The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)

The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
Fredrick Harris (Author)
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Human Rights

The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains an irony: he won a victory as an African American only by denying that he should discuss issues that target the concerns of African Americans. Obama's very success, writes Fredrick Harris, exacted a heavy cost on black politics.

In The Price of the Ticket, Harris puts Obama's career in the context of decades of black activism, showing how his election undermined the very movement that made it possible. The path to his presidency began just before passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, when black leaders began to discuss strategies to make the most of their new access to the ballot. Some argued that black voters should organize into a cohesive, independent bloc to promote both targeted and universal polices; others urged a more race-neutral approach, working together with other racial minorities as well as like-minded whites. This has been the fundamental divide within black politics ever since. At first, the gap did not seem serious. But the post-civil-rights era has accelerated a shift towards race-neutral politics. Obama made a point of distancing himself from older race-conscious black leaders, such as Jesse Jackson- and leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus-even though, as Harris shows, he owes much to Jackson's earlier campaigns for the White House. Unquestionably Obama's approach won support among whites, but Harris finds the results troublesome. The social problems targeted by an earlier generation of black politicians--racial disparities in income and education, stratospheric incarceration and unemployment rates--all persist, yet Obama's election, ironically, marginalized those issues, keeping them off the political agenda. Meanwhile, the civil-rights movement's militancy to attack the vestiges of racial inequality is fading.

Written by one of America's leading scholars of race and politics, The Price of the Ticket will reshape our understanding of the rise of Barack Obama and the decline of a politics dedicated to challenging racial inequality head on.

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• Published on: 2014-01-02
• Original language: English
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• 240 pages

Sweet Land of Liberty: Government of the People, by the People; for the People

Sweet Land of Liberty: Government of the People, by the People; for the People
Shirley D. Hunter (Author)

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I had a fantasy that I could get someone else to write their version of this book. Someone with stature or standing. I never got past first base with that dream.

It began with the massacre at Sandy Hook. I changed overnight from someone with little interest in politics (shame on me), to a person obsessed with knowing what was happening and why. The more ugliness I unearthed, the more horrified I became at the change from the representative democracy I emigrated to, to the current state of plutocracy.

What I was discovering reminded me of a book by A. Powell Davies, minister of All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C. around Joseph McCarthy's time. I re-read the book with an ever growing sense of alarm and urgency the comparison of then and now awoke in me. The democratic republic was being destroyed.

This book is about my personal journey of political enlightenment, and the realization of what my part must be from now on as a citizen of the amazing and brave experiment which is America. Let me take you along.

Benjamin Franklin, one of the Convention delegates, recognized the fragility of the system the framers created in the Constitution. When asked what had been devised, he replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." So America became a republic, a form of government which has a president who is elected, and representatives elected by, and responsible to the people. The sovereign power is held by the people. We must be guardians and manifestations of that power.

Clearly today politicians are not working for "We the people." They are working for the super-rich. Billionaires whose money grants them power. The particular billionaires whose greedy addiction to money is rationalized into a sense of entitlement. Money rules all. Guns; ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council); Oil and Gas and Pollution; Monsanto and GMOs; Climate Change and the Environment; the repression of "Breakthrough Energy"; the 911 Cover-up; the Government shutdown. Money owns politics. Elections and campaigns are shaped by money. Not by "We the People" but by money.

A huge gap has been slowly developing between billionaires and the middle class and poor. Citizens united is an incomprehensible decision by the Supreme Court that corporations deserve the same rights as people. Collective bargaining is being strangled. Hunger is becoming a big problem in the US and safety nets are disappearing. The military, defense and security system has been increasing in size, wealth and complexity, and no one seems to have a handle on how much money is being poured into it. Human rights are being lost. Wall Street banks have been declared too big to fail, and have been bailed out from their gambling losses with taxpayers' money. The latest horror is the free trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership which would surrender America's right to determine our own consumer, health, safety, labor, privacy and environmental regulations.

I was politically asleep for 40 years!

