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  • The Knock on the Door

    The Story of the Detainees' Parents Support Committee

    de Terry Shakinovsky, Sharon Court ...
    The Detainees’ Parents Support Committee (DPSC) was started in 1981 in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was set up by the parents, spouses and families of activists who were detained and had no recourse to legal intervention. Many in this movement had not been politically involved.Members of the DPSC stood on street corners with placards calling for the release of their children. They organised food ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Mauritanian (originally published as Guantánamo Diary)

    de Larry Siems ...
    The "profound and disturbing" national bestseller written by a Guantánamo prisoner—now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster ( The New York Times Book Review).When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantánamo Diary in 2015—heavily redacted by the U.S. government—Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD

  • My Traitor's Heart

    A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

    de Rian Malan ...
    An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in " a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage" (Michael Kerr).Rian Malan's classic work of reportage, My Traitor's Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways that earned him comparisons to Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuściński, and inspired the London Times to call him "South ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Two Freedoms

    Canada's Global Future

    de Hugh Segal ...
    Series Libro 3 - Point of View
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016A bold call for a Canadian foreign policy that advances the basic freedoms that enable peace, stability, development, and security.What ends should a democratic country’s foreign policy serve? Avoiding diplomatic disputes? Keeping allies happy? Promoting national and global security? While a qualified yes is the logical answer to all of these secondary questions, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Shooting Up

    A Short History of Drugs and War

    de Lukasz Kamienski ...
    Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is over. ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

  • A Tolerable Anarchy

    de Jedediah Purdy ...
    In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country’s best—and worst—moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits of famous American lives, like Frederick Douglas and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Purdy asks crucial questions about our relationship to liberty: Does ... Leer más

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  • Saudi Arabia

    A Kingdom in Peril

    de Paul Aarts, Carolien Roelants ...
    The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared all forms of protest to be against Islam. Saudi dollars bent events to the Kingdom's will in the Arab world-particularly in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, but also in Egypt and ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • The Gun Debate

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    de Philip J. Cook, Kristin A. Goss ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for decades. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know® delves into the issues that Americans debate ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Umkhonto we Sizwe

    The ANC’s Armed Struggle

    de Thula Simpson ...
    The armed struggle waged by the ANC’s military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was the longest sustained insurgency in South African history. This book offers the first full account of the rebellion in its entirety, from its early days in the 1950s to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as South African president in 1994.Vast in scope, this story traverses every corner of South Africa and extends ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • NAMA-Land

    The Inside Story of Ireland's Property Sell-off and The Creation of a New Elite

    de Frank Connolly ...
    The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) was created in 2009 to contain the spiralling fallout from Ireland's property crisis. Its job as Ireland's 'bad bank' was to act impartially to get the maximum return from the sale of assets for the Irish people and help pay down the state's massive debts. Now, after NAMA has presided over the transfer of €70 billion in assets, the Irish economy is once ... Leer más

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  • Theocracy: Can Democracy Survive Fundamentalism?

    Resolving the Conflict Between Fundamentalism and Pluralism

    de P. J. Tierney ...
    During the past forty years, there has been extraordinary growth in the impact of religion on nations all over the world. The number of religious adherents has spiked, their zeal has intensified, and their political influence has expanded dramatically. Religious zeal has become the single most significant cause of conflicts between nations and of power struggles within nations.In Theocracy: Can ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa, 1993

    de John C. Eby, Fred Morton ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is facing tremendous social anxiety and violence. The object of the talks, and of the game, is to reach consensus for a constitution that will guide a post-apartheid South Africa. The country has immense racial diversity — white, black, Colored, Indian. For ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD