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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...
Coalition Government and Party Mandate
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00Which kind of decisions are passed by Cabinet in coalition governments? What motivates ministerial action? How much leeway do coalition parties give their governmental representatives? This book focuses on a comparative study of ministerial behaviour in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. It discredits the assumption that ministers are... more...
West Africa and the US War on Terror
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00Since the terrorist attacks on the American homeland on September 11, 2001, fighting the menace has become the frontier issue on the U.S.? national security agenda. In the case of the African Continent, the United States has, and continues to accord major attention to the West African sub-region. This book : Evaluates where we can place West... more...
The Search for Security in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 32.50By the middle of 2007, Afghans had become increasingly disillusioned with a state-building process that had failed to deliver the peace dividend that they were promised. For many Afghans, the most noticeable change in their lives since the fall of the Taliban has been an acute deterioration in security conditions. Whether it is predatory warlords,... more...
Human Trafficking
Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 54.00Despite the fact that the United Nations officially abolished slavery and the slave trade almost 60 years ago, millions of human beings live in slavery today. Human trafficking - the official term for modern-day slavery - consists of buying and selling people with the intent of exploiting them through forced labor or sexual acts. Human Trafficking... more...
City, Save Thyself!
Trueblood Publishing Co. 2009; US$ 11.99Acting as a what-to-do guide for a hundred agonizing what’s-wrong reports on war, terror, habitat destruction, and the decay of democracy, this book lays out a ways to revitalize democratic resources via city and town government. Whatever a person’s current response to America’s civic ills and the world's threat... more...
Liu Xiaobo's Empty Chair
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 6.99When the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced it was awarding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese literary critic and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, it made special note of his role in writing a remarkable political manifesto called Charter 08. In China, that same document has caused officials to throw him in jail with an 11-year sentence that... more...
Reading the Enemy's Mind
Tom Doherty Associates 2005; US$ 6.99If you thought The Manchurian Candidate was fiction or John Farris's The Fury, which featured a CIA mind-control program run amok, was the stuff of an overheated imagination, you were sorely mistaken. From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and... more...
Blowback
Henry Holt and Co. 2001; US$ 7.99An explosive account of the resentments American policies are sowing around the world and of the payback that will be our harvest in the twenty-first century. Blowback, a term invented by the CIA, refers to the uninted consequences of American policies. In this sure-to-be-controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers... more...
Ultimate Spy
Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2009; Not AvailableNew edition of this insider's guide to the secret world of espionage ? expanded to include new spy case studies and gadgets Deliberately secretive and shadowy, the world of the spy is one that only a privileged few can understand. Enter that world, as Keith Melton, an adviser to the US intelligence agencies, brings to light the secrets of espionage.... more...









