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  • Creating Criminals

    Prisons and People in a Market Society

    by Vivien Stern ...
    Market society is producing more crime around the world. More acts are being defined as crimes. Ever increasing numbers of people are classified as criminals and more are being locked up in prison. With globalization, the crime and punishment problem is no longer insulated from pressures beyond national borders. The rich may retreat behind their expensive security into gated communities, but the ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

    The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

    by Omar Barghouti ...
    As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.Thirty years ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated ... Read more

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  • The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

    by Albie Sachs ...
    From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. As a result he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep deprivation and eventually blown up by a car bomb which cost him his right arm and the sight of an eye. His experiences provoked an outpouring of creative thought on the role of law as a protector of human dignity in the modern ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Survival Migration

    Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement

    by Alexander Betts ...
    International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Refugees of the Revolution

    Experiences of Palestinian Exile

    by Diana Allan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • "The Sons of Pigs and Apes": Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence

    by Neil J. Kressel ...
    From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane. But as Neil Kressel documents in this startling book, the Muslim world has resurrected in recent decades almost every diatribe that more than two millennia of European hostility produced against the Jews, and it has introduced many homegrown and novel modes of attack. Though it is impossible to determine precisely ... Read more

    $41.16 CAD

  • Children's Rights and Social Work

    by Hanita Kosher, Asher Ben-Arieh, Yael Hendelsman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a conceptual framework for children's rights as well as specific strategies and opportunities for social workers to apply in their work. It guides social work professionals and students through the history of children's rights. It also includes a call for a paradigm shift from a focus on the right to nurturance to the right to self-determination, as well as a contrasting look at ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland

    by Brice Dickson ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968. Brice Dickson studies the effectiveness of the Convention in protecting human rights in a society wracked by terrorism and deep political conflict, detailing the numerous applications lodged at Strasbourg relating to the conflict and ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Reparations and Victim Support in the International Criminal Court

    by Conor McCarthy ...
    Series Book 88 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Alongside existing regimes for victim redress at the national and international levels, in the coming years international criminal law and, in particular, the International Criminal Court, will potentially provide a significant legal framework through which the harm caused by egregious conduct can be addressed. Drawing on a wealth of comparative experience, Conor McCarthy's study of the Rome ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Feminism is Sexism

    by JP Tate ...
    For those whose mind is closed on the subject of feminism because society has told them what to think and they obediently think it, there are many hundreds of books available that will reinforce their cultural orthodoxy. This book is not for them. It is a polemic which takes a radically anti-establishment position and expresses an alternative point of view. It argues for a genuinely impartial sex ... Read more

    $5.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights

    Mediating Suffering

    Edited by Tristan Anne Borer ...
    What impact do mass media portrayals of atrocities have on activism? Why do these news stories sometimes mobilize people, while at other times they are met with indifference? Do different forms of media have greater or lesser impacts on mobilization? These are just some of the questions addressed in Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights, which investigates the assumption that exposure to human ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Bottom-Up Politics

    An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization

    Edited by D. Kostovicova, M. Glasius ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD