In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United States, battling for, and winning, social change. Organizers against segregation had used litigation and protests for decades but not until the advent of nonviolence did they succeed in transforming ingrained patterns of white supremacy on a massive scale....

Diplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, and the personal summitry behind the night Stalin and Churchill Divided Europe, to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, and diplomacy in the age of globalization, the management of power relationships has had an immense impact...

Sam and her brother Stuart take Bootsie to the school dog show.

Mitchell the mailman loves delivering mail to all the animals on his postal route, but he does not receive any mail himself until sickness forces him to leave the route for a day.

Stanley's ice cream business suffers until he meets Zelmo, an alien whose spaceship crash-lands on earth.

Siglo IV antes de Cristo, Aru es un joven mercenario cántabro cuya vida cambiará por completo al verse envuelto en la guerra entre Siracusa y los cartagineses. De corazón valiente, arriesgará su propia vida para proteger a su familia y a su clan. Una historia en la que el destino no dudará en jugar con las vidas del protagonista y su familia, y en la que solo los dioses podrían inclinar la balanza hacia un lado o hacia otro.

The current growth of tourism to Sicily is so great, and the need for easily-consulted travel information so acute, that guidebooks to Sicily are presently appearing on numerous lists of travel best-sellers. The Shortcut Guide to Sicily will surely be among the most popular sources of recommendations and advice on this uniquely-Italian experience. From the museums, marketplaces and cathedral churches of Palermo to the mountain-side resorts and nightlife...

La amistad castigada es una comedia original de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, publicada por primera vez en la Parte segvnda de las comedias del licenciado Iuan Rvyz de Alarcón y Mendoza, Relator del Consejo de Indias. En La amistad castigada Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza relata una historia ambientada en la Siracusa de Dión, monarca célebre por su amistad con el filósofo Platón. En este entorno Ricardo se casa, tras muchas adversidades, con la hija...

La vida humana es una travesía. Séneca se la imagina como un viaje de Italia a la ciudad de Siracusa, en Sicilia. En el recorrido habrá peligros, contratiempos, tormentas y también quietud e incomparables maravillas. Con esa metáfora de la navegación, el filósofo nos hace adentrarnos en los anhelos de la existencia humana: el dar sentido a la vida y al tiempo, la búsqueda de la felicidad y la gloria; pero también, en sus pruebas y enigmas:...