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  • The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law

    by Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier ...
    Translated by Laura Brav, Camille Michel ...
    Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges. Central concerns include the war on terror, new forms of armed conflict and humanitarian action, the emergence of international criminal justice, and the reshaping of fundamental rules and consensus in a multipolar world. ... Read more

    $142.19 CAD

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  • Spying on Democracy

    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

    by Heidi Boghosian ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Pity

    People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

    by Joseph P. Shapiro ...
    “A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post“The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune“Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Kindly Inquisitors

    The New Attacks on Free Thought

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    The classic "compelling defense of free speech against its new enemies" now in an expanded edition with a foreword by George F. Will ( Kirkus Reviews)."A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Acting for Freedom

    Fifty Years of Civil Liberties in Canada

    by Marian Botsford Fraser, Joseph Boyden ...
    The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians and their rights as citizens. Through a series of discussions and interviews, a picture of Canada over the last half-century evolves. From the Charter of Freedoms to life and death matters such as ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Privacy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, concerns about individual privacy have significantly increased. The Internet generates risks, unimagined even twenty years ago, to the ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Gay Marriage

    The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution

    by Sylvain Larocque ...
    Translated by Louisa Blair, Robert Chodos ...
    A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada.Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage.As a political correspondent for The Canadian Press, Sylvain Larocque had a front-row seat for this battle in the fight for gay rights in Canada. He recounts the story here on every level, from the legal decisions to the social impact to the political ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Science of Right (Illustrated)

    by Immanuel Kant, Timeless Books: Editor ...
    The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.Immanuel Kant was a great philosopher and one of the founders of the modern system of philosophy. He is in the row with the greatest thinkers as Aristotle, Isaac Newton, John Locke, David Hume, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and John Stuart Mill. Their thoughts had strong influence on building the foundation of the United States ... Read more

    $1.64 CAD

  • Freedom of Speech

    Mightier Than the Sword

    by David K. Shipler ...
    A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in AmericaWith his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical American ideal: freedom of speech. Anchored in personal stories—sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, ... Read more

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  • The Assault on Liberty

    What Went Wrong with Rights

    by Dominic Raab ...
    An urgent and necessary polemic on the government’s assault on our fundamental freedoms and the proliferation of Human Rights.From 42 days detention to ASBOs, as citizens of modern Britain we are seeing some of our fundamental freedoms being pawned off cheaply in the name of security. At the same time, a whole range of novel, and comparatively trivial, rights are being handed out like sweets. Why? ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Living with Guns

    A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment

    by Craig Whitney ...
    Newtown. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Tucson. Aurora. Gun violence on a massive scale has become a plague in our society, yet politicians seem more afraid of having a serious conversation about guns than they are of the next horrific shooting. Any attempt to change the status quo, whether to strengthen gun regulations or weaken them, is sure to degenerate into a hysteria that changes nothing. Our ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Working Law

    Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights

    by Lauren B. Edelman ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more so when you look at high-level positions. They also tend to be less well paid. How is it that discrimination remains so prevalent in the American ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD