Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists

Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists
Courtney E. Martin (Author)
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Jean Sasson (Author), Catherine Byers (Reader)
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Pursuing Justice, Second Edition: Traditional and Contemporary Issues in Our Communities and the World

Pursuing Justice, Second Edition: Traditional and Contemporary Issues in Our Communities and the World
Ralph A. Weisheit (Author), Frank Morn (Author)

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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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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof (Author), Sheryl WuDunn (Author)
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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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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

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

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Sharia-ism Is Here: The Battle To Control Women; And Everyone Else

Sharia-ism Is Here: The Battle To Control Women; And Everyone Else
Joy Brighton (Author)
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Human Rights

This book included 2014 updates. In April 2014, the Universities of Michigan, Chicago, Illinois and Brandeis refused to screen or acknowledge nine Muslim, Sikh & Christian women rights leaders, who expose the brutal abuse of women and girls justified in the name of religion, culture or Shariah, on screen in the Honor Diaries documentary, released March 8. Yes you read this correctly. Women students and faculty at American colleges are silencing the heart-breaking abuse of women and actively shutting down Free Speech. Does Freedom of Religion over-rule the abuse of women in its name? How has violence against women become political? Where does religion end and politics begin? How are European Leaders drawing this line? This colorful, pocket sized, easy to read, Show N Tell Book explains what is going on in America. Each page is description of one of 60+ American or European news stories from 2008 – 2014, with a quote, photo, and context provided by over 75 experts. Women’s rights activist and author, Joy Brighton, provides bullet point chapter summaries and green “insight boxes” to help readers connect the dots. This book is written for busy Americans who are concerned that political correctness is backfiring in America. But, they only have 10 minutes while drinking coffee or in the “loo”, to flip through a book, before their day starts. This is your FLIP book. In a nutshell, Islam is a religion, protected under the U.S. First Amendment. Sharia-ism is the political movement of Radical Islam and is not protected under the First Amendment. Sharia-ism is about control, not destruction. Sharia-ism seeks total control over women, religion, speech & politics. In fact, Sharia-ists are determined to control anyone who refuses to follow their rules. Only a small piece of Sharia-ism involves terrorism. Because if you want to control something, why blow it up? In the past 5 years, European nations, including Great Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden, have taken legal action to de-rail Sharia-ism. To the contrary, U.S. elite are enabling the growth of Sharia-ism out of ignorance, intimidation or self-interest. Fortunately, a growing number of Congress and State Governors, educated by the grass roots and freelance journalists are taking action against Sharia-ism. So what can you do to get involved? Start with 10 minutes of “flipping” through this book.

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• Published on: 2014-04-us.html
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Author)
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Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali's profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. Hard-hitting, outspoken, and controversial, The Caged Virgin is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from a brutal religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity. It is a defiant call for clear thinking and for an Islamic Enlightenment. But it is also the courageous story of how Hirsi Ali herself fought back against everyone who tried to force her to submit to a traditional Muslim woman's life and how she became a voice of reform.

Born in Somalia and raised Muslim, but outraged by her religion's hostility toward women, Hirsi Ali escaped an arranged marriage to a distant relative and fled to the Netherlands. There, she learned Dutch, worked as an interpreter in abortion clinics and shelters for battered women, earned a college degree, and started a career in politics as a Dutch parliamentarian. In November 2004, the violent murder on an Amsterdam street of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, with whom Hirsi Ali had written a film about women and Islam called Submission, changed her life. Threatened by the same group that slew van Gogh, Hirsi Ali now has round-the-clock protection, but has not allowed these circumstances to compromise her fierce criticism of the treatment of Muslim women, of Islamic governments' attempts to silence any questioning of their traditions, and of Western governments' blind tolerance of practices such as genital mutilation and forced marriages of female minors occurring in their countries.

Hirsi Ali relates her experiences as a Muslim woman so that oppressed Muslim women can take heart and seek their own liberation. Drawing on her love of reason and the Enlightenment philosophers on whose principles democracy was founded, she presents her firsthand knowledge of the Islamic worldview and advises Westerners how best to address the great divide that currently exists between the West and Islamic nations and between Muslim immigrants and their adopted countries.

An international bestseller -- with updated information for American readers and two new essays added for this edition -- The Caged Virgin is a compelling, courageous, eye-opening work.

