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Life's Dominionby Ronald Dworkin
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 11.99One of the country's most distinguished scholars presents a brilliantly original approach to the twin dilemmas of abortion and euthanasia, showing why they arouse such volcanic controversy and how we as a society can reconcile our values of life and individual liberty. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Pathologies of Powerby Paul Farmer
University of California Press 2003; US$ 12.95Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. more...
Half the Skyby Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl Wudunn
Knopf Publishing Group 2009; US$ 11.99From 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... more...
Disappearing Palestineby Jonathan Cook
Zed Books 2008; US$ 26.95In this insightful and authoritative new book, leading journalist Jonathan Cook examines the many different guises in which these experiments on the Palestinians are being carried out. Accessible and comprehensive, this is a powerful analysis of one of the most enduring and entrenched conflicts in contemporary world politics more...
The Slave Next Doorby Kevin Bales; Ron Soodalter
University of California Press 2009; US$ 20.00In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department store. In these pages we also meet some unexpected slaveholders, such as a 27-year old middle-class Texas housewife who is currently serving a life sentence for offences including slavery. Weaving together a wealth of voices?from slaves, slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from experts, counselors,... more...
Human Rights from Belowby Jim Ife
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 44.00This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other. more...
Constitutional Review under the UK Human Rights Actby Aileen Kavanagh
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 52.00Provides a critical and theoretically informed analysis of the leading case-law on the compatibility of primary legislation with the HRA. more...
International Human Rights Lawby Olivier De Schutter
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 54.00Authoritative survey of international human rights law offers innovative treatment of the law as a global 'legal system'. more...
Criminal Justice in Chinaby Mike McConville
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00The political, economic and social transformations that have taken place in China over the last half-century have had a major impact upon the formal methods, institutions and mechanisms used to deal with alleged criminal infractions. This path-breaking book, based upon the largest and most systematic empirical inquiry ever undertaken in China, analyses the extent to which changes to the formal legal structure have resulted in changes to the law in practice. With unprecedented access to prosecution case files, observation of live trials and interviews with judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers, the book paints a uniquely detailed picture of China's criminal justice system as it operates in everyday cases. Among the major themes explored are:... more...
Human Rights in International Relationsby David P. Forsythe
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 28.00Third edition of Forsythe's successful textbook provides an overview of human rights in an age of upheaval in international politics. more...









