Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder

Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder
Gerry Spence (Author)

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Dissent: The History of an American Idea

Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young (Author)
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Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why

Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why
Frank R. Baumgartner (Author), Jeffrey M. Berry (Author), Marie Hojnacki (Author), David C. Kimball (Author), Beth L. Leech (Author)
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Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World

Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World
Noam Chomsky (Author)
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After the Cataclysm: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume II

After the Cataclysm: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume II
Noam Chomsky (Author), Edward S. Herman (Author)

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CIA Torture Report

CIA Torture Report
Dianne Feinstein (Author)

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Rosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

Rosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Maziar Bahari (Author), Aimee Molloy (Author), Jon Meacham (Foreword)
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They Rule: The 1% vs. Democracy

They Rule: The 1% vs. Democracy
Paul Street (Author)

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Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)

Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)
Michelle M. Nickerson (Author)
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Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)
Noam Chomsky (Author), Edward Said (Foreword)

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Rethinking the Western Tradition)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
Mary Wollstonecraft (Author), Eileen Hunt Botting (Editor)

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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Random House Large Print)

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Random House Large Print)
Nicholas D. Kristof (Author), Sheryl WuDunn (Author)

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Men Explain Things to Me

Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit (Author)

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In her comic, scathing essay AMen Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters.

She ends on a serious noteA because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, AHe’s trying to kill me!”

This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf ’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women.

• Rank: #11172 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-22
• Original language: English
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• 100 pages

Kicking the Kremlin: Russia's New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin

Kicking the Kremlin: Russia's New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin
Marc Bennetts (Author)

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As 2011 came to a close, in what was a watershed moment, 100,000 took to Moscow’s freezing streets to protest the election victory of United Russia A Vladimir Putin’s party A amid widespread allegations of corruption and vote-rigging. A few months later, Pussy Riot hit headlines around the world when they were arrested following their anti-Putin demonstration in a Russian Orthodox cathedral. The vicious battle for Russia’s soul continues to this day.

In the first book to take the reader straight to the beating heart of the opposition movement, journalist and long-time Moscow resident Marc Bennetts introduces a new generation of Russian dissidents, united by their hatred of Putin and his bid to silence all political adversaries. We meet a bustling cast of urban youth working to expose the injustices of the regime and a disjointed bunch of dissenters A from AIt Girl’ hipsters to 21st-century socialists. Featuring rare interviews with everyone from Pussy Riot and top protest leaders to Kremlin insiders, Bennetts’ compelling narrative is a high-octane account of the politics and subterfuge of modern-day Russia.

• Rank: #58823 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-25
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict
Peter Ackerman (Author), Jack DuVall (Author)
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This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes and boycotts--separate brutal regimes from their means of control. They tell inside stories--how Danes outmaneuvered the Nazis, Solidarity defeated Polish communism, and mass action removed a Chilean dictator--and also how nonviolent power is changing the world today, from Burma to Serbia.

• Rank: #59224 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-05
• Number of discs: 2
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 6.02" w x 1.54" l, 1.35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

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A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights

A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights
Elizabeth Borgwardt (Author)
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In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime.

Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of "war and peace aims." In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic New Deal ideas about security, the ideology of the Atlantic Charter--buttressed by FDR's "Four Freedoms" and the legacies of World War I--redefined human rights and America's vision for the world.

Three sets of international negotiations brought the Atlantic Charter blueprint to life--Bretton Woods, the United Nations, and the Nuremberg trials. These new institutions set up mechanisms to stabilize the international economy, promote collective security, and implement new thinking about international justice. The design of these institutions served as a concrete articulation of U.S. national interests, even as they emphasized the importance of working with allies to achieve common goals. The American architects of these charters were attempting to redefine the idea of security in the international sphere. To varying degrees, these institutions and the debates surrounding them set the foundations for the world we know today.

By analyzing the interaction of ideas, individuals, and institutions that transformed American foreign policy--and Americans' view of themselves--Borgwardt illuminates the broader history of modern human rights, trade and the global economy, collective security, and international law. This book captures a lost vision of the American role in the world.

• Rank: #274807 in Books
• Brand: Brand:
• Published on: 2007-09-30
• Released on: 2007-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.82" h x 5.83" w x 1.18" l, 1.42 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

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Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013

Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-us.html13
Noam Chomsky (Author), Marcus Raskin (Introduction)

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Praise for Noam Chomsky's Hopes and Prospects:

"A revelation. . . . This is a book woven through with hope and awe at all the people who slip beyond imperial control and establish real democracy . . . a treasure-trove."—The Independent

In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs of the many. A new introduction by Marcus Raskin contextualizes Chomsky's place among some of the most influential thinkers of modern history.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the department of linguistics and philosophy at MIT. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. He is the author of numerous best-selling political works, which have been translated into scores of countries worldwide. His most recent books include the New York Times bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Power Systems, Occupy, and Hopes and Prospects.

Marcus Raskin, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies and professor of public policy at George Washington University, is a social critic, activist, and philosopher.

• Rank: #214368 in Books
• Published on: 2014-05-06
• Original language: English
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• 200 pages

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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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.

• Rank: #207526 in Books
• Published on: 2014-01-02
• Original language: English
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• 240 pages

Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions)

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

• Rank: #38694 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-14
• Released on: 1999-05-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x 5.24" w x .51" l, .36 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

International Human Rights

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

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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

• Rank: #96440 in Books
• Published on: 2012-09-us.html
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 1580 pages