Catálogo de libros: Control y libertades políticas

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  • 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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    73,34 €

  • Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship
    A person who is not recognised as a citizen anywhere is typically referred to as ’stateless’. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship redirects focus away from legal analyses of statelessness to uncover a more fundamental ’problem of citizenship’, and interrogates how citizenship is used as a governance tool around the world. ...
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    43,60 €

  • Azaadi, Freedom and Change in Kashmir
    Laura Schuurmans
    Kashmir has been in geopolitical limbo since the partition of the British Raj in 1947. A region of stunning natural beauty and diverse ethnicities and cultures, its people have experienced violence, state oppression, and terrorism for generations. This book provides an introduction to the region, and its people, and reveals the everyday realities and experiences of conflict fro...
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    24,30 €

  • Albanian advocacy for Chameria in Europe
    Jeroen Zandberg
    The Cham are an Albanian speaking community who lived in a region what is now northwestern Greece and which was part of the Ottoman Empire for many centuries. They were driven out to Turkey and Albania in several waves during the time-period between 1913 and 1944 and were stripped of their citizenship. Their land, houses and other possessions were seized and nationalized throug...
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    50,49 €

  • Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine
    Hedi Viterbo
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    36,41 €

  • Self-Destruction
    John W. Frece
    Hollywood-handsome Daniel B. Brewster had it all: inherited wealth, stellar education, combat Marine, prestigious horse farm, gorgeous and talented wife, and two young sons -- even a seat in the United States Senate. He was called 'the Golden Boy of Maryland Politics.' In 1964, as a stand-in for Lyndon Johnson in Maryland’s Democratic Presidential Primary, Brewster defeated the...
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    19,73 €

  • Progressive Values
    Gerald Schneider PhD
    This book suggests realistic and ethical solutions to many world problems that invite dialogue. It bridges the gap between progressives and conservatives in a divided America. Readers will find it original, thoughtful, lucid, concise, and reasoned as well as provocative. Do not skip the introduction even if you start reading it from anywhere else. And note the entrepreneurs in ...
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    14,49 €

  • Poland’s Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
    Robert Brier
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    54,02 €

  • Bureaucracitis
    JJ Suff
    Jo-Jo "J.J." Suff, the pen-name of the anonymous author, shares his revealing story of vast, chaotic government procedures, bureaucratic buffoonery, and shocking waste, all in a comedic, direct style.  J.J. is a retired 30-plus year Contracting Officer with the U. S. Department of Defense, who has had past works published on Federal Government dysfunction and waste under his re...
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    13,27 €

  • An Uncharted Progression
    Robert Lee Howard
    I gave very little thought to the direction my early life was taking, yet some people considered me to be successful because I avoided the pitfalls of poverty, drugs, crime, and imprisonment. However, a one-sided junior high school crush motivated me to study. That determination to study strenuously over a three-and-a-half-year period allowed me to build an educational foundat...
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    19,93 €

  • Constructing Equity
    Johnny Townsend
    We don’t need 'affordable' healthcare. We need universal healthcare. We don’t need 'access' to education. We need tuition-free college and vocational training. Let’s erase the weasel words and get right to the point. The only way any of us can live in a safe, healthy society is if we all do.Freedom and equity aren’t free. Neither is a stable society. We must reduce the extraord...
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    13,78 €

  • Racism by Proxy
    Johnny Townsend
    Are you biased? Am I?The short answer is yes. We all are.Having bias isn’t a choice. We can’t avoid it. We prefer members of our religion, our country, our political party, and speakers of our native language. We’re taught bias by people who aren’t conscious of their biases, and we in turn unintentionally pass them on to others.So it’s not a 'sin' to be biased. It’s inevitable....
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    13,75 €

  • Genocide Prophesy
    Dr. Brian Haack
    What if modern bureaucrats led our country toward a genocidal end which rivaled history’s most wicked regimes? What if Christians helped them do it? And what does any of this have to do with autism?This book demonstrates how U.S. policy and social evolution has followed a trajectory eerily like the one which seated the Nazis, and how Germany’s most-notorious human rights abuse...
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    17,40 €

  • The China Record
    Fei-Ling Wang
    Detailed assessment of the People’s Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development. ...
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    121,08 €

  • Recommended Daily Humanity
    Johnny Townsend
    A checklist of human rights must include basic housing, universal healthcare, equitable funding for public schools, and tuition-free college and vocational training.In addition to the fundamentals, though, we need much more to fully thrive. Subsidized childcare, universal pre-K, net neutrality, subsidized high-speed internet, a universal basic income, fare-free public transit (...
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    14,27 €

  • We Had a Dream
    Bernard Marin
    The 1960s was a decade of social and political upheaval that reshaped every facet of American culture, from civil rights, through feminism, to gay liberation and the anti-Vietnam War movement.Bernard Marin takes readers into the heart of this turbulent time in an anthology of historical fiction. Through Bernard’s eyes, we join a young journalist who witnesses both the Chicago r...
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    23,96 €

  • Midnight Murders on Rock Cut Road
    Bruce Krell
    A detailed history of the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. FBI documents, participant confessions, newspaper articles, and FBI photos are used to construct the history. A complete forensic analysis is performed based on the original autopsy and the FBI Lab Report. A visual reconstruction with photos taken by the author is used to show events on that day. ·        Biogr...
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    60,40 €

  • Mokum
    Matthew Vandenberg
    Read Mokum 1 first or read this first and in a linear manner. The choice is yours.You’re a reporter who recently arrived in Amsterdam, fresh from a curious throng in Dubai.Your gear is stolen, and you get lost; very lost.This is the third or fourth sequel to one of many alternate stories from the novel FREE LATIFA (following on from piece #148). The first was X BENCH. The secon...
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    30,33 €

  • How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights
    Cynthia Burack
    Traces the Trump administration’s surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump’s indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites. ...
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    29,38 €

  • Layers of Truth
    Rosalie T Turner
    In the spring of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is recruiting white college students to teach in Freedom Schools and encourage Blacks to register to vote in the racial hotbed of Mississippi. At her best friend’s urging, Lenore Rogers, a white student at Barnard College in New York, signs up for the Freedom Summer Project. She is reluctant at first, b...
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    20,90 €

  • A Fish Has No Word For Water
    Violet Blue
    WINNER: 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards GOLDFINALIST: 2023 National Indie Excellence Awards'In the superb A Fish Has No Word For Water, her highly readable memoir, Blue plunges readers into a life that is both a freewheeling adventure tale and a clear-eyed survey of stories of human wreckage... Sharp dialogue, incisive observations, and polished prose.' -BookLife EDITOR’...
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    16,79 €

  • The Conscience of a Conservative
    Barry Goldwater
    2023 Hardcover Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 'The Conscience of a Conservative' was published by Goldwater when he was an Arizona Senator and a potential 1964 Republican presidential candidate. The book reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. T...
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    22,94 €

  • Nobody Left Behind
    Amanda Nicholson
    A collection of poetry, prose and non-fiction inspired by the cost-of-living crisis. Edited by Amanda Nicholson with writing by over 30 poets and authors from around the UK. This anthology was produced to raise awareness of the experiences you rarely see in the mainstream media. All the profits go to Mustard Tree to support the important work they do. Some of the pieces use dar...
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    10,75 €

  • Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine
    Malaka Mohammed Shwaikh / Malaka Shwaikh / Rebecca Ruth Gould
    This publication is the first major transnational examination of prison hunger strikes. While focusing on Palestine, the research is enriched by extensive interviews and conversations with South African, Kurdish, Irish, and British ex-prisoners and hunger strikers. This study reveals in unprecedented detail how prison hunger strikes achieve monumental feats of resistance throug...
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    20,18 €

  • God’s Ask
    Kathleen Queen
    God’s Ask is the story of what God is doing in the hearts of the people in Iraqi Kurdistan and beyond, despite the chaotic turmoiland profound changes that define the 21st century. The book dissects the everyday experience of an honest disciple on a foreign mission to carry out the instructions given by Jesus and their journey to self-discovery during the process. It tellshow e...
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    19,79 €

  • Enslaved
    Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a series of ’black holes’, in which their access to digital technologies and connectivity is highly controlled. They are tortured, abused, extor...
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    78,59 €

  • Democracy, Human Rights and Governance in The Gambia
    Aboubacar Abdullah Senghore
    This book provides an interesting overview of the African political environment and a specific focus on human rights in the Gambia. The author discusses the democratic system of governance across the African continent; respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; press freedom; respect for the rule of law and authority of the law; good governance and responsible managemen...
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    49,25 €

  • Africa, Human Rights and the Covid-19 Pandemic
    This book makes a significant contribution by initiating debate on the state of human rights, freedoms and civil liberties in the context of emergencies such as pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It is without doubt that as the world was preoccupied with combating the Covid-19 pandemic, issues of rights, freedoms and liberties in the context of this struggle incre...
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    61,03 €

  • Human Rights and Economic Inequalities
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    49,58 €

  • Reporting for Duty
    Andrew Mills
    This memoir describes the things the author has done in his life to promote justice and peace in America’s foreign and domestic policies. But it is more than a memoir; it also includes background for, and analysis of, the peace and justice issues involved. The author says: ''I love my country deeply, and so I want it to live up to its promise of brotherhood, truth, and fairness...
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    29,87 €


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