The book describes my discoveries in detail. It has a chapter devoted to activism: organizations which are activist, publications which are political; organizations which check rumors and debunk myths. Personal involvement ranges from signing petitions, to making phone calls, to marching with other activists, to demonstrating, to donating money, to writing. Whatever we each can contribute. There are links to 220 references, many of which lead to other links.

My obsession with discovery became an obsession to write about what I found and the solutions I had found, even although I'm not a political scientist. My qualifications are of being an immigrant who had an awakening, among other immigrants or descendants of immigrants. The only way for America to return to representative democracy is through the actions of "We the people" who have the collective power. Wake up America!

Shirley D. Hunter

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• Published on: 2013-12-18
• Released on: 2013-12-18
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Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference

Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
Warren St. John (Author)
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The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkston’s refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees.

Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the center of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the soccer field while holding together their lives—and the lives of their families—in the face of a series of daunting challenges.

This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community—and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world.


From the Hardcover edition.

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• Published on: 2009-12-01
• Released on: 2009-12-01
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

DDR Posters: The Art of East German Propaganda

DDR Posters: The Art of East German Propaganda
David Heather (Author)

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Human Rights

Made available to the public for the first time, these posters from the archives of the German Historical Museum reveal a regime determined to influence and control the citizens of East Germany. In the age of the internet, poster art is fading into history, but its importance as historical document remains valuable and enlightening. An inexpensive and efficient means of mass communication, the poster was used extensively by Communist regimes in order to maintain state control. This collection of 150 of the most outstanding works from a selection of more than 10,000 posters archived by the German Historical Museum features works that are both poignant and valid in light of current global politics. Although propaganda posters were used in a variety of communist countries, those that emanated from East Germany are unique in their subtlety and nuanced messages. Many posters appropriate American or Western European symbols and others used humor to get their point across. Grouped chronologically according to such themes as post-war years, the prospect of peace, denouncement of the West, and praise for Communist allies, these beautifully reproduced works provide a historical and cultural snapshot of East Germany during its entire history.

• Rank: #218354 in Books
• Published on: 2014-05-25
• Released on: 2014-05-25
• Original language: German
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

The Nonviolence Handbook: A Guide for Practical Action

The Nonviolence Handbook: A Guide for Practical Action
Michael Nagler (Author), Ann Wright (Foreword)

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Human Rights

Despite the fact that two of the 20th century’s most monumental revolutions achieved their aims through nonviolent action, the world continues to view nonviolence as a passive, ineffectual tactic. In this short and powerful book, renowned peace activist Michael Nagler challenges this assertion, demonstrating that nonviolence succeeds through aggressively strategic and sustained action. It demands greater courage and discipline than violence.

Distilling the core theories of nonviolence and drawing deeply from the lives of leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., this action-oriented handbook offers both guidance for nonviolent resistance and advice for building constructive movements capable of restructuring the very bedrock of society. Nagler also includes stories of successful nonviolent resistance that have been ignored by the mass media. The book features a list of resources that offer pathways to immediate action and engagement with the peace movement worldwide.

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• Published on: 2014-04-14
• Original language: English
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• 96 pages

International Human Rights, Decolonisation and Globalisation: Becoming Human (Routledge Studies in International Law)

International Human Rights, Decolonisation and Globalisation: Becoming Human (Routledge Studies in International Law)
Shelley Wright (Author)

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Covering a diverse range of topics, case studies and theories, the author undertakes a critique of the principal assumptions on which the existing international human rights regime has been constructed. She argues that the decolonization of human rights, and the creation of a global community that is conducive to the well-being of all humans, will require a radical restructuring of our ways of thinking, researching and writing. In contributing to this restructuring she brings together feminist and indigenous approaches as well as postmodern and post-colonial scholarship, engaging directly with some of the prevailing orthodoxies, such as 'universality', 'the individual', 'self-determination', 'cultural relativism', 'globalization' and 'civil society'.

