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  • The Coming Good Society

    Why New Realities Demand New Rights

    " Challenge[s] all of us to think deeply about what kind of society we and our children and our children's children will want to live in." (Margaret L. Huang, former Executive Director, Amnesty International USA)A rights revolution is under way. Today the range of nonhuman entities thought to deserve rights is exploding. Changes in norms and circumstances require the expansion of rights: What new ... Read more

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  • Reversing the Rivers

    A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights

    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    From 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of the greatest challenges to human rights, including genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan; controversies over the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the use of torture by the United States after 9/11; as well as growing concern about inequities in the American ... Read more

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  • Reversing the Rivers

    A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights

    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    From 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of the greatest challenges to human rights, including genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan; controversies over the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the use of torture by the United States after 9/11; as well as growing concern about inequities in the American ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Coming Good Society

    Why New Realities Demand New Rights

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    Two authors with decades of experience promoting human rights argue that, as the world changes around us, rights hardly imaginable today will come into being.A rights revolution is under way. Today the range of nonhuman entities thought to deserve rights is exploding—not just animals but ecosystems and even robots. Changes in norms and circumstances require the expansion of rights: What new rights ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Counsellor Competencies

    Developing Counselling Skills for Education, Career and Occupation

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Career and student counselling is a complex task that requires a high level of professionalism. This book introduces basic counselling skills in vocational and educational guidance. It is based on important scientific models. The book presents internationally recognized counselling approaches which include among others micro counselling, solution focused brief counselling and competence oriented ... Read more

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  • The Phenomenon of Torture

    Readings and Commentary

    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to answer that question and many others. Beginning with a sweeping view of torture in Western history, the book examines ... Read more

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  • Communication and Information Technologies Annual

    Digital Distinctions & Inequalities

    Series Book 10 - Studies in Media and Communications
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Section of the American Sociological Association, Volume 10 of the Communication and Information Technologies Annual, Digital Distinctions & Inequalities, brings together nine studies of this increasingly important form of inequality. Drawn from four continents, the research provides a global overview of the current state of the ... Read more

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  • Rescue and Flight

    American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis

    When Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the broader impact the organization had made during World War II. Then, through years of research, Subak uncovered the little-known story of the Unitarian Service Committee, which rescued European refugees during World War II, and the remarkable ... Read more

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  • The Phenomenon of Torture

    Readings and Commentary

    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to answer that question and many others. Beginning with a sweeping view of torture in Western history, the book examines ... Read more

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  • Political Settlements and Development

    Theory, Evidence, Implications

    Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development community in recent years as powerfully as the idea of a 'political settlement'. At its most ambitious, 'political settlements analysis' (PSA) promises to explain why conflicts occur and states collapse, the conditions for their successful rehabilitation, different developmental pathways from peace, and how to better fit ... Read more

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  • Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach

    Series series Contextual Bach Studies
    Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention to how such meaning arises out of the intentionality of Bach’s own compositional choices or (in Part ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Bloc And The Third World

    The Political Economy Of East-South Relations

    This volume deals with the nature of the relationship between the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and those of the Third World, offering some background to the decline in the Soviet Union's international position, both politically and economically. ... Read more

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