Gross violations of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Laws have been committed in Syria. After a full cessation of violence, launching transitional justice processes will signal to the victims that those responsible for committing these crimes will be brought to reparation and that the time of impunity is over. This book discusses the available options of justice and how accountability will be achieved through international systems and a new hybrid court system....

Join a family of cranes in one of their daily adventures, experience adventuring through the wild swampland. You will be meeting the other animals that live alongside the birds. Observe the latest activities in the swamp.

Poet, writer, veteran and cricket devotee, Alan Ross’s brilliant editorship of the London Magazine kept alive a literary tradition.Alan Ross played a role in Britain’s cultural life that no one else did or could, linking not just the worlds of writing, painting and sport but the literary London of Cyril Connolly, John Lehmann, Horizon and New Writings with that of all those contemporary novelists, dramatists, travel writers and poets who appeared or cut their teeth in the pages of ...

David Crane has given us the definitive biography of one of Britain’s greatest heroes and explorers.‘It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more…For God’s sake look after our people.’These were the final words written in Scott’s diary on 29 March 1912, as he lay dying in his tent with Birdie Bowers and Edward Wilson. Oates had taken himself into a blizzard a few days before, and the fifth member of the Polar party, Edgar Evans, had died some ten days previously, wo...

Il y a des milliers de crânes et d'ossements cachés sous terre dans les sous-sols de nombreuses églises et cathédrales - Pourquoi?Ont-ils mangé des gens dans les églises?Ont-ils bu du sang dans les églises?Boire du sang humain… était courant en Europe il y a 200 ans - pourquoi?Manger des humains - le cannibalisme était courant en Europe il y a 200 ans - pourquoi?Cuisiner des gens qui sont vivants, en Europe était courantCombien de personnes, ont...

In Blood, the Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers that includes Abraham Lincoln, General George Pickett, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant and Stephen Crane. In The War, no one knew i...

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware.Before WWI, little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were often unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave; officers shipped home for burial.The great cemeteries of WWI came about as a result of the efforts of one in...

Poet, writer, veteran and cricket devotee, Alan Ross’s brilliant editorship of the London Magazine kept alive a literary tradition.Alan Ross played a role in Britain’s cultural life that no one else did or could, linking not just the worlds of writing, painting and sport but the literary London of Cyril Connolly, John Lehmann, Horizon and New Writings with that of all those contemporary novelists, dramatists, travel writers and poets who appeared or cut their teeth in the pages of ...

Historian David Crane, with full access to the explorer’s papers, diaries, and expedition records, gives us an illuminating portrait of Robert Falcon Scott that is more nuanced and balanced than any we have had before.In reassessing Scott’s life, Crane is able to provide a fresh perspective on not only the Discovery expedition of 1901—4 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910—13, but his remarkable scientific achievements and the challenges of his tumultuous private...

Combining essential information, professional insights, and lived experiences, this book offers a unique overview of the use of music therapy with active-duty service members, veterans, and other military-connected populations in the United States. Contributors include music therapists specializing with the military, as well as military personnel, veterans, and their families, providing an in-depth review of the impact that music therapy can have within this community.Detailing the...

Through the lives of three outstanding naval officers – each considered the most brilliant commander of his generation – David Crane offers a unique portrait of the Royal Navy at a time when it held unchallenged dominion over the world's oceans.Although all three died young, their careers covered virtually every war of significance in which the navy was involved during the nineteenth century. They fought against French and Americans, Russians, Turks, Egyptians, Indians and Chinese,...

Packed with over 200 color photos, this visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement is told through the objects—buttons, badges, flyers, pennants, posters, and more—designed by activists as tools to advance the fight for justice and freedom, offering a unique perspective on the Civil Rights Movement from Emancipation through the present day.From Reconstruction through Jim Crow, through the protest era of the 1960s and '70s, to current-day res...