Towards a Surveillant Society: The Rise of Surveillance Systems in Europe

Towards a Surveillant Society: The Rise of Surveillance Systems in Europe
Thomas Mathiesen (Author)

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Human Rights

Tracking the Surveillance Monster... Thomas Mathiesen describes how the major databases of Europe have become interlinked and accessible not just to participating countries but diverse organizations and third States; meaning that, largely unchallenged, a 'Surveillance Monster' now threatens rights, freedoms, democracy and the Rule of Law. As information is logged on citizens' every move, data flows across borders via systems soon to be under central, global or even non-State control. Secret plans are hatched behind closed doors and 'systems func­tionaries' become defensive of their own roles. Goals expand and entire processes are shrouded in mystery. Alongside the integration of automated systems sits a weakening of State ties as Prüm, Schengen, Verizon, Prism and similar ventures lead to a lack of transparency, restraint or effective if any Parliamentary scrutiny. As Mathiesen points out in this penetrating account, the intention may have been fighting terrorism or organized crime, but the means have become disproportionate, unaccountable, over-expensive and lacking the verifiable results which ordinary vigilance, alertness and sound intelligence in communities should inherently provide. 'Brings into the light the hidden effects of [surveillance and warns] of the need for vigilance': Tony Bunyan, Director, Statewatch. 'A timely and highly troubling analysis [which] reinforces alarm regarding a panoptical globe': Andrew Rutherford.

• Rank: #233258 in Books
• Published on: 2013-09-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 290 pages

Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for a New Political Age, Second Edition

Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for a New Political Age, Second Edition
David Cortright (Author)
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Human Rights

Is there room for nonviolence in a time of conflict and mass violence exacerbated by economic crisis? Drawing on the legend and lessons of Gandhi, Cortright traces the history of nonviolent social activism through the twentieth century to the civil rights movement, the Vietnam era, and up to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza. Gandhi and Beyond offers a critical evaluation and refinement of Gandhi s message, laying the foundation for a renewed and deepened dedication to nonviolence as the universal path to social progress. In the second edition of this popular book, a new prologue and concluding chapter situate the message of nonviolence in recent events and document the effectiveness of nonviolent methods of political change. Cortright's poignant Letter to a Palestinian Student points toward a radical new strategy for achieving justice and peace in the Middle East. This book offers pathways of hope not only for a new American presidential administration but for the world.

• Rank: #104761 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.62" h x 5.91" w x .69" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

The International Human Rights Movement: A History (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity)

The International Human Rights Movement: A History (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity)
Aryeh Neier (Author)
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Human Rights

During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruelties in wars, and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The International Human Rights Movement, Aryeh Neier--a leading figure and a founder of the contemporary movement--offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of this global force, from its beginnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to its essential place in world affairs today. Neier combines analysis with personal experience, and gives a unique insider's perspective on the movement's goals, the disputes about its mission, and its rise to international importance.

Discussing the movement's origins, Neier looks at the dissenters who fought for religious freedoms in seventeenth-century England and the abolitionists who opposed slavery before the Civil War era. He pays special attention to the period from the 1970s onward, and he describes the growth of the human rights movement after the Helsinki Accords, the roles played by American presidential administrations, and the astonishing Arab revolutions of 2011. Neier argues that the contemporary human rights movement was, to a large extent, an outgrowth of the Cold War, and he demonstrates how it became the driving influence in international law, institutions, and rights. Throughout, Neier highlights key figures, controversies, and organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and he considers the challenges to come.

Illuminating and insightful, The International Human Rights Movement is a remarkable account of a significant world movement, told by a key figure in its evolution.

• Rank: #152981 in Books
• Published on: 2013-08-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

Jane Addams: Spirit in Action

Jane Addams: Spirit in Action
Louise W. Knight (Author)
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In this landmark biography, Jane Addams becomes America's most admired and most hated woman—and wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a leading statesperson in an era when few imagined such possibilities for women. In this fresh interpretation, the first full biography of Addams in nearly forty years, Louise W. Knight shows Addams's boldness, creativity, and tenacity as she sought ways to put the ideals of democracy into action. Starting in Chicago as a co-founder of the nation's first settlement house, Hull House—a community center where people of all classes and ethnicities could gather—Addams became a grassroots organizer and a partner of trade unionists, women, immigrants, and African Americans seeking social justice. In time she emerged as a progressive political force; an advocate for women's suffrage; an advisor to presidents; a co-founder of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP; and a leader for international peace. Written as a fast-paced narrative, Jane Addams traces how one woman worked with others to make a difference in the world. 32 black-and-white illustrations

• Rank: #71822 in Books
• Published on: 2010-09-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.49" h x 6.26" w x 1.02" l, 1.40 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

World Poverty and Human Rights

World Poverty and Human Rights
Thomas W. Pogge (Author)
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Human Rights

Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five.

