Sur une île isolée de l'Alaska, Rinn van Ness commet un délit mineur. Son ancien amant est arrêté pour ce crime - et pour un meurtre que quelqu'un a essayé de lui imputer.Libérée sous caution, Kit Olinsky mène une lutte acharnée au sein du corps législatif de l'État pour sauver l'Alaska qu'elle aime. Elle ne peut gagner que si elle trahit son ami Dan Wakefield, un Tlingit qui se bat désespérément pour obtenir ce qui a été promis à son peuple il y a une génération. Dans...

There is really in law no such office as that of Prime Minister. No statute grants him or her powers. Even the name came into official use only in 1878, and the Prime Minister as such only became known to the law in 1905. The office of Prime Minister has in fact been based on convention and has been shaped by personal and political factors; it is what the holder makes of it and that is why a sensible way to study the development of the office is by reading the biographies of its holders.

This enchanting Christmas gift book features stories and poems by St. Luke, William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth, Hans Christian Andersen, Christina Rossetti, and other literary luminaries. Charming color illustrations complement the brief tales and verses of this holiday treasury — an ideal read-aloud resource for children and families.

The first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. Declamations, deliberative or judicial orations on fictitious themes, were the fundamental advanced exercises of the rhetorical schools of the Roman Empire, of interest also to audiences outside the schools. Some of Choricius' declamations are on generic themes (e.g. a tyrannicide, a war-hero), while others are based on specific motifs from ...