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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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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)
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.)
by Samantha Power
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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)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
by Christopher Caldwell
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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)
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The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
by Irene Khan
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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)
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Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China
by Nicole Kempton
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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)
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [583]-597) and index.... ( read more)
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Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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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)
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Democracy Detained: Secret, Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror
by Barbara Olshansky
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“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)
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Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights
by Ezra Levant
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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)
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Global Justice: An Introduction (Key Concepts)
by Jon Mandle
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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)
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Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures (04 Edition)
by Kenneth Cain
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In this startling celebration of the strength of the human spirit and the gritty power of friendship, three United Nations workers share their true story of fighting for sanity in the face of atrocities, mass graves, desperate loneliness and primal... ( read more)
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Quiet Genocide: Guatemala 1981-1983
by Etelle Higonnet
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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)
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Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
by Samantha Power
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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)
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)
by Aleksa Solzhenitsyn
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Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the... ( read more)
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
by Kevin Bales
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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)
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Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees
by Laura Westra
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Climate change and other environmental problems are increasingly leading to the displacement of populations from their homelands, whether this be through drought, flooding, famine or other causes. Worse, there is currently no protection in international... ( read more)
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I Live Here
by Mia Kirshner and J. B. MacKinnon and Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons
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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)
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Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and Proposals for Reform
by Jaya Ramji-nogales
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Through the Refugee Act of 1980, the United States offers the prospect of safety to people who flee to America to escape rape, torture, and even death in their native countries. In order to be granted asylum, however, an applicant must prove to an asylum... ( read more)
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Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Sharia Law
by Nonie Darwish
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"Cruel and Usual Punishment" is an insider's look at how Muslims sacrifice their basic human rights to obey the archaic and brutal laws handed down to their prophet centuries ago.... ( read more)
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The Torture Debate in America
by Karen J Greenberg
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This book provides essays on the debate over the US government’s use of torture.... ( read more)
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