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  • MIA FAKO ESTAS MORTIGI
    Henry Bugalho / Fernando Pita
    Kiel bolsonarismo akaparis Brazilon?Kial milionoj da brazilanoj voĉdonis favore al Bolsonaro, homo kiu dum jardekoj malestimis demokratiajn valorojn, homrajtojn kaj minorigitajn homgrupojn?Tiu ĉi verko estas kolekto de artikoloj publikigitaj de Henry Bugalho en la revuo Carta Capital kaj gazeto Folha de São Paulo ekde la prezidantiĝo de Jair Messias Bolsonaro, kiuj elmontras la...
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    13,85 €

  • Black Liberation / Red Scare
    Gerald Horne
    Black Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an African American Communist leader, Ben Davis, Jr. (1904-64). Though it examines the numerous grassroots campaigns that he was involved in, it is first and foremost a study of the man and secondarily a study of the Communist party from the 1930s to the 1960s. By examining the public life of an important party leader, Gerald Horne uniqu...
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    29,28 €

  • Black Liberation / Red Scare
    Gerald Horne
    Black Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an African American Communist leader, Ben Davis, Jr. (1904-64). Though it examines the numerous grassroots campaigns that he was involved in, it is first and foremost a study of the man and secondarily a study of the Communist party from the 1930s to the 1960s. By examining the public life of an important party leader, Gerald Horne uniqu...
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    48,67 €

  • Humanitarian Islam, Evangelical Christianity, and the Clash of Civilizations
    Thomas K. Johnson
    Are Muslims and Christians locked in mortal combat forever? Will ever-continuing jihads and crusades continue to cost the lives of millions and destroy once-beautiful cities? Must the Muslim-Christian clash of civilizations, which started almost 1,500 years ago, continue into the future? Not necessarily, argues Dr. Johnson. Within Islam, a serious reconsideration is underway, b...
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    11,42 €

  • The Protester, the Dissident, and the Christian
    Pavel Hosek / Thomas K. Johnson
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    14,41 €

  • The futures of feminism
    Valerie Bryson
    This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts multiply disadvantaged women at its heart. It moves feminism beyond contemporary disputes, including those between some feminists and some trans women. Its combination of accessibility, new thinking and academic rigour will make it attractive to a wide market. ...
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    35,80 €

  • A Voice From the South
    Anna J Cooper / Anna J. Cooper
    The first book by Anna J. Cooper, A Voice From the South, presents strong ideals supporting racial and gender equality as well as economic progress. It’s a forward-thinking narrative that highlights many disparities hindering the African American community.Anna J. Cooper was an accomplished educator who used her influence to encourage and elevate African Americans. With A Voice...
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    9,82 €

  • Power and Protest
    Lisa Leitz
    Examining how marginalized groups use their identities, resources, cultural traditions, violence and non-violence to assert power and exert pressure, this volume shines a light on the interaction of these groups with governments, international organizations, businesses and universities. ...
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    167,78 €

  • The Transformation of Capacity in International Development
    Avideh K Mayville / Avideh K. Mayville
    'The Transformation of Capacity in International Development' exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approaches to development, the international management of global security threats and su...
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    57,37 €

  • Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
    Martin Luther King
    2021 Reprint of the 1957 Comic Book.  Full Color facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story is a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott published in 1957 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation. It advocates the principles of nonviolence and ...
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    10,76 €

  • A New Theory of Human Rights
    Alison Assiter
    The book offers an original defence of a new materialist thesis that focuses on the biological core of humans to develop a theory of human rights. ...
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    150,07 €

  • Iranian Identity, American Experience
    Roksana Alavi
    Iranian Identity, American Experience: Philosophical Reflections on Race, Rights, Capabilities and Oppression is a multidisciplinary study of oppression using the Iranian American community as its case study. In current studies of oppression, there is little philosophical analysis or a theoretical framework to think about race from the perspective of an immigrant community in t...
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    122,52 €

  • Anatomy of the State
    Murray Rothbard
    The state is a predatory entity. It does not produce anything but rather steals resources from those engaged in production. In applying this view to American history, Rothbard asks: How can an organization of this type sustain itself? It must engage in propaganda to induce popular support for its policies. A wealth of citations and references supports the basic premise.Murray R...
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    4,61 €

  • Miss Angel
    Tchinda Mbuna
    Mr. Tchinda, a Cameroonian immigrant, poet, and playwright, has just arrived in America, a nation that has witnessed the feminist movement, civil rights activities, and reforms. He has to stay with his one-time peer, Miss Beatrice, who picks him up at the airport.Tchinda becomes legendary in the media as an African American writer. He discovers how his one-time best friend, Mis...
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    9,78 €