• Rank: #109071 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-01
• Released on: 2008-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .52" h x 5.74" w x 8.38" l, .43 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

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World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)

World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)
Human Rights Watch (Author), Kenneth Roth (Introduction)

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The 24th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2013 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2014 gives particular focus on the roles-positive or negative-played in each country by key domestic and international figures. This year's report includes contributions from Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, David Mepham, and Dinah PoKempner, with an introduction by Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth assessing the year's most pressing human rights issue.

• Rank: #57724 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-25
• Released on: 2014-02-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 672 pages

Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000--2010

Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000--us.html10
Breaking the Silence (Author)
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“One of the most important books on Israel/Palestine in this generation.”—The New York Review of Books

Support for Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory—both internationally and within Israel itself—rests on the belief that the Israeli army’s presence in the West Bank and Gaza is essentially protective, aimed at safeguarding the country from terror. But Israeli soldiers themselves tell a profoundly different story. In this landmark work, which includes more than a hundred soldiers’ testimonies collected over a decade, what emerges is a broad policy that is as much offensive as defensive. In their own words, the soldiers reveal in vivid detail how key planks of the army’s program have served to accelerate Israeli acquisition of Palestinian land, cripple all normal political and social life, and ultimately thwart the possibility of Palestinian independence.

Taking aim at a silence of complicity that perpetuates the justification for occupation, the soldiers who speak out here offer a gripping and immediate record of oppression. Powerful and incontrovertible, Our Harsh Logic is a supremely significant contribution to one of the world’s most vexed conflicts.

• Rank: #105943 in Books
• Published on: 2013-09-03
• Released on: 2013-09-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 400 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
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (Open Media Series)

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (Open Media Series)
Angela Y. Davis (Author)
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Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America’s most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as "enemy of the state," and about having been put on the FBI’s "most wanted" list. She talks about the crucial role that international activism played in her case and the case of many other political prisoners.
Throughout these interviews, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions. Discussing the most recent disclosures about the disavowed "chain of command," and the formal reports by the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch denouncing U.S. violation of human rights and the laws of war in Guantánamo, Afghanistan and Iraq, Davis focuses on the underpinnings of prison regimes in the United States.

• Rank: #50159 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-04
• Released on: 2005-10-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 132 pages

Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)

Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Joy James (Author), Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Foreword)

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• Rank: #114818 in Books
• Published on: 2013-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 340 pages

A People's History of the European Court of Human Rights

A People's History of the European Court of Human Rights
Michael Goldhaber (Author)
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The exceptionality of America's Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law. Unheralded by the mass press, this obscure tribunal in Strasbourg, France has become, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe.
Michael Goldhaber introduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe-a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger-whose mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. The Council routinely confronts nations over their most culturally-sensitive, hot-button issues. It has stared down France on the issue of Muslim immigration; Ireland on abortion; Greece on Greek Orthodoxy; Turkey on Kurdish separatism; Austria on Nazism; and Britain on gay rights and corporal punishment. And what is most extraordinary is that nations commonly comply.

In the battle for the world's conscience, Goldhaber shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead.

• Rank: #11141 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival

The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival
Alicia Partnoy (Author), Julia Alvarez (Preface)
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One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Smuggled out and published anonymously, THE LITTLE SCHOOL is Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment.

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• Published on: 1998-09-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.62" h x 5.67" w x .0" l, .43 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis (Author)
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This is Angela Davis' Autobiography

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• Published on: 1989-03
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Half the Sky

Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof (Author), Sheryl Wudunn (Author)
(389)

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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.

They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.

Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.

Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Published on: 2009-08-22
• Released on: 2009-09-08
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Greg Mortenson (Author), Khaled Hosseini (Foreword)
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• Rank: #130815 in Books
• Color: 9780670021154
• Brand: Viking
• Published on: 2009-12-01
• Released on: 2009-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.70" h x 5.90" w x 9.10" l, 1.55 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

• Penguin Group USA
• Follow Greg Mortenson as provides aid in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan after a 2005 earthquake
• Read about the Central Asia Institute's (CAI) efforts in Afghanistan which place Mortenson in the way of harm from Afghan warlords, militia commanders, tribal leaders, and Islamic clerics
• Learn how Mortenson survived a an 8-day armed abduction by the Taliban - all as he continues to further the progress of his 2-decade humanitarian effort
• Get a first-person account of Mortenson's work with his manager, Sarfraz Khan as they staked out the first schools in Badakhshan Province in the far northeast of Afghanistan