Civil Rights 9

This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. It is international human rights……続きを見る

Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and fo……続きを見る

With their collection In Search of the Black Panther Party, Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow provided a broad analysis of the Black Panther Party and its legacy. In Liberated Territory, they turn th……続きを見る

In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Oc……続きを見る

To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "land leasing." To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than "land g……続きを見る

Since the inception of the "War on Terror," Israel has become increasingly important to Western imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies towards the Palestinians. A key ideological……続きを見る

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, fr……続きを見る

In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedomーa drama in which Islam played a surprising role. ……続きを見る

For too long, Blacks have held onto the lies their “friends and leaders” have told them … and then wondered why success and the American dream elude them. Sleep no more in this comatose state. Liste……続きを見る

Simone Weil (1909-1943) professeur agrégée de philosophie. Après avoir enseigné au Puy, elle quitte la France, en 1942, allant d’abord aux États-Unis puis à Londres où elle travaille pour le Général……続きを見る

Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among th……続きを見る

Klosophy has been described as a philosophy book. However, the author calls it a life book that is not necessary for everyone but is for everyone. The author revealed that he fully expects many to c……続きを見る

An unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strengthーincluding Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralp……続きを見る

An inspiring legal thriller set against the backdrop of the war on terror, The Challenge tells the inside story of a historic Supreme Court showdown. At its center are a Navy JAG and a young constit……続きを見る

"Andar a Pé" é um ensaio escrito por Henry David Thoreau. Entre 1851 e 1860, Thoreau leu a peça de um total de 10 vezes, mais do que qualquer outra de suas palestras. Ele considerou uma de suas obra……続きを見る

Why is Australia's current attitude towards freedom of speech harmful to democracy? Australia is the land of the 'fair go'. But does this attitude extend to freedom of speech? Unlike the US, Austral……続きを見る

Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interv……続きを見る

This book examines how legal, political, and rights discourses, security policies and practices migrate and translate across the North Atlantic. The complex relationship between liberty and security……続きを見る

"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency fa……続きを見る

Come il pensiero, anche il software deve essere libero. Nella società moderna, dove regna il consumismo e cresce la speculazione, il software libero rappresenta una nuova via per diventare li……続きを見る

Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous eve……続きを見る

The Liberation of the Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Judy Hyun; 86,000 words) In this book, written after The Colonizer and the Colonized and Portrait of a Jew, Albert Memmi writ……続きを見る

Present-day Americans feel secure in their citizenship: they are free to speak up for any cause, oppose their government, marry a person of any background, and live where they chooseーat home or abr……続きを見る

Slave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the consistently high quality of their literary style. ……続きを見る

Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson’s remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. Lon……続きを見る

As a young, black, MIT-educated social scientist, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo landed her dream job at the EPA, working with Al Gore, assisting post-apartheid South Africa. But when she tried to get the g……続きを見る

Today’s ‘surveillance society’ emerged from a complex of military and corporate priorities that were nourished through the active and ‘cold’ wars that marked the twentieth century. Two massive confi……続きを見る

The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill’s three seminal and most widely read works: On Liberty, The……続きを見る

Unlike newspapers, TV and radio broadcasting is subject to government regulation in the form of the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine, which requires stations "to devote a reasonable amount of broadcast……続きを見る

Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to ……続きを見る