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• Published on: 2013-12-14
• Original language: English
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• 288 pages

The Law of Refugee Status

The Law of Refugee Status
James C. Hathaway (Author), Michelle Foster (Author)

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Human Rights

The first edition of The Law of Refugee Status (published in 1991) is generally regarded as the seminal text on interpreting the refugee definition set by the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention. Its groundbreaking analysis served as the bedrock for not only much judicial reasoning, but also for a burgeoning academic literature in law and related fields. This second edition builds on the strong critical focus and human rights orientation of the first edition, but undertakes an entirely original analysis of the jurisprudence of leading common law and select civil law states. The authors provide robust responses to the most difficult questions of refugee status in a clear and direct way. The result is a comprehensive and truly global analysis of the central question in asylum law: who is a refugee?

• Rank: #218145 in Books
• Published on: 2014-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 896 pages

Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda (Africa and the Diaspora)

Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda (Africa and the Diaspora)
Susan Thomson (Author)

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For 100 days in 1994, genocide engulfed Rwanda. Since then, many in the international community have praised the country's postgenocide government for its efforts to foster national unity and reconciliation by downplaying ethnic differences and promoting "one Rwanda for all Rwandans." Examining how ordinary rural Rwandans experience and view these policies, Whispering Truth to Power challenges the conventional wisdom on postgenocide Rwanda.            Susan Thomson finds that many of Rwanda's poorest citizens distrust the local officials charged with implementing the state program and believe that it ignores the deepest problems of the countryside: lack of land, jobs, and a voice in policies that affect lives and livelihoods. Based on interviews with dozens of Rwandan peasants and government officials, this book reveals how the nation's disenfranchised poor have been engaging in everyday resistance, cautiously and carefully—"whispering" their truth to the powers that be. This quiet opposition, Thomson argues, suggests that some of the nation's most celebrated postgenocide policies have failed to garner the grassroots support needed to sustain peace.

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• Published on: 2013-11-26
• Original language: English
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• 288 pages

Hidden Genocides (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)

Hidden Genocides (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
Professor Alexander Laban Hinton (Editor, Contributor), Thomas La Pointe (Editor), Douglas Irvin-Erickson (Editor), A. Dirk Moses (Contributor), Elisa von Joeden-Forgey (Contributor), Daniel Feierstein (Contributor), Donna-Lee Frieze (Contributor), Mato Nunpa (Contributor), Walter Richmond (Contributor), Adam Jones (Contributor), Hannibal Travis (Contributor), Krista Hegburg (Contributor)

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Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well.

Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies.

Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

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• Published on: 2013-12-18
• Released on: 2013-11-us.html
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Modern African Writing Series)

491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Modern African Writing Series)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (Author), Ahmed Kathrada (Foreword)

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Human Rights

On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten.

Rounded up in a group of other antiapartheid activists under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act, designed for the security police to hold and interrogate people for as long as they wanted, she was taken away. She had no idea where they were taking her or what would happen to her children. For Winnie Mandela, this was the start of 491 days of detention and two trials.

Forty-one years after Winnie Mandela’s release on September 14, 1970, Greta Soggot, the widow of one of the defense attorneys from the 1969?A70 trials, handed her a stack of papers that included a journal and notes she had written while in detention, most of the time in solitary confinement. Their reappearance brought back to Winnie vivid and horrifying memories and uncovered for the rest of us a unique and personal slice of South Africa’s history.

491 Days: Prisoner number 1323/69 shares with the world Winnie Mandela’s moving and compelling journal along with some of the letters written between several affected parties at the time, including Winnie and Nelson Mandela, himself then a prisoner on Robben Island for nearly seven years. Readers will gain insight into the brutality she experienced and her depths of despair, as well as her resilience and defiance under extreme pressure. This young wife and mother emerged after 491 days in detention unbowed and determined to continue the struggle for freedom.

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• Published on: 2014-03-15
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions)

Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions)
Thomas Paine (Author)
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Human Rights

One of Paine's greatest and most widely read works, considered a classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism, defends the early events of the French Revolution, supports social security for workers, public employment for those in need of work, abolition of laws limiting wages, and other social reforms.

