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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Jeffree Epsteen and the Innocent Girl Not Yet Sixteen
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Disruptors Modular Toolkit
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc God and Race A Guide for Moving Beyond Black
Book SynopsisA White pastor and a Black pastor, close friends who have each built racially diverse congregations, offer a model Christians can follow to open necessary conversations about race, encourage unity, and foster mutual respect to heal a wounded nation riven by racial tension and political tribalism.For years, Pastors John Siebeling and Wayne Francis have led thriving congregations that are the embodiment of diversity; Siebeling in Memphis and Francis in New York City. Many churches and leaders have sought their counsel, hoping to emulate their success. At the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in Summer 2020, they pooled their insights and experiences to help others facilitate conversations about racism. The guide they developed is the basis of God and Race. Siebeling and Francis examine the White-Black tension from both perspectives and answer all the uncomfortable questions we’re afraid to ask—regarding ourselves, our families, our work and relationships, and the church. Most important, they provide practical steps anyone can take to become part of the solution. Whether you are a church leader or just a caring person who wants to make a difference, God and Race provides inspiration and guidance to help you become an agent of reconciliation and change. These two wise pastors teach you how to find your voice and join Jesus in healing, to help bring our divided communities together with open minds, open hearts, and open hands.Many Christian books on race either do not ask the hard questions or, if they do, speak as critics outside the mainstream church. Siebeling and Francis probe the meaning of racial reconciliation and reveal how the church can be a positive and effective leader to move us forward, beyond hate and injustice, to equality and love.
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Hachette Books Dr. Benjamin Rush
Book SynopsisDr. Benjamin Rush was the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot or ignored--an America of women, African-Americans, Jews, Quakers, Roman Catholics, indentured workers, and the poor. Ninety percent of the people lived in that other America, but none could vote and none had rights to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness, either before or after independence from Britain. Alone among the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush heard their cries and stepped forth as the nation''s first great humanitarian and social reformer.Known primarily as America''s most influential and leading physician, Rush was also among the first to call for the abolition of slavery, equal rights for women, free education and health care for the poor, slum clearance, city-wide sanitation facilities, an end to child labor, universal public education, humane treatment and therapy for the insane, prison reform, an end to capital punishment,
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Hachette Books No Justice No Peace
Book SynopsisFrom the Civil Rights movement to Black Lives Matter, a TIME Magazine cover photographer and star of Netflix's Strong Black Lens presents a collection of stirring photos and writings from six decades of protest and collective action.
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Three Rivers Press Half the Sky
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Crown Saviors and Survivors Darfur Politics and the War on Terror
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Random House USA Inc The Soul of America
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bait and Switch
Book SynopsisIt has become routine for the US government to invoke human rights to justify its foreign policy decisions and military ventures. But this human rights talk has not been supported by a human rights walk. Policy makers consistently apply a double standard for human rights norms: one the rest of the world must observe, but which the US can safely ignore.Based on extensive interviews with leading foreign policy makers, military officials, and human rights advocates, Mertus tells the story of how America's attempts to promote human rights abroad have, paradoxically, undermined those rights in other countries. The second edition brings the story up-to-date, including new sections on the second half of the Bush administration and the Iraq War, and updates on Afghanistan.The first edition of Bait and Switch won the American Political Science Association's 2005 Best Book on Human Rights.Trade Review"Mertus provides a stark indictment of the slippage between American rhetoric and American action on international human rights, showing how partisan selectivity and double standards pervaded American policy even before September 11. More generally, the book examines the ways in which international norms can get lost in the translation into domestic practice, challenging some comfortable orthodoxy about the depth and breadth of the spread of an international human rights culture."-Jack Donnelly, author, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, and Andrew Mellon Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver "Scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the stark differences between the pious rhetoric and prosaic reality of U.S. human rights policy need look no further than this insightful and readable volume by Julie Mertus. As the changes and ramifications of U.S. foreign policy are subjected to scrutiny in both the media and classroom, nothing could be more timely than this critical examination of not only the executive branch and the military but NGOs as well."--Thomas G. Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The CUNY Graduate Center"Mertus argues that ‘something is seriously awry with the way the U.S. "does" human rights.’ Coming from a scholar who expected to come to a much more positive conclusion regarding U.S. human rights policy, this is a serious indictment. Bait and Switch is an important book that should be read by anyone interested in the growing gulf between how the United States sees itself and how other nations and peoples see it."--Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University"Mertus's indictment of U.S. human rights behavior is more devastating in this updated text. An 'arch' unilateralist executive, the breakdown in military command, and competitive civil society have led to intense hatred of the U.S. and contributed to greater insecurity. A stunning assessment of human rights behavior during the Global War on Terrorism."--Karen A. Mingst, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KentuckyTable of Contents1. All That Glitters 2. TheLingua Franca of Diplomacy: Human Rights and the Post–Cold War Presidencies 3. The New Military Humanism: Human Rights and the U.S. Military 4. Raising Expectations: Civil Society's Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy 5. Conclusion: Bait and Switch?
