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“nnimmo bassey”

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  • Oil Politics

    Echoes of Ecological Wars

    by Nnimmo Bassey ...
    The essays here contribute to developing and deepening an understanding of the ecological challenges ravaging Nigeria, Africa and our world today. They illustrate the global nature of these terrors. These essays are not meant just to enable for coffee table chatter: they are intended as calls to action, as a means of encouraging others facing similar threats to share their experiences.Set out in ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg

    The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30

    by Ben Stewart ...
    The true story of Greenpeace activists imprisoned in Russia—and the fight to free them: "A gripping story of tremendous courage that reads like a thriller" (Naomi Klein)."The most important prison motto is hope for the better, but every moment, literally every moment, be prepared for the worst. Don't hope, don't fear, don't beg." —Roman Dolgov, one of the Arctic 30With rising temperatures, a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalizing Civil Society

    Reclaiming Our Right to Power

    by David C. Korten ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers fresh solutions reflecting sustainability, community, and equity--the only principles that can ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Deportation Regime

    Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement

    by William Walters, Galina Cornelisse ...
    This important collection examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control. Anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, and sociologists consider not only the physical expulsion of noncitizens but also the social discipline and labor subordination resulting from deportability, the threat of forced removal. They explore practices and experiences of deportation in regional ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Chechnya

    From Nationalism to Jihad

    by James Hughes ...
    Series series National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
    The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad provides a fascinating analysis of the transformation of secular nationalist resistance in a nominally Islamic society into a struggle that is its antithesis, jihad. Hughes locates Chechen nationalism within ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Are Women Human?

    And Other International Dialogues

    by Catharine A. MacKinnon ...
    More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned within it; ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Asphalt Nation

    How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back

    by Jane Holtz Kay ...
    Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back.The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master—public spaces were ... Read more

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  • Radovan Karadžič

    Architect of the Bosnian Genocide

    by Robert J. Donia ...
    Radovan Karadžić, leader of the Bosnian Serb nationalists during the Bosnian War (1992–5), stands accused of genocide and other crimes of war before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. This book traces the origins of the extreme violence of the war to the utopian national aspirations of the Serb Democratic Party and Karadžić's personal transformation from an ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Dignity, Rank, and Rights

    by Jeremy Waldron ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive features of both strands. In the first lecture, Waldron presents a ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Human Rights after Hitler

    The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes

    by Dan Plesch ...
    Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. These cases provide a great foundation for twenty-first-century human rights and accompany the achievements of the Nuremberg trials and postwar conventions. They include ... Read more

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  • Constituting Europe

    The European Court of Human Rights in a National, European and Global Context

    Edited by Andreas Føllesdal, Birgit Peters, Geir Ulfstein ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies on Human Rights Conventions
    At fifty, the European Court of Human Rights finds itself in a new institutional setting. With the EU joining the European Convention on Human Rights in the near future, and the Court increasingly having to address the responsibility of states in UN-led military operations, the Court faces important challenges at the national, European and international levels. In light of recent reform ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Pollution Prevention and Cleaner Production Vol. 1: Best Practices in the Petroleum Industry

    by Paul E. Rosenfeld, Nicholas P Cheremisinoff ...
    This new Handbook provides a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors. Each volume covers, for each industry sector:* the manufacturing technologies* waste management* pollution* methods for estimating and reporting emissions* treatment and control technologies* worker and community health risk exposures* cost data for pollution ... Read more

    $247.99 CAD