Human Rights

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966983Author Herbert SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 905g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047821Author Elizabeth M. RenierisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

For humanity to survive there must always be people performing the minute-to-minute miracle of thought. 'Excellent and beyond timely.' A. C. Grayling Scientific advances and new technologies are letting others manipulate our minds more easily than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506480374Author Damon GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster's epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the...

Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063272248Author Jane FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 644g

In this blisteringly persuasive and piercingly intelligent book, Sheila Jeffreys argues that women live under penile imperialism, a regime in which men are assumed to have a 'sex right' of access to the bodies of women and girls. She reasons that the...

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary.Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, winning international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and,...

This book is a unique account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps: its author, Margarete Buber-Neumann, was a loyal member of the German Communist party. From 1935 she and her second husband, Heinz Neumann, were political...

Renowned artist Ai Weiwei engaged nearly 900,000 visitors in a conversation about human rights with his art installation @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz. In one participatory piece, Yours Truly, visitors sent 92,829 postcards to prisoners of conscience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Jury Prize, European Design Awards 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781912408122Author Olivier KuglerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356990272Author Rohan J. AlvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm

Freedom from Fear - collected writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi's collected writings - edited by her late husband, whom the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer - reflects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839988691Author Cahal McLaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...

'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that...

How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of resources including years of...

The indigenous Bedouin Arab population in the Naqab/Negev desert in Israel has experienced a history of displacement, intense political conflict, and cultural disruption, along with recent rapid modernization, forced urbanization, and migration. This...

A progressive argument for repealing the Human Rights Act. Contrary to contemporary panic around human rights repeal, Human Rights - Illusory Freedom puts a progressive case against the Human Rights Act. It describes how human rights arose as a new...

This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban. Nathan Lean takes us through a world of conservative bloggers, right-wing talk show...

On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of military rule in Myanmar. Protests across the country were met with a brutal crackdown that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954702359Author Ken Saro-WiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 220g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110057Author Walter LaqueurFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 212mm...

When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636134Author Michael C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)...

Do states have a duty to assimilate refugees to their own citizens? Are refugees entitled to freedom of movement, to be allowed to work, to have access to public welfare programs, or to be reunited with family members? Indeed, is there even a duty to...

The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global...

Human Rights Law provides trainee and practising solicitors with a comprehensive overview of human rights law and the sources of human rights protection in Ireland. The book lays out the foundations of human rights law and considers the protections...

A twelve-year old boy returns to his village from school in Cairo to find the community torn by feud and fear. Working together, the young, old, men and women in the village discover that despite high rents, low wages, a greedy ruling-class, and...

For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health. This new edition addresses the key challenges facing governments and health practitioners today, within the context of rapid shifts in global...

Islam and Human Rights is a probing examination of how the Islamic tradition has been exploited for political ends by regimes and institutions seeking to legitimize policies inimical to human rights. Ann Elizabeth Mayer critically appraises Islamic human...

This monograph analyses the questions raised by the legal effects of peremptory norms of international law (jus cogens). A comprehensive study of this problem has been lacking so far in international legal doctrine. Peremptory norms, although often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2009. Short-listed for New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism 2010.Book...

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around...

We hear for the first time from internationalists who secretly worked for the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid rule. They acted as couriers, provided safe houses in the neighbouring states...

In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images - and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250311481Author Ashton ApplewhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Celadon BooksPublisher Celadon BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm...

International Norm Disputes: The Link between Contestation and Norm Robustness offers a rich, comparative study of when and why contested international norms decline. It presents central findings on the link between contestation and norm robustness based...

In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy. We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the Middle East's...

This book examines the gender dimensions of a wide array of national and international security challenges.The volume examines gender dynamics in ten issue areas in both the traditional and human security sub-fields: armed conflict, post-conflict,...