A damning account of the latest transformation in mass incarceration, revealing how powerful nonprofits and so-called progressives used the language of social movements to build new jails.
The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world's most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades.
Written by the refugees themselves, this highly original anthology of Palestinians forced to live outside their homeland brings together stories of what it means to be exiled, reflections on the events that led to being displaced, and the raw experience of daily life in a camp.
Abstracts:Heike Baranzke: Menschenwürde zwischen Recht und PflichtNach den Menschenrechtsverletzungen des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde der Menschenwürdebegriff in die Charta der Vereinten Nationen (1945) und in die Allgemeine Menschenrechtserklärung (1948) und daraufhin dann auch in das Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1949) aufgenommen.
The New York Times bestseller and 'Bible of a social movement' (San Francisco Chronicle)Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement.
Pastor and former police officer Philip De Courcy calls on Christians to take refuge in God (Psalm 46:1), drawing on lessons he learned in law enforcement to affirm that true security is not the absense of danger, but the presence of God.
La responsabilidad por los daños ocasionados en el ejercicio de actividades peligrosas ha sido uno de los temas más controvertidos en el derecho civil contemporáneo y ha originado diversos debates que han girado en torno, principalmente, al criterio de imputación de la responsabilidad, oscilando entre quienes creen que debe permanecer dentro del dominio de la culpa y quienes consideran que la imputación debe prescindir del reproche subjetivo de la conducta y proponen diversos criterios objetivos para fundamentarla.
Der Schweizer Journalist Victor Kocher geht den Auswüchsen einer Kontrollgesellschaft nach, die unter dem Deckmantel des Anti-Terrorkampfes unschuldigen Menschen ihre Bürgerrechte entzieht.
In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.
A half-century into the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Israel's Occupation at Fifty brings together eminent political leaders, scholars, and activists for a wide-ranging, at times contentious, and remarkably fruitful discussion of the region's fate.
A finales del siglo pasado, tras dos décadas de globalización neoliberal, criminólogos, sociólogos y penalistas comenzaron a darse cuenta de un fenómeno extraño: los delitos disminuían y, sin embargo, la población reclusa aumentaba.
One of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced by the establishment of Israel.
The Full Moons is an exploration of the Sun the Moon, the Truth and their interrelation, and it is the culmination of over ten years of letters the author has written on esoteric astrology.
»Das sowohl politische wie jüdische Opfer, das ich war und bin, kann nicht schweigen, wenn unter dem Banner des Anti-Zionismus der alte miserable Antisemitismus sich wieder hervorwagt.
Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.
In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
The Full Moons is an exploration of the Sun the Moon, the Truth and their interrelation, and it is the culmination of over ten years of letters the author has written on esoteric astrology.
In 1988 after decades as an anti-apartheid activist and member of the ANC Albie Sachs lost his right arm and an eye when his car was blown up by South African security agents.
In his nearly thirty years at CBS News, Emmy Awardwinner Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business.
All of us should condemn terrorism--whether the perpetrators are Muslim extremists, white supremacists, Marxist revolutionaries, or our own government.
'Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017' Vogue 'Glorious' Sunday Times'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Times'Extraordinary' Observer'Exceptional' Telegraph'Electric' New York Times'Snort-out-loud' Financial Times'Dazzling' Guardian'Do yourself a favour and read this memoir!
Shamans Dream : the Modoc War is a literary non-fiction account of the 1873 standoff between besieged Modoc Indians and the United States Army on the California/Oregon border.
'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia OzickThe prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism -- and explains what we can do to defeat itOn 27 October 2018 Bari Weiss's childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in American history.
