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  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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