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International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S. Reconstruction
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Prentice Hall Press American Prison
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Jews and Human Rights Dancing at Three Weddings
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the role of Jews in the formation of international human rights efforts throughout the US, Israel, and the Former Soviet Union. This work examines this human rights work as part of a total system of Jewish political commitments, a system shaped by both human rights history and Jewish history.Trade ReviewThis clear-eyed and comprehensive history of the significant Jewish involvement in international human rights breaks new scholarly ground. Galchinsky carefully delineates how external and internal pressures have shaped and transformed Jewish human rights agendas in Israel and on the worldwide stage. -- Judith R. Baskin, University of OregonMichael Galchinsky has given us an intricate picture of the personalities, politics, and practices that make up Jewish human rights activities in the contemporary world. He presents a nuanced view of the post-modern struggle to articulate a Jewish approach to human rights that is pulled in a variety of directions by often opposing forces. -- Peter J. Haas, Case Western Reserve UniversityThis book offers an original analysis of the crucial role that Jews have played in the rise of modern international human rights movements. It is strongest in its ability to understand the tensions that Jewish human rights activists face in trying to foster global human rights and human rights in Israel in the face of a pronounced bias against Israel in the so-called 'international human rights community.' A major contribution to the sociology of human rights in the modern worldddd -- Thomas Cushman, Wellesley CollegeThis is an important work. In his meticulous examination of three major instances of Jewish and Israeli human rights advocacy since World War II, Michael Galchinsky has elucidated the political and practical limits of this activism as well as the undoubted accomplishments. Highly recommended for students of contemporary history as well as for the general reader. -- Carole Fink, The Ohio State UniversityMichael Galchinsky's boundary-shattering analysis in Jews and Human Rights looks at all of the roles in the evolving world of 'human rights' assumed by Jews—Jews as victims and claimants, as organizers and theoreticians, as activists and critics. Galchinsky explores this complex and often contradictory and controversial relationship in a way to merge legal, cultural, and intellectual history into a readable narrative of the history of the Jews in the modern world. A brilliant book! -- Sander L. Gilman, Emory UniversityThis book offers an original analysis of the crucial role that Jews have played in the rise of modern international human rights movements. It is strongest in its ability to understand the tensions that Jewish human rights activists face in trying to foster global human rights and human rights in Israel in the face of a pronounced bias against Israel in the so-called 'international human rights community.' A major contribution to the sociology of human rights in the modern world -- Thomas Cushman, Wellesley CollegeThis is an important, timely and well-researched scholarly work. It presents a unique perspective of looking at the issue of human rights from the particular to the universal in the global age. An essential work for understanding the inter-related issues of human rights, Jewish activists, and Israel. -- Fred A. Lazin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelThis book is informative and readable. Recommended. * CHOICE *More studies are needed that take what we know of complex transnational Jewish identities and examine their rich relationships with the state, including intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations. In Dancing at Three Weddings, Michael Galchinsky marries the two. While many traditional histories examine genocide in graphic detail, Galchinsky's contribution is a catalog of the motivations and responses by a diverse community of Jews to deal with postwar tragedies. * American Jewish History *Since World War II, Jews, working alone or through NGOs, have been active in the international human rights movement. While many books have been written on the biblical and rabbinic context for Jewish involvement in social action, Galchinsky focuses instead on sociological and political motvies. The book includes extensive notes, bibliography, and index. Recommended for academic libraries. * AJL Newsletter, November/December 2009 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Building Human Rights Chapter 2 Freeing Soviet Jews—and After Chapter 3 Jewish Responses to Non-Jewish Genocides Chapter 4 American Jews and Violations in Zion: A Case Study Chapter 5 Israeli, Jewish, Human Chapter 6 Appendix A: Genocides and Other Mass Killings Chapter 7 Appendix B: Israel's Adoption of Major Human Rights Treaties Chapter 8 Appendix C: Glossary of Abbreviations
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Edinburgh University Press The Civil Rights Movement
Book SynopsisThis introduction to the Civil Rights Movement synthesises its history, explaining its origins, development and results as well as historiographical debates. A survey based on a wealth of recent scholarship, it provides a critical perspective on the movement.Trade ReviewAn excellent introduction to the Civil Rights Movement... Highly recommended. -- K J. Volanto, Collin country Community College District Social Studies of Science An excellent introduction to the Civil Rights Movement... Highly recommended.Table of ContentsChronology; Abbreviations; 1. Prerequisites for Change; i) The Nature of Racial Discrimination; ii) The Great Migration; iii) The New Deal; iv) Challenges to Injustice in the South; 2. The Emergence of the Movement, 1941-1959; i) The Impact of the Second World War; ii) Jim Crow Under Attack; iii) Massive Resistance; iv) The Movement Stalled; 3. The End of Jim Crow in the South, 1960-1965; i) The Sit-Ins; ii) The Kennedy Administration and Civil Rights; iii) The Civil Rights Act of 1964; iv) Selam and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; 4. The Disintegration of the National Civil Rights Movement Coalition, 1964-1968; i) The Mississippi Summer Project; ii) Northern Protests; iii) Black Power; iv) The Poor People's Campaign; 5. Civil Rights in a Conservative Era; i) Nixon's 'Southern Strategy'; ii) A New South?: Protest and Politics; iii) The Struggle in the North; iv) The Federal Government and Civil Rights: From Ford to Reagan; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Judiciary Civil Liberties and Human Rights
