Author: J. Jeremy Wisnewski & R.D. Emerick
Torture has recently been the subject of some sensational headlines. As a result, there has been a huge surge in interest in the ethical implications of this contentious issue. The Ethics of Torture offers the first comp ... |
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Author: Richard Thompson Ford
Richard Thompson Ford offers a lesson on how to reconcile lofty human rights ambitions with political and cultural realities. His analysis of human rights struggles across the globe uncovers the complexities of observing ... |
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The Performative in the Political
Author: Judith Butler & Athena Athanasiou
Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of ... |
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Author: Lorraine McGee-Sippel
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span decades and lead her to search for her birth family. In the h ... |
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The Landmark Speeches of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Martin Luther King & Clayborne Carson
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for being one of the greatest orators of the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of American history. In the 1950s and 1960s, his words led the Civil Rights movement and helped change s ... |
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A Korean Boy Tells His Rescue Story in Pictures
Author: C Hope Flinchbaugh & Jessica Austen
History Maker Publishing brings you this stirring account of a rescue story you won t hear in the news a true story about a boy you will never forget. To stay in North Korea meant starvation. To leave meant risk of captu ... |
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Ingredients for Leadership, Participation, and Empowerment
Author: Eloise Buker, Michael A. Leiserson & Jane A. Rinehart
This book is a contribution to the contemporary debate about how Americans can take an active part in shaping their lives and communities. In it the authors show some possibilities for meaningful social action at a time ... |
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A Cross-disciplinary Conversation
Author: Katherine Strandburg & Daniela Stan Raicu
Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation provides an overview of ways in which technological changes raise privacy concerns. It then addresses four major areas of technology: RFID and locat ... |
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In a New Democracy Forum on Creating Equal Opportunity in Schools and Jobs with Howard Gardner, Paul
Author: Lani Guinier & Susan Sturm
Affirmative action originated as a plan to correct the historical disadvantage of women and people of color-to make the system more fair. Yet, for over twenty years, it has been repeatedly attacked for being unfair to wh ... |
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Author: Ralph E. Luker
The Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement is an essential reference work for students and scholars of American history and the civil rights movement. It provides over three hundred concise descriptions of th ... |
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Author: Bob Brecher
This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation. It argues that the re ... |
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A Violence Called Democracy
Author: Jennifer Schirmer
In 1999, the Guatemala truth commission issued its report on human rights violations during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war that ended in 1996. The commission, sponsored by the UN, estimates the conflict resulted i ... |
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A Global Perspective
Author: James K. Wellman & Clark Benner Lombardi
This volume of essays explores the long-unstudied relationship between religion and human security throughout the world. The 1950s marked the beginning of a period of extraordinary religious revival, during which religio ... |
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Language, Violence and the Work of Truth Commissions
Author: Teresa Godwin Phelps
Following periods of mass atrocity and oppression, states are faced with a question of critical importance in the transition to democracy: how to offer redress to victims of the old regime without perpetuating cycles of ... |
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A Global Perspective
Author: Marjorie Agosin
"This anthology adds strength and credence to the struggle for women's human rights. It reinforces the conviction that no society can prosper and no new world be born until the rights of women are fully protected and rea ... |
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Latinos as a New Electorate
Author: Louis DeSipio
Latinos, along with other new immigrants, are not being incorporated into U.S. politics as rapidly as their predecessors, raising concerns about political fragmentation along ethnic lines. In Counting on the Latino Vo ... |
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Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
Author: Samuel Totten & Rafiki Ubaldo
During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. The numbers are staggering; the methods of killing were unspeakable. Through personal interviews with trauma s ... |
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Conceptual and Historical Dimensions
Author: George J. Andreopoulos
The term genocide has been used to describe a wide range of events and polities, from the "final solution of the Jewish question" in Nazi Germany to Western efforts to establish birth control and abortion programs in Thi ... |
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The Legal Political Status of Workers in the European Community
Author: Fritz Fabricius
This volume examines the roots of economic and social human rights in the Enlightenment thinking of Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Kant. The author observes how these thinkers' ideas on such topics have been neglected since ... |
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