Catálogo de libros: Control y libertades políticas

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  • Fists & Flowers
    Richard Hertzberg
    Fists & Flowers: Leaflets from the Sixties dramatically presents the story of the Sixties through a selection of iconic leaflets with compelling content and strong visual impact. These leaflets spoke of concerns, issues, and causes that have a renewed, urgent relevance in contemporary America, such as military interventions abroad, racism, voting rights, police brutality, polit...
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    39,94 €

  • Food Power Politics
    Bobby J. Smith II
    This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions. For decades, white ec...
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    127,16 €

  • Food Power Politics
    Bobby J. Smith II
    This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions. For decades, white ec...
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    31,77 €

  • Acknowledging Radical Histories
    Chris Time Steele / Gerald Horne
    In this collection of conversations, Dr. Horne confronts the history of settler colonialism and fighting fascism while giving dazzling insights on Jazz, Claude Barnett, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Shirley Graham Du Bois, while delivering deeper insights into the histories of Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Chris Steele’s curiosity as an interviewer creates dialogues wh...
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    22,29 €

  • The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name
    Jason K. Stearns
    Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a 'forever war'-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Do...
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    30,48 €

  • The Adversity of Diversity
    Carol M. Swain / Mike Towle
    When the US Supreme Court announced its landmark 6-3 decision to take race out of the equation for college and university admissions, it did more than just bring affirmative action in higher education to a screeching halt. It also fired a warning shot across the bow of businesses and governmental agencies across America: the days for workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (...
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    11,90 €

  • Life in the UK
    Ashuk Miah
    This easy to use book has been developed to advise and guide candidates to pass the Life in the UK Test examination.The aim is to provide continuous advice, support and teaching materials for the Life in the UK test to all our readers and we look forward to having a professional relationship with our readers for many years to come. ...
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    20,06 €

  • Global Corpse Politics
    Jessica Auchter
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    42,09 €

  • Power Dynamics
    Jonathan A. Sinclair
    In a world marked by power struggles, the rise of authoritarian regimes has become a pressing global concern. Dive into the intricate web of political dominance, suppression of dissent, and the far-reaching implications for human rights and civil liberties in 'Power Dynamics: Authoritarianism, Regimes, and Human Rights.' This thought-provoking book offers a comprehensive analys...
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    11,28 €

  • A Kidnapped West
    Milan Kundera / Linda Asher
    'We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations feels pressing.'--Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine'Kundera focuses on the relationship of Europe’s central ’small nations’ like Czechoslovakia and Ukraine to Western culture and a...
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    22,46 €

  • View from a Cage
    Michael Liebowitz
    A firsthand account of how I came to think as I do, this book is part autobiography, part self-help, part economics, and part philosophy. If you are a fan of Austrian economics, Ayn Rand, libertarianism, or are just intellectually curious, you’ll love this book. ...
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    14,00 €

  • Reparations 101
    K. Snyder
    Discover the essential guide to understanding the complex and urgent issue of reparations for African Americans in the United States. In ’Reparations 101’ by K. Snyder, explore the historical context, economic impact, and moral imperative behind the controversial topic of reparations. This thought-provoking book provides valuable insights and a roadmap for achieving justice and...
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    29,92 €

  • BAN THIS BOOK NOW!
    Cara Cusack
    'Ban This Book Now!: The Politics and Power of Book Bans' starts with a cheeky, sarcastic introduction that might have you chuckling, but the humor quickly gives way to a compelling investigation into a serious issue - book banning. This incisive examination takes you on an enlightening tour of the categories of book bans, showcasing the specific titles that have fallen prey to...
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    11,92 €

  • Global Perspectives on Human Rights and the Impact of Tourism Consumption in the 21st Century
    Global Perspectives on Human Rights and the Impact of Tourism Consumption in the 21st Century is an essential reference book for those concerned with the interaction between tourism consumption, social justice, and human rights. With chapters covering topics such as human trafficking, geospatial discrimination, gentrification theory, violence, racism, child sex tourism, and the...
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    314,57 €

  • Global Perspectives on Human Rights and the Impact of Tourism Consumption in the 21st Century
    Global Perspectives on Human Rights and the Impact of Tourism Consumption in the 21st Century is an essential reference book for those concerned with the interaction between tourism consumption, social justice, and human rights. With chapters covering topics such as human trafficking, geospatial discrimination, gentrification theory, violence, racism, child sex tourism, and the...
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    235,65 €

  • Threads of America
    Soul Canvas
    Threads of America, a gift to celebrate America as a whole'A wonderful, splendid Poem book that should be read by every American and Non-American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, and its hope for the future.'Threads of America is a captivating collection that honours the profound legacy of July 4, 1776. Since the nation’s inception, these poetic lines...
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    13,19 €

