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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “rory cox”
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  • Contesting Torture

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Rory Cox, Faye Donnelly, Anthony Lang Jr. ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality, torture continues to be widely employed and misrepresented.The resurgence of torture and public justifications of it led to the central questions that this inter-disciplinary volume seeks to address: How is it possible for torture to be practiced when it is legally prohibited? What ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Origins of the Just War

    Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East

    by Rory Cox ...
    A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.In this ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Hundred Years War Revisited

    by Adrian Bell, Laura Crombie, Craig Lambert, Tony Moore, Graeme Small, Craig Taylor, Andrew Ayton, Gary Baker, Rory Cox, Andy King, Gwilym Dodd ...
    Series series Problems in Focus
    The conflict between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries never ceases to fascinate. This stimulating edited collection, inspired by the Problems in Focus volume originally published in 1971, provides a fresh and accessible insight into the key aspects of The Hundred Years War. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, based on new methodologies and recent advances in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Human Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, brings the issue of human rights up to date, considering the current controversies ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • David and Solomon

    In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition

    by Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman ...
    The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible -- and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, who revealed what we now know about when and why the Bible was first written in The Bible Unearthed. Now, with David and Solomon, they do nothing less than help us to understand the sacred ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Mesopotamia

    The Invention of the City

    by Gwendolyn Leick ...
    Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This is the first book to reveal how life was lived in ten Mesopotamian cities: from Eridu, the Mesopotamian Eden, to that potent symbol of decadence, Babylon - the ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Oxford History of the Biblical World

    Edited by Michael D. Coogan ...
    In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible. For more than a century, archaeologists have been unearthing the tombs, temples, texts, and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. Using new approaches, contemporary ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Torture

    A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights

    by Lisa Hajjar ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Torture is indisputably abhorrent. Why, you might ask, would you even want to think or read about torture? That is a very good question, and one this book addresses in a compelling and enlightening way. Torture is a very important issue, not least because millions of people around the world have been subjected to this odious practice—and many are enduring torture right now as you read these words. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Ancient Assyria

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Karen Radner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of Assyria from city state to empire, from the early 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 7th century BC. Since the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria in the mid-19th century, its cities have been excavated extensively in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Israel, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Truth about Crime

    Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

    by Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Categorically Incorrect

    Ethical Fallacies in Canada's War on Terror

    by A. Alan Borovoy ...
    If humanity has learned anything from the horrors of the war against terror, it is that our one hope is democracy. The final goal of our country’s actions at home and abroad is the preservation of democracy. This is the lens through which our policies should be discerned, dissected, and amended.Borovoy argues that Canada has pursued an ethically cockeyed war against terror. We have been needlessly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Babylonian World

    Edited by Gwendolyn Leick ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD