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  • Insurrectionary Uprisings
    The volume includes two sections exploring nonviolence in the long Black freedom struggle within the US. From Ella Baker to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Fannie Lou Hamer, from Vincent Harding and Grace Lee Boggs to Colin Kaepernick, the two sections on the Black liberation movement highlight the theory of nonviolence in direct and indirect ways and foreground the relevance of th...
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    40,36 €

  • The Sharing Economy
    Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi
    The idea of a sharing economy has gripped the public imagination in recent years, mainly driven by the rise of new technologies. But what is the meaning of sharing resources in response to the world’s greater social, ecological and military crises? In The Sharing Economy, Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi argues that the idea of sharing should always have been directed towards the world...
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    15,48 €

  • A Pre-COVID Social Experiment
    Monica Bennett-Ryan
    A POWERFUL TRUE STORY OF GOVERNMENT CORRUPTIONDuring the global financial crisis of 2009, three ordinary Australian’s uncovered the greatest intelligence scandal in Australia’s history. Tens of thousands of security clearances from ’classified’ to ’top-secret’ were deliberately altered on the orders of government officials for the sake of money. Those officials didn’t care that...
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    42,95 €

  • A Pre-COVID Social Experiment
    Monica Bennett-Ryan
    A POWERFUL TRUE STORY OF GOVERNMENT CORRUPTIONDuring the global financial crisis of 2009, three ordinary Australian’s uncovered the greatest intelligence scandal in Australia’s history. Tens of thousands of security clearances from ’classified’ to ’top-secret’ were deliberately altered on the orders of government officials for the sake of money. Those officials didn’t care that...
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    27,31 €

  • Whom Shall I Fear?
    Ewart Brown
    Outspoken, accomplished, and frequently controversial, Bermudian physician and political leader Ewart Brown, MD, has been a longtime champion of racial equality, human rights, and economic and social justice. In this event-filled memoir, he shares the experiences that most shaped him and that defined his often tumultuous time in office.Brown's journey began with a childhood...
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    19,10 €

  • Toss ena Beles / ጦስ እና በለስ
    Mulugeta Mekonnen / Mulugeta Mekonnen Marye
    Toss ena Beles (ጦስ እና በለስ) is an account of true stories, analyses, and poems. It touches on diverse aspects of life including the life experiences of the Ethiopian diaspora, the US and the US military, black and Jew, socio-political issues in Ethiopia, several other essays, entertaining true stories and poems. This is an absorbing book that leaves its own print in the reader’s...
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    33,38 €

  • The Red Record
    Ida Wells-Barrett
    An important historical work, 'The Red Record' is also a horrifying account of African American lynchings after the Civil War. Black Americans lost their lives for such offenses as offending a white person in some way, proposing marriage to a white woman, providing information to someone who asked, introducing smallpox, 'conjuring,' and/or writing a letter to a white woman. In ...
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    7,51 €

  • Black Lives Don’t Matter In America’s Criminal Justice System
    Terry Nelson
    The purpose of this book is to bring focus on America’s current justice system. It is all too common that Americans cry out for justice. However, many don’t understand how Black and Brown people are underserved by this system. Through life experiences-living, observing, and working within the system-I have determined that the current criminal justice system is flawed in providi...
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    11,15 €

  • Latin America and international investment law
    Latin America and international investment analyses the complex relationships between governments and foreign investors, and the influence of international organisations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples, to examine the contribution that Latin America has made to the theory and practice of international investment law. ...
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    181,03 €

  • The Tyranny of Human Rights
    Kerry R Bolton
    In The Tyranny of Human Rights: From Jacobinism to the United Nations Bolton examines the manner by which 'Enlightenment' doctrines shaped liberalism and the bloody progenies of Jacobinism and Bolshevism. Bolton demonstrates that the inevitable consequences of these doctrines being predicated on the fallacy of universal equality is the need for increasingly draconian laws, perv...
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    38,51 €

  • The War on Drugs
    Christine D Shuck
    Part memoir, part current affairs, part argument for legalization - The War on Drugs is a MUST READ for those who believe that the war on drugs only happens to 'those people' in 'that part of town.' Written from the point of view of a wife and mother, The War On Drugs: An Old Wives’ Tale examines the pros and cons of marijuana prohibition, drug diversion programs, and challenge...
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    22,26 €

  • 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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    121,82 €

  • Destiny of Liberty
    Mwanandeke Kindembo
    In this book, author Mwanandeke Kindembo presented the reader with his manifesto, or a shared reality that exemplifies his ultimate mission. Which is based on finding within himself the motivation, or the correct vision to improve the world around him. He showed us the geography of his passions and how he is ready to step in to lead people to the promised land of liberty. The a...
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    24,90 €

  • Freedom Isn’t Free
    Markos Kounalakis
    Freedom Isn’t Free takes an analytical look at political, economic, social and moral trade-offs in a world in flux. Highly readable, the volume’s collected foreign affairs essays are wide-ranging and engaging-from manageable regional issues to dramatic geopolitical tensions-presented not as distant complexities, but as relatable events. ...
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    50,02 €