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• Published on: 1999-05-14
• Released on: 1999-05-14
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Human InSecurity: Fear, Deprivation and Abuse in India

Human InSecurity: Fear, Deprivation and Abuse in India
Ram Mashru (Author)

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Human Rights

Reports on India’s chronic social and political evils have become impossible to avoid, and commentators have treated them as distinct problems. But this tendency to compartmentalise has obscured the many complex and interconnected factors that drive the stories of fear, deprivation and abuse in India. Ram Mashru drills beneath the news reports to identify those factors. This book takes a novel approach by relying on theory, and Human Security is adopted as a lens to examine India’s persistent social and political challenges. Ram examines three case studies – inter-ethnic violence, displacement and torture – to produce compelling answers to the question, ‘What are the causes of insecurity in India and what should be done about them?’

Ram Mashru is a commentator and researcher specialising in the politics, international relations, human rights and economics of South Asia. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, he has had articles published in leading publications internationally and has carried out research for think tanks and for the Universities of London, Oxford and Harvard. Human InSecurity: Fear, Deprivation and Abuse in India is his first book. He can be followed on Twitter @RamMashru.

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• Published on: 2013-12-09
• Released on: 2013-12-09
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Biko: A Life

Biko: A Life
Xolela Mangcu (Author), Nelson Mandela (Foreword)

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Human Rights

Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader, a pivotal figure in South African history. As a leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created the Black Consciousness Movement, the grassroots organization which would mobilize a large proportion of the black urban population. His death in policy custody at the age of just 30 robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders. Although the rudimentary facts of his life - and death - are well known, there has until now been no in-depth book on this major political figure and the impact of his life and tragic death. Xolela Mangcu, who knew Biko, provides the first in-depth look at the life of one of the most iconic figures of the anti-apartheid movement, whose legacy is still strongly felt today, both in South Africa, and worldwide in the global struggle for civil rights, today.

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• Published on: 2013-11-26
• Released on: 2013-11-26
• Original language: English
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• 352 pages

Robert Gentry

Robert Gentry
Gary Simmmons (Author)
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In 1950, a wounded Korean veteran returns to the Mississippi Delta. He marries a neighbor’s daughter after losing his lifelong sweetheart to a local banker’s son.
One hot Sunday afternoon he comes home to find the sheriff in his front yard. His wife lies on their bed murdered with her own stockings.
Robert Gentry is the only suspect. This causes him to face a murder charge he didn't commit. In the Mississippi Delta, this incident normally wouldn't make the news. For reasons only known to Robert. He refuses to tell his where abouts all afternoon and whom he was keeping company.
With this action, the plot thickens.
Robert finds out he has friends in high places. For 232 pages, you will read about how one young man sets the whole delta and its culture on one ear. Even while going through this crisis he still makes time for the love of his life, Molly. Who happens to come from one of the oldest and richest families in the area.
This is a book that you will have no idea of what you will find on the next page.
If you are a mystery expert, you may figure out who killed young Jane Gentry but odds are against you that you will figure out who witnessed it and blackmailed the killer.

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• Published on: 2013-11-17
• Released on: 2013-11-17
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Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I)

Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I)
Diana Allan (Author)

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Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four generations—as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it comes at a tremendous cost for refugees themselves, overlooking their individual memories and aspirations and obscuring their collective culture in exile.

Refugees of the Revolution is an evocative and provocative examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut. Challenging common assumptions about Palestinian identity and nationalist politics, Diana Allan provides an immersive account of camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with poverty and marginalization, and plan––pragmatically and speculatively—for the future. She gives unprecedented attention to credit associations, debt relations, electricity bartering, emigration networks, and NGO provisions, arguing that a distinct Palestinian identity is being forged in the crucible of local pressures.

What would it mean for the generations born in exile to return to a place they never left? Allan addresses this question by rethinking the relationship between home and homeland. In so doing, she reveals how refugees are themselves pushing back against identities rooted in a purely nationalist discourse. This groundbreaking book offers a richly nuanced account of Palestinian exile, and presents new possibilities for the future of the community.