However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong.

Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it.


Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.

• Rank: #140050 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.06" h x 6.06" w x .91" l, 1.11 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement

Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Dennis Banks (Author), Richard Erdoes (Author)
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Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior, written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story for the first time and also traces the rise of the American Indian Movement (AIM). The authors present an insider’s understanding of AIM protest events—the Trail of Broken Treaties march to Washington, D.C.; the resulting takeover of the BIA building; the riot at Custer, South Dakota; and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee. Enhancing the narrative are dramatic photographs, most taken by Richard Erdoes, depicting key people and events.

• Rank: #275384 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.82" h x 6.46" w x .84" l, 1.10 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

America, the Owner's Manual: Making Government Work for You

America, the Owner's Manual: Making Government Work for You
Bob Graham (Author), Chris Hand (Author)
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Would you teach someone to play basketball using just chalkboard diagrams? Or would you get them on the court and have them play? In basketball, the answer is easy -- you do both. So why teach politics only as a spectator sport?

Senator Bob Graham believes that US citizens should expand on their classroom learning about the political system: he spurs them to hit the court and actually play the game. If citizens work on an issue they care about, politics will become a meaningful and positive experience. This short, how-to guide takes readers out of theoretical discussions of policy and into a world where they can affect change. Graham's goal is to have readers identify a problem, and then walk them through each step from researching the issue, to getting others involved, to engaging the media. Each chapter starts with a real case, showing citizens tackling a step in the process, and ends with a summary checklist and a series of questions that help readers put Graham’s game plan in action. By offering readers concrete guidance, an array of resources, and advice for troubleshooting and overcoming barriers, this compact user's guide gets readers way beyond textbook learning.

This book is the culmination of his efforts that began after a year in the state legislature more than 30 years ago, when Senator Graham took on the challenge of civic education at one school in Jacksonville. His time as both a governor and a senator has only strengthened his resolve to pique students' curiosity about politics and teach them to get what they want from government.

• Rank: #14614 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.81" h x 4.92" w x .59" l, .60 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction
Andrew Clapham (Author)
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Human Rights

From the controversial incarceration of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, to the brutal ethnic cleansing being practiced in Darfur, to the widespread denial of equal rights to women in many areas of the world, human rights violations are a constant presence in the news and in our lives. Taking an international perspective, and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health, and discrimination, this Very Short Introduction will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind this vitally relevant issue. Looking at the philosophical justification for rights, the historical origins of human rights and how they are formed in law, Andrew Clapham explains what our human rights actually are, what they might be, and where the human rights movement is heading.

• Rank: #29565 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.61" h x 4.33" w x .59" l, .35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law
Nonie Darwish (Author)
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Human Rights

Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation. Everything about her lifeafamily, sexuality, hygiene, business, banking, contracts, economics, politics, social issues, everythingawas dictated by the Islamic law code known as Sharia.

But Sharia isn't staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a warning; the goal of radical Islam is to bring Sharia law to your country. If that happens, the fabric of Western law and liberty will be ripped in two. Under Sharia law:

• A woman can be beaten for talking to men who are not her relatives and flogged for not wearing a headdress
• Daughters, sisters, and wives can be legally killed by the men in their family
• Non-Muslims can be beheaded, and their Muslim killers will not receive the death penalty
• Certain kinds of child molestation are allowed
• The husband of a "rebellious" wife can deny her medical care or place her under house arrest

Think it can't happen? In 2008, Englandaonce the seat of Western liberty and now the home of many Muslim immigrantsadeclared that Sharia courts in Britain have the force of law.

When Muslim populations reach as little as 1 or 2 percent, says Darwish, they begin making demands of the larger community, such as foot-level faucets for washing before praying in public schools, businesses, and airports. "Airports in Kansas City, Phoenix, and Indianapolis are among those who have already installed foot baths for Muslim cab drivers," writes Darwish. These demands test how far Westerners will go in accommodating the Muslim minority. How far will they push? The Organization of the Islamic Conference works to Islamize international human rights laws and apply Sharia "standards" for blasphemy to all nations. The penalty for blasphemy? Death.

