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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 $27.95 Your price: $19.56 Sale - Hardcover 
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 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 this pathbreaking interrogation of the last century of American history, Power draws upon her own reporting from the modern killing fields to tell the story of American indifference and American courage in the face of the worst massacres of the 20th... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights by Irene Khan Publisher Comments A powerful argument by the secretary general of Amnesty International that poverty is not just an economic problem but a global human-rights violation.In our rapidly globalizing age with economic growth occurring in almost every corner of the world, it... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West by Christopher Caldwell Publisher Comments Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no. Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China by Nicole Kempton Publisher Comments An eloquent and vivid summary in shocking, never-before-seen photographs smuggled out of the People Republic of China, LAOGAI exposes the human rights record of the world's most authoritarian state--a nation whose own remarkable transformation has not... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [583]-597) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Publisher Comments Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's books are events. They stir passionate public debate among political and civic leaders, scholars, and the general public because they compel people to rethink the most powerful conventional wisdoms and stubborn moral problems of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Democracy Detained: Secret, Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror by Barbara Olshansky Publisher Comments “In this meticulously cited work, Barbara Olshansky does a brilliant and relentless job unraveling how the Bush administration is violating the US Constitution, international human rights, and the civic integrity of this country. Everyone must read... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Quiet Genocide: Guatemala 1981-1983 by Etelle Higonnet Publisher Comments Quiet Genocide reviews the legal and historical case that genocide occurred in Guatemala in 1981-1983. It includes the full text of the genocide section of a United Nations sponsored Commission on Historical Clarification in Guatemala (CEH), brokered by... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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Global Justice: An Introduction (Key Concepts) by Jon Mandle Publisher Comments This new book explores the meaning of global justice and provides students with an accessible introduction to the core concepts and debates in the field. Mandle explains that global justice requires universal respect for basic human rights which can... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gulag Archipelago Volume 3 by Aleksa Solzhenitsyn Publisher Comments Volume 3 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Case of Terri Schiavo: Ethics, Politics, and Death in the 21st Century by Kenneth W. (edt) Goodman Publisher Comments The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care. While many observers had thought the right to refuse medical treatment was well established, this... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
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Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country by Mike Kim Synopsis Escaping North Korea provides a rare and unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. It recounts firsthand experiences of enduring famine, women's sex trafficking experiences, and torture in the gulags, as well as inspirational... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights by Ezra Levant Publisher Comments Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is a shocking and controversial look at the corruption of Canada's human rights commissions. On January 11, 2008, I was summoned to a 90-minute government interrogation. My crime? As the publisher of... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Performative Democracy (Yale Cultural Sociology) by Elzbieta Matynia Publisher Comments Performative Democracy explores a potential in political life that easily escapes theorists: the indigenously inspired enacting of democracy by citizens. Written by one who experienced an emerging public sphere within Communist Poland, the book seeks to... (read more) Your price: $35.50 New - Trade Paper
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy 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 contemporary slavery reaches from Pakistan's brick kilns and Thailand's... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power Publisher Comments In this perfect match of author and subject, Pulitzer Prizeawinner Samantha Power tackles the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose work for the U.N. before his 2003 death in Iraq was emblematic of moral struggle on the global stage. Power has drawn on a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Live Here by Mia Kirshner and J. B. MacKinnon and Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons Publisher Comments I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative — told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas — in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global. Bearing witness to stories that are too... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-face With Modern-day Slavery (08 Edition) 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 $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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