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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage) by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Staff Pick In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Staff Pick In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments From the award-winning author of The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposandeacute; of brutal repression in India In her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet by Jonathan Green Publisher Comments On September 30, 2006, gunfire echoed through thin air on Cho Oyu Mountain. Climbers preparing to summit watched in horror as Chinese guards fired at a group of Tibetans en route to India, executing Kelsang Namtso — a seventeen-year-old Tibetan nun... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran by Nasser (edt) Weddady Publisher Comments From a gay man secretly mourning his lovers suicide in Morocco to a young woman denied schooling because of religious discrimination in Iran, Arab Spring Dreams spotlights some of the Middle Easts most outspoken young dissidents. The essayists cover a... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Arab Spring Dreams: The next Generation Speaks out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran by Nasser Weddady Publisher Comments From a gay man secretly mourning his lover's suicide in Morocco to a young woman denied schooling because of religious discrimination in Iran, Arab Spring Dreams spotlights some of the Middle East's most outspoken young dissidents. The essayists cover a... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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War on Human Trafficking (07 Edition) by Anthony M. Destefano Publisher Comments The United States has taken the lead in efforts to end international human trafficking-the movement of peoples from one country to another, usually involving fraud, for the purpose of exploiting their labor. Examples that have captured the headlines... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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From Outrage to Courage: The Unjust and Unhealthy Situation of Women in Poor Countries and What They Are Doing about It by Anne Firth Murray Publisher Comments From sex-selective abortions to millions of girls who are "disappeared," from 90 million girls who do not go to school to HIV/AIDS spreading fastest among adolescent girls, women face unique health challenges, writes Anne Firth Murray. In this searing... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Crimes Against Humanity: the Struggle for Global Justice (3RD 07 Edition) by Geoffrey Robertson Publisher Comments Weaves together disparate strands of history, philosophy, international law, and politics to show how an identification of the crime against humanity has become the key that unlocks the closed door of state sovereignty, enabling the international... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The International Human Rights Movement by Aryeh Neier Publisher Comments During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruelties in wars, and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Reaping What You Sow: A Comparative Examination of Torture Reform in the United States, France, Argentina, and Israel (PSI Reports) by Henry Frank Carey Publisher Comments Reaping What You Sow: A Comparative Examination of Torture in France, Argentina, Israel, and the United States presents a new angle in the study of this controversial practice by studying how these countries attempt to account for these secret practices... (read more) Your price: $77.50 New - Hardcover
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Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom by Gary A Haugen Publisher Comments "Terrify No More" focuses on the dramatic rescue of dozens of young sex slaves in a small village outside of Phnom Pehn, and uses flashbacks to tell the stories of many other victims who were given a second chance at life by the International Justice... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, Updated with a New Preface by Kevin Bales Publisher Comments Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Environmental Rights Revolution by David R. Boyd Book News Annotation Canadian environmental lawyer Boyd describes the emergence and evolution of a new human right, surveys the constitutional right to a healthy environment in several places, and evaluates the impacts of environmental provisions in constitutions. Among... (read more) Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
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Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops by Liesbeth Sluiter Publisher Comments The Clean Clothes Campaign is a worldwide movement that aims to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers. This is the story of their struggle. Large retailers such as Tesco, Walmart and Carrefour lure shoppers in with prices that seem too... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Enough Moment (10 Edition) by John Prendergast Publisher Comments Had Enough? Join activists, organizations, and celebrities to fight human rights crimes in Africa. Human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle bring us an empowering and hopeful new book, as they reveal the steps being... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, 1918-1956 (P.S.) by Aleksa Solzhenitsyn Publisher Comments Volume 2 of the gripping epic masterpiece, The story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for Nearly a decade... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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