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Syria and the Neutrality Trap: The Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes by Carsten Wieland 9780755641383
$146.48The Syrian war has been an example of the abuse and insufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance. According to international practice, humanitarian aid should be channelled through a state government that bears a particular responsibility for its... -
Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) 9780745335452
RRP: $33.13$22.50For decades, Noam Chomsky has been considered one of the most important critics of American's foreign policy in Central and Latin America and yet Turning the Tide is one of his only written works which makes that region its sole focus. At last back... -
The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era by Christopher W. Schmidt
RRP: $50.70$48.46On February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers... -
The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists by Khaled M.Abou El Fadl 9780061189036
RRP: $19.48$18.70This is a passionate defense of Islam against the encroaching tide of fundamentalists corrupting the true faith. In "The Great Theft", Khaled Abou El Fadl, one of the world's preeminent Islamic scholars argues that Islam is currently passing... -
Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon 9780674025554
RRP: $54.50$43.19More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide;... -
Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism by Robert Zubrin
RRP: $27.28$21.35There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for--indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this... -
Crime, Violence and Modernity: Towards a Contemporary Sociological Criminology by Gordon Hughes
RRP: $72.13$63.43This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology. Throughout the book Hughes... -
Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror by Helen Epstein
RRP: $21.43$14.39Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naive dealings... -
Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander
RRP: $39.00$23.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770436919Author Jessica AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution by Robert D. Bullard 9781578051205
RRP: $33.13$24.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578051205Author Robert D. BullardFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Sierra Club BooksPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 567g -
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization by Lynn Welchman
RRP: $58.50$45.42A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian... -
Freedom'S Daughters by Lynne Olson
RRP: $42.90$26.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684850139Author OLSONPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Justice Laboratory: International Criminal Justice in Africa by Kerstin Bree Carlson 9780815738138
RRP: $68.25$60.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738138Author Kerstin Bree CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Human Rights and Economic Policy Reform by Aoife Nolan 9781032006147
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book deals with the complex and challenging relationship between economic policy and human rights. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the need to address the conceptual and methodological (dis)connects between these two areas is more... -
From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention by David Chandler 9780745325040
$55.34This new and updated edition of David Chandler's acclaimed book takes a critical look at the way in which human rights issues have been brought to the fore in international affairs. The UN and Nato's new policy of interventionism--as shown in Iraq,... -
Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom by Michael Rectenwald 9781943003266
RRP: $38.98$22.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943003266Author Michael RectenwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter... -
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... -
Your Right to Know: A Citizen's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act Heather Brooke 9780745325828
RRP: $44.83$29.58Have you ever wanted to know: - Which doctor has the best operation success rate in your health trust? - If MI5 has a file on you? - The actual number and type of crimes that happen in your street? - Which streets are targeted by parking attendants... -
World Report 2022: Events of 2021 by Human Rights Watch
RRP: $58.48$37.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644211212Author Human Rights WatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Standing Under Freedom: A Foundation for Personal Empowerment by TheAntiTerrorist 9781905605224
$24.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905605224Author TheAntiTerroristFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Velluminous PressPublisher Velluminous Press -
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro 9780063001886
RRP: $25.33$16.54A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build-and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture. Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America... -
Human Rights and Climate Change: A Review of the International Legal Dimensions by Siobhan McInerney-Lankford 9780821387207
RRP: $35.00$34.36This Study explores arguments about the impact of climate change on human rights, examining the international legal frameworks governing human rights and climate change and identifying the relevant synergies and tensions between them. It considers... -
Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience by Kimberley Brownlee 9780198759461
RRP: $70.18$42.69Oxford Legal Philosophy publishes the best new work in philosophically-oriented legal theory. It commissions and solicits monographs in all branches of the subject, including works on philosophical issues in all areas of public and private law, and in... -
Struggling to be seen by Anandi Ramamurthy
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832807Author Anandi RamamurthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 375g -
Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International by Stephen Hopgood
RRP: $48.73$42.26"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth-bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the... -
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume I by Noam Chomsky 9780745335490
$37.13The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman - also co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent - which provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy during the 1960s and '70s,... -
The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works—and When It Backfires by Rochelle Terman 9780691250489
RRP: $48.75$38.20A 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... -
Champions of Equality: Trade unions and LGBT rights in Britain by Peter Purton 9781912064588
RRP: $39.00$36.68There is a big hole in the history of the LGBT movement in Britain. Each step towards equality for LGBT people, every positive move in public opinion, was the result of campaigning. But while individuals and lobby groups loudly promote their role in the... -
Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective by Siddharth Kara 9780231158466
RRP: $58.50$46.20Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and forced labor in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing system that strips people of their dignity for... -
Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: $34.11$29.46A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times. The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and... -
Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: v. 1: Meaning of Genocide by Mark Levene
$56.69How should we understand genocide in the modern world? As an aberration from the norms of a dominant liberal international society? Or rather as a guide to the very dysfunctional nature of the international system itself? "The Meaning of... -
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie 9781541605121
RRP: $37.03$26.15WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government... -
The Right to Have Rights Stephanie DeGooyer 9781784787554
RRP: $25.33$17.73Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and... -
State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption Penny Green 9780745317847
RRP: $58.48$44.89What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by-chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime,... -
The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change by Michelle Mijung Kim
RRP: $42.90$32.51As we become more aware of various social injustices in the world, many of us want to be part of the movement toward positive change. But sometimes our best intentions cause unintended harm, and we fumble. We might feel afraid to say the wrong thing and... -
The Nakba Ends in Gaza: Reimagining the Boundaries of Possibility by Jehad Abusalim
RRP: $93.60$62.95Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience.Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel... -
Rights, Bodies and Recognition: New Essays on Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right Tom Rockmore 9781138252257
RRP: $77.98$68.37The German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, has long been recognized as an important and original figure in the history of philosophy and Western thought and as a seminal influence upon the Romantic tradition. This book focuses on Fichte's... -
Climate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention by Matthew Scott 9781108747127
RRP: $60.43$52.20Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in the context of disasters and climate change. It demonstrates that the legal predicament of people who seek refugee status in this connection has... -
Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela 9780316855006 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00$5.17The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, A LONG WALK TO... -
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova 9781781687734 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.38$14.61"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is...