Sensual and elegant, Catherine Corsini's SUMMERTIME follows Carole and Delphine as they fall in love against the backdrop of early feminist activism in 1971 France. After living in the city, Delphine is called home to help with her family farm in the countryside and is forced to choose between her responsibility to them and the life of love she had in Paris with Carole. An enlightening tale about the infatuation of first love and its universal themes....

Presents a series of effective changes that readers can make to their everyday lives which can help in the efforts to protect the environment, from mulching one's garden to reduce the need for watering, to washing one's laundry in cold water to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the back wall--and all Cameron wants to do is to conquer the...

A duo of troll friends navigates the troll kingdom and encounters new friends and foes alike while learning many things about friendship, life, and responsibility.

Seventeen-year-old movie-lover Ethan, the defacto manager of Minneapolis's crumbling Green Street Cinema, teams with a motley crew to try to save the landmark from destruction.

Ignatius Brother Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.

Un vieil adage, souvent repris, veut que « le droit mène à tout ». Si l'on peut déceler dans cette affirmation une certaine part d'exagération - après tout, le droit et la biologie moléculaire demeurent des disciplines bien distinctes -, une formation en droit ouvre en effet de nombreux horizons de carrière, en plus de contribuer à l'épanouissement intellectuel des personnes qui y ont accès. En outre, cette formation a parfois des effets...

Essays on Professionalism is a compilation of articles on topics of legal professionalism, most of which have appeared in the Tulsa Lawyer, a monthly publication of the Tulsa County Bar Association. The purpose of this book is to emphasize the importance to individual lawyers and to the legal profession as a whole the qualities and characteristics fundamental to their profession.

Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row, including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood in Arizona, have made headlines and renewed vigorous debate surrounding the death penalty in America. Austin Sarat's book instantly became an essential...

Get the Summary of Lou Raguse's Vanished in Vermillion in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Vanished in Vermillion" by Lou Raguse recounts the mysterious disappearance of Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller in 1971 Vermillio