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  • Antisemitism
    Steven Jacobs
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    55,07 €

  • Up from Slavery
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington
    Booker T. Washington (April 18, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African American educator, leader, author and orator and was an adviser to several US presidents. He was born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia, remembering“I cannot recall a single instance during my childhood or early boyhood when our entire family sat down to the table together. On the plantation in Virg...
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    20,22 €

  • The Mis-Education of the Negro
    Carter Godwin Woodson
    “When you control a man’s thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told.” – Carter G. Woodson. Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an African American histor...
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    7,12 €

  • The Mis-Education of the Negro
    Carter Godwin Woodson
    “When you control a man’s thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told.” – Carter G. Woodson. Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an African American histor...
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    17,21 €

  • Up from Slavery
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington
    Booker T. Washington (April 18, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African American educator, leader, author and orator and was an adviser to several US presidents. He was born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia, remembering“I cannot recall a single instance during my childhood or early boyhood when our entire family sat down to the table together. On the plantation in Virg...
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    9,18 €

  • Political Pioneer of the Press
    Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career, and legacy were relegated to the footnotes of history. Beginning with the posthumou...
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    54,37 €

  • Black Women, Work, and Welfare in the Age of Globalization
    Sherrow O. Pinder / Sherrow OPinder
    Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for an abundance of flexible, exploitable, cheap workers. The implementation of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity...
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    54,45 €

  • THE BREADWINNER
    Sriyani Tidball
    The Breadwinner shares true untold stories of impoverished Sri Lankan women who have been exploited. This unique book includes the experiences gathered from over 200 struggling women, through focus groups, surveys, and in-depth interviews. Women showcased in this book either spent years working as housemaids in the Middle East or were preparing to leave their families for such ...
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    20,08 €

  • Free the Land
    Edward Onaci
    On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans’ best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a sovereign nation-state, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). New Afrikan citizens traced boundaries that encompassed a large portion of the South--inclu...
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    126,83 €

  • Free the Land
    Edward Onaci
    On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans’ best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a sovereign nation-state, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). New Afrikan citizens traced boundaries that encompassed a large portion of the South--inclu...
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    44,51 €

  • A Lifetime of Total Recall
    Brooks Clark
    Among the more startling traits of my mother, Charlotte Cheever Cushwa Clark, is that, even as she neared her 90th birthday, on September 5, 2007, she remembered so many biographical details about so many people she has come to know in her long, rich life. Here is her story, from her birth in Exeter, New Hampshire, and her life with my father, the Rev. Bayard S. Clark, and the...
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    23,25 €

  • Free Justice
    Sara Mayeux
    Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the 'carceral state,' but also ...
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    126,87 €

  • Free Justice
    Sara Mayeux
    Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the 'carceral state,' but also ...
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    38,02 €

  • A Heartbeat Away
    Janet Porter / Tom Delay
    The Heartbeat Bill ushered in more progress to end abortion in America in the first six months of 2019 than the previous fifty years.After decades of looking for answers, what we needed was to listen for one. The child in the womb is sending a signal. Each beat of their heart is a sign of life, a cry for help—an SOS we can no longer ignore. To deny their heartbeat is to deny sc...
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    23,42 €

  • Voices on South Asia
    This book investigates the contemporary social, political and economic issues faced by women in South Asia. It focuses on the policies and practices that have challenged or perpetuated gender inequalities, and the evolving role of women in South Asian societies. With contributions from practitioners, policy makers, academics and civil society activists from across South Asia, t...
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    178,35 €

  • Objetivocracia Democrática
    Bernardo De Urquidi
    ¿No confías en el gobierno? ¿Te da miedo tu gobierno? ¿No te gustan los candidatos?  ¿Votas por el "menos peor"? No, no es culpa de un político o un partido en específico, el problema es sistemático. ¿Cuál es el problema? La Democracia Representativa por elección no es un sistema democrático; es un sistema opresivo, que polariza y divide a la sociedad, es altamente ineficiente ...
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    13,61 €

  • Negroes with Guns
    Martin Luther Jr. King / Martin Luther JrKing / Robert F. Williams / Robert FWilliams / Truman Nelson
    Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story of his movement, first established in Monroe, N.C. As prologue, the issues raised by events in Monroe are weight...
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    19,27 €

