Cet ouvrage d’une ambition exceptionnelle présente sous une forme accessible à un large public une histoire inédite de l’esclavage depuis la Préhistoire jusqu’au présent. Il paraît vingt ans après le vote de la loi Taubira, alors que la prise de conscience du passé esclavagiste est chaque jour plus aiguisée au sein de la société française. L’histoire de l’esclavage, trop longtemps tenue pour une forme de passé subalterne, est ici replacée au coeur de l’histoire mondiale. Le livre renouvell...

Treat yourself to this 6-book collection of spicy romances from unlikely couples! Contains 18 stories!Love In ParadisePregnant by Morning by Kat CantrellDevoured by Cathryn FoxThe Greek’s Forbidden Innocent by Annie WestMedics In LoveBreaking Her No-Dating Rule by Amalie BerlinA Stolen Kiss with the Midwife by Juliette HylandAwa...

** Finalist for the 2022 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing **Lester Yates is the notorious Egypt Valley Strangler, one of the country’s most prolific serial killers. Or, is he? Yates is two months from his date with the executioner when Ohio Attorney General Hutch Van Buren is presented with evidence that could exonerate him. But Yates is a political pawn, and forces exist that don’t want him exonerated, regardless of the evidence. To ...

From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues whi...

The Maverick Collection and the Spanish Scandals Collection from Mills & BoonIncluding the titles:Mavericks: Her Secret MaverickMavericks: Taming the Bad BoyMavericks: Her Playboy Prince CharmingMavericks: Resisting the RebelMavericks: Bringing Home the BillionaireMavericks: Tempting the BachelorSpanish Scandals: Risking it AllSpanish Scandals: Heat of the NightSpanish Scandals: Ultimate Temptation

The book describes how the author went through a mental health diagnosis and medication to introducing alcohol to her treatment. The alcohol contributed to her downfall. She only knew that she took her treatment out of the hands of the medical staff and into her own.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species and the concept of life and non-life. Writing amidst bushfires, cyclones, global climate strikes and a global pandemic, contributors from the Earth Unbound Collective share stories from India, Australia, Canada and Scotland. Chapters d...

Passion and scandal combust in the Hidden Heirs CollectionIncluding the titles:A Double SecretOne Night…to WifeA Nine Month ScandalBehind Palace DoorsConsequences of a PlayboyHis One Night Heir

This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government, historiography, art, philosophy, literature, and politics.The book critically investigates the perception that, due to the influence of Confucianism, Chinese culture has systematically devalued military matters. There was nothing inheren...

The Spanish Scandals Collection from Mills & BoonIncluding the titles:Spanish Scandals: Risking it AllSpanish Scandals: Heat of the NightSpanish Scandals: Ultimate TemptationSpanish Scandals: Secrets at SunsetSpanish Scandals: A Private AffairSpanish Scandals: Dangerous Liaisons

The perfect double collection to curl up withIncluding the titles:A Double SecretOne Night…to WifeA Nine Month ScandalBehind Palace DoorsConsequences of a PlayboyHis One Night HeirPostcards from Paradise: CaribbeanPostcards from Paradise: BrazilPostcards from Paradise: HawaiiPostcards from Paradise: Costa RicaPostcards from Paradise: AustraliaPostcards from Paradise: Bali

HOCHZEIT MIT DEM PLAYBOY-PRINZEN von MAISEY YATESSie soll Prinz Rodriguez heiraten? Einen völlig Fremden, dem der Ruf als Playboy vorauseilt? Um ihrer Heimatinsel Santina willen muss Prinzessin Carlotta dem Befehl ihres Vaters gehorchen. Zum Glück stellt Rodriguez sich als überraschend attraktiv und charmant heraus…GESTÄNDNIS UNTER SÜDLICHER SONNE von MARION LENNOXWie ein Ritter auf seinem weißen Pferd hat Ramón sie aus dem grauen All...