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• Published on: 2013-11-13
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 328 pages

Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man

Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man
Richard Stengel (Author)

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SOLUTIONS, A Wiseacre's Guide For Cleaning Up The New World Odor

SOLUTIONS, A Wiseacre's Guide For Cleaning Up The New World Odor
Philip Kosdan (Author)

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Human Rights

Beyond The Left and The Right, Solutions, A Wiseacre's Guide is a creative reorganization of economics, politics and society. A good new world order need not be authoritarian nor uncaring. Everyone can be taken care of while allowing individual freedom. How to get from here to there and clean up the mess without the current political rancor going nowhere is the purpose of this book.

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• Published on: 2013-12-04
• Released on: 2013-12-04
• Format: Kindle eBook

RKBA: Defending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

RKBA: Defending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Skip Coryell (Author)
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Human Rights

Columbine and Virginia Tech were not good omens. The victims there were unarmed sheep, who hid beneath desks and chairs, simply cowering as they died. They said “Baa” as they were being slaughtered. Something basic to our society has to change. It’s time to stand and fight while we still can. And if our politicians tell us we can’t protect our children in a daycare center, a post office, or a church, then we show them the door. We vote them out. We recall them. We take out the trash! That’s the attitude that America was founded on. Somewhere along the timeline, America has lost it’s way, we’ve lost our instinct for survival; it’s no longer “fight or flight”; it’s just plain “cower and die”!

Don't cower in the face of crime! Read this book and make your stand. That's one of the themes in Skip Coryell's new book "RKBA: Defending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms".

• Rank: #196295 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-11-22
• Released on: 2013-11-22
• Format: Kindle eBook

The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem

The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem
Ethan Gutman (Author)

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Human Rights

The inside story of China's organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong.

Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark conclusion of this comprehensive investigation into the Chinese state's secret program to get rid of political dissidents while profiting from the sale of their organs--in many cases to Western recipients. Based on interviews with top-ranking police officials and Chinese doctors who have killed prisoners on the operating table, veteran China analyst Ethan Gutmann has produced a riveting insider's account--culminating in a death toll that will shock the world.  

Why would the Chinese leadership encourage such a dangerous perversion of their medical system? To solve the puzzle, Gutmann journeyed deep into the dissident archipelago of Falun Gong, Tibetans, Uighurs and House Christians, uncovering an ageless drama of resistance, eliciting confessions of deep betrayal and moments of ecstatic redemption.

In an age of compassion fatigue, Gutmann relies on one simple truth: those who have made it back from the gates of hell have stories to tell. And no matter what baggage the reader may bring along, their preconceptions of China will not survive the trip.

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• Published on: 2014-08-12
• Released on: 2014-08-12
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 1.25 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 325 pages

International Human Rights

International Human Rights
Philip Alston (Author), Ryan Goodman (Author)

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Human Rights

The definitive work in the field, International Human Rights provides a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. Written by world-renowned scholars Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman, this book is the successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context. Alston and Goodman have chosen a wide selection of materials from primary and secondary sources--legislation, case law, and academic writings--in order to demonstrate and illuminate key themes. They carefully guide students through each extract with thoughtful and lucid commentary. Questions are posed throughout the book in order to encourage deeper reflection and critical enquiry. A Companion Website features additional resources, including the first three chapters of the book, available for download.

New to this Edition

* Completely updated to include substantially revised material on women's rights, economic and social rights, the UN human rights machinery, the International Criminal Court, the responsibility to protect, universal jurisdiction, and conflicts in culture and traditional practices

* Includes two new chapters, on fact-finding by international human rights organizations and empirical research on the effectiveness of the international human rights regime

* Adds new sections on key topics throughout the book, including discussion of sexual orientation

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• Published on: 2012-09-us.html
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 1580 pages

Human Rights and the Uses of History

Human Rights and the Uses of History
Samuel Moyn (Author)

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Human Rights

Where did human rights come from? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In a series of reflective and critical essays, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading theorists of human rights, who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporary contexts of their narratives.

Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed The Last Utopia, Moyn's new volume takes issue with his intellectual opponents—including, especially, those seeking justification for humanitarian intervention.

• Rank: #204605 in Books
• Published on: 2014-06-17
• Released on: 2014-06-17
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track

The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track
by Thomas E. Mann (Author), Norman J. Ornstein (Author), Paul Mantell (Narrator)
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Human Rights