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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power  
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Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
by Lois Gordon Publisher Comments Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an American beauty, Cunard abandoned the life of a celebrated socialite and Jazz Age icon to pursue a...
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.)
by Samantha Power Publisher Comments In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power—a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—asks the haunting question: Why do...
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Inventing Human Rights (07 Edition)
by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments "A tour de force."—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary...
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Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
by Philippe Sands Publisher Comments On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation--techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo...
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Torture and Democracy
by Darius Rejali Publisher Comments This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from...
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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The System in Practice, 1986-2000
by Malcolm D Evans Publisher Comments The African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights came into force in 1986, and is in many ways unique, lacking as it does a precedent elsewhere. However, little scholarship exists analysing it as an operational system in practice. Collaborators to this...
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Torture: A Human Rights Perspective
by Kenneth Roth Synopsis This expose contains a selection of essays that address specific topics regarding torture in today's world, from whether torture is ever justified to domestic torture within American prisons to the victim's perspective....
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Local Action/Global Change: A Handbook on Women's Rights
by Ja Mertus Publisher Comments This handbook on women's human rights is an integrated set of fourteen teaching and learning units. Together, they are designed to identify key issues in women's human rights, define concepts, outline different methodologies for achieving women's human...
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A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity
by Jan Egeland Publisher Comments Called "the world's conscience" and one of the 100 most influential people of our time by Time magazine, Jan Egeland has been the public face of the United Nations. As Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, he was in charge of the Office for...
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Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War
by Tara Mckelvey Publisher Comments In April 2004, the Abu Ghraib photographs set off an international scandal. Yet until this book, the full story behind that scandal has never been told. Tara McKelvey-the first U.S. journalist to speak with female prisoners from Abu Ghraib-traveled to...
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Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
by Thom Hartmann
Publisher Comments Was the Boston Tea Party the first WTO-style protest against transnational corporations? Did Supreme Court sell out America's citizens in the nineteenth century, with consequences lasting to this day? Is there a way for American citizens to recover...
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A Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
by E Benjamin Skinner Publisher Comments To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard....
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Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
by Jack Donnelly
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Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--And How We Can Fight It
by David Batstone Publisher Comments Award–winning journalist David Batstone reveals the story of a new generation of 21st century abolitionists and their heroic campaign to put an end to human bondage. In his accessible and inspiring book, Batstone carefully weaves the narratives of...
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Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
by Ben Kiernan Publisher Comments For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed...
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Not on Our Watch (07 Edition)
by Cheadle Synopsis Shocked and enraged by the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Cheadle teamed up with leading activist Prendergast to focus the world's attention on the suffering and violence there and offer six strategies readers themselves can implement to help make a...
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A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
by David Rieff Publisher Comments Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Drawing on firsthand reporting from war zones around the world, David Rieff shows us...
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Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
by Murat Kurnaz Publisher Comments In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. forces....
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The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s
by Sadako Ogata Publisher Comments SADAKO OGATA recounts her experiences, and the lessons she learned, as UN high commissioner for refugees during the 1990s. A tireless advocate for the victims of war, Ogata tells the on-the-ground story of four crises in which she directed relief: Iraq...
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