Analyses the political, legal and regional impact of events in post-genocide Rwanda within the themes of transitional justice and reconciliation. This book includes chapters from scholars in this field, along with senior government and non-government officials involved in matters related to Rwanda and transitional justice.
An age-old struggle has been rekindled.
The fires of war are burning in the east.
The Malliths have awakened.
As Corred and Remiel make a desperate attempt to rescue Creedus and the Sword before they are swallowed by the Black Mountain, Mornoc's armies are unleashed in the eastern Lowlands. A coordinated assault, Mornoc will not settle for anything less than complete control this time. Anyone who resists will be destroyed.
But ther...
For nearly eight hundred years, the exiles of Amilum have battled their immortal foe and fellow exile, Mornoc. They have survived life in the harsh Lowlands. They have waited to see if the Promise will be kept. Only a few have truly believed. Most have settled for exile. Many have despaired, joining Mornoc in his endless quest to rule the Lowlands. Now, after fifty years of baiting his enemies into complacency with his silence, Mornoc readies ...
A very lonely and bitter old man finds that his children and their mates have been most cases been a great disappointment to him. Their spendthrift ways and lax lifestyle have forced him to make a moral judgment He has decided that no further investments in their wild schemes will be made as they have gone too far. Recently widowed, he decides to give as much of the fortune away to deserving causes, mostly in his wife''s name. This is too much...
A young boy is shuffled around during his boyhood from foster homes and finally to a relative in New Orleans. As a teenager he runs away from this stabilizing environment, knocking about until he winds up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Here, he is given an entry level job with a plumbing wholesale firm and he excels beyond anyone expectations, and pleasing his superiors. The owner has a daughter who becomes enamoured with the young man and lures him int...
William Heinrich, a ruthlessly ambitious man, closed the door quietly behind him leaving the apartment where he had spent the night with his paramour. It had gone as planned and as he walked to his rented car which was well hidden under stately oak trees, whose branches touched each other creating a dark tunnel under which he had earlier parked the vehicle. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his left side, then a second round cracked and the bu...
A man from a traditional Irish family decides to be a movie star with the help of family and friends he succeeds. He is enamored with the power that seems to accrue with stardom. Weary of this he decides to take advantage of his celebrity and make a career change. Thinking that his starpower status will service him well in politics. It does and he gets elected. An act which claims the life of an assistant clouds his future. He avoids accepting...
A beautiful and well known celebrity is found nude and dead in her suite in a Las Vegas hotel. It was declared a suicide. She had a secret that goes all the way back to the White House and may figure in her demise. A dogged acquaintance who knew of her problem and is sure that it was not a suicide. He suffers through threats to him and his family to maintain his silence. He is ably assisted by an attorney friend that leads all the way back to ...
As they were excavating an old barn in Carville, Texas (fictitious place) they uncover the remains of a ne''er do well man who had disappeared twenty-five years earlier.The property is owned the man who is married to the former paramour of the deceased. To complicate matters, the wealthy owner without an heir and desparately wants one. Did he marry her to have her become an incubator and this possibility is raised during the earlier marriage. ...
Have you ever wondered about what having a best friend truly meant? Have you ever thought you had a best friend but it turned out otherwise? Discover what a best friend is all about in this story "Little Red
Have you seen my wife Anne?" was the melancholy question Doctor Mark Burke would ask as he walked about town looking for his now deceased wife. The shock of her death had been too much for him to understand and he just assumed that she was lost and needed him to help her home. His persistence intrigued a persom who was taking a course in Creative Writing and decided to make their story hers. As she goes throuh the lives of the Doctor and his w...
She was the daughter of a pharaoh, beautiful, feminine, intelligent and a talented woman and the favorite of her father the reigning pharaoh. She was also married to her younger brother, whom she loved, but only as younger sibling. He was the logical successor to their father, but he died of some mysterious disease leaving his sister/wife to continue his rule. So when it came time for her to ascend the pharaoh's throne she assumed the guise of...
Is the current form of globalization inevitable? Material Geographies shows that the present form of globalization has been actively 'made' by corporations, governments and international agencies, as well as through the combined efforts of many smaller actors. It discusses:
Themes: including economy, environment, politics, mobility, and technology
Actors: human and non-human forces, from biodiversity to climate
Spaces: the key concepts ...