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  • Forced Marriage

    Introducing a Social Justice and Human Rights Perspective

    by Doctor Anja Bredal, Teertha Gupta, Doctor Samia Bano, Marzia Balzani, Sara Hossain, Geetanjali Gangoli, Ms Shazia Choudhry, Ann Singleton, Khantun Sapnara, Khatidja Chantler, Professor Marianne Hester ...
    Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law. Together the contributors provide an international, multi-disciplinary perspective that offers a compelling alternative to prevailing conceptualisations of the problem of forced marriage.The volume examines advances ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Reproach of Hunger

    Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century

    by David Rieff ...
    Hailed as “invaluable…a substantial work of political thought,” (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised.Can we provide enough food for nine billion people in 2050, especially the bottom poorest in the Global South? Some of the most ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Killing Wind

    A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution

    by Tan Hecheng, Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian ...
    Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts of so-called mass dictatorship and armed factional ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Fateful Triangle

    The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    "One of the definitive works on the Israeli Palestinian conflict" from the celebrated New York Times–bestselling author of Hopes and Prospects (Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! and author of Breaking the Sound Barrier).From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a unique position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky explores the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Free Speech: All That Matters

    by Alan Haworth ...
    Series series All That Matters
    What is free speech?; Why does it matter? These are pressing questions. In this book, Alan Haworth outlines and analyses the main arguments philosophers have advanced over the centuries, in an attempt to answer them clearly. He emphasises the strengths but also the weaknesses of those arguments, demonstrating that an understanding of both is essential if one is to to grasp the true nature and ... Read more

    $4.99 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

  • Israel and South Africa

    The Many Faces of Apartheid

    by Ronnie Kasrils, Doctor Oren Ben-Dor, Jonathan Cook, Leila Farsakh, Anthony Löwstedt, Amneh Badran, Steven Friedman, Virginia Q. Tilley, Ran Greenstein ...
    Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and political commentators, including former US president Jimmy Carter and UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, have argued that Israel's treatment of its Arab-Israeli citizens and the people of the occupied ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market

    by Ann Stewart ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Theories of gender justice in the twenty-first century must engage with global economic and social processes. Using concepts from economic analysis associated with global commodity chains and feminist ethics of care, Ann Stewart considers the way in which 'gender contracts' relating to work and care contribute to gender inequalities worldwide. She explores how economies in the global north ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Logics of Gender Justice

    State Action on Women's Rights Around the World

    by Mala Htun, S. Laurel Weldon ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
    When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and activate different sets of protagonists. Change on violence against women and workplace equality involves a logic of status politics: feminist ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Little Book of Revolution

    A Distributive Strategy for Democracy

    by David Akadjian, Maiez Mehdi ...
    The direction of change in the United States over the past 40-50 years has been decidedly in favor of wealthy individuals and corporate special-interest groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. These groups have influenced government to lower the cost of labor, to cut their contributions to our country, and to establish monopoly-like conditions for certain industries. For all practical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Human Rights Vs. Gay Rights

    Which Should We Promote?

    by David Kissi Omari ...
    Indeed we have a responsibility to educate others on their human rights and freedoms as well as respect them. We can only do this when we first educate ourselves on the subject so we can teach others. In this book, the author does a fine job by helping us learn the thirty human rights of all mankind and the need to respect them. In fact, the book makes us to understand that we are all entitled to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Twisting Title IX

    by Robert L. Shibley ...
    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    This is the story of how Title IX, a 1972 law intended to ban sex discrimination in education, became a monster that both the federal government and many college administrators treat as though it supersedes both the U.S. Constitution and hundreds of years of common law. It's a story about the victims of this law-men and women both-and of the unaccountable government bureaucrats at the Departments ... Read more

    $5.39 USD