Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Peter Tinti, Tuesday Reitano
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior investigates one of the most under-examined aspects of the great migration crisis of our time. As millions seek passage to Europe, in order to escape violent conflicts, repressive governments, and crushing poverty, their movements are enabled and actively encouraged...
Post-War Borneo, 1945-1950
Nationalism, Empire and State-Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book discusses...
The Beauty Bias
The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
"It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep,...
Altreconomia 201 - Febbraio 2018
Clima, il cambiamento è già qui
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In questo numero:
- Reportage dal Kenya, dove il cambiamento climatico è realtà. Così il Lago Turkana sta scomparendo;
- Human Rights Defenders: come tutelare gli eroi di questo secolo. Intervista a Michel Forst, Relatore speciale delle Nazioni Unite sulla situazione dei difensori...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book is a collection of papers written by researchers, lawyers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of law, communication and arts. The topics include women rights in Turkey, witness statement as evidence in Turkish law, legal regulations about...
The Politics of Belonging
Intersectional Contestations
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
"This is an in-depth examination of a slippery and contradictory subject. Knowledge alone is not enough for this type of project. It takes breaking out of narrow conceptual cages and unsettling what we think of as stable meanings. The author brings all of this to life in often unforgettable ways."
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by Stephen Leacock
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This volume contains Stephen Leacock’s 1942 wartime treatise, "Our Heritage of Liberty - Its Origin, Its Achievement, Its Crisis". This fascinating and thought-provoking text will appeal to those with an interest in war-inspired literature, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections...
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Social Contract" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in...
Dreamers
An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Dreamers is a movement book for the generation brought to the United States as children—and now fighting to live here legally
Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up here, going to elementary,...
Unpeople
Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Britain is complicit in the deaths of ten million people.
These are Unpeople - those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of Britain's economic and political goals.
In Unpeople, Mark Curtis shows that the Blair government is deepening its support for many states promoting...
by Charles Rembar
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Sixteen essays about the First Amendment from the man who changed the way America reads literature
A lawyer, literary agent, and author, Charles Rembar never stopped fighting against the puritanical laws that prevented Americans from consuming controversial art. These so-called anti-obscenity...
Liberty's Pimp in Congress
Silencing America's Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Is it OK with you that D.C. politicians silence your free speech to make their job easier?
Then they complain about it:
From the 114th session, when Democrats were the minority party, a committee report said:
The Rules Committee is the instrument Republicans used to break both Speakers’...
by Erinne Paisley
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Being a feminist can mean different things to different people, but one thing it always includes is the belief in equality and human rights. Whether you are talking with one close friend or hanging out with a group of classmates, it matters what you say and how you say it. Not everyone is going to...
Uneven Roads
An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Uneven Roads helps you grasp how, when, and why race and ethnicity matter in U.S. politics. Using the metaphor of a road, with twists, turns, and dead ends, this incisive text takes you on a journey to understanding political racialization and the roots of modern interpretations of race and ethnicity....