If he does not find a way to save them, Dhinal knows his people will die. Every single one of them.The apprentice shaman has travelled for years, searching for the answer, along the way gathering a ragtag band of misfits, each harbouring secrets of their own. The latest member of this group, Strings, is running from something, her dreams haunted by flames and terror.Together, they arrive in the bustling city of Eastsea, seeking a guide to the legendary and lost Ame...

An anthology edition of the first four stories of The Lesser Evil, including two not previously available to purchase.Only One Death:If he does not find a way to save them, Dhinal knows his people will die. Every single one of them.Dust & Death:In a land of dust, there are some things best left buried, horrors and secrets which go far beyond fear — testing the very sanity itself.

Après avoir voyagé durant de nombreux mois, Dhinal espère approcher du terme de sa quête : découvrir comment sauver son peuple. En cours de route, il a réuni une bande de marginaux, chacun portant ses propres secrets. La dernière addition au groupe, Ficelle, fuit quelque chose, ses rêves sont hantés par les flammes et la terreur. Ensemble, ils arrivent dans la cité grouillante de Merest, à la recherche d’un guide pour les mener aux légendaires Monts Améthystes.Kiis ne supporte plus...

One of the New York Times's Best Books of the 21st CenturyNamed one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and ZoraA tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Highe...

The New York Times bestseller and 'Bible of a social movement' (San Francisco Chronicle)Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millio...

One of the New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st CenturyNamed one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and ZoraA tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Highe...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander, read by Karen Chilton.Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has res...

Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness, continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization, quantity, utility and mobility. Is there any place for aristocratic values and virtues in the modern democratic social and political order? This volume consists of essays by political theori...

Book one in this new fantasy adventure series, Keeper of the Realms.'I've just had a flesh-eating giant tearing around my house and now I'm in this strange land I don't know anything about!'CHARLIE KEEPER has been forced from her home by a bloodthirsty and terrifying stranger.But in escaping she discovers her house holds the gateway to the REALM OF BELLANIA - a place of myth, magic . . . and an evil Lord with a very...

Workbook on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander | Discussions Made Easy**The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander talks about how mass incarceration masquerading as a war on drugs has affected the lives of many black people even as they attempt to reenter society. Stripped of their basic rights—decent jobs, housing, and even the right to suffrage—they resort to illici...

A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination.Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute but also joined the segregated woman suffrage ...

Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mid-1960s, The New Jim Crow argues that while America is now legally a colorblind society – treating all races equally under the law – many factors combine to build profound racial weighting into the legal ...