Book SynopsisThis book considers the constitutional position of the judiciary and its role in shaping the individual's relations with the state.Table of ContentsList of boxes; List of tables; Introduction; 1. Liberty and Rights. Liberty, Civil Liberties and Human Rights. Classical Civil Liberties and Socio-Economic Rights. The Diceyan Tradition. A Bill of Rights for the United Kingdom? Conclusion; 2. Human Rights Legislation. The Human Rights Act 1998. Human Rights in Scotland. Human Rights in the United Kingdom: an Alternative Perspective. Conclusion: Human Rights Legislation and the Judiciary; 3. Judges and Judging . The Declaratory Theory of Law. The Inherent Flaws of Judicial Reasoning. Judicial Independence in England and Wales. Judicial Independence in Scotland. The Spoils System: Appointing Federal Judges in the USA. Judicial Impartiality; 4. Politics and the Judiciary. The Judiciary in the United Kingdom: a Socialist Analysis. Civil Liberties, Law Enforcement and National Security. The Judiciary and Civil Liberties in the USA. The New Politics of the Judiciary in the United Kingdom. Conclusion; 5. Controlling Public Spaces in the United Kingdom. The Politics of Public Order. The Growth of Statutory Regulation of Public Spaces in the UK. Public Order Law: a Civil Libertarian Critique. A Conservative Perspective on Law and Order. Conclusion: A Cause for Concern?; 6. Is Big Brother Really Watching You? The Politics of Covert and Mass Surveillance. The Politics of Covert and Mass Surveillance. Covert Surveillance in the United Kingdom: the Movement towards Statutory Regulation. Investigatory Powers. Court Surveillance and Civil Liberties: A Case Study. The Establishment Response. Court Surveillance in America: the USA/ Patriot Act. Conclusion: Towards the Mass Surveillance State; 7. Emergency Powers. A Short History of Anti-Terrorism Law in the United Kingdom. The Implications of Anti-Terrorism Legislation for Civil Liberties. Anti-Terrorism Law and the Civil Liberties Lobby. The Ministerial Response. Conclusion; 8. After the Bombs. The July 2005 Bombings and the Blair Government. The Anti-Terror Summit. Knee-Jerk Illiberalism; References; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Grounding Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisThis book explores Kant''s cosmopolitanism and the normative requirements consistent with a Kantian based cosmopolitan constitution. Topics such as cosmopolitan law, cosmopolitan right, the laws of hospitality, a Kantian federation of states, a cosmopolitan epistemology of culture and a possible normative basis for a Kantian form of global distributive justice are explored and defended.Contrary to many contemporary interpretations, Brown considers Kant''s cosmopolitan thought as a form of international constitutional jurisprudence that requires minimal legal demands versus the extreme condition of establishing a world state. Viewing Kant''s cosmopolitan theory as a minimal form of global jurisprudence allows it to satisfy communitarian, realist and pluralist concerns without surrendering cosmopolitan principles of human worth and cosmopolitan law. In this regard, it provides a more comprehensive understanding of Kantian cosmopolitanism and what normative implications this vision has for contemporary international political theory.Trade ReviewAn erudite and compelling analysis of Kant's cosmopolitan philosophy and the place of this work in cosmopolitan thinking today. A major contribution. -- David Held, Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science, LSE In this excellent book Garrett Brown outlines and defends Kant's cosmopolitan political theory. This book is strongly recommended for all those interested in Kant's political theory and in contemporary theories of global justice. -- John Charvet, London School of Economics and Political Sciences Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPart One; 1. Kantian Cosmopolitanism; 2. Kantian Cosmopolitan Law and the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Constitution; Part Two; 3. State Sovereignty, Federation and Kantian Cosmopolitanism; 4. Cultural Difference and Kantian Cosmopolitanism; 5. Kantian Distributive Justice and the Capability for Effective Autonomy; 6. Conclusion: Applied Theory and a Continued Cosmopolitan Enthusiasm.
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Edinburgh University Press Institutions in Global Distributive Justice
Book SynopsisThe first systematic treatment of the role of institutions in cosmopolitan theories of distributive justiceTable of ContentsAnalytical Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Nationalist theories of justice; Chapter 3. The political conception of justice; Chapter 4. Rawlsian justice and the Law of Peoples; Chapter 5. Rawlsian justice globalised; Chapter 6. Non-relational cosmopolitan theories; Chapter 7. Institutions and the application of principles of justice; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Edinburgh University Press Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights
Book SynopsisCan human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? This title argues that human rights are a sign of our growing powerlessness and political alienation in the face of a sovereign state of exception that has become global.
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Edinburgh University Press Health Inequalities and Global Justice
Book SynopsisExplores the moral dilemmas posed by disparities in health across nations. This title includes case studies such as: the migration of health care practitioners from developing to developed nations; the impact of climate change on health outcomes; the social determinants of health outcomes; and more.
