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  • Human Rights in Prisons

    Comparing Institutional Encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and the Philippines

    by A. Jefferson, L. Gaborit ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons. It explores the previously under-researched perspectives of prison staff and prisoners on their lives and relationships. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • That Sinking Feeling

    Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution; Quarterly Essay 53

    by Paul Toohey ...
    Series Book 53 - Quarterly Essay
    Paul Toohey searches for the solution our politicians have been unwilling or unable to find, and asks whether, amid the diplomatic turmoil, we’ve now missed our chance.Tony Abbott promised to stop the boats. With the help of Kevin Rudd's 'PNG solution,' he has. But at what cost?In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey tells the dramatic stories of asylum seekers heading from Java to Australia, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Root and Branch

    Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

    by Rawn James, Jr. ...
    Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of legal challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling segregation one statute at a time. Root and Branch is the compelling story of the fiercely committed lawyers that constructed the legal foundation for ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Naked God

    The Writer and the Communist Party

    by Howard Fast ...
    Fast's book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidityThe Naked God is Howard Fast's public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin. The bestselling author of Spartacus and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Killing Wind

    A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution

    by Tan Hecheng, Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian ...
    Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts of so-called mass dictatorship and armed factional ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • AIDS Between Science and Politics

    by Peter Piot ...
    Translated by Laurence Garey ...
    Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change

    Challenges and Opportunities

    by Sumudu Atapattu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently.This book examines the link between climate change and human rights in a comprehensive manner. It looks at human rights approaches ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Mother, Where's My Country?

    Looking for Light in the Darkness of Manipur

    by Anubha Bhonsle ...
    In her powerful, poignant book—one of the best non-fiction works from India in recent years—Anubha Bhonsle examines the tangled and tragic history of Manipur, and of much of India’s North East. Through the story of Irom Sharmila—on a protest fast since 2000—and many others who have fallen victim to violence or despair or stood up to fight for peace and justice, she shows us an entire society ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Practice and Theory in Comparative Law

    Edited by Jacco Bomhoff, Maurice Adams ...
    What does doing comparative law involve? Too often, explicit methodological discussions in comparative law remain limited to the level of pure theory, neglecting to test out critiques and recommendations on concrete issues. This book bridges this gap between theory and practice in comparative legal studies. Essays by both established and younger comparative lawyers reflect on the methodological ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Dark Victory

    How a government lied its way to political triumph

    by David Marr, Marian Wilkinson ...
    Dark Victory is not only a fascinating description of past events: between the lines there are dark portents of repercussions yet to come.'John Button, The AgeMarr and Wilkinson have pulled together the whole confronting tale of how through iron will, subterfuge, disregard for conventions of a civilised seafaring nation, the misuse of secret intelligence and the use of military force against the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Advancing Democracy Abroad

    Why We Should and How We Can

    by Michael McFaul ...
    Series series Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society
    After eight years of President Bush's trumpeting the virtues of promoting freedom and democracy abroad but achieving limited results, many Americans have grown suspicious of democratic development as a goal of American foreign policy. As a new administration reviews the role democratization will play in its foreign policy, distinguished Stanford University political scientist and Hoover ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Trade and Tobacco Control

    by H. Jarman ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book uses the concept of political conflict to examine the effects of globalization on tobacco control policies. Analyzing a range of challenges to policies enacted by Australia, Canada, the United States, the European Union and Uruguay, the book examines how the global trading system has narrowed the scope of conflicts over tobacco control. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD