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“rebekka friedman”

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  • Competing Memories

    Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Peru

    by Rebekka Friedman ...
    The aftermath of modern conflicts, deeply rooted in political, economic and social structures, leaves pervasive and often recurring legacies of violence. Addressing past injustice is therefore fundamental not only for societal well-being and peace, but also for future conflict prevention. In recent years, truth and reconciliation commissions have become important but contentious mechanisms for ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

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  • Another Day in the Death of America

    A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

    by Gary Younge ...
    Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism****Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non FictionOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • What I Saw in America

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    "What I Saw in America" is a group of essays by using the famend ENG author G. K. Chesterton, providing his eager observations and reflections at the United States in the course of his go to inside the early Twenties. Chesterton, celebrated for his wit and highbrow intensity, brings a completely unique and sometimes paradoxical attitude to his analysis of American society and tradition. Throughout ... Read more

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  • In the Heart of America and Other Plays

    by Naomi Wallace ...
    Naomi Wallace's plays speak the underside of life. Her characters suffer and survive against the enormous weight of the times with a dignity that inspires. Her work challenges the audience and reader to reexamine the conflicts and meaning of our everyday lives through her singular, poetic imagery and language.Includes: One Flea SpareIn the Heart of AmericaSlaughter CityThe War BoysThe Trestle at ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Myth of the Age of Entitlement

    Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

    by James Cairns ...
    We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Ghost of the Innocent Man

    A True Story of Trial and Redemption

    by Benjamin Rachlin ...
    A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism

    Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions

    by Shona N. Jackson, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Steven Ratuva, Cenk Saraçoglu, Diana Thorburn ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies
    Celebrants of an ever-emerging "globalization" fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one "commodity" in its place: the labor commodity or, the more familiar, immigrant. Arguments of this type ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Extreme Gone Mainstream

    Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany

    by Cynthia Miller-Idriss ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    How extremism is going mainstream in Germany through clothing brands laced with racist and nationalist symbolsThe past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people—in other words, that have ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Broadcasting the End of Apartheid

    Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa

    by Martha Evans ...
    South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid. While the ruling National Party feared the integrative effects of television, they did not foresee how exclusion from globally unifying broadcasts would gradually erode their power. South Africa was barred from participating in some of ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • Unlocked Memories

    Young Russians under German Rule

    by Alexey Vinogradov, Albert Pleysier ...
    Unlocked Memories is a collection of memories that were shared by Russians who witnessed the German invasion of the Leningrad region in 1941. All were children or young people during World War Two and nearly all were natives of Luga, Oredezh, or villages that were clustered around these two towns. Each lived under German rule after the Leningrad region was overrun and occupied by the enemy.The ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD