Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Madame, Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommage de cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimer ainsi, l’époque de la Liberté...
by Christopher Lasch
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The world of nations is the world men have made, in contrast to the world of nature. Seeking to understand the civil society Americans have made, Christopher Lasch, author of The Agony of the American Left, reexamines the liberal and radical traditions in the United States and the limitations of both, along the way challenging a number of accepted interpretations of American history.
Killing Time
An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola prison and confined to his cell twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial...
Occupy
Three Inquiries in Disobedience
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors’ lead and perform their own resonant...
How America Was Lost
From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad, Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of their government running amok. People forget the myriad instances of their government's flouting of the Constitution and international legal norms-- if ever they were aware of them...
Rise of the Warrior Cop
The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, over the last several decades, America's...
The Challenge
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
An inspiring legal thriller set against the backdrop of the war on terror, The Challenge tells the inside story of a historic Supreme Court showdown. At its center are a Navy JAG and a young constitutional law professor who, in the aftermath of 9/11, find themselves defending their nation in the unlikeliest...
Communicating Security
Civil-Military Relations in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book analyzes the changes and tendencies expressed in the relation between army and society in Israel.
Since its inception, Israel has been defined as a nation in arms, a public space in which the security needs became central and, to a great extent, dictated the agenda and functioning...
by Aj Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
The Flaming Bullet attempts to determine all root causes of the disturbances manifest across England in August 2011. It compares recent findings with past riots and their associated motivations. Added to this, it explores racial prejudice, social injustice, civil liberties and taboos pertaining to...
False Dawn
Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. Egypt remains an authoritarian state, Syria and Yemen are in the midst of devastating civil wars, Libya has descended...
Fear and Crime in Latin America
Redefining State-Society Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored by social sciences. However, it has a deep social, cultural and economic impact and may even contribute to define the very structures of the state. In Latin America, fear of crime has become an important stumbling...
Privacy on the Line
The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
A penetrating and insightful study of privacy and security in telecommunications for a post-9/11, post-Patriot Act world.
Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11...
Death Grip
Loosening the Law's Stranglehold over Economic Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Clint Bolick examines the assault on economic liberty brought about by the 19th century's Slaughter-House Cases. He explains how those cases nullified the privileges or immunities clause of the 14th Amendment and how the repercussions continue to manifest themselves today. Bolick offers hope for the...
Summary of A More Perfect Union
by Ben Carson, MD & Candy Carson | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Summary of A More Perfect Union by Ben Carson, MD & Candy Carson | Includes Analysis Preview: A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Protect Our Constitutional Liberties is a book by Ben Carson, MD, and his wife, Candy Carson. This book explores the intricacies...