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  • The State of Economic and Social Human Rights

    A Global Overview

    Edited by Lanse Minkler ...
    This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of non-discrimination, and includes an innovative section on 'meta' rights. The main chapters answer important questions ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Bold Scientists

    Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science

    by Michael Riordon ...
    As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems the powerful have declared a war on science.Michael Riordon asks deep questions of bold scientists who defy the status quo including: an Indigenous biologist who integrates traditional knowledge and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Abolition Democracy

    Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In early 2004, photographs came to light revealing extensive prisoner abuses, instances of torture, and other war crimes at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib detention center, committed by U.S. military and other government personnel. At the time, the Human Rights Watch confirmed that “the only exceptional aspect of the abuse at Abu Ghraib may have been that it was photographed." It is within this context ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Comradely Greetings

    The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj

    by Slavoj Zizek, Nadezhda Tololonnikova ...
    ”We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is used to hearing G flat.”In an extraordinary exchange of letters, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, imprisoned for taking part in Pussy Riot’s anti-Putin ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Inclusive Equality

    A Vision for Social Justice

    by Sally Witcher ...
    In an era of ongoing economic failures, as governments cut support to the poorest, the richest continue to get richer and those in-between are squeezed by rising costs and flagging incomes, the challenges for social cohesion – and for social justice – seem overwhelming. As inequality increases, it can become harder to empathise with life experiences far removed from our own, particularly when ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Egypt in Flux

    Essays on an Unfinished Revolution

    by Adel Iskandar ...
    No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist electoral victory to constitutional turmoil to societal polarization. Egypt's iconic revolution ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World Report 2017

    Events of 2016

    by Human Rights Watch ...
    The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Of Black Servitude Without Slavery

    The Unspoken Politics of the English Language

    by Agwu Ukiwe Okali ...
    The importance and influence of the English language in modern life cannot be gainsaid. Not only is there a large and growing number of people who communicate in it - about one quarter of the world’s population by some estimates - but it is by far the world’s favorite second language, that is, the language more people are likely to speak than any other in addition to their own native tongues. ... Read more

    $11.26 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Health and Human Rights

    by Professor Thérèse Murphy ...
    Series series Human Rights Law in Perspective
    This book aims to bolster the burgeoning discourse of health and human rights. In so doing, it charts the history of the linkage between health and human rights. It also pinpoints the sense of imperative that surrounds this relationship. More importantly, the book identifies a series of threats and challenges facing attempts to link health and human rights and proposes how these might be addressed ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights

    by Christopher N. J. Roberts ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Today, the idea of human rights enjoys near-universal support; yet, there is deep disagreement about what human rights actually are - their true source of origin, how to study them, and how best to address their deficits. In this sweeping historical exploration, Christopher N. J. Roberts traces these contemporary conflicts back to their moments of inception and shows how more than a half century ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights

    Edited by Ben Golder ...
    Law, Rights and Power: Re-Reading Foucault is the first collection in English to fully address the relevance of Foucault’s thought for law. Michel Foucault is the best known and most cited of the late twentieth-century’s ‘theory’ academics. His work continues to animate a range of different critical work across intellectual disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences. There has, ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The History of a Forgotten German Camp

    Nazi Ideology and Genocide at Szmalcówka

    by Tomasz Ceran ...
    Series series Genocide and Holocaust Studies
    Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to Nazi ideology. At the outset of World War II, Hitler initiated a process of 'depolonization' (Entpolonisierung) which resulted in the death or displacement of a significant number of Polish people living in Nazi-occupied territories. By examining policies of indirect extermination through a detailed study of Szmalcowka, a ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD