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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
RRP: £11.99£8.43Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie PittUntil the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried... -
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal
RRP: £14.99£9.70Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. The possibility of reverse influence has been largely overlooked. Insurgent Empire... -
The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro
RRP: £20.00£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063001824Author Ben ShapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Broadside BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 646g -
The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law by Ilias Bantekas
RRP: £34.99£30.49How 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... -
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent by Johannes Morsink
RRP: £45.00£38.87Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Born of a shared revulsion against the horrors of the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has become the single most important statement of international ethics. It... -
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
RRP: £10.99£7.77Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of that... -
Freedom to Think: Protecting a Fundamental Human Right in the Digital Age by Susie Alegre
RRP: £10.99£7.32Chosen as one of the best books of 2022 by the Financial Times and the Telegraph.Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2023Longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing'Compelling, powerful and necessary.' Shoshana Zuboff, author of... -
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo by Jason K. Stearns 9780691224510
RRP: £18.99£14.79Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and... -
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy
RRP: £9.99£6.48'Shocking, heartfelt and well-researched' New Statesman'A ground-shaping book that defines the edge of so many vital contemporary debates. Hers is a voice simultaneously behind and beyond the veil' Colum McCann'A fascinating, can't-look-away,... -
The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte
RRP: £14.99£9.70The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba-the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity-since it... -
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi
RRP: £9.99£7.99'I was blown away' - Angela Davis Plastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular slogan for our generation. But feminism isn't a commodity up for purchase; it's a weapon for... -
Slaves among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking by Monique Villa
RRP: £18.99£14.00The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of victims of human trafficking. Through the stories of three remarkable individuals who share how they fell victim to traffickers and how their bodies... -
The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire by WikiLeaks
RRP: £34.99£23.01WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 with the release of 251,287 top-secret State Department cables, which revealed to the world what the US government really thinks about national leaders, friendly dictators, and supposed allies. It brought to the... -
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman Finkelstein 9781844671496
RRP: £28.99£24.47In Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict, especially in the work of Alan Dershowitz... -
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford
RRP: £13.99£10.77Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights. Since then, driven by the Tory government's... -
Talking to Myself: Memoirs of a Human Rights Activist by Anthony Lester
RRP: £25.00£17.62'I have been a campaigner in many human rights causes, some successful, some less so, some failed. My mother once said, 'Anthony, we had such a fine system until you ruined it!' I hope she was wrong.' Over the course of his illustrious, pioneering and... -
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: By the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 by Maria Ressa
RRP: £20.00£14.69*BBC RADIO 4 START OF THE WEEK and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR*WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own... -
Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust by Andrew I. Port
RRP: £29.95£23.59Germans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to prevent new genocides abroad?As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a... -
Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 by Mary Beth Norton 9780801483479
RRP: £17.99£15.52First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Liberty's Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself.About the AuthorMary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History... -
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
RRP: £10.99£7.25Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 'A devastating indictment' SUNDAY TIMES 'An important book, a superb piece of reporting' OBSERVER 'With great... -
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon
RRP: £13.99£10.15Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien,... -
We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age by Wendy H. Wong 9780262048576
RRP: £25.00£16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048576Author Wendy H. WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 343gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 18mm -
Deport, Deprive, Extradite: Twenty-First Century State Extremism by Nisha Kapoor
RRP: £16.99£11.47When Minh Pham was extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism related charges, his appeal against the deprivation of his British citizenship was still pending. Soon after he arrived his appeal was lost and he was effectively made stateless... -
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.25Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates-a riveting,thoughtful, and... -
Profits Over People: Neoliberalism and the New Order by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £13.99£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888363821Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 167g -
Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama
RRP: £14.99£9.32A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian... -
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
RRP: £20.95£15.41Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this... -
Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas by Shannon Speed
RRP: £21.99£18.79Rights 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... -
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse 9781847926760
RRP: £25.00£17.62**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring' JONATHAN... -
Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt 9780393331998
RRP: £12.99£11.99How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human... -
A State in Denial:: British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries by Margaret Urwin 9781781174623
£19.04This meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled web of relationships between the top echelons of the British establishment, incl Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants, police/military officers and... -
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization by Lynn Welchman
RRP: £30.00£22.82A 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... -
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in our Digital Age by Danielle Keats Citron
RRP: £18.99£13.61'Devastating and urgent, this book could not be more timely' Caroline Criado Perez, award-winning and bestselling author of Invisible WomenDanielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach... -
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
RRP: £25.00£15.55An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state.When blocked from facts and truth, and constantly under surveillance, most citizens... -
Princess: Stepping Out Of The Shadows by Jean Sasson
RRP: £8.99£6.45In the international bestseller, Princess: The True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, Princess Al-Sa'ud and the acclaimed author Jean Sasson began a remarkable series of books. Now, more than twenty-five years later, this compelling journey... -
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil 9781787334014
RRP: £18.99£13.61A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history***LITHUB'S #1 BEST-REVIEWED NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*****A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023****AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***WINNER OF THE... -
How to Resist by Matthew Bolton
RRP: £9.99£7.51'This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism' - Brian Eno 'This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried... -
FULLY HUMAN by Lindsey Kingston 9780197674840
RRP: £22.99£20.80Citizenship within our current international system signifies being fully human, or being worthy of fundamental human rights. For some vulnerable groups, however, this form of political membership is limited or missing entirely, and they face human... -
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb 9780008300043
RRP: £10.99£7.25SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'A wake-up call' Amal Clooney 'Devastating... rape and... -
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance by Shourideh C. Molavi 9780745344577
RRP: £22.99£18.34The perimeter around the occupied Gaza Strip is formed by a sophisticated system of fences, forts and surveillance technologies. With each Israeli incursion, a military no-go area, or a 'buffer zone', is established along Gaza's 'borders', extending deep...