Civil Rights category: 2079 books

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the issues surrounding freedom of expression, looking at the current legal position in a number of European countries as well as engaging with the wider debates on the topic amongst sociologists, political scientists and economists. In the book...

Como toda obra universitaria, este ensayo es tributario de muchas conversaciones mantenidas con compañeros y amigos a lo largo de los años. Quizá la primera de ellas tuvo lugar con ocasión de mi intervención en el seminario de Filosofía del Derecho dirigido por profesor Gregorio Robles, celebrado...

The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being noticeably critical of the regime. As this book, based on extensive original research, shows, there has been gradually emerging over recent...

CICÉRON l’emporta sur Cécilius, et fut choisi pour accusateur de Verrès. Il demanda et obtint cent dix jours afin d’aller recueillir en Sicile des preuves et des témoignages  ; mais il n’en mit que cinquante dans l’accomplissement de cette mission. Il s’était...

“A path-breaking must-read for government leaders, strategists, and all concerned Americans.”—General Wesley K. Clark In Preemption one of our nation’s foremost legal scholars puts forward a controversial new theory on crime and punishment in the postmodern world. Using the American...

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation....

Examining the complicated and sometimes controversial history, goals, and tactics of anticapitalist movements, this compilation focuses on the meaning of the movement as a whole and examines the protests that surrounded global trade and political conferences such as the 1999 World Trade Organization...

The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpadden—the mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014—sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history. “I wasn’t there when Mike Mike was shot....

Selected Essays on Justice, Love, Empire, and the power of not giving up. Don’t give up. Life isn’t only a state of emergency. This work we’re all engaged in with one another? It’s a long haul. It always has been. Take a moment. Breathe. Refill your well. Then find a way...

En este libro está lo que faltaba saber del 68. Cincuenta años tuvieron que pasar para conocer por qué ocurrió la masacre del 2 de octubre. Hoy podemos saber con certeza histórica por qué, cómo y quiénes orquestaron la oscura noche de Tlatelolco. En este libro, a cuya elaboración...

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt’s political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing bring together updated essays from Middle East Report—the premier journal covering the region—that offer unrivaled analysis of the major...

- Former Artistic Director of Junebug Productions, based in New Orleans - Co-founded the Free Southern Theater in Mississippi (it relocated to New Orleans two years later). - Worked as National Field Program Director with the Committee for Racial Justice - Winner of the Award of Merit from the Association...

Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century. No corner of the world seems immune from this form of collective violence. While many individuals are familiar with the term, few people have a clear understanding of what genocide is and how it is carried out. This book...

In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The collection was immediately released as a book under the title Conscience for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, it...