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  • Five Rising Democracies

    And the Fate of the International Liberal Order

    by Ted Piccone ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    Shifting power balances in the world are shaking the foundations of the liberal international order and revealing new fault lines at the intersection of human rights and international security. Will these new global trends help or hinder the world's long struggle for human rights and democracy? The answer depends on the role of five rising democracies-India, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Catalysts for Change

    How the U.N.'s Independent Experts Promote Human Rights

    by Ted Piccone ...
    Catalysts for Change examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of the United Nations' most important human rights mechanisms-the collection of independent experts known as special procedures-as they negotiate the rocky terrain where rights meet reality. These independent experts serve as the eyes and ears of the UN human rights system. Despite their prolific work as experts and advocates, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Big Bets and Black Swans 2014

    A Presidential Briefing Book

    Edited by Ted Piccone, Steven Pifer, Thomas Wright ...
    President Obama has just three years left in office to define his legacy in world affairs. He's facing a number of critical challenges-the ongoing war in Syria, the Iran nuclear negotiations, an enigmatic North Korea and other significant crises in world affairs. The president's advisors are busy devising policy recommendations aimed at grappling with these thorny issues. From these, the president ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Cruel and Usual Punishment

    The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

    by Nonie Darwish ...
    Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation. Everything about her life?family, sexuality, hygiene, business, banking, contracts, economics, politics, social issues, everything?was dictated by the Islamic law code known as Sharia.But Sharia isn't staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a warning; the goal of radical Islam is to bring Sharia ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • On Liberty (Centaur Classics)

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support of the value of liberty. Mill s passionate advocacy of spontaneity, individuality, and diversity, along with his contempt for compulsory uniformity and the ... Read more

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  • Who Rules the World?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    A New York Times BestsellerThe world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Waging Peace

    Reflections on peace and war from an unconventional woman

    by Anne Deveson ...
    Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of public and private experiences to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelong preoccupations have been the questioning of war, and the promotion of peace.Deveson describes her childhood during the Second World War in Britain, which prompted her family's evacuation to Malaya ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chain of Command

    The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

    by Seymour M. Hersh ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist examines how America's war on terror led from the September 11th attacks to a war in Iraq.Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers—and outraged the Bush Administration—with his explosive stories in The New Yorker, including his headline-making pieces on the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Now, Hersh brings together what he has learned, ... Read more

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  • Thieves of State

    Why Corruption Threatens Global Security

    by Sarah Chayes ...
    **Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest."I can’t imagine a more important book for our time." —Sebastian Junger**The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria. Is there some thread tying these frightening international security crises together? ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Blood and Silk

    Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia

    by Michael Vatikiotis ...
    Why are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia, and China's growing influence, affect the region and the rest of the world?Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

    A Memoir

    by David Harris-Gershon ...
    David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, mere days after Israel thwarted historic cease-fire negotiations among the Palestinians, a bomb ripped open Hebrew University’s cafeteria. Jamie’s body was sliced with shrapnel; the friends sitting next to her were killed.When a doctor handed David some of the shrapnel removed from Jamie’s body, he could not accept ... Read more

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  • A History of Thailand

    by Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker ...
    In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas of time and space, and a traditional polity was transformed into a new nation-state under a ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD