Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Race Relations
The Struggle for Equality in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
How could a country founded on the honorable ideals of freedom and equality have so willingly embraced the evils of enslavement and oppression?
America’s history of race relations is a difficult one, full of uncomfortable inconsistencies and unpleasant truths. Although the topic is sensitive,...
Derecho Civil
Bienes / Derechos Reales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 28, 2016
"Se presenta a la comunidad académica el tercer tomo sobre temas nucleares del derecho civil, dedicado en esta ocasión a la apreciación de la naturaleza desde el enfoque jurídico y las diversas relaciones entre las personas que tienen como fuente e interés protegido los objetos materiales....
by Alana Maurushat
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
How will governments and courts protect civil liberties in this new era of hacktivism? Ethical Hacking discusses the attendant moral and legal issues. The first part of the 21st century will likely go down in history as the era when ethical hackers opened governments and the line of transparency moved...
by Sérgio Gilberto Porto, Guilherme Athayde Porto
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 28, 2018
A presente obra contempla temas clássicos e contemporâneos do Direito Processual. Aponta a hoje irrecusável convivência do processo civil e do processo constitucional. Propõe a releitura de alguns institutos já bem conhecidos do processo civil, vez que presentes novos ingredientes sociais. No...
by David Mixner
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
"From my fear of coming out to coming on strong in the struggle for human rights, this is my American journey, the story of an outsider on the inside, a gay man proudly committed to a life of standing up for freedom.
"President Clinton and I were born three days apart. We had both...
Why I March
Images from The Women's March Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
New York Times Bestseller
Indiebound Bestseller
The Washington Post Bestseller
San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women’s March began with one cause, women’s rights, but quickly...
Brave Journeys
Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
In Stranger Among Friends, renowned activist, political adviser, and White House insider David Mixner offered a compelling account of his decades-long fight for human rights and the challenges he faced as a gay man in Washington. Now, in this new book written with collaborator Dennis Bailey, Mixner...
The Invisible Line
Land Reform, Land Tenure Security and Land Registration
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
During the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in issues of land reform in developing and transitional countries. This has been initiated by the large-scale re-distributive activities in former communist countries and by the growing number of claims by displaced indigenous population...
Bill of Wrongs
The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Throughout her long career of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” the cause closest to Molly Ivins’s heart was working to protect the freedoms we all value. Sadly, today we’re living in a time when dissent is equated with giving aid to terrorists, when any of us can...
The Rise of the American Corporate Security State
Six Reasons to Be Afraid
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In the United States today we have good reasons to be afraid. Our Bill of Rights is no more. It has been rendered pointless by heavy surveillance of average citizens, political persecution of dissenters, and the potential of indefinite detention now codified into law. Our democracy and freedoms are...
by Routledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law, leading public law scholars reflect on the nature and limits of the judicial role and its implications for human rights protection and democracy. The starting point for this reflection is Lord Sumption's lecture, 'The Limits of the Law', which grounds a...
Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights
Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Ronli Sifris challenges the view that torture only takes place within...
Neoliberalism as Exception
Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable...