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The Persistent Power of Human Rights
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 28.00This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms. more...
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1992; US$ 7.95Donald Cress?s highly regarded translation, based on the critical Pléiade edition of 1964, is here issued with a lively introduction by James Miller, who brings into sharp focus the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This new edition includes a select bibliography, a note on the text, a translator?s note, and Rousseau?s own... more...
Christianity and Human Rights
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 25.00An authoritative treatment of how Christianity shaped human rights, and how Christianity and human rights challenge each other today. more...
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; US$ 25.37Defy a dictator. Unite your people. End a war. As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Years of fighting destroyed her country - and shattered Gbowee's girlhood hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare... more...
Half the Sky
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95From 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... more...
Research Handbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 60.00This fascinating Handbook explores the interplay between international human rights law and international humanitarian law, offering expert analysis on the increasingly complex issues surrounding their application in conflict areas across the world. Contributors to this volume provide a comprehensive treatment of the ongoing relationship between human... more...
The Rights of Refugees under International Law
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 87.00In this book Hathaway presents the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees as set by the UN Refugee Convention. He links the standards of the Convention to key norms of international human rights law and applies his analysis to the world's most difficult protection challenges. more...
Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Hart Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 84.60The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the extent to which it consolidates and develops the international corpus of indigenous rights. This is the first in-depth academic analysis of this far-reaching... more...
The Social Media Reader
NYU Press 2012; US$ 75.00With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces... more...
Rethinking Social Justice
Aboriginal Studies Press 2013; US$ 31.99In the early 1970s, Australian governments began to treat Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders as "peoples" with capacities for self-government. Forty years later, confidence in Indigenous self-determination has been eroded by accounts of Indigenous pathology, misplaced policy optimism, and persistent socio-economic gaps. This record accounts for... more...









