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On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman by Kajsa Ekis Ekman ; Translated by Kristina Maki
RRP: $29.61$18.86A 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... -
Propaganda and the Public Mind: Interviews by David Barsamian by Noam Chomsky 9780745335650
RRP: $24.50$16.45First published in 2001, Propaganda and the Public Mind constitutes a series of discussions with the journalist David Barsamian and is the perfect complement to Chomsky's major works of media study such as Manufacturing Consent and Necessary llusions... -
We Are Still Here by Nahid Shahalimi
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735246003Author Nahid ShahalimiFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Human Rights Transformed: Positive Rights and Positive Duties by Sandra Fredman 9780199535057
RRP: $72.24$57.30Human rights have traditionally been understood as protecting individual freedom against intrusion by the State. In this book, Sandra Fredman argues that this understanding requires radical revision. Human rights are based on a far richer view of... -
On Property by Rinaldo Walcott
RRP: $12.89$8.71From plantation rebellion and Indigenous land theft to prison labor's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill, when we know our economies are flush... -
The Civil Rights Movement by Mark Newman
RRP: $34.82$31.53This 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... -
Global Norms and Local Courts: Translating the Rule of Law in Bangladesh by Tobias Berger 9780198807865
$115.25What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in... -
The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Nur Masalha 9780745321202
RRP: $38.69$25.03The 1948 war ended in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. Israeli settlers moved in to occupy their land and the Palestinian refugees found themselves expelled. Today there are nearly four million Palestinian refugees... -
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield 9780226482514
RRP: $24.51$20.90In "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... -
The Islamophobia Industry - Second Edition: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims by Nathan Lean
RRP: $21.92$14.89This 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... -
Beyond Terror: Islam's Slow Erosion of Western Democracy by Anne Marie Waters 9781732451100
$23.25Apologies 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... -
Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age by Neil Richards 9780190623388
RRP: $30.95$22.64Most people believe that our rights to privacy and free speech are inevitably in conflict. Courts all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the two for over a century, and the rise of the Internet has made this problem more urgent. We live... -
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Struggle For Palestinian Civil Rights by Omar Barghouti
RRP: $25.79$16.46From '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 Eva Pils (King's College London) 9781509500703
RRP: $20.63$18.59How 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... -
Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action by Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito
RRP: $109.65$99.33As 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... -
Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking by Sally Engle Merry
RRP: $30.96$29.71We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet... -
Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective by Siddharth Kara
RRP: $28.38$22.39Siddharth 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... -
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi
RRP: $28.37$24.76"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... -
Rethinking Children's Rights: Attitudes in Contemporary Society Dr Phil Jones (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK) 9781350001244
RRP: $38.69$34.64Rethinking 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... -
Oxford IB Diploma Programme: Rights and Protest Course Companion by Peter Clinton
RRP: $51.59$49.08Drive critical, engaged historical learning. Helping learners more deeply understand historical concepts, the student-centred approach of this new Course Book enables broader, big picture understanding. Developed directly with the IB and fully supporting... -
World Poverty and Human Rights by Thomas W. Pogge
RRP: $32.24$28.13Some 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... -
First, They Erased Our Name: a Rohingya speaks by Habiburahman 9781912854035
RRP: $21.92$14.94For the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the persecution facing his people. 'I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old,... -
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies 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. -
Umbrella Of U.s. Power, The - 2nd Edition: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradict by Noam Chomsky 9781583225479
RRP: $6.44$4.90Apologies 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 -
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell 9781401925925
RRP: $25.79$17.94"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... -
Biblical Judgments: New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible by Daphne Barak-Erez 9780472056583
$43.80Biblical 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... -
The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany by Ned Richardson-Little
RRP: $32.24$27.32Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist... -
The Light of Truth by Ida B. Wells
RRP: $12.89$9.17In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic... -
Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. Wallance 9781250280053
RRP: $32.24$22.72In 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... -
Black Deaths In Police Custody And Human Rights: The Failure of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry by David Mayberry 9781906190095
RRP: $11.60$8.00Apologies 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 -
Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics by Philip Slayton
RRP: $19.34$12.75Apologies 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. -
Human Rights in Times of Conflict and Terrorism by Louise Doswald-Beck 9780199578948
$73.90This book is a guide to international human rights law as it applies to situations of armed conflict, to counter-terrorism measures and to any other situation of actual or potential violence requiring security measures. These situations can lead to some... -
Children's Rights: A Commentary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Protocols Wouter Vandenhole 9781800888371
RRP: $70.89$64.56This comprehensive Commentary presents a contemporary legal perspective on the inherently interdisciplinary field of children's rights. Chapters analyse each article of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, along with its Optional Protocols,... -
The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope by Bernard-Henri Levy
$25.08An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world's most daring philosopher-reporters"Call[s] on people not just to see the world, but to be moved and interested by what they find there, and to do... -
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything-and Endangered the World by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman 9781787383784
RRP: $25.80$23.53It'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... -
Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work Laura Robson 9781804290217
RRP: $32.25$26.19Historian Laura Robson unveils the dark heart of our purportedly humanitarian international regime. Tracing the century-long history of attempts to remake refugees into disposable migrant labor, Robson elucidates global humanitarianism's deep-seated... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 9781914317811
RRP: $19.34$12.64A seminal book in a feminist conversation that still continues today.Now regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, Mary Wollstonecraft's writings have inspired conversation and action since their first publication. Wollstonecraft produced... -
The Rights of Refugees under International Law by James C. Hathaway 9781108810913
RRP: $107.06$94.34Do 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... -
Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural by M.I. Franklin
RRP: $36.11$29.48Music sampling has become a predominantly digitalized practice. It was popularized with the rise of Rap and Hip-Hop, as well as ambient music scenes, but it has a history stretching back to the earliest days of sound recording and experimental music... -
Achieving Human Rights Richard Falk 9780415990165
RRP: $51.59$45.23Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance, to the costs...