Three things Astar knows for certain: she's good with a sword, she's terrible at diplomacy, and the Bramble Throne is the most uncomfortable seat in the Twelve Realms.She killed her traitorous uncle in single combat to claim it. Three months later, she's fending off marriage proposals, a hostile council, and two invading armies, one of them led by a dark sorceress. When Astar ends up in her dungeon, the only way out involves trusting a half-dead mage who shouldn't exist in a kingdo...

The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals is a learned, curious, and unsettling inquiry into the medieval and early modern practice of trying animals before ecclesiastical and secular courts. Evans assembles legal records, chronicles, and theological arguments to show how pigs, rats, insects, and other creatures were once treated as moral agents or demonic instruments. Written in a lucid antiquarian style, the book belongs to the late nineteenth-century tradition of compar...

E. P. Evans' "The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals" is a groundbreaking exploration into the strange and often macabre intersection of animal rights and legal history. Through meticulous research and intricate analysis, Evans examines instances from medieval Europe, where animals were tried, prosecuted, and even executed for various alleged crimes. The book is infused with a rich literary style that melds historical narrative with a critical examination of societal no...

This e-book provides a complete text of 30 chapters supported by examination style questions that cover the theory content for AQA GCSE ICT (4520). The author is a former Principal Examiner for GCSE ICT.

In "The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals," E. P. Evans presents a provocative exploration of the historical and legal frameworks surrounding the prosecution of non-human animals in various societies, particularly during the medieval period. This remarkable scholarly work employs a meticulous blend of legal history, anthropological analysis, and narrative vignettes to illustrate how animals, from mice to elephants, were once subjected to formal trials and, in some inst...

Kourtney is the oldest of the eldest three Kardashian Sisters. She's a devoted mother, celebrity and business woman, commited to her romantic relationship. This is the definitive biography about the rise to fame and fortune of Kourtney Kardashian.You'll find this to be fun, concentrated and short filled with relevant details about the humble beginnings of Kourtney Kardashian and how she...

The past twenty years have witnessed a renewal of interest in feminist activism on both sides of the Atlantic. In part this has been a response to neoliberal and neoconservative attacks, both implicit and explicit, on the gains made by feminists during the 1960s and 70s.This study adds a comparative dimension to the ongoing analysis of feminism and feminist activism by mapping, analysing and theorising third wave feminisms in the US and Britain.A key addition to Gender and ...

In 1888 the dreaded figure of Jack the Ripper stalked London's East End murdering prostitutes. His crimes set in motion a huge police operation and have held a dark fascination over the public's imagination for over a century, yet his identity has never been proved. Now, for the first time, two leading Ripper experts have joined forces to treat the case like a police investigation. Drawing on their unparalleled knowledge of the Jack the Ripper murders and their professional experie...

Sponsored by the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania and the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands Trust, Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, Second Edition, provides a major update since the first edition in 2005. It addresses the current state of knowledge about the major mental health disorders that emerge during adolescence, including updated DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. Here, six co...

Parker Mandli arrives in Mayville with fresh wounds and a litany of failures. Determined to put those mistakes behind her and start a new venture, she opens a shoe store in the artsy Tomlinson Street neighborhood—right across the street from Fire Station Two.Cate Wildman is a no-nonsense, by-the-book firefighter dedicated to her job with precious little time for romance. But when she shows up to conduct a fire inspection in Parker’s new store, Cate’s carefully curated life is throw...

Cadet George Hanlon stood stiffly at attention. But as the long, long minutes dragged on and on, he found his hands, his spine and his forehead cold with the sweat of fear. He tried manfully to keep his eyes fixed steadily on that emotionless face before him, but found it almost impossible to do so. Tension grew and grew and grew in the room until it seemed the very walls must bulge, or the windows burst to relieve the pressure. The cadet felt he could not stand another minute of it withou...

AN ENTIRE GALAXY WAS IN DANGER!Somewhere, somehow, the first moves had been made—there was a pattern beginning to emerge. Someone, or something, was on the way to wresting supreme power over all the planets currently controlled by Mankind—and the Interstellar Corps seemed helpless to meet this threat. No "normal" man could hope to penetrate the vast conspiracy of it all. But...the Corps did have one man who wasn't normal, a man who possessed a very strange weapon......his mind. "Exc...