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  • In Battle for Peace
    W E B Du Bois
    2021 Reprint of the 1952 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  W.E.B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the...
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    15,25 €

  • Como Destruir um País
    Marcelo Suano
    Com uma narrativa envolvente e uma pesquisa fantástica, Marcelo Suano apresenta nesse livro a trajetória do fracasso social, político e econômico ocorrido na Venezuela, especialmente desde a morte de Hugo Chávez e o início do governo do governo de Nicolás Maduro. Passando por traições, brigas, atentados, o autor revela o que fez uma das mais promissoras economias do mundo ruir ...
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    32,51 €

  • In Search of New Social Democracy
    Olle Törnquist
    Why is the classical social democratic vision of development based on social justice by democratic means losing ground? Why was it so difficult to renew, even in the context of the third wave of democracy in the South? How does this matter in the North too, and how might it be reinvented? This accessible book brings to life major insights gained through written sources and inte...
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    140,67 €

  • Nacionalismo contra Globalización
    Manuel Fernández Lorenzo
    Bajo el título de Nacionalismo contra Globalización se recogen una serie de artículos que fueron publicados por el autor en los diarios El Español y La Tribuna del País Vasco desde 2015 hasta 2020 y que tienen que ver con temas que son debates de actualidad, como la Globalización y el Nacionalismo, que da título al libro, la Idea de España como Imperio histórico y Nación modern...
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    13,67 €

  • Politics
    Scott Bolinger
    Introduction     This book was started based on my fight against a corrupt government. I served on a community board and ran for several public offices. The local city government and city council did not like my campaigns so I became a political target. I took a lot of heat from the local government for several years with them interfering with my business and my everyday life. ...
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    31,53 €

  • Whispers from the Land of Snows. Culture-based Violence in Tibet
    Fanny Morel Iona Morel
    This study focuses on the struggle of Tibetans for the recognition of their most fundamental rights and freedoms. In addition, it investigates the correlation between violations of cultural rights and the violence committed by state actors against a community rooted in a profoundly Buddhist society. Collaboration with Tibetans was at the heart of the participative approach adop...
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    28,27 €

  • Ahora van a conocer al diablo
    Erick Lezama / Faitha Nahmens / Florantonia Singer / Francisco Olivares / Lizandro Samuel / Sinar Alvarado / Tony Frangie / Yonekura Kaoru
    El registro de 10 testimonios de presos torturados por el chavismo. Este no es un libro feliz. Por sus páginas corren testimonios de hechos que nunca debieron ocurrir en una nación que fue una democracia; imperfecta, pero democracia. Había una separación de poderes y justicia para que quienes cometieran atrocidades en nombre del Estado fueran castigados.'Ahora van a conocer al ...
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    12,48 €

  • The Light of Knowledge
    Jeff Aupperle
    James Bradley arrived on a slave vessel, defied death multiple times, and worked tirelessly toward purchasing his own freedom. Once emancipated, Bradley made his way to Lane Theological Seminary, joining a passionate group of students, to be known as the Lane Rebels. These so-called Rebels would find a home at Oberlin College, where Bradley became the first Black student admitt...
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    20,54 €

  • The Light of Knowledge
    Jeff Aupperle
    James Bradley arrived on a slave vessel, defied death multiple times, and worked tirelessly toward purchasing his own freedom. Once emancipated, Bradley made his way to Lane Theological Seminary, joining a passionate group of students, to be known as the Lane Rebels. These so-called Rebels would find a home at Oberlin College, where Bradley became the first Black student admitt...
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    33,02 €

  • Ética del agua. Perspectivas éticas en torno al uso y la gestión sustentables y equitativos del agua como recurso
    Para muchos responsables políticos, gestores urbanos, expertos en agua, técnicos o activistas, las perspectivas éticas en la gestión del agua no son importantes o no aportan ningún valor añadido. Parecería que el debate se ha estancado entre los que hacen hincapié en el derecho de acceso al agua para todos y los que no pueden ir más allá del realismo económico. El uso sostenibl...
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    32,57 €

  • Tears of Disinheritance
    Ben R. Ole Koissaba
    The land question remains an emotive issue across Kenya regardless of one’s ethnic origins. Today, almost every Kenyan seeks to own a kaplot, a piece of earth however small, that one can call one’s own. The resultant conflicts that arise with this mindset are many and are at the centre of displacement and marginalization of many Kenyans while enriching a few in the privileged c...
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    46,80 €

  • Hinterlassene Schriften. Erster Teil
    Edmund Burke / D. Johann Gotthold Tralles
    Text: Reproduktion auf Grundlage der Ausgabe Verlag Hirschberg bei Wolfgang Pittschiller 1798. - Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von D. Johann Gotthold Tralles. - Das gegenwärtige Werk besteht aus drei Memorialen, welche in den Jahren 1791, 1792 und 1793 geschrieben wurden, und die sich auf drei wichtige Zeitpunkte in der französischen Revolution beziehen. Sie handeln umständlich ...
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    20,81 €

  • Dialectics of Rights
    Uchenna Emelonye
    The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a first of its kind innovation adopted in 2006 by the Human Rights Council (HRC) to complement the works of treaty bodies. Established through the UN General Assembly Resolution 60/251, the UPR involves the review on a periodic basis, of the human rights performances of all Member States of the United Nations on the ground of equal propens...
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    67,97 €

  • Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship
    A person who is not recognised as a citizen anywhere is typically referred to as ’stateless’. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship redirects focus away from legal analyses of statelessness to uncover a more fundamental ’problem of citizenship’, and interrogates how citizenship is used as a governance tool around the world. ...
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    168,96 €

  • James Baldwin Review
    James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year’s volume. ...
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    35,59 €

  • Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress
    Gerald Horne
    Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress, 1946-1956 provides an essential analysis of one of the most important but understudied organizations of the twentieth century. This pivotal formation tirelessly advocated for the rights of Blacks, Communists, and other oppressed and marginalized groups; brought national attention to some of the most egregious frame-ups and miscarriage...
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    29,28 €

  • IRAN; Call for Justice
    National Council of Resistance of Iran / NCRI U.S. Representative Office / NCRI U.SRepresentative Office / NCRI- US
    Iran in 2021 is on the threshold of fundamental change. The clerics’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, finds his regime increasingly weak and in jeopardy following a series of uprisings since 2017, systemic corruption, a bankrupt economy, and an explosive society. Faced with these realities, Khamenei has opted to close ranks and consolidate power in the hands of those absolutely lo...
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    25,73 €

  • Communicate for Change
    Genelle Aldred
    How do we advocate for justice effectively in a world deeply divided by racial, gender and class inequalities? If we want to make a positive difference, we have to know how to recognise our own biases and blind spots - only then can we understand how to be part of the solution and start having meaningful conversations.In Communicate for Change, journalist and communication cons...
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    16,65 €

  • Counter-terrorism and civil society
    This book examines the intersection between national and international counter-terrorism policies and civil society in national and regional contexts in the post-9/11 era. It serves as a critical discussion accounting for the experiences of civil society in the enforcement of global security measures by governments in the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Europe and...
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    156,94 €

  • A precarious equilibrium
    Umberto Tulli
    Human rights and détente inextricably intertwined during Carter’s years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for détente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of détente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus. ...
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    35,83 €

  • Reconstruction
    James Allen
    Undoubtedly American history’s most distorted period: the decade usually associated with the term 'scalawags,' 'carpetbaggers,' and 'Negro domination', is here given a new and penetrating analysis. The author presents Reconstruction as the second phase of the social upheaval inaugurated by the Civil War. He shows that a democratic revolution took place in the South where for a ...
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    27,78 €

  • Atheism and Agnosticism
    Peter Huff
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    54,84 €

  • Policing Protest
    Paul A. Passavant / Paul APassavant
    In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990s, moving away from strategies that protect protesters toward militaristic practices designed to suppress protests. He identifies reactions to three interrelated crises that converged to institutionalize this new mode of policing: th...
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    37,46 €

  • Policing Protest
    Paul A. Passavant / Paul APassavant
    In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990s, moving away from strategies that protect protesters toward militaristic practices designed to suppress protests. He identifies reactions to three interrelated crises that converged to institutionalize this new mode of policing: th...
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    138,01 €

  • Empirical Assessment in IHL Education and Training
    Jody M Prescott / Jody M. Prescott
    The book charts the use of empirical assessment over the last 20 years to make IHL training more effective and links it with recent research that emphasizes the role of military leaders in building a values-oriented culture of IHL compliance with their soldiers. ...
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    180,54 €

  • African Freedom. The Freedom of Philosophy
    Maduabuchi Dukor
    African Freedom. The Freedom of Philosophy is a collection of the author’s writings, over the decades, on the theme of freedom in Africa, or African freedom in a world of brutally competitive national and racial elites who are exerting multi-directional influence in attempts at continuously reshaping, or directing modern human affairs to their advantage. ...
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    59,22 €

  • Traveling Through Time
    Carston Warner
    Traveling Through Time is a collection of poetry weaved together to tell the story of one Black Man’s journey while he lived learned and loved through the poverty of youth, the turbulence of the Jim Crow South, traumas of Vietnam all while discovering how to survive with PTSD and embrace his best self in an ever changing society. ...
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    11,88 €

  • The Strange Tale of Eegor, The Fleetwinged Filagreed Flyspecker, and His Virtual-Guided Tour through the Garden of Evil
    John Condon
    This booklet describes the conflict between individual freedom (good) and collective force (evil). The author defines the Collective to be an assembly of elitists-people at the top of their fields in politics, academia, media, and the arts and sciences. Two characteristics define these elitists: greed and need-greed for never enough wealth and need for never enough power.Their ...
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    10,18 €

  • From Revolution to Power in Brazil
    Kenneth P. Serbin / Kenneth PSerbin
    Serbin brings the story of Brazil’s long night of dictatorship into the present, exploring its unique contributions and challenges as an emerging global capitalist giant. ...
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    63,58 €

  • Voice for the Voiceless
    Olusegun Abejide
    About the Book: Voice for the Voiceless is Dr. Olusegun Bamidele Abejide’s memoir to Nigerians that there is optimism for their democracy to blossom. Though crestfallen by the daily happenings in Nigeria, he is persuaded to think that the personalities he features in this book are central in strengthening the country’s democracy. However, it is so unfortunate that the Nigerian...
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    17,39 €