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The Battle Over Bilingual Ballots
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 134.95The 'bilingual ballot' provisions of the Voting Rights Act, enacted in 1965 and expanded a decade later to remove language barriers to voting by prohibiting English-only elections in certain jurisdictions, remain a subject of intense debate in election law and American politics. This new book offers the first-ever comprehensive examination... more...
Ignored, Shunned, and Invisible
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 56.00Historically, segregation and social isolation have been recurring responses to people considered defective or deficient in some way. And it is in the midst of such a society that special educator J. David Smith wrote this book, which presents critical historical and contemporary issues in mental retardation. Told through gripping vignettes and interwoven... more...
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 26.00Explores the global duties attached to human rights, including the necessity to promote political integration between states. more...
The Right to Privacy
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 17.00Can the police strip-search a woman who has been arrested for a minor traffic violation? Can a magazine publish an embarrassing photo of you without your permission? Does your boss have the right to read your email? Can a company monitor its employees' off-the-job lifestyles--and fire those who drink, smoke, or live with a partner of the same sex?... more...
Womens Rights in Democratizing States
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 72.00This study offers a new explanation for why advances in women's rights rarely occur in democratizing states. more...
Human Rights and International Relations
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 37.00This book is about the impact of human rights on the relations among states. more...
Contracting for Property Rights
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 27.00Libecap examines the political and economic considerations that influence property rights arrangements in the USA. more...
Democratic Anxieties
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 69.99Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship takes contemporary opposition to same-sex marriage as a starting point to consider anxieties about sex and death within conceptions of democratic citizenship. It pursues a less anxious democratic citizenship in creative readings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche,... more...
"Thou, Dear God"
Beacon Press 2011; US$ 20.00"Thou, Dear God" is the first and only collection of sixty-eight prayers by Martin Luther King, Jr. Arranged thematically in six parts--with prayers for spiritual guidance, special occasions, times of adversity, times of trial, uncertain times, and social justice--Baptist minister and King scholar Lewis Baldwin introduces the book and each section... more...
The Arab State and Women's Rights
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00Researchers studying gender politics in Arab societies have been puzzled by a phenomenon common in many Arab states ? while women are granted suffrage rights, they are often discriminated against by the state in their private lives. This book addresses this phenomenon, maintaining that the Arab state functions according to a certain ?logic?... more...









