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“aaron rhodes”

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  • The Debasement of Human Rights

    How Politics Sabotage the Ideal of Freedom

    by Aaron Rhodes ...
    The idea of human rights began as a call for individual freedom from tyranny, yet today it is exploited to rationalize oppression and promote collectivism. How did this happen? Aaron Rhodes, recognized as “one of the leading human rights activists in the world” by the University of Chicago, reveals how an emancipatory ideal became so debased.Rhodes identifies the fundamental flaw in the Universal ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Weiwei-isms

    by Weiwei Ai ...
    Series series ISMs
    This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. A master at communicating powerful ideas in astonishingly few words, Ai Weiwei is known for his innovative use of social media to disseminate his views. The short quotations presented here have been carefully selected from articles, tweets, and interviews given by ... Read more

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  • Egypt in the Era of Hosni Mubarak

    by Galal Amin ...
    Galal Amin once again turns his attention to the shaping of Egyptian society and the Egyptian state in the half-century and more that has elapsed since the Nasserite revolution, this time focusing on the era of President Mubarak. He looks at corruption, poverty, the plight of the middle class, and of course, the economy, and directs his penetrating gaze toward the Mubarak regime's uneasy ... Read more

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  • The Battle of the Somme

    by Dr Jonathan Krause ...
    The Battle of the Somme is the most famous battle of World War I in the English-speaking world.Published to coincide with the centenary commemoration of the battle of the Somme, this study comprises 12 separate articles written by some of the foremost military historians, each of whom looks at a specific aspect of the battle.The terrors of the Somme have largely come to embody trench warfare on ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • The Eye of the Storm

    The View from the Centre of a Political Scandal

    by Rob Wilson ...
    MPs' expenses in 2009. Phone hacking in 2011. 'Plebgate' in 2012. If a good speech or a ground-breaking new policy fails to get people talking, you can be sure a juicy scandal will do the trick. Our instantaneous news culture of social networks, blogs and Twitter feeds means politicians now, more than ever, can find themselves the focus of every journalist in the country in what seems like the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsettling the Commons

    Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism

    by Craig Fortier ...
    Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for “the commons” within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons (ARP Books) interrogates a very important debate that took place within Occupy camps and is taking place in a multitude of movements in North America around what it means to claim “the commons” on stolen land. Travelling ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland

    by Brice Dickson ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968. Brice Dickson studies the effectiveness of the Convention in protecting human rights in a society wracked by terrorism and deep political conflict, detailing the numerous applications lodged at Strasbourg relating to the conflict and ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Forging a Convention for Crimes against Humanity

    Edited by Leila Nadya Sadat ...
    Crimes against humanity were one of the three categories of crimes elaborated in the Nuremberg Charter. However, unlike genocide and war crimes, they were never set out in a comprehensive international convention. This book represents an effort to complete the Nuremberg legacy by filling this gap. It contains a complete text of a proposed convention on crimes against humanity in English and in ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Egypt in Flux

    Essays on an Unfinished Revolution

    by Adel Iskandar ...
    No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist electoral victory to constitutional turmoil to societal polarization. Egypt's iconic revolution ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Psychology of War Rape

    Studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina

    by Inger Skjelsbæk ...
    Series series War, Politics and Experience
    This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding war rape and its impact, through empirical examination of the case of Bosnia.Providing a contextual understanding of sexual violence in war, and situating Bosnian war rape in relation to subsequent conflicts, the book offers a methodological outline of how sexual violence in war can be studied from a political-psychological perspective. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Just Words

    Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs

    by Joel Bakan ...
    Series series The Canada 150 Collection
    The Canadian Charter of Rights is composed of words that describe the foundations of a just society: equality, freedom, and democracy. These words of justice have inspired struggles for civil rights, self-determination, trade unionism, the right to vote, and social welfare. Why is it, then, that fifteen years after the entrenchment of the Charter, social injustice remains pervasive in Canada?Joel ... Read more

    $25.19 USD