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  • The Investigative Brigade
    Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles / Russ Davidson
    During the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared without a trace. In 1991, a year after the brutal military regime ended, the new civilian government tasked the nation’s detective force to investigate these crimes. Chilean journalist Pascale Bonnefoy tells the dramatic story of the detectives who hunted down and att...
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    126,67 €

  • The Investigative Brigade
    Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles / Russ Davidson
    During the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared without a trace. In 1991, a year after the brutal military regime ended, the new civilian government tasked the nation’s detective force to investigate these crimes. Chilean journalist Pascale Bonnefoy tells the dramatic story of the detectives who hunted down and att...
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    37,82 €

  • Once upon a Time, Human Rights
    Liliane Masengo Mwamba Kabamba
    Once upon a time, human rights. This book illustrates the history of human rights as well as the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through pictures drawn by young students. It reduces big concepts to an affordable size to facilitate the understanding of young people. The different stages of the story summarize the universality of the search for human dign...
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    37,78 €

  • Global LGBTQ+ Concerns in a Contemporary World
    Despite the empowering pride culture that has evolved globally in the past half-century, the LGBTQAI+ community continues to face widespread discrimination. They are often subjected to cruelty and discrimination and are the bearers of a heavy psychological burden and frustration that stems from not coming out and expressing their concerns freely. Today, the invisibility of this...
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    242,42 €

  • Language Learning and Forced Migration
    This study of language issues in the context of migration provides interdisciplinary insights into language as learned, used and lived by refugees in Norway. It offers an innovative contribution to the field of SLA by bringing together structural, cognitive, social and critical approaches to data collected among the same individuals. ...
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    169,67 €

  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights
    This timely collection brings together a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to offer an interdisciplinary investigation into a discourse, research, and action agenda in pursuit of the universal application of human dignity. ...
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    48,90 €

  • Shoot to Kill
    Christopher McMichael
    Shoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa is a vivid and ambitious survey of the complex politics of security, crime and social control in South Africa.Nearly three decades after the formal end of apartheid, policing in South Africa continues to be defined by brutality, incompetence and corruption.Rather than protecting communities and ensuring justice for victims, the st...
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    18,76 €

  • Selected Works of Harry Haywood
    Harry Haywood
    Harry Haywood was a pioneer of the U.S. communist movement and the Black liberation struggle from the 1920s to the 1980s. He was a lifelong revolutionary, first with the African Blood Brotherhood, then as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and finally with the October League / Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) during the New Communist Movement of the 1970s. As the principal ...
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    22,35 €

  • The Communist Trias and the American Tradition
    John Sommerville
    A brilliant analysis by John Sommerville, a professor of philosophy who testified for the defense as a non-communist expert in the Smith Act trials of the 1950’s.Somerville, philosopher, teacher, husband, father, chose to make a stand for freedom of speech and association by testifying for those accused of communist subversion. His was a principled stand at a time when principl...
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    27,61 €

  • Journey To The Heartland
    Xiaolong Huang
    Fans of Life of Pi and A Long Way Home will fall in love with this inspiring, insightful novel about the complex reality of LGBTQ, Asian-American immigrations, and one man’s ability to transform his painful past into a bright future. Based on a true story, Journey To The Heartland is an unflinching tale of oppression, healing, and inspirational hope for social change.Hanwei was...
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    14,52 €

  • Tomorrow in America
    Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough
    Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough is an accomplished author, metaphysician, specialty plastic surgeon, and godly American patriot. In this, his twenty-third book, the doctor addresses how a deep state network that is aligned with Luciferian globalists, has infiltrated government, America’s healthcare system, the mainstream media, public education, and the entertainment industry. With th...
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    21,06 €

  • Technologies of Human Rights Representation
    Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it. ...
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    42,11 €

  • Eternal Flames of Freedom
    Sridhar Krish
    ’Eternal Flames of Freedom’ is a collection of rare memoirs from India’s Freedom movement, presented at its truthful best, by men who were there and have seen it all. The reader gets an insider’s view of multiple ideologies at work during the Freedom movement, leading to the much debated question - who made the biggest impact in India attaining its Freedom - Mahatma Gandhi, Su...
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    18,88 €

  • How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights
    Cynthia Burack
    Traces the Trump administration’s surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump’s indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites. ...
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    121,75 €

  • Truth and Politics
    Fred Dallmayr
    Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the 'underside' of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world. ...
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    122,12 €

