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The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East
The essential resource on the continuing conflict in the Middle East, newly revised and updated Now in its eighth edition, a essential resource on the more than century-old conflict in...
Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to
An evaluation of the racial policies of 42 American presidents. This book argues that American presidents have used their power of office to impede racial equality. It shows how many...
From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can
The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty, inequality and the threat of environmental collapse; as the fight against slavery or for universal suffrage...
Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for
What transformed moral citizens into guillotine cannibals during the French Revolution and the Great Reign of Terror? The answer, argues Eli Sagan, is the same force that has killed millions...
Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to
The book titled Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to by the author Fitzpatri David. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Cheng Lei: The extraordinary memoir of surviving China's secret
The extraordinary true story of journalist Cheng Lei whose life was abruptly transformed when she was detained in China on false charges of espionage. Journalist Cheng Lei spent more than...
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS , THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet...
Joint Investigation Teams in the European Union: From Theory to
Joint Investigation Teams have been adopted in several EU as well as non-EU documents as a new instrument to facilitate mutual legal assistance. This book provides professionals dealing with criminal...
Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality Since 1950
BODY COUNT exposes the horrendous extent of the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust that has totaled about 1.3 billion since 1950. Peace is the only way, but silence kills and silence...
A Tiger Rules the Mountain: Cambodia's Pursuit of Democracy
Cambodia's Hun Sen is the world's longest-serving prime minister, in power since 1985. In 2013, Sen's rule came under threat when the exiled opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, unexpectedly returned just...
My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Read the life story of the leader of the women's suffrage movement in an abridged, digestible form. Vintage Feminism- classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS...
For The People: Fighting Authoritarianism, Saving Democracy
Author: A. C. Grayling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Around the world the foundations of democracy, freedom, civil liberties are being eroded - what can be done? Are we...
Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
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Why do we sometimes let evil happen to others and sometimes rally to stop it? Whose lives matter to us? These are the key questions posed in this important and...
Moscow Underground
'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Remarkable ... If only all first novels were as enthralling as this'...
Every Deep-Drawn Breath: an intensive-care doctor's notes on healing
A world-renowned critical-care doctor offers hope for patients, their families, and the future of medicine in this timely, urgent, and compassionate work about the devastating and little-known physical and emotional...
Borderline: Frontiers of Peace
Borders within Europe are far from absolute. They have been blurring steadily ever since the Schengen agreements of 1985. Twenty-six countries with a total border diameter of 16,500 kilometres can...
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future
A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises. Our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On...
Letter from Birmingham Jail
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. With an afterword by Reginald Dwayne Betts...
Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia
Why are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia...
The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. As a result he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep...
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to
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'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England's elite...
Higher Than Hope: Biography of Nelson Mandela
The book titled Higher Than Hope: Biography of Nelson Mandela by the author Fatima Meer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela
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The book titled Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela by the author Fatima Meer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Right-Wing Women
An iconic study of why women turn to right-wing politics - exploring questions of abortion, homosexuality, work and family, and more 'Feminism is hated because women are hated' Why do...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation-the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. F rom the bestselling...
The 'Call Yourself British?' Quiz Book: Could You Pass the UK
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Find out just how British you jolly well are: 500 multiple choice questions based on the Home Office Citizenship test Can you beat the 51% of British 18- to 24-year-olds...
Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in
Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking...
The Cigarette Papers
Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes-these are some of the most recent episodes in...
The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War
Her comments turned Charlie Rose red in the face. Bill Clinton called her 'hostile, combative, and even disrespectful.' Newt Gingrich said to her, 'You're the kind of reporter I warned...
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
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From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you...
Aboriginal Frontiers And Boundaries In Australia
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In four detailed case studies, two political geographers explore the nature of Aboriginal boundaries and their contemporary implications. Before the coming of Europeans, Aboriginal communities lived within territories defined by...
Nelson Mandela: A Biography
Sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island for his part in organizing armed rebellion against South Africa's white rulers, Nelson Mandela stayed faithful to his goal of a peaceful, non-racial...
Rights of Man
One of the great classics on democracy,Rights of Manwas published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government....
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as...
Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition
What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological...
Dancing with Angels: The Life Story of Stephen Than, Archbishop of
Stephen Than Myint Oo has been to prison, suffered torture and released without conviction. The shadow of his prison record followed him for years, even while studying theology. But his...
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital
Previously published as Naked Diplomacy . Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is...
A Whale Hunt: The Remarkable Story of a Tribe's Quest to Regain Its
When the Makah tribe of Washington state in the USA decided they wanted to reclaim their right to hunt whales, using their traditional methods they created a storm of debate....
The Rainbow People of God: South Africa's Victory Over Apartheid
Through a collection of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's speeches, letters, sermons and off-the-cuff remarks, this book sketches the story of South Africa from 1976, when apartheid oppression was at its peak,...
Human Rights: The Case for the Defence
A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedoms Our human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller now published in the UK for the first time Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of...
Human Rights: Concept and Context
Winner: 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award What are human rights? What justifies us in believing we have them? What are rights-holders and duty-bearers? Who should bear the costs and...
Minority Rights in the Pacific Region: A Comparative Legal Analysis
Countries in the Pacific face unique challenges of survival and progress in establishing themselves and participating fully in international society. Their geographic isolation from the rest of global society is...
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
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A major reappraisal, by the Nobel prize-winning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind...
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and...
Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama
White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen was locked in a secure room and given access to the most sensitive intelligence when he was tasked to write President George W. Bush's 2006...