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  • Born at the Right Time

    A memoir

    by Ron McCallum ...
    Blind since birth, Ron regards himself as fortunate to have been born at a time when ever improving technology has enabled him to live a rich and full life, and to become a professor of law at one of Australia's most prestigious universities.Ron McCallum has been blind from birth. When he was a child, many blind people spent their lives making baskets in sheltered workshops, but Ron's mother had ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities

    Forgotten and Invisible?

    by Mary Crock, Laura Smith-Khan, Ron McCallum, Ben Saul ...
    Series series Elgar Studies in Human Rights
    Refugees living with disabilities are often forgotten or invisible during acute crises of human displacement. This groundbreaking work examines the experiences of persons with disabilities who have crossed borders in search of protection from disasters or conflict, and analyses the existing legal frameworks for their protection.The authors deftly explore the intersection between one of the oldest ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Thomas Paine on Liberty

    Common Sense and Other Writings

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Thomas Paine is most famous for writing Common Sense, a pamphlet distributed during the American Revolution advocating for colonial America’s independence from Great Britain. Now, collected here in a beautiful gift book volume are excerpts from this important historical American document, as well as several of his other writings.Paine believed in more than just freedom in the form of revolution ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Ben Franklin's Web Site

    by Robert Ellis Smith ...
    This engaging book explores the hidden niches of American history to discover the tug between Americans' yearning for privacy and their insatiable curiosity. It includes histories of wiretapping, credit reporting, sexual practices, Social Security numbers and ID cards, modern principles of privacy protection, and the coming of the Internet and the new challenges to personal privacy it brings. ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom of Speech

    Mightier Than the Sword

    by David K. Shipler ...
    A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in AmericaWith his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical American ideal: freedom of speech. Anchored in personal stories—sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Academic Freedom and the Law

    A Comparative Study

    by Professor Eric Barendt ...
    Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study provides a critical analysis of the law relating to academic freedom in three major jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. Thebook outlines the various claims which may be made to academic freedom by individual university teachers and by universities and other higher education institutions, and it examines the ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

    A Life in the Balance

    by Amnesty International ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the murder of white police officer ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Arrest Handbook

    A Guide To Your Rights

    by David Eby ...
    The Arrest Handbook is a guide to your rights and responsibilities when you deal with the police. Arrest, detention, searches, seizures and complaints are all covered in easy-to-understand language. Also included are special sections on mental health detentions, civil disobedience and protest, poverty law and anti-terrorist law. ... Read more

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  • Conscience and Conviction

    The Case for Civil Disobedience

    by Kimberley Brownlee ...
    Series series Oxford Legal Philosophy
    The book shows that civil disobedience is generally more defensible than private conscientious objection. Part I explores the morality of conviction and conscience. Each of these concepts informs a distinct argument for civil disobedience. The conviction argument begins with the communicative principle of conscientiousness (CPC). According to the CPC, having a conscientious moral conviction means ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Beauty Bias

    The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law

    by Deborah L. Rhode ...
    "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Toxic Diversity

    Race, Gender, and Law Talk in America

    by Dan Subotnik ...
    Toxic Diversity offers an invigorating view of race, gender, and law in America. Analyzing the work of preeminent legal scholars such as Patricia Williams, Derrick Bell, Lani Guinier, and Richard Delgado, Dan Subotnik argues that race and gender theorists poison our social and intellectual environment by almost deliberately misinterpreting racial interaction and data and turning white males into ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights

    by Christopher N. J. Roberts ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Today, the idea of human rights enjoys near-universal support; yet, there is deep disagreement about what human rights actually are - their true source of origin, how to study them, and how best to address their deficits. In this sweeping historical exploration, Christopher N. J. Roberts traces these contemporary conflicts back to their moments of inception and shows how more than a half century ... Read more

    $31.99 USD