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Hope is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror by Halina Birenbaum 9781563247477
RRP: $49.01$43.06This 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,... -
Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech by Ronan Lee 9780755602476
RRP: $29.66$25.94The 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: $12.89$8.71From 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... -
The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf by Abdullah Hamidaddin
RRP: $29.66$24.36The 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: $36.12$27.55Why 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... -
War and Genocide in South Sudan by Clémence Pinaud
RRP: $25.79$22.15Using 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... -
The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics by Benjamin Abrams
RRP: $30.96$29.71An 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: $25.79$21.80Drawing 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... -
Blackstone's International Human Rights Documents by Alison Bisset 9780192858535
$20.16Unsurpassed 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... -
Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away by Keith Boykin 9781541703315
RRP: $32.25$21.13The 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... -
International Human Rights by Philip Alston
RRP: $79.97$76.60International Human Rights is the definitive work on the subject area providing its reader with a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. A successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context, this book is... -
The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy by James Gustave Speth
RRP: $46.43$41.40The 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: $16.76$16.40Society 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: $16.76$11.73A 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: $23.22$15.66Apologies 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: $21.92$14.23Apologies 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 -
When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America by Kevin F. Adler 9781623178840
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623178840Author Kevin F. AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom by Joel Simon 9780999745427
RRP: $15.47$10.32A 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: $33.53$28.43In 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 Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities by Jessie Hohmann
$116.46A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the right to housing raises housing itself to the... -
The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice by Dilar Dirik
RRP: $24.50$16.45'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,... -
May our People Triumph: Poem, Speeches & Interviews by Paul Daniel Aravinth 9781530766192
RRP: $19.29$15.93Apologies 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... -
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification by Jeff Halper 9780745334301
RRP: $25.79$17.22* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016* Modern warfare has a new form. The days of international combat are fading. So how do major world powers maintain control over their people today? This book is a disturbing insight into the new ways... -
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe by Michael Lowy 9781608464715
RRP: $19.34$15.04Ecosocialists 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: $20.63$15.02Apologies 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 -
Human Rights and Populism by Jolyon Ford 9781032317540
RRP: $49.01$43.06For 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... -
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga 9781912854530
RRP: $12.89$9.17The 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: $14.18$10.02In 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: $19.34$14.13They 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: $21.92$15.84'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: $15.47$10.87A 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: $32.24$27.39In 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: $12.89$9.17'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: $24.50$17.42From 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: $12.89$9.17In 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: $14.18$10.02'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... -
Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide by Kevin Bales 9781851688159
RRP: $12.89$8.27Written by the world's leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises... -
Humanity by Weiwei Ai 9780691181523
RRP: $14.18$10.90Writings 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: $25.80$21.90In 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: $70.94$63.67This 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...