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Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State by Jonathan Cook 9780745325552
RRP: £26.99£21.36This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians become a majority. The book charts Israel's increasingly... -
A Testament of Hope by Martin Luther King 9780060646912
RRP: £29.99£19.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060646912Author Martin Luther King Jr.Page Count 736Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 951gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm... -
Habeas Corpus: A Very Short Introduction by Amanda Tyler
RRP: £8.99£6.45Legal scholar Amanda L. Tyler discusses the history and future of habeas corpus in America and around the world. The concept of habeas corpus--literally, to receive and hold the body--empowers courts to protect the right of prisoners to know the... -
Hope is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror by Halina Birenbaum 9781563247477
RRP: £37.99£34.94This book is an important work in Holocaust literature and was originally published in Poland in 1967. Covering the years 1939-1945, it is the author's account of her experience growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her eventual deportation to,... -
Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System by Jaber Baker 9780755650200
RRP: £25.00£18.49An estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out. Syrians can be arrested for liking a post on Facebook or for the political activities of a distant relative. They are imprisoned without trial, and... -
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 by Gunnar Myrdal
RRP: £49.99£46.55In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, 'An American... -
Voices from the 'Jungle': Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp by Calais Writers
RRP: £18.99£15.31Often called the 'Jungle', the refugee camp near Calais in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty and violence which characterises the situation of refugees in Europe today. But the media soundbites we hear ignore the voices of... -
The New Heretics: Understanding the Conspiracy Theories Polarizing the World by Andy Thomas
RRP: £14.99£9.50Through their part in some huge controversies, conspiracy theorists are being branded the Number One Enemies of our times - the new heretics. They are seen to threaten the very fabric of modern society, spreading doubts and fears that result in... -
Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East by David Hirst 9780571237425
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Beware of Small States' wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. He could have meant Lebanon: a sectarian state no bigger than Wales that has become battleground for one of the defining conflicts of twentieth-century history. Throughout its short existence, it... -
The Inevitable: Stories of Choosing The End by Katie Engelhart
RRP: £15.99£11.35BOOK OF THE YEAR IN SPECTATOR AND TIMES'Fascinating.... Deeply disturbing... Brilliant' Sunday Times'Powerful and moving.' Louis TherouxMeet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? And by... -
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe by Antony Loewenstein
RRP: £23.99£14.65Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers... -
Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution by Lucy Series
RRP: £24.99£21.56ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a... -
Abolition Democracy - Open Media Series: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: £10.99£7.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226957Author Angela Y DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 126g -
Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic by Shatema Threadcraft 9780190251635
RRP: £45.99£41.74In 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie Lee Relf and her fourteen-year-old sister Mary Alice, the daughters of black Alabama farm hands, had been sterilized... -
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo 9780063140189
RRP: £22.00£14.98NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You... -
The Invisible Crowd by Ellen Wiles
RRP: £13.99£9.75'A fierce, big-hearted novel.' Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air'Pushes us to find our kinder selves.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You'A wonderful book.' Maurice Wren, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council ... -
Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh 9781416569664
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416569664Author Raja ShehadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)... -
Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice by Maureen Linker 9780472052622
RRP: £26.95£21.81Intellectual Empathy provides a step-by-step method for facilitating discussions of socially divisive issues. Maureen Linker, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, developed Intellectual Empathy after more than a decade of... -
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
RRP: £13.99£9.26The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school... -
Are You With Me?: Kevin Boyle and the Rise of The Human Rights Movement by Mike Chinoy
RRP: £18.00£15.28Kevin Boyle (1943-2010) was one of the world's great human rights lawyers. In a career that lasted decades and spanned continents, he tackled issues ranging from freedom of the press to terrorism to minority rights. This compelling account of Kevin... -
The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence by Gary A. Haugen
RRP: £14.99£10.95A Washington Post bestseller While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence. Beneath the... -
My Sister's Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin's Siberia by Donna Solecka Urbikas 9780299308544
RRP: £19.95£15.11In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the American Midwest yearning for a ""normal"" American family. But during World War II, her Polish-born mother and half sister had endured hunger, disease, and desperate escape from slave labor... -
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter ... -
Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations by Tuba Inal
RRP: £25.99£22.04Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of nearly a hundred years between those early prohibitions of... -
Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong
RRP: £30.00£25.58On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds... -
Universal Basic Income by Karl Widerquist 9780262546898
RRP: £15.99£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546898Author Karl WiderquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Democracy Hacked: How Technology is Destabilising Global Politics by Martin Moore
RRP: £9.99£7.11Technology has fractured democracy, and now there's no going back. All around the world, the fringes have stormed the palace of the elites and unleashed data miners, dark ads and bots on an unwitting public. After years of soundbites about connecting... -
The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo de Witte 9781859844106
RRP: £18.99£16.10Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered on 17 January 1961.Democratically elected to lead the Mouvement National Congolais, the party he founded in 1958, Lumumba was at the centre of the... -
Making Sense of Human Rights by James W. Nickel
RRP: £27.95£25.40This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel's classic study explains and defends the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining philosophical, legal and political approaches, Nickel explains international human rights law and... -
Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth by Ian Mortimer
RRP: £14.99£10.95We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition.Sweeping through the last thousand years of... -
Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech by Ronan Lee 9780755602476
RRP: £22.99£20.11The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial killings on an enormous scale. This unique study draws on... -
On Property by Rinaldo Walcott
RRP: £9.99£6.75From 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... -
Human Rights and Populism by Jolyon Ford 9781032317540
RRP: £37.99£34.94For decades, framing an issue as a 'human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces. Ford explores the recent impact of populist... -
The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf by Abdullah Hamidaddin
RRP: £22.99£18.88The Huthi rebels in Yemen are a resistance movement going back decades. Their coup against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2015 - and the subsequent Yemeni civil war and the intervention of the Arab coalition in support of Hadi - has brought... -
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo by Jason K. Stearns
RRP: £28.00£21.36Why 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... -
Fenwick on Civil Liberties & Human Rights by Helen Fenwick 9781138837935
RRP: £58.99£55.91More than merely describing the evolution of human rights and civil liberties law, this classic textbook provides students with detailed and thought-provoking coverage of the most crucial developments in the field, clearly explaining the law in context... -
War and Genocide in South Sudan by Clémence Pinaud
RRP: £19.99£17.17Using more than a decade's worth of fieldwork in South Sudan, Clemence Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth accumulation, state formation, and a form of racism-extreme ethnic group entitlement-that has the potential to result in... -
Blackstone's International Human Rights Documents by Alison Bisset 9780192858535
£18.44Unsurpassed in authority, reliability and accuracy; Blackstone's Statutes, trusted by students for over 30 years. Celebrating over 30 years as the market-leading series, Blackstone's Statutes have an unrivalled tradition of trust and quality. With a... -
The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics by Benjamin Abrams
£24.12An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna... -
The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Jessica Whyte
RRP: £19.99£16.90Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second World...