Civil Rights category: 2079 books
When Sorry Isn't Enough
The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
"How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their daughters had been raped even once?"
—Karen Parker, speaking before the U.N. Commission on Human Rights
Seemingly every week, a new question...
Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs
Philosophy for the White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. His contributions have spanned the major controversies of the War on Terror - including the morality and legality of torture, whether security can...
Turning Point
A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The former president's personal tale of political intrigue and social conflict during his first campaign for public office. Iluminates the origins of his commitment to human rights and bears further witness to the accomplishments of an extraordinary man.
Svend Robinson
A Life in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Few politicians have enraged opponents, frustrated colleagues and polarized Canadians like Svend Robinson — but few embraced the causes he did. Over his twenty–five years as a New Democrat MP, Robinson was imprisoned for blocking loggers from clear–cutting in Clayoquot Sound, assaulted by police...
A Passion for Justice
How 'Vinegar Jim' McRuer Became Canada's Greatest Law Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
This richly detailed biography illustrates how a determined Canadian seeking justice created an enduring legacy. Through vigorous battles, Jim McRuer’s passion for justice was translated into laws that daily touch and protect the lives of millions today.
James Chalmers McRuer was not easy...
by Henry Kroll, Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
This is an informative book of little known facts concerning U. S. involvement in the Middle East. The author examines the follow the money, international foreign policy of the United States and its allies. This chronological account presents a concise overview of government misinformation to further...
Religious Freedom in America
Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U.S. democratic experiment. But what freedom of conscience means, what its scope and limits are, according to the Constitution—these are matters for heated...
The Phenomenon of Torture
Readings and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to answer that question...
From Disgust to Humanity
Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual...
by Richard Bellamy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen of a modern, complex community? Why is citizenship important? Can we create citizenship, and can we test for it? In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, Richard Bellamy explores the answers to these questions...
Wild Grass
Three Stories of Change in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed...
Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico
Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Chile,...
The Soul of the First Amendment
Why Freedom of Speech Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A lively and controversial overview by the nation’s most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least...
by Christopher Alan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
What is the connection between philosophy and law--or, more specifically, the common law? Moreover, what actually is the specific philosophy that can hold the common law (thus our rights) in place? Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University...