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Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat
RRP: $54.58$42.04Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise... -
The Livable and the Unlivable by Judith Butler
RRP: $31.18$27.77The unlivable is the most extreme point of human suffering and injustice. But what is it exactly? How do we define the unlivable? And what can we do to prevent and repair it? These are the intriguing questions Judith Butler and Frederic Worms discuss in... -
Free Speech, Scholarly Critique and the Limits of Expression in Islam: Proceedings of the 9th AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop, 1-2 July 2021 by Liyakat Takim 9781915550019
RRP: $38.98$25.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915550019Author Liyakat TakimFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint AMI PressPublisher AMI PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 11mm -
Equality, Freedom, and Religion by Professor Roger Trigg 9780199671298
$58.81Is religious freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is enough effort made to accommodate those motivated by a religious conscience? All rights matter but at times the right to put religious beliefs into... -
Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
RRP: $39.00$33.11In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth... -
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga 9781912854530
RRP: $25.33$13.16The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil,... -
Judging Iran: A Memoir of The Hague, The White House, and Life on the Front Line of International Justice by Hon. Charles N. Brower 9781633310704
RRP: $52.55$38.55From a divided Berlin to the Hague, the Reagan White House, Nigeria, the forests of Costa Rica, and more, Judge Charles N. Brower shares a personal history of a life spent at the forefront of international justice- and a case for the role of... -
A Hope More Powerful than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
RRP: $21.43$14.43Soon to be a major film produced by Steven Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting sail for Europe. The boat was... -
No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers Katharine Quarmby 9781851689491
RRP: $29.23$21.35They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to make a better, safer life. They found places to... -
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification Jeff Halper 9780745334301
RRP: $38.98$26.03* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016* Modern warfare has a new form. The days of international combat are fading. So how do major world powers maintain control over their people today? This book is a disturbing insight into the new ways... -
Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power by Frank Vogl 9781442218536
RRP: $58.50$52.03Never before has the call for good governance been greater. The Arab Spring in early 2011 has inspired people all over the world to fight to end the abuse of power by politicians and civic officials and create more transparent, accountable, and honest... -
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial by Somdeep Sen
RRP: $44.83$39.02In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation... -
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 9780140432077
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and... -
Bad People: And How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson 9781785906640
RRP: $37.03$26.93From the Nuremberg trials to the arrest of General Pinochet to the prosecution of barbarians of the Balkans, we have crafted a global human rights law to punish crimes against humanity. And yet today it is rarely applied: the International Criminal Court... -
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics by John Torpey
RRP: $54.58$47.07Making Whole What Has Been Smashed explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of... -
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach
RRP: $29.23$19.27Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants... -
Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan by Sam Childers 9781595554246 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$3.47A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered just because they were in the way.In Another Man's War, follow Sam Childer's remarkable transformation from violent thug to a man of faith, and his ongoing battle to... -
Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan Sam Childers 9781595554246
RRP: $25.33$17.73A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered just because they were in the way.In Another Man's War, follow Sam Childer's remarkable transformation from violent thug to a man of faith, and his ongoing battle to... -
Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech by Ronan Lee 9780755602476
RRP: $44.83$39.21The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial killings on an enormous scale. This unique study draws on... -
Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide by Kevin Bales 9781851688159
RRP: $19.48$12.50Written by the world's leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises... -
There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too by Stanley Fish 9780195093834
RRP: $43.86$29.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times 'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco Chronicle An electrifying memoir set in the... -
The Invisible Crowd by Ellen Wiles
RRP: $27.28$19.01'A fierce, big-hearted novel.' Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air'Pushes us to find our kinder selves.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You'A wonderful book.' Maurice Wren, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council ... -
Human Rights Law Merris Amos (Queen Mary, University of London) 9781509933297
RRP: $107.23$96.25This textbook comprehensively examines and analyses the interpretation and application of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998. The third edition has been fully updated to include the last seven years of case law. Part I covers key procedural... -
On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe, and Human Rights by Professor Conor Anthony Gearty
$71.62In the 2015 UK General Election, the Conservative party pledged to reset the UK's relations with Europe, holding an in-out referendum on membership of the European Union and repealing the Human Rights Act, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights. With... -
An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews, Jewishness, and English Law by Didi Herman 9780199229765
$168.29This book examines how English judges discuss and depict Jews and Jewishness in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is a study of legal judgments in a range of areas, tracing continuities and discontinuities in representations of Jews and Jewishness over... -
Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China Au Loong-Yu 9780745341460
RRP: $48.73$31.94Hong Kong is in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens shaking the regime. From the Umbrella Movement in 2014 to the defeat of the Extradition Bill and beyond, the protestors' demands have become more radical, and their... -
The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong with Rights by Dominic Raab 9780007293391
RRP: $25.33$16.54An urgent and necessary polemic on the government's assault on our fundamental freedoms and the proliferation of Human Rights. From 42 days detention to ASBOs, as citizens of modern Britain we are seeing some of our fundamental freedoms being... -
The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics by Cyndi Suarez 9780865718814
RRP: $33.13$22.76Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all... -
We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom by Joel Simon 9780999745427
RRP: $23.38$15.60A gripping exploration of the ethical, legal, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: Should governments pay ransom to terrorists? Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria-journalists and aid workers-began disappearing without... -
Humanity by Weiwei Ai 9780691181523
RRP: $21.43$16.93Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the... -
Dementia and Human Rights Suzanne Cahill (Trinity College Dublin, NUI Galway and University of Jonkoping Sweden Dementia Services Information and Development Centre) 9781447331407
RRP: $58.48$44.89The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinned policy and practice. Framing dementia as a disability, this book takes a rights-based approach to expand the debate. Applying a... -
Educating Refugee-background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts by Shawna Shapiro 9781783099962
RRP: $58.40$52.47This collection of empirical work offers an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds residing in North America, Australia and Europe. These studies foreground student goals, experiences and... -
The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott 9780691147987
RRP: $48.75$38.20In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds... -
The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice by Dilar Dirik
RRP: $37.03$24.86'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha Walia The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle,... -
Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations Jeffrey Bachman 9781032092300
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences. Through a systematic approach and comprehensive analysis, international and... -
For the Good of the World: Why Our Planet's Crises Need Global Agreement Now A. C. Grayling 9780861542666
RRP: $33.13$23.95'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree... -
Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State Jonathan Cook 9780745325552
RRP: $52.63$34.30This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians become a majority. The book charts Israel's increasingly... -
Life Begins in Leitrim: From Kurdistan to Croke Park by Zak Moradi
RRP: $42.88$30.44The road to Croke Park can be a long one, but for Leitrim hurler Zak Moradi it was longer than most. Born in a refugee camp in Ramadi, Iraq, at the height of the Gulf War, Zak spent his formative years living under the oppressive regime of Saddam Hussein... -
An Introduction to Fundamental Rights in Europe: History, Theory, Cases Alessandra Facchi 9781788117043
RRP: $50.60$45.30This is a concise and accessible introduction to fundamental rights in Europe from the perspectives of history, theory and an analysis of European jurisprudence. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book equips readers with the tools to understand...