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  • In Search of A Better World

    A Human Rights Odyssey

    de Payam Akhavan, PhD ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Yugoslavia, the Former and Future

    Reflections by Scholars from the Region

    Edición de Payam Akhavan, Robert Howse ...
    This book contains a unique collection of essays written by scholars from the former Yugoslavia, exploring the events that led to the devastating disintegration of their homeland. The scholars, who are from the different ethnic groups now in conflict, provide insightful, multicultural perspectives on the crisis.The essays lead readers to reconsider the assumptions behind the predominant western ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Civil Society and Democracy in Iran

    de Payam Akhavan, Sohrab Behdad, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Yousefi Eshkevari, Akbar Ganji, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Amin Reza Koohestani, Mojtaba Mahdavi, Omid Memarian, Haideh Moghissi, Farhad Nomani, Saeed Rahnema, Shadi Sadr, Victoria Tahmasebi, Peyman Vahabzadeh, Nader Hashemi, Farzin Vahdat ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    In this timely, informative edited volume, major Iranian scholars and civic actors address some of the most pressing questions about Iranian civil society and the process of democratization in Iran. They describe the role of Iranian civil society in the process of transition to democracy in Iran and offer insight about the enduring legacy of previous social and political movements—starting with ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Confronting Genocide

    Edición de René Provost, Payam Akhavan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    “Never again” stands as one the central pledges of the international community following the end of the Second World War, upon full realization of the massive scale of the Nazi extermination programme. Genocide stands as an intolerable assault on a sense of common humanity embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other fundamental international instruments, including the ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Reducing Genocide to Law

    Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime

    de Payam Akhavan ...
    Series Libro 87 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Could the prevailing view that genocide is the ultimate crime be wrong? Is it possible that it is actually on an equal footing with war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is the power of the word genocide derived from something other than jurisprudence? And why should a hierarchical abstraction assume such importance in conferring meaning on suffering and injustice? Could reducing a reality that ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Return of History

    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

    de Jennifer Welsh ...
    Series Libro 2016 - The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History, ... Leer más

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  • A World of Three Zeros

    The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

    de Muhammad Yunus ...
    From Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, a vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planetMuhammad Yunus is one of the modern world’s most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he declare it’s time to admit that the capitalist engine has failed most people – that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Canada

    Seventh Edition

    de Desmond Morton ...
    Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of Canada’s most noted and highly respected historians, shows how the choices we can make at the dawn of the 21st century have been shaped by history.Morton ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Boiling Point

    Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

    de Maude Barlow ...
    Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for CanadiansWe are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water — water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada’s water reserves, including long-outdated water ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • History's People

    Personalities and the Past

    de Margaret MacMillan ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Part of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Economix

    How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures

    de Michael Goodwin ...
    Economix is an essential and accessible guide to understanding the economy and economic practices. This New York Times bestseller is a must-read for every citizen and every voter.With clear, witty writing and quirky, accessible art, this important and timely graphic novel transforms “the dismal science” of economics into a fun, fact-filled story about human nature and our attempts to make the most ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Oligarchs

    Wealth And Power In The New Russia

    de David E Hoffman ...
    In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men- Alexander Smolensky, Yuri Luzhkov, Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky, and Vladimir Gusinsky-Hoffman shows how a ... Leer más

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