In this groundbreaking investigation, Erna Paris explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America's opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and the implications for the world at large. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent tribunal of its kind. The mandate of the ICC is to challenge criminal impunity on the part of national leaders and to promote accountability in world affairs at the highest level. Independent and transnational, its indictments cannot be vetoed in the Security Council. On March 11, 2003, when the new court was inaugurated in a moving ceremony, attended by over half of the countries in the world, one country was conspicuously missing from the celebrations. The government of the United States had made it clear that the International Criminal Court was not consistent with American goals and values.
Leki is a young whooping crane who has no idea that a spectacular journey is about to begin. He lives with his parents, Toluki and Karla, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Leki has had many adventures there, like the day he ran across wild wolves! Still, his biggest adventure is yet to come as his parents prepare for their annual October migration. Every year, the whooping cranes travel south to warmer climates for the winter. Toluki and Karla plan to take young Leki 2,400 miles, all the way from their home in Canada to a winter resting place on an island in the Gulf of Mexico. The path they take is called "the crane track," and it is a journey filled with wild weather and hungry hunters. Whooping cranes are graceful creatures with white feathers and up to an eight-foot wingspan. Once almost extinct, there are now 513 whooping cranes in the world, and many of them travel the same path as Leki and his parents. Nature is a carefully balanced, beautiful machine. It's up to us to protect the path of the cranes' migratory journey. So is little Leki up for the trip?
A giant of early-twentieth century English literature, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was a prolific novelist, poet and literary critic. Celebrated for his clear and effortless style, he produced masterpieces in numerous genres, including adventure fiction, children’s classics, poetry, critical essays and influential anthologies. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook provides Quiller-Couch’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Quiller-Couch’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 23 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels, including the unfinished novel ‘Castle Dor’. (Please note: Daphne du Maurier’s completion cannot appear due to copyright) * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare story collections * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Poetry collections * Wide range of Quiller-Couch’s non-fiction * Features the author’s autobiography — first time in digital print * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Dead Man’s Rock (1887) The Astonishing History of Troy Town (1888) The Splendid Spur (1889) The Blue Pavilions (1891) Ia (1896) St. Ives (1898) The Ship of Stars (1899) The Westcotes (1902) Hetty Wesley (1903) The Adventures of Harry Revel (1903) Fort Amity (1904) The Shining Ferry (1905) The Mayor of Troy (1906) Sir John Constantine (1906) Poison Island (1907) Major Vigoureux (1907) True Tilda (1909) Lady Good-for-Nothing (1910) Brother Copas (1911) Hocken and Hunken (1912) Nicky-Nan, Reservist (1915) Foe-Farrell (1918) Castle Dor (1962) The Short Story Collections Noughts and Crosses (1891) The Delectable Duchy (1893) I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter’s Tales (1893) Wandering Heath (1895) Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts (1900) The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales (1902) Two Sides of the Face (1903) Shakespeare’s Christmas and Other Stories (1905) Merry-Garden and Other Stories (1907) The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French (1910) Corporal Sam and Other Stories (1910) News from the Duchy (1913) In Powder and Crinoline (1913) Mortallone and Aunt Trinidad (1917) Miscellaneous Short Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Poetry Collections Green Bays, Verses and Parodies (1893) The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems (1912) The Non-Fiction The Warwickshire Avon (1891) Preface to ‘The Golden Pomp’ (1895) Adventures in Criticism (1896) Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 (1900) From a Cornish Window (1906) Introduction to ‘English Sonnets’ (1897) The Oxford Book of Ballads (1911) Thomas Edward Brown (1911) Poetry (1914) On the Art of Writing (1916) Introduction to ‘Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays’ (1916) by William Hazlitt On the Art of Reading (1920) Preface to ‘The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse’ (1922) Preface to ‘Oxford Book of English Prose’ (1923) The Autobiography Memories and Opinions (1945) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
