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  • The War on Drugs
    Christine D Shuck
    Part memoir, part current affairs, part argument for legalization - The War on Drugs is a MUST READ for those who believe that the war on drugs only happens to 'those people' in 'that part of town.' Written from the point of view of a wife and mother, The War On Drugs: An Old Wives’ Tale examines the pros and cons of marijuana prohibition, drug diversion programs, and challenge...
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    22,26 €

  • Technologies of Human Rights Representation
    Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it. ...
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    121,82 €

  • Destiny of Liberty
    Mwanandeke Kindembo
    In this book, author Mwanandeke Kindembo presented the reader with his manifesto, or a shared reality that exemplifies his ultimate mission. Which is based on finding within himself the motivation, or the correct vision to improve the world around him. He showed us the geography of his passions and how he is ready to step in to lead people to the promised land of liberty. The a...
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    24,90 €

  • Never Again
    Donald L. Lang / Donald LLang / Donald LLang PhD
    Freedom. The Berber symbol adorns a monument outside the Museum of Slavery in The Gambia. It’s also an emblem of hope, that 'never again' will such wrongheaded political mindsets cloud our judgment about 'rights' and 'freedoms,' now enshrined in human rights charters. Yet those fervent words-never again-as author Donald L. Lang points out, are also the title and rallying cry of...
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    30,16 €

  • Never Again
    Donald L. Lang / Donald LLang / Donald LLang PhD
    Freedom. The Berber symbol adorns a monument outside the Museum of Slavery in The Gambia. It’s also an emblem of hope, that 'never again' will such wrongheaded political mindsets cloud our judgment about 'rights' and 'freedoms,' now enshrined in human rights charters. Yet those fervent words-never again-as author Donald L. Lang points out, are also the title and rallying cry of...
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    37,11 €

  • The Impact of Foreign Interventions on Democracy and Human Rights
    Ana Magdalena Figueroa
    The Impact of Foreign Interventions on Democracy and Human Rights provides holistic studies exploring the relationship between military and economic interventions and the policies, methods, intentions, and consequences of the various American, French, and Chinese interventions in the case studies they present. ...
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    136,30 €

  • The Utopians of Tahrir Square
    Catherine Davidson / Dr Anba Jawi
    October 2019 saw the start of a series of protests in the central and southern provinces of Iraq: demonstrations, marches, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience. The protesters were attacked with live bullets, marksmen, hot water, hot pepper gas and tear gas, leading to many deaths and injuries.Among those who took part in the Tahrir Square protest or witnessed it were...
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    15,64 €

  • Citizenship in Hard Times
    Sara Wallace Goodman
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    35,98 €

  • Citizenship in Hard Times
    Sara Wallace Goodman
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    120,70 €

  • The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-Terrorism
    Fiona de Londras
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    151,27 €

  • 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 €

  • Media, Development and Democracy
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this 22nd volume in Studies in Media and Communications explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. ...
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    158,40 €

  • 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 Law
    FREDERIC BASTIAT
    2021 Hardcover Reprint of 1950 American Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before and just following the Revolution of February 1848 in France. This was the period during which France was turn...
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    13,80 €

  • 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 €

  • The Right to Science
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    132,43 €

  • State-Owned Entities and Human Rights
    Mihaela Maria Barnes
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    132,34 €

  • Decolonizing Human Rights
    Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim
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    42,34 €

  • Decolonizing Human Rights
    Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim
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    127,08 €

  • 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 €