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“john sifton”

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  • Violence All Around

    de John Sifton ...
    A human rights lawyer travels to hot zones around the globe, before and after the September 11 attacks, to document abuses committed by warlords, terrorist groups, and government counterterrorism forces. Whether reporting on al Qaeda safe houses, the mechanics of the Pentagon’s smartest bombs, his interviews with politicians and ordinary civilians, or his own brush with death outside Kabul, John ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

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  • A Secret History of Torture

    de Ian Cobain ...
    The official line is clear: the United Kingdom does not "participate in, solicit, encourage or condone" torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to their national security, the gloves always come off.Drawing on previously unseen official documents and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize–winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain looks ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Killing Neighbors

    Webs of Violence in Rwanda

    de Lee Ann Fujii ...
    Killing Neighbors is a fine contribution to the literature on the Rwandan genocide and offers a different kind of explanation for what occurred that accommodates the differentiation in actions among Hutu at the local level. This micro-sociological approach is welcome as community level understandings of the political can be quite different from centralized narratives. It is difficult to imagine a ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Crossing the Wire

    One Woman's Journey into the Hidden Dangers of the Afghan War

    de AnnaMaria Cardinalli ...
    In a harrowing memoir, the military journalist discusses her explosive report on sexual practices in Afghanistan and her experience in the War on Terror.When AnnaMaria Cardinalli's explosive United States military report on the topic of sexuality in southern Afghanistan was leaked to mainstream American media, it generated a firestorm of attention and reaction. While some of the findings regarding ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Between Vengeance and Forgiveness

    Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence

    de Martha Minow ...
    The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Human Rights in Russia

    Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin

    de Professor Mary McAuley ...
    Series series Library of Modern Russia
    Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, domestic developments (from Pussy Riot to the release of Khodorkovsky) and Russia's global role (especially in relation to Ukraine) have captured world-wide attention. It is therefore an appropriate moment to see how human rights activism functions inside Russia. Since 1991, ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Forgotten Genocides

    Oblivion, Denial, and Memory

    Edición de René Lemarchand, Rene Lemarchand ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Unlike the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, or Armenia, scant attention has been paid to the human tragedies analyzed in this book. From German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Burundi, and eastern Congo to Tasmania, Tibet, and Kurdistan, from the mass killings of the Roms by the Nazis to the extermination of the Assyrians in Ottoman Turkey, the mind reels when confronted with the inhuman acts that ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Ghost of the Innocent Man

    A True Story of Trial and Redemption

    de Benjamin Rachlin ...
    A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

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  • Beyond Testimony and Trauma

    Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence

    Edición de Steven High ...
    Series series Shared: Oral and Public History
    Survivors of terrible events are often portrayed as unsung heroes or tragic victims but rarely as complex human beings whose lives extend beyond the stories they have told. Beyond Testimony and Trauma considers other ways to engage with survivors and their accounts based on insights gained from long-term oral history projects in a variety of contexts, including factory closures, industrial injury, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    de John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Honour'

    Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence Against Women

    Edición de Lynn Welchman, Sara Hossain ...
    This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. Authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against women, focusing largely on 'honour killings' and interference with the right to choice in marriage, and the related use and legal treatment of the ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • State Criminality

    The Crime of All Crimes

    de Dawn L. Rothe ...
    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    State crimes are historically and contemporarily ubiquitous and result in more injury and death than traditional street crimes such as robbery, theft, and assault. Consider that genocide during the 20th century in Germany, Rwanda, Darfur, Albania, Turkey, Ukraine, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and other regions claimed the lives of tens of millions and rendered many more homeless, imprisoned, and ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD