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  • 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 €

  • 通往普世之路
    Xiao Po
     内容简介    本书先是描述了现代文明经济、文化、政治三者之间密不可分，尤其现代文明是建立在以人为中心的基础上，现代国家需要捍卫人类共同的普世价值。随后作者简单的描述了中国历史，他认为归根到底是中国的大一统理念与自由文化背道而驰，导致专制程度的不断加深最终让本土文明衰落，而如今的中国只进行经济改革而忽略文化政治变革，那么仍然会像其他专制帝国一样维持不了长期繁荣。作者揭穿了红色中国政权的道貌岸然，逐一论述红色政权所宣扬的价值观与现实严重不符，尤其作者所生活的新疆地区是专制程度最深的地方。作者设想中，未来的中国只有接受普世价值，走向宪政民主才能让国家真正强大起来。同时作者认为世界此时也变的不太平，自由世界的民主国家是时候建立起联盟，在世界范围内捍卫普世价值，抵御专制国家奴役的蔓延。 ...
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    24,24 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Рациократия
    Алексей Шруб
    Данная книга - это попытка выстроить рационально обоснованную модель (теорию) общественного устройства на основе относительно небольшого набора базовых постулатов и логических рассуждений.Такой подход позволяет обосновывать выбор тех или иных общественных решений, ведь на любой вопрос гражданина вроде 'почему я должен?' или 'почему мне нельзя?' должен быть обоснованный ответ, и...
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    23,25 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • A ciegas en 2020. Reflexiones de científicos disidentes, filósofos, artistas y más
    Gabrielle Bauer
    Por qué los cierres y mandatos de Covid-19 fueron una muy mala ideaReflexiones sobre las políticas covid de científicos disidentes, filósofos, artistas y más¿Sirvieron los cierres y mandatos de Covid-19 a los intereses de la sociedad? La ciencia por sí sola no puede responder a la pregunta. Los filósofos tienen cosas importantes que decir al respecto. También los psicólogos, ec...
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    23,92 €

  • Empowering Women in Russia
    Julie Hemment / Nastasia Vahtina
    Originally published in 2007, based on research conducted during 1996-1998, Julie Hemment’s engrossing study traces the development encounter through interactions between international foundation and Russian women’s groups during a decade of transformation. Prohibited from organizing independently under state socialism, women’s groups became a focus of attention in the post-Sov...
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    40,87 €

  • Totalitarismo
    Fernando Gonçalves
    Um conto de ficção, que trata da história de Marcos que esta preso na cidade do Escravo Moderno, um lugar onde as pessoas são escravizadas pelo, o grande irmão, que proibi elas de pensarem, a liberdade neste local é inata, as pessoas não possuem nenhuma autorização para expressar suas ideias, democracia não existe, só o que há é inteiramente o autoritarismo, por parte do sistem...
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    16,22 €

  • 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 €


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