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Edinburgh University Press Human Rights from Community
Book SynopsisGlobal justice and human rights is perhaps the hottest topic in political science today. This series of monographs and edited collections publishes work on key topics in this field, such as democracy, gender, legal justice, poverty, human rights, environmental justice and just war theory. It is suitable for theorists working in politics.Trade Review'An important contribution to both academic literature and the debate surrounding international development policies and the fulfilment of access to economic and social rights.' International Community Law Review
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Edinburgh University Press Immigration Justice
Book SynopsisWhat moral standards ought nation-states abide by when selecting immigration policies? Peter Higgins argues that immigration policies can only be judged by considering the inequalities that are produced by the institutions - such as gender, race and class - that constitute our social world.Higgins challenges conventional positions on immigration justice, including the view that states have a right to choose whatever immigration policies they like, or that all immigration restrictions ought to be eliminated and borders opened. Rather than suggesting one absolute solution, he argues that a unique set of immigration policies will be just for each country. He concludes with concrete recommendations for policymaking.
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Edinburgh University Press Grounding Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisThis book explores Kant''s cosmopolitanism and the normative requirements consistent with a Kantian based cosmopolitan constitution. Topics such as cosmopolitan law, cosmopolitan right, the laws of hospitality, a Kantian federation of states, a cosmopolitan epistemology of culture and a possible normative basis for a Kantian form of global distributive justice are explored and defended.Contrary to many contemporary interpretations, Brown considers Kant''s cosmopolitan thought as a form of international constitutional jurisprudence that requires minimal legal demands versus the extreme condition of establishing a world state. Viewing Kant''s cosmopolitan theory as a minimal form of global jurisprudence allows it to satisfy communitarian, realist and pluralist concerns without surrendering cosmopolitan principles of human worth and cosmopolitan law. In this regard, it provides a more comprehensive understanding of Kantian cosmopolitanism and what normative implications this vision has for contemporary international political theory.Table of ContentsA Note on the Texts and Kant Referencing; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One; 1. Kant's Cosmopolitanism; 2. Kant's Cosmopolitan Law and the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Constitution; Part Two; 3. State Sovereignty, Federation and Kant's Cosmopolitanism; 4. Cultural Difference and Kant's Cosmopolitan Law; 5. Distributive Justice and the Capability for Effective Autonomy; 6. Conclusion: Applied Theory and a Continued Cosmopolitan Enthusiasm; Bibliography; Index.
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The History Press Ltd Speakers Corner
Book SynopsisSpeakers’ Corner is a unique look at the people who come to argue, discuss and preach at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park, regarded worldwide as the home of free speech.
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Mayibuye Books,South Africa 19071950 v 1 A Documentary History South Africas
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Juta Academic 19431964 v 2 A Documentary History South Africas
Book SynopsisThis second volume covers the relationship between socialist currents and the national liberation movement from the 1940s through decades of increasing repression and illegality, culminating in the transition to armed struggle in the early 1960s.Table of ContentsHistorians; political studies researchers and students wishing to read original documents of the time; Allison Drew's critical analysis of the background and trends of socialism and communism in South Africa up to the SACP's banning makes fascinating reading; libraries and archives.
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St. Martins Press-3PL Drinking the Sea at Gaza Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
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Rowman & Littlefield Breaking the Promise of Brown
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Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd Traumatised Society
Book SynopsisThe author was the first to forecast (in 1997) the events that ruptured the global economy in 2008 by applying an analysis that exposes the fault lines in the structure of the market economy. Now, he extends his analysis to the future of the West, to evaluate fears from distinguished commentators who claim that European civilisation is in danger of being eclipsed. He concludes that the West is at a dangerous tipping point and provides empirical and theoretical evidence to warrant such an alarming conclusion. But he also explains why it is not too late to prevent the looming social catastrophe. Attributing the present crisis to a social process of cheating, he develops a synthesis of the social and natural sciences to show how the market system can be reformed. He introduces the concept of organic finance, which prescribes reforms capable of delivering both sustainable growth, with a more equitable distribution of wealth, and respect for other life forms. To explain the persistent faiTrade Review'The Traumatised Society is a staggering work that presents nothing less than a new paradigm - yet based in a historical narrative and overview of political, economic and cultural history that is ancient. Harrison provides a sophisticated and engaging new theory of social trauma developing the idea that when whole societies or nations are dislocated from their land, traditional roots and cultural reference points, whole populations are then at the mercy of what he refers to as "the predator class". This predator class of social parasites then seeks to legalise a form of institutionalised "cheating" whereby whole peoples are robbed of their birthright to the social "commons" (the commons being one's right to enjoy the full benefits of nature's resources through a socialisation of rent on land values'. Fourth World Review, July 2013
