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  • Indefensible

    Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

    by Paul Holden ...
    Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy. Not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, support it for these reasons.Indefensible puts forward a devastating challenge to this conventional wisdom, which has normalised the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Small Arms, Crime and Conflict

    Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence

    Edited by Owen Greene, Nic Marsh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book focuses on the use of small arms in violence and attempts by the state to govern the use and acquisition of these weapons.It is likely that hundreds of thousands of people are killed every year as a result of armed violence – in contexts ranging from war zones to domestic violence. This edited volume examines why these deaths occur, the role of guns and other weapons, and how governance ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World

    by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller ...
    An urgent and accessible handbook for peaceful protesters, activists, and community organizers—anyone trying to defend their rights, hold their government accountable, or change the worldBlueprint for Revolution will teach you how to• make oppression backfire by playing your opponents’ strongest card against them• identify the “almighty pillars of power” in order to shift the balance of control• ... Read more

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  • The Nonviolence Handbook

    A Guide for Practical Action

    by Michael N. Nagler Ph.D. ...
    “Nonviolence is not the recourse of the weak but actually calls for an uncommon kind of strength; it is not a refraining from something but the engaging of a positive force,” renowned peace activist Michael Nagler writes. Here he offers a step-by-step guide to creatively using nonviolence to confront any problem and to build change movements capable of restructuring the very bedrock of society. ... Read more

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

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  • How the World Works

    by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    An eye-opening introduction to the timelessly relevant ideas of Noam Chomsky, "arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times), this book is a penetrating, illusion-shattering look at how things really workOffering something not found anywhere else, How the World Works is pure Chomsky, but tailored for those who are new to his work. The book is made up of meticulously edited ... Read more

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  • The Shadow World

    Inside the Global Arms Trade

    by Andrew Feinstein ...
    The Shadow World presents the behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, exposing in forensic detail the deadly collusion that too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military--a situation that compromises our security and undermines our democracy.Now a major PBS documentary"An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, ... Read more

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  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

    The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

    by Omar Barghouti ...
    As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.Thirty years ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated ... Read more

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  • The New Cold War

    How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West

    by Edward Lucas ...
    Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis______________________________________'An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' - Sunday Times'Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Lucas's outstanding book' - Micha... ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Compensation to Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace

    Edited by Rex Brynen, Roula El-Rifai ...
    One of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced by the establishment of Israel.The Nakba saw the displacement of 85% of the Palestinian Arab population and the descendants of these displaced peoples numbers almost 5 million. Despite the gravity of the situation and the importance of restorative justice, ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security

    Edited by Simon Rushton, Jeremy Youde ...
    This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security.Over the past decade, the study of global health and its interconnection with security has become a prominent and rapidly growing field of research. Ongoing debates question whether health and security should be linked; which (if any) health issues should be treated as security threats; ... Read more

    $72.99 USD