Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity by Adam Rosenblatt
RRP: $42.88$36.64The 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... -
Improvement Science in Evaluation: Methods and Uses: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 153 by Christina A. Christie 9781119378662
RRP: $42.88$37.71While improvement science has experienced a surge of interest over the past 30 years, applications of it are rare in the evaluation literature. This issue promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas, techniques, and tools between evaluation and improvement... -
Human Rights Law by Brid Moriarty 9780199652075
RRP: $115.03$109.28Human 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... -
Egyptian Earth by Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi 9780863569685
RRP: $19.48$13.63A 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: $46.78$41.61For 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: Tradition and Politics by Ann Elizabeth Mayer
RRP: $85.78$74.96Islam 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... -
Peremptory Norms in International Law by Alexander Orakhelashvili 9780199546114
$92.86This 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... -
Syrian Refugees, Applied Theater, Workshop Facilitation, and Stories: While They Were Waiting by Fadi Skeiker 9780367654054
RRP: $37.03$32.90This book analyzes and theorizes the efficacy of using applied theater as a tool to address refugee issues of displacement, trauma, adjustment, and psychological well-being, in addition to split community belonging.Fadi Skeiker connects refugee... -
Women, Life, Freedom: Our Fight for Human Rights and Equality in Iran by Nasrin Sotoudeh 9781501776106
RRP: $13.63$11.80The 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... -
International Brigade Against Apartheid: Secrets of the War that Liberated South Africa by Ronnie Kasrils
RRP: $39.00$31.38We 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... -
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield 9780226482514
RRP: $29.25$28.00In "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... -
This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite 9781250311481
RRP: $52.63$30.65Apologies 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 by Lisbeth Zimmermann 9780198873235
RRP: $161.85$147.69International 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... -
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World by Evgeny Morozov
RRP: $21.43$15.15In 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... -
The Gender and Security Agenda: Strategies for the 21st Century by Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
RRP: $72.13$63.43This 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,... -
Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett
RRP: $48.73$41.40Empire 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... -
Hong Kong in Revolt by Au Loong-Yu
RRP: $37.03$29.85Hong 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... -
Beyond Terror: Islam's Slow Erosion of Western Democracy by Anne Marie Waters 9781732451100
$36.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732451100Author Anne Marie WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Something or Other Publishing LLCPublisher Something or Other Publishing... -
On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman by Kajsa Ekis Ekman ; Translated by Kristina Maki
RRP: $44.75$28.51A new definition of woman has taken hold in Western societies. Instead of a matter of biology and material reality, we are told it is an identity. Anyone who declares herself to be a woman is a woman; the body has henceforth become irrelevant. Gender, we... -
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Struggle For Palestinian Civil Rights by Omar Barghouti
RRP: $38.98$25.45From 'Operation Cast Lead' to the recent assault on the Gaza flotilla, both the severity and the notoriety of Israel's many human rights abuses have begun to seep into the public consciousness and convince a growing international audience of the... -
Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism by Eva Pils 9781509500703
RRP: $31.18$28.10How 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... -
World Poverty and Human Rights by Thomas W. Pogge
RRP: $48.73$42.53Some 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... -
Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action by Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito
RRP: $165.75$150.15As the climate emergency intensifies, rights-based climate cases - litigation that is based on human rights law - are becoming an increasingly important tool for securing more ambitious climate action. This book is the first to offer a systematic... -
The Civil Rights Movement by Mark Newman
RRP: $52.63$45.88This introduction to the Civil Rights Movement synthesises its history, explaining its origins, development and results as well as historiographical debates. A survey based on a wealth of recent scholarship, it provides a critical perspective on the... -
International Human Rights by Jack Donnelly
RRP: $74.08$65.09Fully 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,... -
Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo by Jules Marchal
RRP: $25.33$22.05In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian... -
Rethinking Children's Rights: Attitudes in Contemporary Society by Phil Jones
RRP: $58.48$52.36Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long... -
Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective by Siddharth Kara
RRP: $42.90$33.13Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the dark realities of modern slavery in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing systems that strip people of their dignity for the sake of... -
Umbrella Of U.s. Power, The - 2nd Edition: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradict by Noam Chomsky 9781583225479
RRP: $9.73$7.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225479Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 77g -
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177652Author Thenmozhi SoundararajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Biblical Judgments: New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible by Daphne Barak-Erez 9780472056583
$66.20Biblical Judgments invites readers to consider today's timeless dilemmas of law and government, social justice, and human rights, through the perspective of a text that has helped shape western society: the Hebrew Bible. By focusing on biblical... -
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell 9781401925925
RRP: $38.98$28.33"Black people are not dark-skinned white people," says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly... -
Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss 9780226777115
RRP: $46.80$44.91The 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... -
We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia by Matt Easton
RRP: $38.98$26.44Named a Best Book of the Year by The EconomistA chilling work of true crime about the midair murder of a human rights activist, set against a riveting political drama in the world's fourth-largest nationOn a warm Jakarta night in September 2004, Munir... -
Black Deaths In Police Custody And Human Rights: The Failure of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry by David Mayberry 9781906190095
RRP: $17.53$12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190095Author David MayberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 169g -
One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel by Ghada Karmi
RRP: $29.23$19.11'An intelligent, sensitive writer' - Financial Times Palestine has been under attack for three quarters of a century. The 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internationally exposed as... -
Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. Wallance 9781250280053
RRP: $48.73$31.94In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts 9781526147684
RRP: $48.75$35.14The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it... -
Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics by Philip Slayton
RRP: $29.23$19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823107Author Philip SlaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything-and Endangered the World by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman 9781787383784
RRP: $39.00$34.83It's in our instant noodles and chocolate bars, our lipsticks and fuel tanks. But what even is palm oil, and how has it come to dominate our lives so completely? Jocelyn C. Zuckerman travels across four continents and back two centuries to find answers...