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Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd Long Way from Adi Ghehad
Book SynopsisWith immigration and asylum seekers high on the agenda of governments throughout Europe, the life story of Dr Teame Mebrahtu is a timely reminder of a positive side of what has become a contentious and potentially divisive issue. It is a truly remarkable and inspiring story.Trade Review"Stories of outstanding people, who overcome great adversity, encounter almost impossible odds in rising from humble beginnings in remote villages to become noteworthy citizens of the world, form part of the most uplifting areas of literature. Such individuals and their life experiences in following a powerful mission to improve human-kind, provide exemplars of how to live a truly good life. This account of the life of Teame Mebrahtu is undoubtedly part of that pantheon of biographies." Professor Malcolm Johnson, University of BristolTable of ContentsList of Plates; Foreword by Professor Malcolm Johnson; Introduction; Eritrea Maps; PART ONE: Early Life; Mule Journey; The Village; Back to School Prison; Tutoring –Teacher Training Teaching; Teaching Teachers Beirut Annexation; Malcolm X; Teacher Training Institute; Student Strike; Marriage and Family; Bristol Masters Director; Mengistu Coup; Student Death; The Academy; University and the Death of a Friend; Leaving the Country; PART TWO: Return to Bristol Refugee; Rowntree Trust; PhD and University; Sudan and Refugee Schools University Teaching; Student Adviser; South-North Conference Extracurricular Development Education Multicultural; Zero School; Working with Refugees; Community Independence Beckons Independence; Building Anew; Badme War; Father’s Funeral; Living with a Difference; Dreams of a Global Educator; Acknowledgements; Index
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Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd What If It Were You
Book SynopsisWhat If It Were You? draws back the curtain on the men, women and children who suffer in silence, giving a voice to those whose rights, freedom and wellbeing are so often compromised. The hard-hitting realism of Arif-Fear's poetry uncovers the reality of many forms of abuse, and presents them in a way which is direct and uncompromising.Table of ContentsForeword, What If It Were You?, I Am a Woman, Cut, Your Guilty Secret, Covered, Free, Double Standards, Family Reunion, Dry Wounds, Strength, Fear, Why Do You Hate Me?, Fragile, Home, Just Like You, Hope, What Do You See?, Empty Streets, Coconut, I Am Not Human, Hypocrisy Is Spelled with a Y, Idol of Oppression, Binaries, Two-Faced Feminist, Blind Hearts, Invisible, Warriors of Barbarity, Steps of Hate, Angel beneath the Ground, Ya Suriya! (Oh Syria!), Shattering the Glass, My Prophet, Inhuman, Not You, Honour, Undesirable Muslim, The Jungle Never Dies, Weapon of War, #Me Too, Kafir, What is Freedom?, Further support and information, About the author.
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Rivers Oram Press Old Law New Medicine Modern Medical Ethics and
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Rivers Oram Press Old Law New Medicine Modern Medical Ethics and
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Pathfinder Books Ltd Habla Nelson Mandela
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University of Regina Press Children of the Broken Treaty Canadas Lost
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Legend Press Ltd Arguments for Liberty
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Flatiron Books Weve Got to Try
Book SynopsisUplifting. . . . O'Rourke gets an A-plus on both the moral frisson of the long fight and the rightness of the cause. . . . The happy warrior from Texas is inspiring. --The Washington PostActivist and political leader Beto O'Rourke blends history, sociology, and travelogue for a thrilling, inspiring case for how voting rights is essential to a productive and healthy democracy.In We've Got To Try, O'Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and the west Texas town where he made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas before moving to El Paso, becoming a civil rights leader, and helping to win one of the most significant civil and voting rights victories in American history: the defeat of the all-white primary. His fight for the ballot spanned 20 years and twice took him to the U.S. Supreme Court.With heart, eloquence, and powerful storytell
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Palgrave Macmillan Childrens Rights in International Politics The Transformative Power of Discourse Transformations of the State
Book SynopsisIntroduction Power and Exclusion in Discourse Approaches to International Relations Discursive Transformation and the Role of Institutions Global Childhood An Essentially Uncontested Concept? Origins of theDrafting of theUNConvention on the Rights of the Child Discursive PracticesWithinthe UN and the Transformation ofa Global Childhood Paradigm Exclusionary Facets of the Social Ebvironment andtheir Effects on the NewImage of Childhood Conclusion - Future Prospects for an Analysis of Norm Change through DiscourseTable of ContentsIntroduction Power and Exclusion in Discourse Approaches to International Relations Discursive Transformation and the Role of Institutions Global Childhood – An Essentially Uncontested Concept? Origins of the Drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Discursive Practices Within the UN and the Transformation of a Global Childhood Paradigm Exclusionary Facets of the Social Ebvironment and their Effects on the New Image of Childhood Conclusion - Future Prospects for an Analysis of Norm Change through Discourse
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Palgrave Macmillan Child Soldiers From Recruitment to Reintegration
