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Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away by Keith Boykin 9781541703315
RRP: £25.00£15.55The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else entirely. They're all designed to... -
The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy by James Gustave Speth
RRP: £35.99£33.58The recognition is growing: truly addressing the problems of the 21st century requires going beyond small tweaks and modest reforms to business as usual-it requires "changing the system." But what does this mean? And what would it entail? The New Systems... -
New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph 9781946885142
RRP: £12.99£12.71Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization,... -
Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Erica Chenoweth
RRP: £12.99£9.09A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety... -
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex - Second Edition by Eric A. Stanley 9781849352345
RRP: £18.00£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352345Author Eric A. StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 558g -
The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear by Florian Grosset 9781912408672
RRP: £16.99£11.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408672Author Florian GrossetFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom by Joel Simon 9780999745427
RRP: £11.99£8.00A gripping exploration of the ethical, legal, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: Should governments pay ransom to terrorists? Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria-journalists and aid workers-began disappearing without... -
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice by Jack Donnelly 9780801477706
RRP: £25.99£22.04In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that... -
The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice by Dilar Dirik
RRP: £18.99£15.31'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha Walia The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle,... -
Honour Based Crimes and the Law: Defining the Limits of Honour Based Violence and Abuse by Mukaddes Gorar
RRP: £39.99£36.71Honour based violence and abuse manifests itself in different forms, and this book offers a comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon. This book argues that the limits of honour crimes must be defined more widely so that they include conducts and... -
May our People Triumph: Poem, Speeches & Interviews by Paul Daniel Aravinth 9781530766192
RRP: £14.95£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530766192Author Paul Daniel AravinthFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe by Michael Lowy 9781608464715
RRP: £14.99£11.66Ecosocialists believe that the prevention of an unprecedented ecological catastrophe and the preservation of a natural environment favourable to human life are incompatible with the expansive and destructive logic of the capitalist system. In... -
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response by Peter Balakian 9780060558703
RRP: £15.99£11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060558703Author Peter BalakianFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g -
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga 9781912854530
RRP: £9.99£7.11The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil,... -
Pinochet in Piccadilly by Andy Beckett
RRP: £10.99£7.77In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet was detained, intriguing questions went unanswered about... -
No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers by Katharine Quarmby 9781851689491
RRP: £14.99£11.28They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to make a better, safer life. They found places to... -
For the Good of the World: Is a Universal Ethics Possible? by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree... -
Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan by Sam Childers 9781595554246
RRP: £11.99£8.43A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered just because they were in the way.In Another Man's War, follow Sam Childer's remarkable transformation from violent thug to a man of faith, and his ongoing battle to... -
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial by Somdeep Sen
RRP: £24.99£21.23In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation... -
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 9780140432077
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and... -
Bad People: And How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson 9781785906640
RRP: £18.99£13.50From the Nuremberg trials to the arrest of General Pinochet to the prosecution of barbarians of the Balkans, we have crafted a global human rights law to punish crimes against humanity. And yet today it is rarely applied: the International Criminal Court... -
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse by Geoffrey Robertson
RRP: £9.99£7.11In The Case of the Pope Geoffrey Robertson QC delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the... -
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times 'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco Chronicle An electrifying memoir set in the... -
Humanity by Weiwei Ai 9780691181523
RRP: £10.99£8.45Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the... -
Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
RRP: £20.00£17.77In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth... -
Human Rights Law by Merris Amos
RRP: £54.99£49.36This textbook comprehensively examines and analyses the interpretation and application of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998. The third edition has been fully updated to include the last seven years of case law. Part I covers key procedural... -
21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach 9780874868395
RRP: £18.99£12.93Behind 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... -
Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality by Rahul Rao
RRP: £28.49£27.13Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights. The law attracted attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights by Leanne Weber 9780367581503
RRP: £43.99£41.24The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law... -
Dementia and Human Rights by Suzanne Cahill 9781447331407
RRP: £29.99£26.41The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinned policy and practice. Framing dementia as a disability, this book takes a rights-based approach to expand the debate. Applying a... -
Educating Refugee-background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts by Shawna Shapiro 9781783099962
RRP: £29.95£26.39This collection of empirical work offers an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds residing in North America, Australia and Europe. These studies foreground student goals, experiences and... -
Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim by Richard Falk
RRP: £25.00£22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762327Author Richard FalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom by Rahaf Mohammed
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Through her courageous resistance, she has, for a moment, drawn global attention to the ongoing struggle of Saudi women. The striking image of a young woman, wielding nothing but a cellphone, facing down the force of an oppressive government is an apt... -
The Nakba Ends in Gaza: Reimagining the Boundaries of Possibility by Jehad Abusalim
RRP: £48.00£32.28Imagining 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... -
From Syria with Love by Molly Masters 9781908041340
RRP: £10.00£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908041340Author Molly MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint IndieBooksPublisher IndieBooks -
Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past by Luke Moffett 9780192865588
RRP: £98.00£88.71War devastates the lives of those who are caught up in it. For thousands of years, reparations have been used to secure the end of war and alleviate its deleterious consequences. More recently, human rights law has established that victims have a right... -
The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to its Dissident Problem by Ethan Gutmann
£20.24The inside story of China's organtransplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark conclusion of... -
The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition by John Witte, Jr.
RRP: £30.99£22.85Leading legal scholar John Witte, Jr. explores the role religion played in the development of rights in the Western legal tradition and traces the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom norms in modern domestic and international law... -
The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong with Rights by Dominic Raab 9780007293391
RRP: £12.99£8.48An urgent and necessary polemic on the government's assault on our fundamental freedoms and the proliferation of Human Rights. From 42 days detention to ASBOs, as citizens of modern Britain we are seeing some of our fundamental freedoms being... -
Man Versus the State: With Six Essays on Government, Society, & Freedom by Herbert Spencer 9780913966983
RRP: £8.95£7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966983Author Herbert SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 905g