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  • Economic Development: A Regional, Institutional, and Historical Approach

    A Regional, Institutional and Historical Approach

    by Richard Grabowski, Sharmistha Self, William Shields ...
    The second edition of this innovative and affordable book integrates environmental and financial sustainability into its distinctive regional approach. By focusing on political economy in its cultural, religious and historical roots, as well as leadership decisions, it spurs critical thinking. Working through the unique development paths of individual countries, the authors foster integrative ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Life's Dominion

    An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    Internationally renowned lawyer and philosopher Ronald Dworkin addresses the crucially related acts of abortion and euthanasia in a brilliantly original book that examines their meaning in a nation that prizes both life and individual liberty. From Roe v. Wade to the legal battle over the death of Nancy Cruzan, no issues have opened greater rifts in American society than those of abortion and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

    by Lila Abu-Lughod ...
    Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Global Refugee Crisis: How Should We Respond?

    The Munk Debates

    by Louise Arbour, Simon Schama, Nigel Farage, Mark Steyn ...
    Series Book 2016 - The Munk Debates
    The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four and a half million people are trying to flee the country. And Syria is just one of a growing number of failed or failing states in the Middle East and North Africa. How should developed nations respond to human suffering on this ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Societies

    by Catherine Dauvergne ...
    Over the past decade, a global convergence in migration policies has emerged, and with it a new, mean-spirited politics of immigration. It is now evident that the idea of a settler society, previously an important landmark in understanding migration, is a thing of the past. What are the consequences of this shift for how we imagine immigration? And for how we regulate it? This book analyzes the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Child Soldiers in Africa

    by Alcinda Honwana ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Demanding Justice and Security

    Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America

    by Rachel Sieder, Adriana Terven Salinas, Emma Cervone, Cristina Cucuri, Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt, Leonor Lozano, Mariana Mora, Morna Macleod, Natalia De Marinis, Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo0, Maria Teresa Sierra1 ...
    Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Life Interrupted

    Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

    by Denise Brennan ...
    Life Interrupted introduces us to survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to get by and make homes for themselves in the United States. Having spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. At once scholarly and accessible, her book ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • After Abu Ghraib

    Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East

    by Shadi Mokhtari ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration's 'War on Terror' torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional West to East flow of human rights mobilizations and discourses) and Middle Eastern attempts to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Life Reality

    Flower To Life, #9

    by Jean-Nichol Dufour ...
    Series Book 9 - Flower To Life
    This is part 9 of a 12 books suite. In this one, I will invent the basic principles that can form a new system following the conclusions I gained from all my previous writings. ... Read more

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  • Indefensible

    Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

    by Paul Holden ...
    Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy. Not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, support it for these reasons.Indefensible puts forward a devastating challenge to this conventional wisdom, which has normalised the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Proportionality and Deference under the UK Human Rights Act

    An Institutionally Sensitive Approach

    by Alan D. P. Brady ...
    The courts use the proportionality test to assess the Convention-compatibility of the full range of government action, from administrative decisions to primary legislation. In applying the test, the courts are often conscious of the need to pay some deference to the expertise and competence of other branches of government. This rigorous analysis of the relationship between proportionality and ... Read more

    $127.99 CAD