Book SynopsisThis book examines the complex and under-researched relationship between recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes for child soldiers. It looks at time spent in the group, issues of cohesion, identification, affiliation, membership and the post demobilization experience of return, and resettlement.Trade Review'...a valuable volume that poses the difficult questions.' - Intervention JournalTable of ContentsPART I The Long Road Home: Conceptual Debates on Recruitment Experiences and Reintegration Outcomes; A.Özerdem & S.Podder PART II Why Do Children Fight? Motivations and the Mode of Recruitment; S.Gates Child Soldier Recruitment in the Liberian Civil Wars: Individual Motivations and Rebel Group Tactics; S.Podder Group Cohesion and Coercive Recruitment: Young combatants and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone; K.Peters Girl Soldiers in Guatemala; W.Hauge Resilience Amidst Risks for Recruitment: A Case Study of 'At Risk' Children in Colombia; R.Burgess How Voluntary: Community and Youth Participation in Muslim Mindanao; A. Özerdem & S.Podder PART III Neither Child nor Soldier: Contested Terrains in Identity, Victimcy and Survival; S.Podder But I Am a Man! Imposition of Childhood and Denial of Identity, Economic Opportunity for Youth Combatants in Afghanistan; S.Zyck In Group Socialization and Reintegration Challenges: A Study of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda; L.Vermeij Social Navigation and Power in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Reflections from a Former Child Soldier Turned Bike Rider; M.Denov Victimcy as Social Navigation: From the Toolbox of a Liberian Child Soldier; M.Utas Mozambique Life Outcome Study: How Did Child Soldiers Turn-Out as Adults?; N.Boothby Exclusion or Reintegration: Child Soldiers in Angola; J.McMullin PART IV Child Soldier Reintegration in Sudan: A Practitioner's Field Experience; P.Halton Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Nepal: Grassroots Reflections; D.Raj & P.Dewan Binadi PART V Mapping Child Soldier Reintegration Outcomes: Exploring the Linkages; A.Özerdem & S.Podder
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and
Book SynopsisThe Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and issues of social justice and arts activism by an international team of leading scholars, directors, arts activists, and educators. Across four sections it explores the relevance and responsibility of art to the real world. The collection draws from noted scholars, writers and practitioners from around the globe to assert the power of art to question, disrupt and re-invigorate both the ties that bind and the barriers that divide us.A series of interviews with theatre practitioners and scholars opens the volume, establishing areas for research, exploration, and change. In Section 2 ''The Practice of Shakespeare and Social Justice'' contributors examine Shakespeare's place and possibilities in intervening on issues of race, class, gender and sexuality. Section 3 ''The Performance of Shakespeare and Social Justice'' traces ShakespeareTrade ReviewThis progressive and encouraging collection really does assume that Shakespeare’s plays, like the players whom Hamlet welcomes to Elsinore, are ‘the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time’ – of our own times. I hope these essays continue a range of on-going conversations about justice, inclusion, diversity, fairness, and, yes, kindness. * Rev. Dr Paul Edmondson, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: “This Is Real Life: Shakespeare and Social Justice as a Field of Play”, David Ruiter (University of Texas at El Paso) Part One: The Shakespeare and Social Justice Interviews 1.1.“Deconstructing Social Hierarchies: Interviews”, Erin Coulehan Chris Anthony (Assistant Professor of Acting at DePaul University, Chicago, USA) Erika Whyman (Deputy Artistic Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, UK) Arthur Little (Associate Professor, English, UCLA) Ewan Fernie (Professor at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK, and Director of the 'Everything to Everybody' Project, UK) Farah Karim-Cooper (Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King’s College London, UK, and Head of Higher Education and Research at Shakespeare's Globe, UK) Part Two: The Practice of Shakespeare and Social Justice 2.1. “Active Shakespeare: A Social Justice Framework” Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University) and Laura Turchi (University of Houston, USA) 2.2. “Bending Toward Justice: From Shakespeare’s Black Mediterranean to August Wilson’s Black Atlantic”, Peter Erickson (Northwestern University, USA) 2.3.“Black Hamlet, Social Justice, and the Minds of Apartheid”, Arthur Little (UCLA, USA) 2.4.“Shakespeare and Civil Rights: Rhetorical Universalism”, Jason Demeter (Norfolk State University, USA) 2.5.“Shakespeare’s Disabled, Disabled Shakespeare”, Adelle Hulsmeier (University of Sunderland, UK) 2.6.“Social Justice in the Academy: Reflecting on Shakespeare’s Royal Women”, Christie Carson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Part Three: The Performance of Shakespeare and Social Justice 3.1.“William Shakespeare’s Enrique IV, Primera Parte: Common [Battle]Grounds between Medieval England and Mexico’s Present”, Alfredo Modenessi (National University of Mexico) and Paulina Morales (National University of Mexico) 3.2. “King Lear and Gender Justice in India”, Preti Taneja (Newcastle University, UK) 3.3.“Re-enacting Hamlet in South Africa”, Malcolm Cocks (Shakespeare's Globe, UK) 3.4.“‘Shakespeare in Prison’: A South African Social Justice Alternative”, Kevin Quarmby (The College of St. Scholastica) 3.5.“Romeo and Juliet with Chinese Characteristics: Questions of Usefulness and Engagement in 21st Century China”, Julie Sanders (Newcastle University) and Li Jun (University of International Business and Economics) 3.6.“Social Justice, Social Order and Political Power in NTCC’s Adaptation of Richard III”, Chee Keng Lee (Yale-NUS College) Part Four: The Economies of Shakespeare and Social Justice 4.1.“The Empathetic Imagination and the Dream of Equality: Shakespeare’s ‘Poetical Justice’”, Kiernan Ryan (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 4.2.“The Idea of Communism in Shakespeare”, Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland, Australia) 4.3.“‘Leftward Ho!’: Shakespeare and Lenin in the Tempest of Class Politics”, Jeffrey Butcher (College of Coastal Georgia) 4.4.“The Visible and the Invisible: Shakespeare and the Question of Social Justice in King Lear”, Geraldo de Sousa (University of Kansas, USA) Annotated Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rights Concepts and Contexts