  • Am I My Planet’s Keeper?
    Johnny Townsend
    Global Warming. Climate Change. Climate Crisis. Climate Emergency. Whatever label we use, we are facing one of the greatest challenges to the survival of life as we know it.But while addressing greenhouse gases is perhaps our most urgent need, it’s not our only task. We must also address toxic waste, pollution, habitat destruction, and our other contributions to the world’s six...
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    12,46 €

  • Breaking the Promise of the Promised Land
    Johnny Townsend
    Many Christians in America see this country as the Promised Land, reserved for them and them only. They want a theocracy. Almost every decision is made to exert more control over citizens of every faith. Their punitive, coercive policies have caused mass suffering which they blame on the people they’ve crushed.Religious conservatives have failed America.Political conservatism h...
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    13,86 €

  • Polar Shift
    Joseph F. C. DiMento
    Polar Shift addresses how to sustain the Arctic’s richness, beauty, and local and global value. It describes programs specifically created to protect this region and presents competing ideas of how it can be improved with specific recommendations ...
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    28,50 €

  • The Alphabet As Resistance
    Jerry Cunningham
    Could slavery get worse after centuries of it? It did in the slave South in the decades just before the Civil War. This book explores the expansion of slavery during the period, the growth of the mass-labor cotton and sugar plantations, the expulsion of the Native Americans, and the new types of repression. Those new types of repression included new laws that prohibited the tea...
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    14,10 €

  • The Struggle for the People’s King
    Hajar Yazdiha
    How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracyIn the post–civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women’s rights activists and LGBTQ coalitions. Increasingly since the 1980s, white, right-wing social movements, from fa...
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    40,33 €

  • Kant’s typo, and the limits of the law
    Marie E. Newhouse
    At first glance, Kant’s political thought can appear bafflingly inconsistent. On one hand, Kant holds that political authority is justified exclusively as a necessary precondition to our individual freedom. On the other hand, Kant seems at times to embrace a deeply repressive account of state power. He declares that the state’s laws are necessarily consistent with our freedom, ...
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    64,47 €

  • Crossing Borders
    Christa Bruhn
    Christa’s journey of curiosity to Jerusalem and Gaza while studying abroad in her father’s homeland of Germany at the tail end of the Cold War opens up a world of joy and heartache that transforms into a lifetime pursuit to make a difference in a land two peoples call home. Through her unique perspective as an American and mother of three Palestinians, we become familiar with b...
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    30,56 €

  • Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures
    Digital politics is rarely explored holistically and interdisciplinary beyond a focus on digital activism, digital warfare or Internet governance. Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures addresses this gap, initiating conversations about digital politics to a range of disciplines, developing new pedagogy for the field. ...
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    80,92 €

  • By This Shall We Be Known
    Terriel Byrd / Terriel R. Byrd
    By This Shall We Be Known: Interpreting the Voice, Vision, and Message of Martin Luther King, Jr. draws out the simple truths ad practical wisdom woven throughout the legacy of this twentieth century pioneer of the Modern Civil Rights era. Byrd explores Dr. King’s work and life, especially his preaching, to illustrate the power of his thought to inspire individuals today. ...
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    8,48 €

  • Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave
    Ash Jain / Hardy Merriman / Patrick Quirk
    A powerful autocratic wave is sweeping the globe. Over the last 17 years, no country remains untouched. Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave builds on a growing body of research that finds that civil resistance movements-using tactics such as strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and a range of other nonviolent tactics-are one of the most powerful forces for democracy worldwide ...
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    16,19 €

  • Walaahi
    Dawn Bates
    The world watched as Egyptians rose up together for the first time in history to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak. It could’ve been a gripping tale straight out of a movie, with communication blackouts, violent and bloody protests, police and army brutality, curfews, and fighter jet flybys. But for those living in Egypt this was real life. Living through it all was British aut...
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    17,58 €

  • Yorkshire 2027
    Steve Mullins
    2027 looks to return some dignity to Yorkshire after decades, or even centuries, when centralised power had gradually eroded, and knowingly neglected, the needs and aspirations of this significant part of England. The book makes an interesting case and says a lot of things that need to be said. Richard Honnoraty. The Scenario is 2027, election promises made for the 2024 electio...
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    15,49 €

  • Challenging the Narrative
    Cahal McLaughlin
    Filmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing. ...
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    36,04 €

  • Frontiers of Gender Equality
    Rebecca J Cook
    In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discriminatio...
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    132,66 €


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