Desert and Justice
Serena Olsaretti brings together new essays by leading moral and political philosophers on the nature of desert and justice, their relations with each other and with other values. Does justice require that individuals get what they deserve? What e...
Understanding Transatlantic Relations
In light of the Arab Spring and after days of public quarreling that highlighted the divisions among NATO's members on an agreement to give command of the "no-fly" zone in Libya to the Alliance, it is evident that the U.S. is having prob...
Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity
Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contempo...
Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court
This book provides an account of how the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) were applied in Kenya. In the aftermath of the disputed presidential election on 27 December 2007, Kenya descended into its worst c...
Material Lives
Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women's m...
The Art Of Money Getting
The Art Of Money Getting summarizes the methods on how the reader can acquire a business mentality. The essentials of valuing money properly are also outlined as well as the importance of life long learning and the essential reasons why one should accumulate wealth.
Death in Provence
'A gorgeous mystery read to escape with this summer' - EJ, Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars When Penelope Kite swaps her humdrum life in Surrey for a picturesque farmhouse in the south of France, she imagines a simple life of long lunches and chilled rosé...
Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris
The Savarays are at the centre of bourgeois Parisian society, as supporters of the impressionist movement, friends of Edouard Manet, and citizens relatively unaffected by the Franco-Prussian war raging beyond their estate - until their beloved ado...
Evil Thing-Villains, Book 7
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES - This stylishly twisted novel follows the rise and fall of one of Disney's most relentless villains: Cruella De Vil. The real story. It is fabulous, after all. Behold The story of me. Cruella De Vil From her lonely childhood to her iconic fashion choices, to that fateful car crash (you know the one), Cruella tells all in this marvelous memoir of a woman doomed. Even the cruelest villains have best friends, true loves, and daring dreams. Now it's Cruella's turn to share hers. This darkly fascinating novel in the wildly popular Villains series brings readers a tale told by the Evil Thing herself―a tale of the complicated bonds of female friendship, of mothers and daughters, and of burning, destructive desire. After all, nothing is as simple as black and white.
Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen
For anyone who's seen Walt Disney's Snow White, you'll know that the Wicked Queen is one evil woman After all, it's not everyone who wants to cut out their teenage step-daughter's heart and have it delivered back in a locked keepsake box. (And even if this sort of thing is a common urge, we don't know many people who have acted upon it.) Now, for the first time, we'll examine the life of the Wicked Queen and find out just what it is that makes her so nasty. Here's a hint: the creepy-looking man in the magic mirror is not just some random spooky visage--and he just might have something to do with the Queen's wicked ways Enjoy Serena Valentino's entire Villain's series. * Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen (Book 1) * The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince (Book 2) * Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch (Book 3) * Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy (Book 4) * Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch (Book 5) * The Odd Sisters: A Villains Novel (Book
Heartbroken
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES - This darkly captivating novel reveals the madness behind one of Disney's most dangerous villains: the Queen of Hearts. She missed the days of wonder. But those days were long past. All that remained was the anger. You may think you know the story of the Queen of Hearts, the bloodthirsty tyrant known for seeing red. Surely you've heard of the young girl Alice, who fell through the rabbit hole to a place called Wonderland, and how she defeated its villainous ruler in order to find her way back home. But have you ever wondered about the Queen's own first day in Wonderland? Did she encounter the same wonders--and horrors--as Alice? Are the laws of the land her royal decree--or a desperate attempt to bring order to a place that refuses to make sense? And why is she so angry? It may be hard to answer, with any certainty, questions about a world created from the broken shards of others. In the end, it all comes down to a woman fighting against the darkness
Poor Unfortunate Soul-Villains, Book 3
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES - This haunting novel reveals the dark ambition of one of Disney's most cunning villains: Ursula, the sea witch. Hate. Her magic was infused with it. And in that hate was a deep, penetrating sorrow... The tale of the sea king's daughter Ariel is a beloved one of losing―and then finding―one's own voice. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the mergirl wants more than her world can offer, and her father demands that she live within the confines of his domain. Her rebelliousness costs the little mermaid her voice and nearly her soul. But the power of good prevails, and Ariel emerges proud and unchanged. And yet this is only half the story. So what of Ariel's nemesis, Ursula, the sea witch? What led to her becoming so twisted, scorned, and filled with hatred? Many tales have tried to explain her motives. Here is one account of what might have shaped the sea witch into a detestable and poor unfortunate soul.
Raising the Horseman
A ghostly stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Disney's Villain Tales series, that reimagines Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow through the eyes of a modern teen ... Kat Van Tassel wants nothing to do with Sleepy Holl...