Book SynopsisRights: Concepts and Contexts contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most prominent contemporary theorists in moral, legal, and political philosophy, including Joseph Raz, Robert Alexy, Jeremy Waldron, Morton Horwitz, Stephen Darwall, Margaret Gilbert, David Lyons, and Aharon Barak. With approaches ranging from the political to the historical, and from the analytical to the critical, this collection touches on the major conceptual and practical questions of this important field: what is the nature and grounding of human rights? How should conflicts of rights best be analyzed? Are rights best understood in terms of choice, benefits, or some hybrid of the two? What are the connections between rights and duties, and between rights and justice? The collection also offers useful introductions to emerging issues in rights theory such as the purported bipolarity of rights.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Rights in Context: Natural law and natural rights, Morton J. Horwitz; 'Protestant' political theory and the significance of rights, Sean Coyle; Human rights in the emerging world order, Joseph Raz; Humanist and political perspectives on human rights, Pablo Gilabert. Part II Concepts of Rights: Are there still any natural rights?, Hillel Steiner; Value pluralism and the two concepts of rights, Horacio Spector; The analytical foundations of justice, N.E. Simmonds; Fundamental legal conceptions reconsidered, Andrew Halpin; Ross and Olivecrona on rights, Brian H. Bix; A right to do wrong? Two conceptions of moral rights, William A. Edmundson; The nature of rights, Leif Wenar; Theories of rights: is there a third way?, Matthew H. Kramer and Hillel Steiner. Part III Bipolarity of Rights: Bipolar obligation, Stephen Darwall; Giving claim-rights their due, Margaret Gilbert; The nature of rights debate rests on a mistake, Siegfried van Duffel; Duties and their direction, Gopal Sreenivasan. Part IV Rights and Reasons: What demands are rights? An investigation into the relation between rights and reasons, Alon Harel; Rights and recognition, David Lyons; The rights recognition thesis: defending and extending Green, Gerald F. Gaus. Part V Conflicts of Rights: On conflicts between rights, Christopher Heath Wellman; American balancing and German proportionality: the historical origins, Moshe Cohen-Eliya and Iddo Porat; Security and liberty: the image of balance, Jeremy Waldron; Proportionality stricto sensu (balancing), Aharon Barak; The weight formula, Robert Alexy; On Robert Alexy's weight formula for weighing and balancing, Lars Lindahl; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Criminal Law and Human Rights
Book SynopsisThe significance of fundamental individual rights to substantive criminal law, criminal procedure law and sentencing law is undeniable for anyone who is familiar with the criminal justice system. The fourteen essays selected for this volume portray and discuss the meaning and rationale of those human rights that are most relevant to that system. They have been chosen for their high quality, timeless approach and general attention to issues that are of universal interest and thus not too closely related to the technicalities of a specific criminal justice system. In combination with the introduction to this volume, the essays cover almost the entire criminal justice system and offer a general overview as well as an in-depth examination of criminal law and human rights. As a result, this volume is essential for researchers, lecturers and students concerned with the tensions and harmonies between the values the criminal justice system and human rights respectively serve.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Criminal Procedural law: Four threats to the presumption of innocence, Andrew Ashworth; Pretrial and preventive detention of suspected terrorists: options and constraints under international law, Douglass Cassel; Privacy as struggle, Andrew E. Taslitz; Why must trials be fair?, Stefan Trechsel; Re-conceptualizing the right of silence as an effective fair trial standard, John Jackson; Confrontation: the search for basic principles, Richard D. Friedman; The protection of human dignity in interrogations: may interrogative torture ever be tolerated? Reflections in light of recent German and Israeli experiences, Miriam Gur-Arye and Florian Jessberger; Rethinking double jeopardy: justice and finality in criminal process, Ian Dennis; The doctrine of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding states’ duty to punish human rights violations and its dangers, Fernando Felipe Basch. Part II Substantive Criminal Law: Nulla poena sine lege, Jerome Hall; Hate speech in constitutional jurisprudence: a comparative analysis, Michel Rosenfeld; Freedom of religion and criminal law: a legal appraisal. From the principle of separation of church and state to the principle of pluralist democracy?, Piet Hein van Kempen; The human rights implications of a ‘cultural defense’, Michaël Fischer. Part III Sentencing: Life imprisonment: recent issues in national and international law, Dirk van Zyl Smit. Name index.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africas struggle for human rights
Book SynopsisSouth Africa's transition to a post-apartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights. Yet, less than a generation after the achievement of freedom, the future of human rights and constitutionalism in South Africa is uncertain.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Todays Civil Rights and Liberties Issues
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chronology Abortion Capital Punishment Disability Rights Drug Policy Education Policy Environmental Justice Freedom of Speech Government Surveillance Gun Control Health Care Housing Policy Immigration Information Privacy and Internet Freedom LGBTQ Rights Marriage Equality Police and Criminal Justice Reform Religious Liberty School Choice Voting Rights Women’s Rights Bibliography Index About the Author and Contributors
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Religion in the Classroom
