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For a Song and a Hundred Songs
The Text Publishing Company 2013; US$ 32.99This is the extraordinary prison memoir of one of China's most prominent dissidents and author of the internationally acclaimed The Corpse Walker . Introduction by Herta Muller, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. In June 1989, Liao Yiwu witnessed the Tiananmen Square protest. The young poet, who had until then led an apolitical... more...
Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security
CRC Press 2013; US$ 119.95Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security: Balancing Technology and Social Issues provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art methods and tools for the surveillance and protection of citizens and critical infrastructures against natural and deliberate threats. Focusing on current technological challenges involving multi-disciplinary problem... more...
Refugee Women and Their Mental Health
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 54.50Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women. Most of the literature focuses on political, economic, and social issues with very little reference to the mental health implications... more...
Legacy of Soviet Dissent
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight. This book restores the dissidents to their rightful place in Russian history. Using a vast array of samizdat and published sources, it shows how ideas formulated... more...
Text and Materials on International Human Rights
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 69.95Text and Materials on International Human Rights offers a carefully tailored overview of the subject, divided into four sections that cover: sources and theories; institutions and structures; substantive rights; and a new concluding section on the challenges for human rights law. The third edition is fully updated to include all key developments,... more...
Race, Law and American Society
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall?s seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she places advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for physical freedom in the slavery era to more recent... more...
Globalization of Law and Human Rights: From Norms to Fulfillment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 85.00How does the globalization of law, the emergence of multiple and shifting venues of legal accountability, enhance or evade the fulfillment of international human rights? Alison Brysk?s edited volume aims to assess the institutional and political factors that determine the influence of the globalization of law on the realization of human rights. ... more...
International Responsibility and Grave Humanitarian Crises
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00This book examines responsibility in grave humanitarian crises, focusing on the international community's collective responsibility to take action in such cases as genocide or ethnic cleansing. The idea of collective responsibility highlights how we would like to see the global level primarily as something more akin to a community of peoples, rather... more...
The Ethics of Interrogation
Georgetown University Press 2013; US$ 26.95Can harsh interrogation techniques and torture ever be morally justified for a nation at war or under the threat of imminent attack? In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist strikes, the United States and other liberal democracies were forced to grapple once again with the issue of balancing national security concerns against the protection... more...
International Human Rights Law and Practice
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 52.00Innovative mix of theory and practice, coupled with engaging writing style and integrated interviews to guarantee students' interest and understanding. more...