Weaving personal experience together with extensive documentation and research, Darwish exposes the facts and reveals the global threat posed by Sharia law. Anyone concerned about Western rights and liberties ignores her warning and analysis at their peril.

• Rank: #75512 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.19" h x 5.24" w x 1.18" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

The Cloud That Contained the Lightning (The National Poetry Series)

The Cloud That Contained the Lightning (The National Poetry Series)
Cynthia Lowen (Author)

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Human Rights

Using the character of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” as a jumpingoff point, The Cloud That Contained the Lightning explores the kinds of ethical choices we face as individuals and as a society with respect to the innovations and inventions we pursue. How are our fears, obsessions, prejudices, and cultures manifested in the ways we apply new technologies, such as the splitting of the atom? What were the attitudes that resulted in such a destructive invention? What prompted it to be used on a nation suspected to already be defeated?

By weaving together the voices of Oppenheimer, his wife and brother, hibakusha (Japanese for “explosion-affected people”), and the mythological figures of Cronos and his children, Lowen creates a dialogue out of a vacuum of communication and imagines the kind of exchanges that might have led to a different outcome than the tragedies at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And in an exploration of our tendency for selective amnesia, this collection asks a critical question: How quickly will the forgotten lessons of the past allow us to repeat the tragic chapters of our history?

• Rank: #1177106 in Books
• Published on: 2013-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (The Chardon Press Series)

Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (The Chardon Press Series)
Rinku Sen (Author)
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Human Rights

Stir It Up--written by renowned activist and trainer Rinku Sen--identifies the key priorities and strategies that can help advance the mission of any social change group. This groundbreaking book addresses the unique challenges and opportunities the new global economy poses for activist groups and provides concrete guidance for community organizations of all orientations.

Sponsored by the Ms. Foundation, Stir It Up draws on lessons learned from Sen's groundbreaking work with women's groups organizing for economic justice. Throughout the book, Sen walks readers through the steps of building and mobilizing a constituency and implementing key strategies that can effect social change. The book is filled with illustrative case studies that highlight best organizing practices in action and each chapter contains tools that can help groups tailor Sen's model for their own organizational needs. Stir It Up will show your organization how to:

• Design and conduct actions that further campaign goals
• Develop effective leaders
• Build strong alliances and networks
• Generate and use solid research
• Design an effective media strategy
• Put in place a plan for internal political education and consciousness-raising

With the information, tools, and suggestions outlined in this book your organization can use your "good idea" to change the world.

• Rank: #88558 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-14
• Released on: 2003-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 6.95" w x .82" l, 1.19 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

Diskusi JP dan Irshad Manji: Feminisme, Toleransi dan Islam

Diskusi JP dan Irshad Manji: Feminisme, Toleransi dan Islam
Gadis Arivia (Editor)

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Human Rights

Buku ini adalah hasil transkrip diskusi Jurnal Perempuan dengan Irshad Manji, seorang feminis dan ahli agama asal Kanada. Diskusi ini diselenggarakan pada tanggal 5 Mei 2012, satu hari setelah insiden penyerangan FPI dalam acara peluncuran buku Irshad. Di dalam diskusi ini Irshad banyak berbicara soal feminisme, demokrasi dan Islam. Baca buku ini karena memberikan pemahaman kompleksitas persoalan agama di Indonesia.

• Rank: #383458 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-08-06
• Released on: 2013-08-06
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (Author)
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Volume 2 of the gripping epic masterpiece, The story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for Nearly a decade

• Rank: #422823 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-07
• Released on: 2007-08-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.76" h x 5.00" w x 1.32" l, 1.28 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 752 pages

Dignity: Its History and Meaning

Dignity: Its History and Meaning
Michael Rosen (Author)
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Human Rights

Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive proposal.

Drawing on law, politics, religion, and culture, as well as philosophy, Rosen shows how modern conceptions of dignity inherit several distinct strands of meaning. This is why users of the word nowadays often talk past one another. The idea of dignity as the foundation for the universal entitlement to human rights represented the coming together after the Second World War of two extremely powerful traditions: Christian theology and Kantian philosophy. Not only is this idea of dignity as an “inner transcendental kernel” behind human rights problematic, Rosen argues, it has drawn attention away from a different, very important, sense of dignity: the right to be treated with dignity, that is, with proper respect.

At the heart of the argument stands the giant figure of Immanuel Kant. Challenging current orthodoxy, Rosen’s interpretation presents Kant as a philosopher whose ethical thought is governed, above all, by the requirement of showing respect toward a kernel of value that each of us carries, indestructibly, within ourselves. Finally, Rosen asks (and answers) a surprisingly puzzling question: why do we still have a duty to treat the dead with dignity if they will not benefit from our respect?

