Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges.
They Make a Difference: Men Say NO contains a selection of nine interviews conducted by journalist Hada Sarhan during the tumultuous years following the 2003 occupation of Iraq.
From the earliest meetings of the Civil Rights Movement to offering the benediction for the first African American President of the United States, Rev.
A groundbreaking history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of modern Europe.
Long before he was considered a top prospective presidential candidate for 2012-even before he landed on John McCain's short list of potential running mates in 2008-Governor Tim Pawlenty had already earned legendary status in conservative circles.
In this groundbreaking book, now available in softcover, acclaimed researcher and author George Barna identifies, describes, and analyzes seven major "e;faith tribes"e; in America-documenting who they are, what they believe, how they vote, and what they are passionate about.
How America can achieve greater racial equality in the post-civil rights eraWith the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage.
Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill s On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support of the value of liberty.
This autobiography of a slaves rise to distinction asserts that a strong work ethic and excellence in whatever one is doing will be rewarded no matter what race or what position a person holds in life.
A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive warOn July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country.
The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of-and indeed reactions to-the central event of that history: emancipation.
A new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisisHow can society cope with the diaspora of the twenty-first century?
In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, weaving a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement told by the people who lived it.
This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines.
A compelling framework for understanding the importance of the 1970s for America and the worldThe 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large.
Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis______________________________________'An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses .
The definitive biography of the playwright who become a president: Vaclav Havel, the final president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the new Czech RepublicVaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy.
A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United NationsNo Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today.
An impassioned defence of the civil liberties and the rule of law in the face of increasing pressure for ever greater 'security'A rollicking defence of Freedom and Enlightenment in the style of Tom Paine or William Godwin' Spectator'The even-handed tone of philosophy professor AC Grayling's latest book does not lessen the intensity of its polemical content .
Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity.
Terrorism, black poverty, and economic exploitation produced a condition of collective trauma and social suffering for thousands of black Deltans in the Twentieth Century.
This classic ethnography, now in its second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea.
