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  • Charles H. Houston

    An Interdisciplinary Study of Civil Rights Leadership

    by Derek W. Black, John Brittain, Malachi Crawford, Katherine Bankole Medina, Julius E. Thompson, L. Darnell Weeden, Professor Lewis R. Gordon, Christel N. Temple, Cary D. Wintz ...
    This study seeks to examine the life and work of Charles Hamilton Houston and the scope of this project will focus on the implementation and organization of the proposed plan in three ways: philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of this legal scholar activist. When compiling scholarly articles for this volume, the challenge was examining not just legal precedents ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Benchmarks Sourcebook: Four Decades of Related Research

    by Jean Brittain Leslie, Michael John Peterson, John W. Fleenor ...
    Benchmarks, a 360-degree assessment, has been used by approximately 21,000 organizations and over 265,500 managers. Data collected through its administration have resulted in large comprehensive databases that have provided the basis for numerous studies. These annotations on published research were written for anyone who is interested in the research leading to the development and refinement of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shadow Lives

    The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror

    by Victoria Brittain, Marina Warner ...
    Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the '9/11 wars': their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria Brittain shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the 'War on Terror'.A disturbing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Châhkâpâs

    A Naskapi Legend

    by John Peastitute, Bill Jancewicz ...
    Translated by Julie Brittain, Silas Nabinicaboo ...
    Series series First Nation Language Readers
    Châhkâpâs: A Naskapi Legend shares the story of Châhkâpâs, a heroic figure in First Nations storytelling, who performs feats of strength and skill in spite of his diminutive size.The book shares this traditional legend as originally recorded in the Naskapi community in northern Quebec in 1967 when it was narrated by John Peastitute, a Naskapi Elder and accomplished storyteller. Transcribed in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Human Rights

    The Quest for Dignity

    by Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe ...
    Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • They Can't Kill Us All

    Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

    by Wesley Lowery ...
    A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change

    by Bronwyn Leebaw ...
    How should state-sponsored atrocities be judged and remembered? This controversial question animates contemporary debates on transitional justice and reconciliation. This book reconsiders the legacies of two institutions that transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice. Whereas the Nuremberg Trials exemplified the promise of legalism and international criminal justice, South Africa ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, and social theory, Disposable Youth explores the current conditions of young ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Justice Belied

    The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice

    by Sébastien Chartrand, John Philpot ...
    For the first time in a book, defence counsel, investigators, journalists, and academics pool their knowledge and experience to answer the burning questions. What has happened to the fundamental principles of the sovereign equality of nations and the right of self-determination? Why do international criminal tribunals target Africa? How has international criminal justice affected the lives of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Access to Asylum

    International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control

    by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen ...
    Series Book 77 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced to private actors. Under threat of financial penalties airlines today reject any passenger not in possession of a valid visa, and private contractors are used to run detention centres and man border ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • We Gon' Be Alright

    Notes on Race and Resegregation

    by Jeff Chang ...
    A provocative and timely collection of essays from a celebrated cultural critic on race, diversity, and resegregation."The Smartest Book of the Year" ( The Washington Post)In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang ( Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda

    Justice without Lawyers

    by Phil Clark ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Since 2001, the Gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda's justice and reconciliation programme. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, principally by providing eyewitness testimony concerning genocide crimes. Lawyers are banned from any official involvement, an issue that has generated sustained criticism from human rights organisations and international ... Read more

    $43.99 USD