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The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything by Eric Heinze 9780262547246
RRP: $27.09$18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547246Author Eric HeinzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus by Damon Garcia
RRP: $16.76$11.73Apologies 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 -
Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse by Elizabeth M. Renieris
RRP: $32.25$21.13Apologies 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 -
International Human Rights by Jack Donnelly
RRP: $49.01$43.06Fully updated, the sixth edition of International Human Rights examines the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II. This unique textbook features substantial attention to theory,... -
Habeas Corpus: A Very Short Introduction by Amanda Tyler
RRP: $11.60$8.32Legal scholar Amanda L. Tyler discusses the history and future of habeas corpus in America and around the world. The concept of habeas corpus--literally, to receive and hold the body--empowers courts to protect the right of prisoners to know the... -
Why White Liberals Fail: Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump by Anthony J. Badger
RRP: $30.90$25.21It's not the economy, stupid: How liberal politicians' faith in the healing powers of economic growth-and refusal to address racial divisions-fueled reactionary politics across the South.From FDR to Clinton, charismatic Democratic leaders have promised a... -
Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett
RRP: $29.66$25.81Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last... -
Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler: With an introduction by Nikolaus Wachsmann by Margarete Buber-Neumann
RRP: $24.50$17.56This 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... -
The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence by Gary A. Haugen
RRP: $20.63$15.35A Washington Post bestseller While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence. Beneath the... -
A Little History of Protest Art by Aindrea Emelife 9781849767828
RRP: $19.35$14.14Art has always declared its dissatisfaction against the status quo. Throughout history artists have used their art to criticise and protest against a range of injustices and inequalities. Their art is an act of defiance, but more importantly it has given... -
Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly: Art, Human Rights, and the Power of Writing a Letter by Ai Weiwei 9781452159294
RRP: $24.50$17.13Renowned 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... -
The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf Abdullah Hamidaddin 9780755644285
RRP: $29.66$24.36The Huthi rebels in Yemen are a resistance movement going back decades. Their coup against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2015 - and the subsequent Yemeni civil war and the intervention of the Arab coalition in support of Hadi - has brought... -
Understanding New Security Threats Michel Gueldry (Middlebury Institute of International Studies, USA) 9781138104747
RRP: $47.72$41.96This textbook examines non-traditional forms of security and expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and non-human actors. Proposing an expansive view of non-traditional forms of security that go beyond traditionally recognized issues... -
Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference David Harvey (The Johns Hopkins University) 9781557866813
RRP: $51.54$45.72This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature -... -
Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21, Due Process and the Constitution of India by Rohan J. Alva 9789356990272
RRP: $22.58$18.71Apologies 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 -
Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas by Shannon Speed
RRP: $27.08$23.70Rights in Rebellion examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Through a multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico-from... -
Envisioning Democracy: New Essays after Sheldon Wolin's Political Thought by Terry Maley 9781487565602
RRP: $76.11$65.80Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "democracy." Leaders of large states use "democracy" to designate their nations' public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political... -
JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth by Burt W. Griffin 9781476687766
RRP: $37.40$30.16In this book, former Warren Commission lawyer Burt Griffin examines anew the Kennedy assassination, its various investigations, its effects on the Cold War and the civil rights movement, and the motives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Griffin begins... -
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine Diana Allan 9780745342924
RRP: $109.65$84.31***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' - lays... -
Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India by Shetty V.T. Rajshekar 9780932863058
$12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863058Author Shetty V.T. RajshekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality by Rahul Rao
RRP: $38.69$31.62Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights. The law attracted attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US... -
Human Rights - Illusory Freedom: Why we should repeal the Human Rights Act Luke Gittos 9781785356872
RRP: $14.18$12.09A 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... -
Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks by Oliver Slow
RRP: $28.37$24.87On 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... -
Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law by Michael C Davis
RRP: $19.34$15.67Apologies 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)... -
Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss 9780226777115
RRP: $30.96$29.71The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem-the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat... -
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
$28.66Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War Received historical... -
Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya by Horace Campbell 9780857491336
$19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857491336Author Horace CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Pambazuka PressPublisher Pambazuka PressWeight(grams) 375g -
Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination by Sheila Jeffreys
RRP: $29.61$18.86In 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law by Ilias Bantekas
RRP: $45.14$39.33How can businesses operate profitably and sustainably while ensuring that they are applying human rights? It is possible to apply human rights while at the same time decreasing cost and making human rights contribute to profits. Yet business efforts... -
New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel Edward Konkin 9780977764921
RRP: $10.26$7.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977764921Author Samuel Edward KonkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint KopubcoPublisher KopubcoWeight(grams) 168g -
Egyptian Earth by Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi 9780863569685
RRP: $12.89$8.77A 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... -
Global Health Watch 5: An Alternative World Health Report by People's Health Movement
RRP: $30.95$27.53For 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... -
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World by Evgeny Morozov
RRP: $14.18$10.02In 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... -
A Month And A Day: & Letters by Ken Saro-Wiwa 9780954702359
RRP: $12.89$8.77Apologies 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 -
Freethinking: Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind by Simon McCarthy-Jones 9780861544578
RRP: $24.50$17.56For 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... -
The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works—and When It Backfires by Rochelle Terman 9780691250472
RRP: $105.78$82.77A bold new perspective on the strategic logic of international human rights enforcementWhen a government violates the rights of its citizens, the international community can respond by exerting moral pressure and urging reform. Yet many of the most... -
International Brigade Against Apartheid: Secrets of the War that Liberated South Africa by Ronnie Kasrils
RRP: $25.80$21.21We 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... -
International Humanitarian Law: Rules, Controversies, and Solutions to Problems Arising in Warfare by Marco Sassoli 9781839100482
$89.18'Professor Sassoli has combined his first hand experience of the challenges facing the application of international humanitarian law with his scholarly understanding of international law. He sets out the details necessary for a complete understanding of... -
Peremptory Norms in International Law by Alexander Orakhelashvili 9780199546114
$55.13This 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... -
Women, Life, Freedom: Our Fight for Human Rights and Equality in Iran by Nasrin Sotoudeh 9781501776106
RRP: $9.02$8.17The 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...