  • Negroes with Guns
    Martin Luther Jr. King / Martin Luther JrKing / Robert F. Williams / Robert FWilliams / Truman Nelson
    Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story of his movement, first established in Monroe, N.C. As prologue, the issues raised by events in Monroe are weight...
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    8,94 €

  • The Rights Of Man
    Thomas Paine
    The Rights Of Man: Part I. Being An Answer To Mr. Burke’s Attack On The French Revoloution And Part II. Combining Principle And Practice Collected And Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway {From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume II (1779-1792)}This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.I...
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    17,74 €

  • The Social Contract & Discourses
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau / George Douglas Howard Cole
    The Social Contract & Discourses: Translated With Introduction By G. D. H. Cole, Edited By Ernest RhysThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete wo...
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    20,88 €

  • A Pretty Little Wilderness
    Cassandra Dallett
    In this time of family separation and prisons for profit, Cassandra Dallett has transformed her personal trauma into a brilliant artistic argument for decarceration. Of California’s prisoner-firefighters, she writes, 'when the fall is dry, hot,/ windy, and desperate/they throw poor and brown bodies/ at the flames/ like they always have.' A love letter for an imprisoned partner,...
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    9,42 €

  • Walking for Palestine
    John Salisbury
    'In my job I’ve interviewed countless thousands of authors about a multitude of books - but have rarely come across someone as delightful and inspirational as John Salisbury. I share his concern for the Palestinians and admire his heroic efforts on their part. Four cheers.'Phillip Adams AO, FAHA, FRSAAustralian humanist, social commentator, broadcaster, public intellectual and ...
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    22,76 €

  • The Eater of Dreams
    Christopher Bogart
    'Christopher Bogart’s poems demonstrate that poetry’s embrace can include the idea of justice and the feeling of outrage.'   —Robert Pinsky, United States Poet Laureate (1997–2000)The Eater of Dreams begins with a vulgar curse and ends with an open question. The poems tell stories of the journey that begins in the hells of the poorest sections of Central America and ends with t...
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    15,33 €

  • The Citizen and the State
    Angus Nurse
    The Citizen and the State examines the conflict between criminal justice and civil liberties from a critical criminology perspective. It argues that far from being a search for truth or justice, contemporary criminal justice represents the power of the state against the individual. ...
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    143,10 €

  • At the Margins of Victorian Britain
    Dennis Grube
    Victorian Britain, at the head of the vast British Empire, was the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, yet not all Britons were seen as possessing the characteristics that defined what it actually meant to be ’British.’ At the Margins of Victorian Britain focuses on the political means of policing unwanted ’others’ in Victorian society: the Irish, Catholics and J...
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    55,07 €

  • Women’s Suffrage
    History Titans
    Today’s women have the right to vote, but the idea of it being any other way is so inconceivable and foreign to the average person in the developed world that it’s hard to imagine things were so different just a century ago. In the grand scheme of things, a hundred years is little more than a minor episode, so it might as well have been yesterday. And, of course, that’s if we’r...
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    7,62 €

  • Freedom
    Jaiya John
    In the beginning, two spirits roamed every soul. One was Love. The other, fear. Fear, being restless and unsettled, mutated into two other spirits: supremacy and inferiority. Both of these would inhabit every human soul and space, forever. Waiting. To be fed.This is a Love story. A Love for freedom that blooms into a willingness for revolution to eradicate oppression, supremacy...
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    30,49 €

  • Voice of the Tribes
    Thomas A Britten
    The 1960s and 1970s were a time of radical change in U.S. history. During these turbulent decades, Native Americans played a prominent role in the civil rights movement, fighting to achieve self-determination and tribal sovereignty. Yet they did not always agree on how to realize their goals. In 1971, a group of tribal leaders formed the National Tribal Chairmen’s Association (...
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    48,65 €

  • When Business Harms Human Rights
    'When Business Harms Human Rights' narrates the experiences of different individuals and communities from around the world, examining the impact that business activities has had on their lives. The volume is situated within the multidisciplinary subject area of business and human rights. ...
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    180,16 €

  • New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice
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    45,49 €


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