Book SynopsisJonathan M. Golden is Director of the Center on Religion, Culture, and Conflict at Drew University, USA, where he teaches comparative religion, anthropology, and conflict resolution.Joseph J. McCallister is a teacher of English and language arts at Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest, New Jersey, USA, and is a doctoral candidate at Drew University, USA.Table of ContentsAlphabetical List of Entries Topical List of Entries Series Foreword Preface Overview Chronology A to Z Annotated Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religious Rights
Book SynopsisThe central focus of this collection of essays is the role and place of freedom of religion in the protection and promotion of world order. The volume offers competing models of world order from a global perspective and highlights the lack of consensus and considerable variety of practice and belief around the globe as to the definition of religious freedom and where and whether freedom of religion is regarded as the first freedom in the world. The leading theories of freedom of religion are discussed and provide an understanding of freedom of religion beyond the nation state. The liberal view at the global level is also examined and observations are included regarding the need to rethink secularism in the light of present circumstances and within the global context.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I Theories of Freedom of Religion: Local or Global?: Does it matter what religion is?, Christopher L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager; Equal liberty, nonestablishment, and religious freedom, Cécile Laborde; Freedom of conscience as religious and moral freedom, Michael J. Perry; A new global paradigm for religious freedom, Rafael Domingo; Religious freedom, American-style, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. Part II Freedom of Religion around the Globe: Freedom of Religion in Asia: Hegemony, imperialism, and the construction of religion in East and Southeast Asia, Thomas David Dubois; Religious renaissance in China today, Richard Madsen; Secularization theories and the study of Chinese religions, Michael Szonyi; ‘Smash temples, build schools’: comparing secularism in India and China, Peter van der Veer; State and religious diversity: can something be learnt from the Indian model of secularism?, Rajeev Bhargava; A leap of faith: the construction of Hindu majoritarianism through secular law, Ratna Kapur. Freedom of Religion in Islam/Middle East: Religious freedom in Islam: a global landscape, Daniel Philpott; Judging in God’s name: state power, secularism and the politics of Islamic law in Malaysia, Tamir Moustafa; Juristocracy vs. theocracy: constitutional courts and the containment of sacred law, Ran Hirschl; Immunity or regulation? Antinomies of religious freedom, Saba Mahmood and Peter G. Danchin. Freedom of Religion in Europe: From Communist to Muslim: European human rights, the Cold War and religious liberty, Samuel Moyn; Eurasian integration and the clash of values, Alexander Lukin; Chaos in Ukraine: the churches and the search for leadership, Nicholas E. Denysenko. Part III Case Studies: Peace at daggers drawn? Boko Haram and the state of emergency in Nigeria, Daniel E. Agbiboa; From social hostility to social media: religious pluralism, human rights and democratic reform in Africa, M. Christian Green; Global tangles: laws, headcoverings and religious identity, Seval Yildirim; Case studies: Japan, Brazil and Nigeria, Brian J. Grim. Part IV Global Secularism: is a Fundamental Re-Definition of Secularism Necessary?: How to define secularism, Charles Taylor; Secularism: its content and context, Akeel Bilgrami. Name index.
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Edinburgh University Press Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights
Book SynopsisCan human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? The authors explore questions of statelessness, exclusion, the violence of securitisation and the visual representation of refugees and illegal migrants in the media.
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Edinburgh University Press The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation
Book SynopsisMollie Gerver considers when bodies such as the UN, government agencies and NGOs ought to help refugees to return home. Drawing on original interviews with 172 refugees before and after repatriation, she resolves six moral puzzles arising from repatriation using the methods of analytical philosophy to provide a more ethical framework.
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Edinburgh University Press Refugees in Britain
Book SynopsisAn empirical examination of contemporary refugee practices in BritainInnovative theoretical framework , weaving for the first time together the theories of hospitality and labeling and applying them to the refugee regimeExpansion of the theoretical framework of hospitality, with development towards an understanding of externalized humanitarian hospitalityResearch underpinned by rich empirical material- 34 interviews and 30+years of archival research on government framing of the refugeeOffers three, empirically grounded, case studies on the British asylum system from the national, regional and grass-roots level.This book provides a multi-faceted way of assessing the British approach to refuge on local, state and regional levels, by intertwining the theories of hospitality and labelling before applying them to the study of refugees. This novel method of looking at the British refugee regime allows for deeper insights into the notions of power, identification, responsibility, language and externalisation of refugee politics.The book argues that the British refugee regime has developed towards an externalised humanitarian hospitality whereby the practice is geographically projected beyond the territorial confines of the state in order to both control and exclude the refugee. In tandem, the book also engages with counter-discourses by examining local practices of British hospitality and showing acts of solidarity that challenge the statist logic. The result is a theoretically informed account of the British approach to externalisation and geographical seclusion of refugees, particularly in response to the current Mediterranean Crisis.
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Edinburgh University Press Transnational Migration and BoundaryMaking
Book SynopsisThis book deals with the ongoing processes of migration and boundary-(re)making in Europe and other parts of the world.
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