Understanding International Law through Moot Courts: Genocide, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Chemical Weapons, and the Responsibility to Protect consists of five sets of opposing legal briefs and judge’s decisions for five moot court cases held before the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. Each moot court brief included in the book addresses contemporary controversies in international affairs; issues ranging from the application of the newly emerging Responsibil...

The Politics of Reparations and Apologies examines the evolution and dynamics of reparation politics and justice. The volume introduces the key concepts, theories, and terms associated with social movements and in particular, the redress and reparation movement (RRM). Drawing from RRMs that have their foundation in World War II--the German genocides, the United States internments, and the Japanese “comfort women” system-- the volume explores each case study’s relative success or failure in...

New York Times bestselling author, Stephanie Rowe, launches her explosive new Heart of the Shifter series, in which passion and loyalty are brutally tested in a world where survival is never guaranteed.A decade ago, wolf shifter Cash Burns severed all ties to his past in order to protect his best friend, the childhood sweetheart he has never forgotten. When she's targeted for assassination by his pack on Christmas Eve, he's the only one who can save her…but at a cost great...

**Welcome to the first installment in the captivating world of the internationally #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series, where love and loyalty run deeper than blood.“We’re suckers for it.”—Entertainment Weekly“With social angst that every teenager can appreciate and sexual tension that leaves Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight looking like a children’s book, this little gem is sure to be a hit.”—VOYA**Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal...

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children’s Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in white paint, were these words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and Waisenkind – the German word for orphan.Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? What happened to her? They wanted Fumiko Ishioka, the center’s curator, to find the answers.In a suspenseful journey, Fumiko searches for clues across Europe and North America. Th...

I put my fingers up to my throat and touched the pointy Star of David, my grandmother's necklace, a delicate chain made up of countless tiny links. If I wear this, will people think I am Jewish?Is that what I want to be?Seventh-grader Caroline Weeks has a Jewish mom and a non-Jewish dad. When Caroline's nana dies around the same time that Caroline's best friend, Rachel, is having her bat mitzvah, Caroline starts to become more interested in her Jewish iden...

Hamburg, 1954. Als Elly Mutter wird, während Peter auf See verschollen ist, zerreißt man sich im Sender das Maul über sie. Auch mit der Idee einer Spieleshow beißt sie zunächst auf Granit, die Männerbünde halten zusammen. Es wird sogar behauptet, die Show sei gar nicht Ellys Idee gewesen. Doch sie setzt sich zur Wehr, und so startet die erste deutsche Spieleshow, live aus den neuen Studios des NWDR. Für Elly scheint nun alles möglich, sogar ein Besuch der jungen Romy Schneider in ihrer neu...

Can a boy-hungry Jersey girl survive the wilds of Canada with her eco-identity intact? A witty new YA novel from the author of Sophomore Switch.Jenna may hail from the ’burbs of New Jersey, but Green Teen activism is her life. So when her mom suggests they spend the summer at Grandma’s Florida condo, Jenna pleads instead to visit her hippie godmother, Susie, up in rural Canada. Jenna is psyched at the chance to commune with this nature she’s heard about—an...

"Dark, edgy, sexy." ~Guilty Indulgence Book ClubNew York Times bestselling author, Stephanie Rowe, returns to the Heart of the Shifter series with her most riveting entry to date, in which a dangerous wolf shifter must face his darkest truth to save the woman he was born to protect.Driven by his intense moral code, alpha Jace Donovan's only mission is to protect his pack, until deadly trick turns him into the monster he has spent his life hunting. Haunted by the ni...

Qui a tué Stephanie Mailer?30 juillet 1994. Orphea, petite station balnéaire tranquille des Hamptons dans l'État de New York, est bouleversée par un effroyable fait divers : le maire de la ville et sa famille sont assassinés chez eux, ainsi qu'une passante, témoin des meurtres.L'enquête, confiée à la police d'État, est menée par un duo de jeunes policiers, Jesse Rosenberg et Derek Scott. Ambitieux et tenaces, ils parviendront à confondre le meurtrier, solides preuves à l'app...

Hamburg, 1947. Leni, Alice und Elsa haben sich mit Einsatz und Tatkraft auf dem Kiez Achtung verschafft. Insbesondere die Frauen vertrauen sich ihnen an, denn die Arbeitsbedingungen sind oft sehr schlecht. Aber als die Schutzpolizistinnen einschreiten wollen, werden sie von den männlichen Vorgesetzten nicht ernstgenommen. Erst als ein Unglück geschieht, wendet sich das Blatt. Leni fühlt sich zunehmend wohl in ihrem Leben als alleinstehende Frau. Ihr winkt sogar eine Beförderung. Als zarte ...

As a packless omega baker hiding my designation in sleepy Lakeview, I've built my reputation on perfectly laminated dough rather than mating bonds.But as steam rises from the annual Baking Festival ovens, three irresistible alphas begin circling my demonstration table with hungry eyes.Cole , the freshly returned firefighter with protective instincts that ignite desires I've spent years trying to suppress.Dorian , th...