• Rank: #372150 in Books
• Published on: 2012-03-us.html
• Released on: 2012-04-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x 5.24" w x .75" l, .63 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 200 pages

For the Public Good: Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation

For the Public Good: Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation
Belle Boggs (Author), The New New South (Editor)

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Human Rights

Between 1929 and 1974, more than 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized, sometimes without informed consent and frequently under coercion. The victims, poor men and women from around the state, were never compensated for losing the ability to conceive children. Nearly 40 years later, during a rancorous 2013 legislative session in which severe restrictions on abortion, voting rights and funding for public education were passed, the state got another chance to right one of its most shameful acts. In this personal and powerful work of longform journalism from new digital publisher The New New South, award-winning author Belle Boggs traces the chilling history of eugenics in America, tells the poignant stories of North Carolina's sterilization victims, and goes inside their decade-long fight for justice.

• Rank: #45363 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-08-08
• Released on: 2013-08-08
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Youth and Revolution in Tunisia (African Arguments)

Youth and Revolution in Tunisia (African Arguments)
Alcinda Honwana (Author)

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The uprising in Tunisia in late 2010 and early 2011 has come to be seen as the first true revolution of the 21st Century, one that kick-started the series of upheavals across the region now known as the Arab Spring. Alcinda Honwana goes beyond superficial accounts of what occurred to explore the defining role of the country's youth, and in particular the cyberactivist.

Drawing on fresh, first-person testimony from those who shaped events, the book describes in detail the experiences of young activists through the 29 days of the revolution and the challenges they encountered after the fall of the regime and the dismantling of the ruling party. Now, as old and newly established political forces are moving into the political void created by Ben Ali's departure, tensions between the older and younger generations are sharpening.

An essential account of an event that has inspired the world, and its potential repercussions for the Middle East, Africa and beyond.

• Rank: #240460 in Books
• Published on: 2013-08-06
• Released on: 2013-08-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
Raja Shehadeh (Author)
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Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth and ancient monasteries built more than a thousand years ago. Shehadeh's love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography. But latterly, as seemingly endless concrete is poured to build settlements and their surrounding walls, he finds the old trails are now impassable and the countryside he once traversed freely has become contested ground. He is harassed by Israeli border patrols, watches in terror as a young hiking companion picks up an unexploded missile and even, on one occasion when accompanied by his wife, comes under prolonged gunfire. Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh's elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor for the deprivations of an entire people estranged from their land.

• Rank: #251402 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-03
• Released on: 2008-06-03
• Format: Deckle Edge
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.83" h x 5.24" w x .63" l, .43 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Privacy: A Very Short Introduction

Privacy: A Very Short Introduction
Raymond Wacks (Author)
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Human Rights

Professor Raymond Wacks is a leading international expert on privacy. For more than three decades he has published numerous books and articles on this controversial subject.
Privacy is a fundamental value that is under attack from several quarters. Electronic surveillance, biometrics, CCTV, ID cards, RFID codes, online security, the monitoring of employees, the uses and misuses of DNA, - to name but a few - all raise fundamental questions about our right to privacy.
This Very Short Introduction also analyzes the tension between free speech and privacy generated by intrusive journalism, photography, and gratuitous disclosures by the media of the private lives of celebrities.
Professor Wacks concludes this stimulating introduction by considering the future of privacy in our society.

• Rank: #10536 in eBooks
• Published on: 2010-01-21
• Released on: 2010-01-21
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?
David Harris-Gershon (Author)

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Human Rights

A man seeks out the Hamas bomber who changed his family’s life in this unflinching, mesmerizing literary debut.

David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, mere days after Israel thwarted historic cease-fire negotiations among the Palestinians, a bomb ripped open Hebrew University’s cafeteria. Jamie’s body was sliced with shrapnel; the friends sitting next to her were killed.

When a doctor handed David some of the shrapnel removed from Jamie’s body, he could not accept that this piece of metal changed everything. But it had. The bombing sent David on a psychological journey that found himdigging through shadowy politics and traumatic histories, eventually leading him back to East Jerusalem and the Hamas terrorist and his family. Not out of revenge. Out of desperation.

Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this fearless debut confronts the personal costs of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and our capacity for recovery and reconciliation.

• Rank: #98185 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-08-22
• Released on: 2013-08-22
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1