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This Book Explores The Promises And Limitations Of Holding Individuals Accountable For Violations Of International Human Rights And Humanitarian Law. It Ana...

Property will cost us the earth The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests,...

Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first ...

Selected Essays Previously Published In Various Periodicals And Journals.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Ideologies &am...

Data Is Fundamental To The Modern World. From Economic Development, To Healthcare, To Education And Public Policy, We Rely On Numbers To Allocate Resources ...

In this volume distinguished scholars from different social science disciplines assess the emerging international order. The volume's three sections examine...

Explore the past, present and future of voting around the world, and why it's one of the most important things we can do as citizens.In Get Out and Vote!, d...

The story of the rise of the human rights movement by the renowned international attorney, in a newly revised and expanded edition. For centuries it seeme...

A Counterterrorism Spy Describes His Leadership Of The Campaign That Routed Al Qaeda And The Taliban In The Weeks After The September 11 Attacks, Offering I...

Civil Rights Activist Ruby Bridges--who, At The Age Of Six, Was The First African American To Integrate An All-white Elementary School In New Orleans--share...

Howard G. Buffett Has Seen First-hand The Devastating Impact Of Cheap Mexican Heroin And Other Opiate Cocktails Across America. Fueled By Failing Border Pol...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washi...

What Happens When Freedom Of Expression Comes Under Threat? In Frank And Wide-ranging Interviews, Historian And Critic Leonard S. Marcus Probes The Experien...

Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice and the F...

One Man's Odyssey Into The Brutal Hive Of The National Football League. This Is Not A Celebrity Tell-all Of Professional Sports. Slow Getting Up Is A Surviv...

Why does nothing make sense?- How can there be a "climate emergency" when the climate has not changed noticeably during my lifetime?- How can we fight a "Wa...

From bestselling author and host of HBO's Real Time, Bill Maher's new book of political riffs serves up a savagely funny set of rules for preserving sanity...

Continuing Her Very Personal Journey From A Deeply Religious Islamic Upbringing To A Post At Harvard, The Brilliant, Charismatic And Controversial Bestselli...

Law Enforcement Interpersonal Communication and Conflict Management: The Impact Model provides law enforcement professionals with a comprehensive, easy-to-...

The Wiley Handbook on the Psychology of Violence features a collection of original readings, from an international cast of experts, that explore all major ...

This book comprehensively examines right-wing extremism (RWE) in Canada, discussing the lengthy history of violence and distribution, ideological bases, act...

Written By One Of The World's Leading Experts On Victimology, This Book Is Designed To Offer A Broad Introduction To The Subject.Categories: Law Constitutio...

Every year, thousands of girls and women die at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring shame upon...

Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859....

The Republicans began plotting their takeover of the Supreme Court thirty years ago. Brett Kavanaugh set his sights on the court right out of law school. W...

The Woman At The Center Of The Bush Administration's Cia Leak Scandal Breaks Her Silence As She Describes Her Role As An Undercover Cia Operative, Her Train...

Alex Rider, teen spy, has always been told he is the spitting image of the father he never knew. But when Alex learns that his father may have been an assas...

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences t...

The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of gl...

"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson Lears A powerful sequel to Benja...

A Biography Of Alexa Mcdonough, Former Leader Of The Nova Scotia And Federal Ndp. Alexa Mcdonoughs Impact On Canadian Politics Cannot Be Measured Solely By ...

From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country -- and tests th...

What does Boston Fire Commissioner Joe Finn think is the “insidious, darker side” of the fire service? Find out from highly respected veteran FDNY Chief...

The Journalist Who Broke The Jihadi John Story Draws On Her Personal Experience To Bridge The Gap Between The Muslim World And The West And Explain The Rise...

Since the end of World War Two, the use of nuclear weapons has been America's-and the world's-worst nightmare. But they have never actually been used, des...

Introduction to Security, Seventh Edition, presents the latest in security issues from security equipment and design theory to security management practice...

There’s never been a better time to be woman. We live in an era when girls are told they can do anything. So why aren’t we seeing more women rising to t...

gregory Kasza Examines State-society Relations In Interwar Japan Through A Case Study Of Public Policy Toward Radio, Film, Newspapers, And Magazines. Cate...

This book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Ja...

Twenty-six Essays In This Volume Showcase The Brilliant Originality And Range Of Economic Thought That Earned Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Gary S. Becke...

Book by McCormick, R.E., Tollison, Robert D.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Specific TopicsIncome Inequality

This Work Analyzes Events Surrounding The Yokohama Incident (1942-1945), Which Led To The Arrest Of Dozens Of Journalists And Researchers In Japan During Th...

"A truly excellent book that explains where our pandemic response went wrong, and how we can understand those failings using the tools of economics." --Tyle...

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart t...

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that d...

The Classic Study Of Human Nature Which Depicts The Degeneration Of A Group Of Schoolboys Marooned On A Desert Island. By William Golding ; With A Biographi...

Having created his alter-ego, the Hungry Cyclist and with thousands of pedal-powered miles before him, Tom Kevill-Davies pushed off from New York City on on...