The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings

The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings
Jingsheng Wei (Author)
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Human Rights

Wei Jingsheng is a fearless fighter for individual rights in China, and has spent nearly all of the last 17 years in prison. From his solitary confinement cell, he has written defiant letters to Deng Xiaoping and other communist leaders expressing his views on economic reform, foreign investment, Tibet and other urgent social and political concerns. This book also contains letters to family and friends and a selection of political essays and his moving defence statement from his first trial.

• Rank: #589179 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-01
• Released on: 1997-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 283 pages

Speaking Rights to Power: Constructing Political Will

Speaking Rights to Power: Constructing Political Will
Alison Brysk (Author)

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Human Rights

How can "Speaking Rights to Power" construct political will to respond to human rights abuse worldwide? Examining dozens of cases of human rights campaigns and using an innovative analysis of the politics of persuasion, this book shows how communication politics build recognition, solidarity, and social change. Building on twenty years of research on five continents, this comprehensive study ranges from Aung San Suu Kyi to Anna Hazare, from Congo to Colombia, and from the Arab Spring to Pussy Riot. Speaking Rights to Power addresses cutting edge debates on human rights and the ethic of care, cosmopolitanism, charismatic leadership, communicative action and political theater, and the role of social media. It draws on constructivist literature from social movement and international relations theory, and analyzes human rights as a form of global social imagination. Combining a normative contribution with judicious critique, this book shows how human rights rhetoric matters-and how to make it matter more.

• Rank: #251087 in Books
• Published on: 2013-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

But the Giraffe & Brundibar

But the Giraffe & Brundibar
Tony Kushner (Author), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)

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Human Rights

"Exultant. . . . As the unlikely survival of this opera suggests, the joy and beauty that music and art express can outlast evil even when they cannot defeat it."—The New York Times

"It's a tale of the outrage and rebellion of even the natural world of dogs, cats, and sparrows against things as unnatural as injustice and poverty and the suffering of children. It's a story of good defeating evil. But its history is haunted by a single instance of evil defeating good."— Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner provides a new English libretto, and Maurice Sendak the design, for this Czech opera—a beautiful children's story extolling courage in the face of tyranny—that was first performed in a concentration camp. Just before the opera's 1942 premiere, its composer Hans Krasa was arrested and sent to Theresienstadt, or Terezín, a "model ghetto" that was in reality a death camp. After a copy of the score was smuggled in, Krasa took advantage of the large number of talented instrumentalists there to stage the opera with imprisoned children. Performed fifty-five times at Terezín, Brundibar is published here with Kushner's short play But the Giraffe, a sensitively drawn historical backdrop.

Tony Kushner's plays include Angels in America, Homebody/Kabul, A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs! and the book and lyrics for Caroline, or Change.

Maurice Sendak is the author of over a hundred children's books, including Where the Wild Things Are.

• Rank: #248951 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x 5.00" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media (Oxford Handbooks of American Politics)

The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media (Oxford Handbooks of American Politics)
Robert Y. Shapiro (Author), Lawrence R. Jacobs (Author)

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Human Rights

Public opinion and the media form the foundation of the United States' representative democracy. They are the subject of enormous scrutiny by scholars, pundits, and ordinary citizens. This Oxford Handbook takes on the 'big questions' about public opinion and the media-both empirical and normative-focusing on current debates and social scientific research. Bringing together the thinking of a team of leading academic experts, its chapters provide a cutting assessment of contemporary research on public opinion, the media, and their interconnections. Emphasizing changes in the mass media and communications technology-the vast number of cable channels, websites and blogs, and the new social media, which are changing how news about political life is collected and conveyed-they describe the evolving information interdependence of the media and public opinion. In addition, the volume reviews the wide range of influences on public opinion, including the processes by which information communicated through the media can affect the public. It describes what has been learned from the latest research in psychology, genetics, and studies of the impact of gender, race and ethnicity, economic status, education and sophistication, religion, and generational change on a wide range of political attitudes and perceptions. The Handbook includes extensive discussion of how public opinion and mass media coverage are studied through survey research and increasingly through experiments using the latest technological advances.

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.

• Rank: #298869 in Books
• Published on: 2013-07-12
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 816 pages

Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing

Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing
Louise Dunlap (Author)
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Human Rights

This comprehensive and engaging training book helps both amateurs and professionals influence democratic process through letters, articles, proposals, and more. It’s a “You-can-do-it” approach combined with strategies to articulate personal vision and frame messages that are truly heard.

Healing as much as teaching, the author uncovers the culture of silence—how gender, race, education, class, and family values work to quiet dissent.

Since the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, Louise Dunlap, PhD, has been training citizen groups as well as university scholars internationally in writing for social change. She is currently a lecturer at Tufts University.

• Rank: #470031 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.06" h x 6.97" w x .55" l, 1.03 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Protecting Life (The Restoring America Series)

Protecting Life (The Restoring America Series)
Alex Croy (Author)

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Human Rights

The first step in restoring America to the Founding Father's original vision is to protect all life, including the lives of the unborn. This book takes a look at the emotional, political, and spiritual implications of abortion. It offers hope on how we can begin the process of eradicating abortion and saving our children's future and fulfilling the Founding Father's promise of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness for all.

• Rank: #150249 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-07-26
• Released on: 2013-07-26
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation (California Series in Public Anthropology)

To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation (California Series in Public Anthropology)
Paul Farmer (Author), Jonathan Weigel (Editor), Bill Clinton (Foreword)
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Human Rights

Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer’s vision in a single, accessible volume.

A must-read for graduates, students, and everyone seeking to help bend the arc of history toward justice, To Repair the World:

A Challenges readers to counter failures of imagination that keep billions of people without access to health care, safe drinking water, decent schools, and other basic human rights;

A Champions the power of partnership against global poverty, climate change, and other pressing problems today;

A Overturns common assumptions about health disparities around the globe by considering the large-scale social forces that determine who gets sick and who has access to health care;

A Discusses how hope, solidarity, faith, and hardbitten analysis have animated Farmer’s service to the poor in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Russia, and elsewhere;

A Leaves the reader with an uplifting vision: that with creativity, passion, teamwork, and determination, the next generations can make the world a safer and more humane place.

• Rank: #23036 in Books
• Published on: 2013-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.22" w x 5.87" l, 1.13 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 294 pages