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Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Ilan Pappe
RRP: £10.99£7.77Co-authored by two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, a clear-sighted and essential analysis of the political context around this region at a desperate impasseFrom the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of... -
The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £14.99£10.95What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps... -
Syrian Refugees, Applied Theater, Workshop Facilitation, and Stories: While They Were Waiting by Fadi Skeiker 9780367654054
RRP: £18.99£17.65This 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... -
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
RRP: £13.99£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780735223608Author Shane BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice... -
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim 9781849049733
RRP: £16.99£14.97According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the... -
Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong by Michael C. Davis 9781952636448
RRP: £14.99£11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636448Author Michael C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies -
The Limits of Human Rights by Bardo Fassbender
RRP: £52.00£44.60What are the limits of human rights, and what do these limits mean? This volume engages critically and constructively with this question to provide a distinct contribution to the contemporary discussion on human rights. Fassbender and Traisbach, along... -
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn 9781839766190
RRP: £20.00£13.34The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture and limit civilian casualties-have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? During this period... -
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha
RRP: £14.99£10.95The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea expert Victor Cha'We killed Americans. We are killing Americans. We will kill Americans.'North Korean schoolchildren conjugating... -
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £12.99£9.09Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with a new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted by politicians and philosophers alike, the... -
International Human Rights Law by Rhona K. M. Smith 9780192845382
RRP: £41.99£39.88Illustrating the scope of this fascinating and wide-reaching subject to the student, this clear and concise text gives a broad introduction to international human rights law. Coverage includes regional systems of protection, the role of the UN, and a... -
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds by Susie Alegre
RRP: £20.00£13.50Chosen as one of the best books of 2022 by the Financial Times and the Telegraph.Longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing'Compelling, powerful and necessary.' Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism'Fascinating'... -
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
RRP: £16.99£12.28'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King, Jr.In an era where our liberties are often under threat, Letters to Change the World sends reminders... -
The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott 9780691147987
RRP: £22.00£16.99In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds... -
Five Ideas to Fight For: How Our Freedom is Under Threat and Why it Matters by Anthony Lester
RRP: £9.99£7.11Human Rights Equality Free Speech Privacy The Rule of Law These five ideas are vitally important to the way of life we enjoy today. The battle to establish them in law was long and difficult, and Anthony Lester was at the heart of the... -
The Gate by Francois Bizot
RRP: £10.99£7.77Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Scottish Herald 'The beauty of the prose is in contrast with the horror anticipated by this superbly subtle narrative' Kapka KassabovaIn 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young... -
From Marabastad to Mogadishu: The Journey of an ANC Soldier by Hassen Ebrahim
RRP: £14.95£12.27This is an account of the life experiences of a South African of Indian descent who was fortunate enough to be a part of some of South Africa's most important changes in the transition from apartheid to a constitutional democracy. Hassen's political... -
Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg 9781903155967
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155967Author Eugenia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom by Nick Cohen
RRP: £10.99£7.25The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web... -
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie 9781541605121
RRP: £18.99£12.12WINNER 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... -
Antisemitism: here and now by Deborah E. Lipstadt 9781925228670
RRP: £16.99£11.58A timely analysis of the new antisemitism, by the historian who defeated Holocaust denier David Irving in court. What is antisemitism? Does it come from the right or the left? Is anti-Zionism the same as antisemitism? Are there different kinds of... -
Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction by Susan Ferguson
RRP: £18.99£15.31Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the world women are taking to the streets to protest unfair working conditions, abortion laws, and sexual violence. They are demanding decent wages, better schools and free childcare. But why do some... -
Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights by Niklaus Steiner 9780415945745
RRP: £43.99£40.64First Published in 2003. Of all the humanitarian impulses in world politics today, one of the most widely recognized is the need to protect refugees. However, as The Problems of Protection explores, what on the surface appears to be a simple... -
Voices of the Nakba: A Living Archive of Palestine by Diana Allan
RRP: £85.00£67.73***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... -
Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965 by Vicki L. Crawford
RRP: £20.99£17.98"[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America. . . . It... -
Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner by Palden Gyatso
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life... -
Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage: Violence against Women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Joanne Payton
RRP: £32.00£27.67'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several 'honor'-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du'a... -
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
£12.37"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... -
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: A Commentary by Patrick Thornberry 9780198827405
£45.97The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is the centrepiece of international efforts to address racial discrimination, defined in broad terms to include discrimination based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic... -
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine 9780691149837
RRP: £28.00£21.36The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military... -
Transgender Marxism by Jules Joanne Gleeson
RRP: £16.99£13.80The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under... -
Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes by Dan Plesch 9781626164314
RRP: £28.00£24.45Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. These cases provide a great... -
Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia by Michael R. J. Vatikiotis
RRP: £10.99£7.05'A lively and learned guide to the politics, personalities and conflicts that are shaping a dynamic group of countries' FINANCIAL TIMES'A fascinating and many-layered portrait of Southeast Asia' THANT MYINT-UWhy are the region's richest countries such as... -
International Human Rights Law: Cases, Materials, Commentary by Olivier De Schutter 9781108463560
RRP: £49.99£46.15International human rights law has expanded remarkably since the 1990s. It is therefore more important than ever to identify, beyond specific controversies, its deeper structure and the general pattern of evolution. Moreover, it has a logic of its own:... -
How To Raise an Antiracist: FROM THE GLOBAL MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £10.99£7.77A ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future - from the author of the million-copy global bestseller How To Be an Antiracist*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on... -
The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story by Ramzy Baroud 9780745337999
RRP: £16.99£13.80Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it. Ordinary Palestinians have... -
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach
RRP: £14.99£9.88Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants... -
Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts
RRP: £10.99£7.77Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from those created in the post-war era. Going beyond the scenes of desperation which have become all-too-familiar in... -
Transitional Justice Theories by Susanne Buckley-Zistel
RRP: £47.99£43.78Transitional Justice Theories is the first volume to approach the politically sensitive subject of post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice from a theoretical perspective. It combines contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners as well... -
The Rights of Man: or, What Are We Fighting For? by H.G. Wells 9781913724702
RRP: £5.99£5.00In 1940 the Second World War continued to rage, and atrocities wreaked around the globe made international waves. Wells, a socialist and prominent political thinker as well as a first-rate novelist, set down in The Rights of Man a stirring manifesto,...