Sit here! Stand there! Move when I tell you to move! Do what I say or I will call the police!For over a century, black riders were disrespected and treated unfairly on public transportation. This book tells the story of their fight for equality. From the horse-drawn trolleys of the late 1800s to the buses and trains of the 20th century, men and women, young and old, refused to accept second-class status.They sat where they weren't supposed to, refused to move, boycotted, go...

Before Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, Vernon Johns spoke out against racism and discrimination in America. Described as "God's Bad Boy", Johns fought for equal treatment of Black Americans long before the Civil Rights Movement. "A fearless man, he never allowed an injustice to come to his attention without speaking out against it." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Eighteenth-century anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone travels to the English countryside to unravel a tangled web of mystery, medicine, and murder in this captivating new novel from Tessa Harris.A man staggers out of his cottage into the streets of Oxfordshire, shattering an otherwise peaceful evening with the terrible sight of his body shaking and heaving, eyes wild with horror. Many of the villagers believe the devil himself has entered Joseph Makepeace, the latest victim of a "great...

Rien n'effraie la docteure Nicole Wright. En tant qu'ancienne chirurgienne de l'armée, elle a vu l'horreur de près.Désormais de retour à la vie civile, elle intègre l'équipe du prestigieux hôpital Watson Memorial de New York. Elle pensait avoir tout prévu, sauf une chose : tomber nez à nez avec la docteure Katya Thomas.Katya. La femme aux yeux bleus avec qui elle rêvait de vieillir. Celle qu'elle a lâchement abandonnée, sans un mot d'explication, juste après la fin de leurs...

'A nuanced and sophisticated analysis... Exhilarating' Sunday TelegraphNine hundred years ago, one of the most controversial episodes in Christian history was initiated. The Pope stated that, in spite of the apparently pacifist message of the New Testament, God actually wanted European knights to wage a fierce and bloody war against Islam and recapture Jerusalem. Thus was the First Crusade born.Foc...

London, 1782. The sole survivor of an ill-fated expedition to Jamaica has gone missing upon his return home. Dr. Thomas Silkstone had been entrusted to catalog all the New World specimens and therefore feels compelled to investigate the disappearance. Meanwhile, a rumor circulates that a potion with the power to raise the dead is afoot, and the formula is thought to be in the missing botanist's journal.As he investigates, the good doctor is drawn into a world of trafficking in corp...

Sommes-nous assez attentifs au monde qui nous entoure pour tenter de l'amender ? L’attention se situe au croisement de l’activité (on "fait" attention) et de la passivité (l’attention est une écoute). Dans la mesure où il s’impose à la pensée de Weil à la fois à l’usine et face au nazisme, il contient peut-être une réponse à la question : que veut dire agir dans une situation qui nous submerge ? Comment agir dans un monde sur lequel notre action semble n’avoir aucune prise ? La réponse à c...

'Asbridge can't help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along' The TimesA superb and definitive one-volume account of the Crusades, the impact of which still resonates to this day.In the eleventh century, a v****ast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a...

Get hold of the second adventure in this gripping Elizabethan mystery series from John Pilkington!'Thomas proves a dogged, creative and insightful sleuth.’ - Publishers WeeklyMURDER MOST SAVAGE…When invited to attend the Barrowhill Pleasures at the seat of the extravagant and pompous Earl of Reigate, Sir Robert Vicary of Petbury brings Thomas, his trusted falconer along with him to enjoy the festivities.But th...

Leicht verständlich führen die Autorin und der Autor in die Grundzüge der Abgabenordnung ein. So werden die systematischen Zusammenhänge des Verfahrensrechts transparent. Gegliedert in Grundlagen-Informationen, zusätzliche Hinweise für die tägliche Arbeit sowie Aufgaben mit ausführlichen Lösungen unterstützt der Band Einsteiger und Einsteigerinnen bei der Prüfungsvorbereitung und in der Praxis. Zusätzlich bietet er Übungsklausuren für drei Stufen des Studiums.Die 19. Auflage wurde ...

After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade.Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hugh Thomas describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history.Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations,...

‘A rip-roaring new life of Marshal … [a] splendid account of a great medieval life' Dan Jones, author of Crusaders‘A thoroughly entertaining account of England’s most colourful and courageous medieval knight’ Sunday TimesDrawing upon an array of contemporary evidence, renowned historian Thomas Asbridge’s authoritative and dramatic account brings to life the often overlooked figure of William Marshal...