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“michael j perry”

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  • The Idea of Human Rights

    Four Inquiries

    by Michael J. Perry ...
    Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation's leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to politics and law. He seeks, in this book, to disentangle the complex idea of human rights by way of four probing and interrelated essays. * The initial ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • A Global Political Morality

    Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism

    by Michael J. Perry ...
    In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly global morality in human history. Perry also pursues the implications of the morality of human rights ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States

    by Michael J. Perry ...
    In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what never before existed: a truly global morality. Some of that morality - the morality of human rights - has become entrenched in the constitutional law of the United States. This book explicates the morality of human rights and elaborates three internationally recognized human rights that are embedded in US constitutional ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy

    by Michael J. Perry ...
    In this important new work in political and constitutional theory, Michael J. Perry elaborates and defends an account of the political morality of liberal democracy: the moral convictions and commitments that in a liberal democracy should govern decisions about what laws to enact and what policies to pursue. The fundamental questions addressed in this book concern (1) the grounding, (2) the ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

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  • Adios, America

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    A National Bestseller!Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity," and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants—all ... Read more

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  • A People's History of the World

    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

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    Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes.An “indispensable volume” on class and capitalism throughout the ages—for readers reckoning with the history they were taught and history as it truly was (Howard Zinn)From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the ... Read more

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  • None of Us Were Like This Before

    American Soldiers and Torture

    by Joshua E.S. Phillips ...
    None of Us Were Like This Before recounts the dark journey of a tank battalion as its focus switched from conventional warfare to guerrilla war and prisoner detention. Phillips’s narrative reveals how a group of ordinary soldiers, ill trained for the responsibilities foisted upon them, descended into a cycle of degradation that led to the abuse of detainees. The book illustrates that the damaging ... Read more

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  • Free Speech

    Ten Principles for a Connected World

    by Timothy Garton Ash ...
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  • Unlikeable

    The Problem with Hillary

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  • The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

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  • Dismantling America

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