  • Transitional Justice in Poland
    Frances Millard
    In this study of the mechanisms of transitional justice in Poland, Frances Millard asks: How does society come to terms with its past? How should it punish the perpetrators of oppression and acknowledge its victims? In the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe the task of answering these questions came down to the need to eliminate the communist parties’ hold...
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    50,96 €

  • PUNJAB
    Bakhshish Singh Sandhu MD
    Ever since the partition of the Indian subcontinent on August 15, 1947, into India and Pakistan, the erstwhile country of Punjab (the Indian-Punjab) has been occupied and colonized by India. A process of alien subjugation, domination, and exploitation of the Sikh state that began with the British colonization continues under the Republic of India. India is not only using Punjab...
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    17,76 €

  • 蓝色伦理 可持续和公平的水资源利用和管理之伦理视角 Blue Ethics
    者蒋经飞先生
    对于众多政策制定者、城市管理者、水务专家、技术人员或者活动家而言，水管理的伦理视角并不重要，或者说没有任何附加价值。两方阵营的一场争论似乎僵持不下，一方主要强调所有人的用水权，而另一方认为不能超越现实的经济情况。某种资源的可持续利用，在开采、分配和回收利用方面面临越来越大的压力，这些方面虽然说不上是一个技术官僚问题，但却像是一个技术性问题。本合著著作提出了不同的观点。用水以及资源的可持续利用的许多问题取决于开诚布公的谈判，解决冲突和关税结构，同时扩大水的交付和公平管理水的稀缺问题。在所有这些过程之中，伦理价值至关重要。 ...
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    32,61 €

  • A Different Land
    Frank McMahon
    A Different Land is the latest poetry collection from Frank McMahon, who began his career in Social Work/Welfare as a practitioner and manager, working for three Local Authorities, British Red Cross and ActionforChildren. He also served for nine years as a school governor. His last full-time post was to set up and manage a SureStart Children’s Centre. His anger about injustice ...
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    14,45 €

  • Refugee Talk
    Eva Rask Knudsen / Ulla Rahbek
    What does it mean to be a refugee? What political questions do they raise? Through what political rhetoric is their experiences parsed? The ongoing refugee crisis has sparked all these questions and more. Refugee Talk uses conversation as a research method and ethical practice to approach the representation of and the discourse about and by the refugee. Though refugees who cros...
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    127,07 €

  • From the New Deal to the War on Schools
    Daniel S. Moak
    In an era defined by political polarization, both major U.S. parties have come to share a remarkably similar understanding of the education system as well as a set of punitive strategies for fixing it. Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoliberalism to find the origin of ...
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    121,42 €

  • From the New Deal to the War on Schools
    Daniel S. Moak
    In an era defined by political polarization, both major U.S. parties have come to share a remarkably similar understanding of the education system as well as a set of punitive strategies for fixing it. Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoliberalism to find the origin of ...
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    44,32 €

  • Journey To The Heartland
    Xiaolong Huang
    Fans of Life of Pi and A Long Way Home will fall in love with this inspiring, insightful novel about the complex reality of LGBTQ, Asian-American immigrations, and one man’s ability to transform his painful past into a bright future. Based on a true story, Journey To The Heartland is an unflinching tale of oppression, healing, and inspirational hope for social change.Hanwei was...
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    9,77 €

  • The Rights Track
    Christine Garrington / Todd Landman
    The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today. ...
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    57,37 €

  • The Rights Track
    Christine Garrington / Todd Landman
    The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today. ...
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    180,14 €

  • The Last Noble Gendarme
    Vladimir G. Marinich
    Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar’s last chief of security and intelligence. ...
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    29,41 €

  • From Pariah to Priority
    Elise Carlson Rainer
    Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies. ...
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    42,79 €

  • Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow?
    Michael A. Smith
    Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression. ...
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    41,02 €

  • Desobediência Civil
    Henry David Thoreau
    Escritor, poeta, naturalista, pesquisador e crítico veemente da escravidão, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) foi um pensador influente sobre libertários, anarquistas e personalidades como Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. e Liev Tolstói. Este ensaio, publicado em 1849, foi escrito após sua prisão por se negar a pagar impostos para financiar a guerra contra o México. O texto...
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    7,56 €

  • BODY COUNT
    Gideon Polya
    BODY COUNT exposes the horrendous extent of the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust that has totaled about 1.3 billion since 1950. Peace is the only way, but silence kills and silence is complicity. We can all do something immediately by informing others and through ethical dealings with people, corporations and countries contributing to the continuing Global Avoidable Mortali...
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    31,79 €


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