  • Areopagitica
    John Milton
    From the author of the esteemed epic poem, Paradise Lost, comes one history’s most influential arguments against censorship. John Milton was known for his linguistic genius and political activity, often writing to support his views. During the height of the English Civil War, Milton published Areopagitica. Structured like an oral speech but delivered by pamphlets that Milton ...
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    6,86 €

  • Natural Law and Human Rights
    Pierre Manent / Ralph C. Hancock / Ralph CHancock
    This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displac...
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    35,72 €

  • The Inherence of Human Dignity
    Barry W Bussey
    The second of two volumes on dignity, Law and Religious Liberty focuses on the connection between human dignity and positive law, oriented around the central question, 'What role should dignity play in the development of legislation and the adjudication of disputes involving religious freedom?' ...
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    180,10 €

  • The Inherence of Human Dignity
    Angus J L Menuge
    The first of two volumes, Foundations of Human Dignity focuses on foundational, conceptual issues, oriented around the central question, 'What are the various meanings of ’human dignity,’ and how are they grounded or justified?' ...
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    180,19 €

  • The Inherence of Human Dignity
    Barry W Bussey
    The second of two volumes on dignity, Law and Religious Liberty focuses on the connection between human dignity and positive law, oriented around the central question, 'What role should dignity play in the development of legislation and the adjudication of disputes involving religious freedom?' ...
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    57,32 €

  • The Inherence of Human Dignity
    Angus J L Menuge
    The first of two volumes, Foundations of Human Dignity focuses on foundational, conceptual issues, oriented around the central question, 'What are the various meanings of ’human dignity,’ and how are they grounded or justified?' ...
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    57,42 €

  • Nuclear Power and Human Rights in Japan
    Emrah Akyüz
    In Nuclear Power and Human Rights in Japan: The Fallout of Fukushima, Emrah Akyüz advances an environmental human rights approach to environmental protections regarding nuclear power. Using the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster as a case study, Akyüz argues for three main approaches to environmental protection, including the right to environment, the reinterpretation of human...
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    129,33 €

  • Leviathan
    Thomas Hobbes
    Written by one of the founders of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, during the English civil war, Leviathan is an influential work of nonfiction. Regarded as one of the earliest examples of the social contract theory, Leviathan has both historical and philosophical importance. Social contract theory prioritizes the state over the individual, claiming that individuals ...
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    20,21 €

  • Utilitarianism (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    John Stuart Mill
    Utilitarianism is a family of consequentialist ethical theories that promotes actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals. The basic idea behind utilitarianism is to in some sense maximize utility, which is often defined in terms of well-being or related concepts. It has been applied to social welfare economics, the crisis of global poverty, the ...
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    54,90 €

  • The Social Contract (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    The Social Contract theorizes that the ability to coerce is not a legitimate power, and there is no rightful duty to submit to a state that enslaves its people. In this desired social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same number of rights and impose the same duties on all. Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues that it is absurd for a man to surrender his free...
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    53,36 €

  • Taking the Fight South
    Howard Ball
    Taking the Fight South provides a timely and telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if racial justice is to be fully realized.Distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball has written dozens of books during his career, including the landmark biography of Thurgood Marshall, A Defiant Life, and the critically acclaimed Murder in Mississippi, chronicl...
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    29,35 €

  • Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition
    Cedric J. Robinson / Cedric JRobinson
    In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of chan...
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    120,79 €

  • On Liberty (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    John Stuart Mill
    On Liberty is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Published in 1859, it applies Mill’s ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state. Mill emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he considers prerequisite to the higher pleasures - the summum bonum of utilitarianism. Among the standards proposed are Mill’s three basic liberties of...
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    54,19 €

  • Instituciones participativas en Sudamérica
    Autores Varios
    Este libro ofrece una perspectiva novedosa y crítica. A partir de juiciosos estudios de caso que examinan la implementación de instituciones participativas en Bogotá, Buenos Aires, La Paz y Sao Paulo, se aborda la capacidad de estas experiencias de profundizar la democracia local y conectar efectivamente las demandas de los ciudadanos con los procesos de políticas públicas. A d...
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    16,64 €

  • Desmilitarizar
    Luiz Eduardo Soares
    Segurança pública tem sido tema recorrente na agenda pública, mas sua transformação profunda nunca esteve em cogitação. Em Desmilitarizar: segurança pública e direitos humanos, o antropólogo Luiz Eduardo Soares coloca em questão as razões para o imobilismo brasileiro em face da questão da violência. A partir do entendimento dos problemas diagnosticados tanto na esfera pública q...
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    35,29 €

  • 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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    154,18 €