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  • The Path to Hope

    by Edgar Morin, Stephane Hessel ...
    An incisive political tract that calls for a return to humanist values: equality, liberty, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes “a path to hope,” leading the way out of the present worldwide malaise brought on by economic collapse, moral failure, and an ignorance of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Beyond Black Swans: Inhabiting Indeterminacy

    by Piero Dominici ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book describes the urgent need of modern humanity to renew and reinforce an open attitude to the complexity of life, above all by embracing its intrinsic indeterminacy, rather than attempting futilely to control its evolution. Oblivious to this ever-more urgent necessity, seduced by the speed and virality of digital pattern recognition, computing, and artificial simulation of human thought, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men confronts atrocity head-on—how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. James Dawes’s unflinchingly honest account, drawing on firsthand interviews, is not just about the things Japanese war criminals did, but about what it means to befriend them. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Beyond the White House

    Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    The president’s personal and passionate account of his twenty-five years in the service of humanitarian effort that won him the Nobel Peace Prize was received with the admiring respect of reviewers and readers and it will stand as the record of his brilliant post-presidential career.This is the story of President Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation’s ... Read more

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  • Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada

    by Courtney Anne Brewer, Michael McCabe ...
    Recent immigrants and refugees — both children and their families — often struggle to adapt to Canadian education systems. For their part, educators also face challenges when developing effective strategies to help these students make smooth transitions to their new country.Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada, researchers join educators and social workers to provide a thorough and wide ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Human Rights from Below

    Achieving Rights through Community Development

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • Decoding Chomsky

    Science and Revolutionary Politics

    by Chris Knight ...
    A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world’s most prominent political dissident. Chris Knight adopts an anthropologist’s perspective on the twin output of this ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Under Siege

    Religious Freedom and the Church in Canada at 150 (1867-2017)

    by Don Hutchinson ...
    Writing from the perspective of a student of life, history, law, politics, and theology, Don Hutchinson draws on all of these areas in Under Siege to offer perceptive insight into the Christian Church of today’s Canada. The reader will receive the benefit of his thirty years of church leadership, Christian witness, constitutional law, and public policy experience to gain a practical understanding ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism

    Theory and Practice

    by Stephen Gardbaum ...
    Series Book 5 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Stephen Gardbaum argues that recent bills of rights in Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia are an experiment in a new third way of organizing basic institutional arrangements in a democracy. This 'new Commonwealth model of constitutionalism' promises both an alternative to the conventional dichotomy of legislative versus judicial supremacy and innovative techniques for protecting ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • Humanity's Law

    by Ruti Teitel ...
    In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security. As she demonstrates, courts, tribunals, and other international bodies now rely on a humanity-based framework to assess the rights ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Courage of Strangers

    Coming of Age With the Human Rights Movement

    by Jeri Laber ...
    After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of countless others around the world.The Courage of Strangers tells how Laber became a founder and the executive director of Helsinki ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Human Rights Discourse in North Korea

    Post-Colonial, Marxist and Confucian Perspectives

    by Jiyoung Song ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    This unique book examines the conceptual development of human rights in North Korea from historical, political and cultural perspectives.Dr Jiyoung Song explains how North Korea has understood the concepts of human rights in its public documents since its independence from Japan in 1945. Through active campaigns and international criticism, foreign governments and non-governmental organisations ... Read more

    $77.99 USD