930s and the influence of Gandhi are examined, as are the appointment of Lord Mountbatten as Viceroy and the slaughter during the civil war between Hindus and Muslims in the Punjab. The final chapter looks at events with forty years hindsight. 1989.The insider's guide to China
Par Derek Maitland. 1987
Survey of China's history and culture, combined with well-organized travel advice. Restaurants and hotels of note are mentioned in the…
text itself, with travel tips at the end of each chapter. c1987.The implosion conspiracy
Par Louis Nizer. 1973
The histories: From The Earliest Times To The Fall Of The Western Empire (Everyman Paperback Classics Ser.)
Par Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Hugh Bowden. 1992
The Histories is divided into nine books, each named after one of the Muses. The rise of the Persian Empire…
is chronicled, and the causes for the conflict with Greece. The central theme is the clash between the Persian Empire of King Xerxes and a handful of Greek city states in which the Greeks were against all odds, victorious. The story is set in the ancient world of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern world from Spain to India, and from Ethiopia to central Russia. 1992.Pour que refleurisse le monde: entretiens
Par Irène Frain, Jetsun Pema. 2002
Écrit sous forme de dialogue entre deux femmes de culture différente, cet ouvrage commun nous donne le loisir de voir…
la situation tibétaine d'un point de vue féminin. Depuis l'invasion chinoise en 1950, plusieurs générations d'enfants sont nés en exil en Inde, leur principal pays d'accueil. Fonctionnant comme une sorte de rétrospective sur ces longues années de survie, le recueil évoque la vie dans les camps de réfugiés transformés en villages. Jetsun Pema, soeur du Dalaï-Lama, raconte comment l'éducation des enfants s'est réorganisée, en tenant compte de la préservation de la langue, de la religion et des valeurs traditionnelles, sans pour autant se couper du monde moderne. 2002Mémoire de Chine: [les voix d'une génération silencieuse]
Par Xinran, Prune Cornet. 2010
" Mémoire de Chine est la confession d'une génération dont l'histoire n'a jamais été racontée. Grands-parents et arrière-grands-parents décrivent avec…
leurs propres mots - pour la première et peut-être la dernière fois - les transformations qui ont définitivement changé la Chine au cours du siècle passé. Ce livre est à la fois un voyage à travers le temps et l'espace, et un mémorial dressé à ceux qui ont vécu guerres, insurrections, persécution, invasions, révolutions, famines, modernisation, occidentalisation, et qui ont survécu pour entrer dans le XXIe siècle. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Zhongguo min zu zi zun de jian zheng zhe men.You can't do that in Canada!: crazy laws from coast to coast
Par Beverley Spencer. 2000
You may not think twice about giving someone a hug in Wawa in public on a Sunday afternoon - until…
an officer of the law gets involved! And we know you usually enjoy wearing your snake outdoors in New Brunswick, but it's illegal, as is carrying your pet lizard around on your shoulder. This book contains over 200 crazy Canadian laws from coast to coast. Grades 3-6. 2000.Oasis interdites
Par Ella Maillart. 1989
En janvier 1935, Ella Maillart quitte Pékin pour traverser la Chine d'est en ouest, atteindre les oasis " interdites "…
du Sin-Kiang et, de là, gagner le Cachemire. Ella Maillart est l'une des voyageuses les plus étonnantes de ce siècle, et la qualité de son regard sur les choses ne cesse de nous émerveiller. 1989.