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“david mixner”

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  • Stranger Among Friends

    by David Mixner ...
    "From my fear of coming out to coming on strong in the struggle for human rights, this is my American journey, the story of an outsider on the inside, a gay man proudly committed to a life of standing up for freedom."President Clinton and I were born three days apart. We had both dreamed of serving our country. There was one difference: He could pursue his dream, while I felt I could not. The ... Read more

    Was $6.99 CAD Now $5.99 CAD

  • Brave Journeys

    Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage

    by David Mixner, Dennis Bailey ...
    In Stranger Among Friends, renowned activist, political adviser, and White House insider David Mixner offered a compelling account of his decades-long fight for human rights and the challenges he faced as a gay man in Washington. Now, in this new book written with collaborator Dennis Bailey, Mixner presents moving, candid, and inspiring portraits of other extraordinary men and women engaged in the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • When We Rise

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  • Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

    by Colin Grant ...
    Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey'Grant is an accomplished storyteller and writes with an elegance leavened by wit and cynicism that makes this book eminently readable' GuardianAt one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. Hailed as both the 'black Moses' and merely 'a Negro with a hat', he masterminded the ... Read more

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  • Some of My Best Friends Are Black

    The Strange Story of Integration in America

    by Tanner Colby ...
    An irreverent, yet powerful exploration of race relations by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Chris Farley ShowFrank, funny, and incisive, Some of My Best Friends Are Black offers a profoundly honest portrait of race in America. In a book that is part reportage, part history, part social commentary, Tanner Colby explores why the civil rights movement ultimately produced such little ... Read more

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  • 1000 Lashes

    Because I Say What I Think

    by Raif Badawi ...
    Translated by Ahmed Danny Ramadan ...
    "Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear."— Salman RushdieRaif Badawi, a Saudi Arabian blogger, shared his thoughts on politics, religion, and liberalism online. He was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, ten years in prison, and a fine of 1 million Saudi Riyal, over a quarter of a million U.S. dollars. This politically topical polemic gathers together Badawi’s pivotal texts. He expresses ... Read more

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  • Voices in Our Blood

    America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement

    by Jon Meacham, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin ...
    An unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength—including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis“Jon Meacham . . . has done about the best job of anthologizing the movement that I’ve ever seen.”—Tom Wicker, Mother JonesEditor and Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

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  • The Challenge

    Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power

    by Jonathan Mahler ...
    An inspiring legal thriller set against the backdrop of the war on terror, The Challenge tells the inside story of a historic Supreme Court showdown. At its center are a Navy JAG and a young constitutional law professor who, in the aftermath of 9/11, find themselves defending their nation in the unlikeliest of ways: by suing the president of the United States on behalf of an accused terrorist in ... Read more

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  • No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights

    by Olivia Ball, Paul Gready ...
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    Our inalienable human rights were enshrined over 50 years ago in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, what does that mean to someone who is tortured, denied education or work, or unable to find asylum?This No-Nonsense Guide looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult task of protecting human rights in times of war, the advances in international laws ... Read more

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    What is free speech?; Why does it matter? These are pressing questions. In this book, Alan Haworth outlines and analyses the main arguments philosophers have advanced over the centuries, in an attempt to answer them clearly. He emphasises the strengths but also the weaknesses of those arguments, demonstrating that an understanding of both is essential if one is to to grasp the true nature and ... Read more

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  • Human Rights in Russia

    Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin

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    Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, domestic developments (from Pussy Riot to the release of Khodorkovsky) and Russia's global role (especially in relation to Ukraine) have captured world-wide attention. It is therefore an appropriate moment to see how human rights activism functions inside Russia. Since 1991, ... Read more

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