  • Freedom Isn’t Free
    Markos Kounalakis
    Freedom Isn’t Free takes an analytical look at political, economic, social and moral trade-offs in a world in flux. Highly readable, the volume’s collected foreign affairs essays are wide-ranging and engaging-from manageable regional issues to dramatic geopolitical tensions-presented not as distant complexities, but as relatable events. ...
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    180,10 €

  • Never Again
    Donald L. Lang / Donald LLang / Donald LLang PhD
    Freedom. The Berber symbol adorns a monument outside the Museum of Slavery in The Gambia. It’s also an emblem of hope, that 'never again' will such wrongheaded political mindsets cloud our judgment about 'rights' and 'freedoms,' now enshrined in human rights charters. Yet those fervent words-never again-as author Donald L. Lang points out, are also the title and rallying cry of...
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    30,16 €

  • Never Again
    Donald L. Lang / Donald LLang / Donald LLang PhD
    Freedom. The Berber symbol adorns a monument outside the Museum of Slavery in The Gambia. It’s also an emblem of hope, that 'never again' will such wrongheaded political mindsets cloud our judgment about 'rights' and 'freedoms,' now enshrined in human rights charters. Yet those fervent words-never again-as author Donald L. Lang points out, are also the title and rallying cry of...
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    37,11 €

  • The Impact of Foreign Interventions on Democracy and Human Rights
    Ana Magdalena Figueroa
    The Impact of Foreign Interventions on Democracy and Human Rights provides holistic studies exploring the relationship between military and economic interventions and the policies, methods, intentions, and consequences of the various American, French, and Chinese interventions in the case studies they present. ...
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    136,30 €

  • The Utopians of Tahrir Square
    Catherine Davidson / Dr Anba Jawi
    October 2019 saw the start of a series of protests in the central and southern provinces of Iraq: demonstrations, marches, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience. The protesters were attacked with live bullets, marksmen, hot water, hot pepper gas and tear gas, leading to many deaths and injuries.Among those who took part in the Tahrir Square protest or witnessed it were...
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    15,64 €

  • Life Without Rights
    Birgit Berggrensson
    The topic of the book is the focus on rights, which has spread like wildfire above all in the western part of the world since the Second World War and the impact this way of thinking has had on how we see our fellow human beings. The author sees rights focused thinking and neighborly love as opposites and does not think that the two are compatible. They are mutually exclusive. ...
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    33,13 €

  • Collective Complaints As a Means for Protecting Social Rights in Europe
    Giuseppe Palmisano
    This monograph explores and clarifies the specific features of the collective complaints procedure, established by the treaty system of the European Social Charter as an instrument for the protection of social rights, in the light of its evolutive application by the European Committee of Social Rights. ...
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    35,63 €

  • The D Word
    Susan McCuistion
    Our approach to Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is broken. We have done the same thing over and over for years, expecting better representation and more equitable treatment, all to no avail. In fact, many people still don’t know exactly what D&I is.We can’t fix the mess we’re in with a 2-hour training session. Creating a world which is truly more equitable for everyone is a proce...
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    24,99 €

  • Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow?
    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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    122,03 €

  • Media, Development and Democracy
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this 22nd volume in Studies in Media and Communications explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. ...
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    158,40 €

  • Fighting Tyranny
    Bruce Jenkins / Gene Sharp
    Fighting Tyranny combines two of Gene Sharp’s books in a single pocket-sized volume - From Dictatorship to Democracy and The Anti-Coup. At a time when governments around the world are becoming increasingly authoritarian and aggressive towards their citizens, this book offers ideas and nonviolent methods of action to defend or establish democratic systems. From Dictatorship to D...
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    11,99 €

  • Traditional Islamic Ethics
    Irfaan Jaffer
    'Traditional Islamic Ethics: The Concept of Virtue and its Implications for Human Rights' concentrates on the subject of Islam and modernity and Islam and human rights, a topic that has become popular and relevant with the rise of globalization and the interest in Islamic extremism and human rights. This book distinguishes itself by operating within the framework of the traditi...
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    45,91 €

  • The Law
    FREDERIC BASTIAT
    2021 Hardcover Reprint of 1950 American Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before and just following the Revolution of February 1848 in France. This was the period during which France was turn...
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    13,80 €

  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates - First Debate
    Dubreck World Publishing
    The Lincoln-Douglas debates (also known as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.These debates focused primarily on slavery: specifically, whether it would be allowed in the new states to...
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    12,68 €

  • Avoiding the Terrorist Trap
    Tom Parker
    For more than 150 years, nationalist, populist, Marxist and religious terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims: provoke states into over-reacting to the threat they pose, then take advantage of the divisions in society that result. Yet, state after state falls into the trap that terrorists have set for them.Faced with a major terrorist threat...
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    91,59 €

  • Re-Invigorating Ubuntu Through Water
    Ndjodi Ndeunyema
    This book argues for the existence of a court enforceable human right to water that is implied from the right to life in Article 6 of the Namibian Constitution.The book builds this argument by using tools of constitutional interpretation and with the aid of comparative materials. As such, the African value of ubuntu is invoked. Ubuntu - which is legally developed through its fo...
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    41,69 €


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