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  • Religion and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    by Laura E. Alexander ...
    Series series Engaging with Religion
    This book highlights perspectives from religious traditions worldwide, in conversation with other communities who promote, critique, or question the idea of human rights. It shows how human rights can provide a platform for dialogue among groups of people from diverse backgrounds who seek to address pressing issues of human well-being.In each chapter, readers will be introduced to religious and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith

    Interreligious Reflections on Immigration

    by Loye Ashton, Ron Choong, Kjetil Fretheim, Zahra Nasiruddin Jamal, Daniel Maoz, James McBride, Zeyneb Sayilgan, Benjamin Schewel, Silas W. Allard, Anne M. Blankenship, Daniel A. Campana0, Michael M. Canaris1, Ken Uyeda Fong2, Dawn L. Hutchinson3, Matt R. Jantzen4, Allen G. Jorgenson5, Jessica Wai-Fong Wong6, Laura E. Alexander7, Helen T. Boursier9, Alexander Y. Hwang0, Kristine Suna-Koro2, Hussam S. Timani3 ...
    The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith addresses two of the most critical challenges of our time: immigration and religious diversity. The diverse group of contributors, representing a variety of religious traditions, disciplines, and methodologies, explore “the meaning of my neighbor’s faith” in the age of migration. Each author reflects on the meaning of religious traditions in the context of the ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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    Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

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    **One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer“[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.” —Anne Applebaum**“A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers.” —George Packer“A rare thing: [an] academic treatise . . . that may actually ... Read more

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  • Undoing Border Imperialism

    by Harsha Walia ...
    Series Book 6 - Anarchist Interventions
    Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”-Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineUndoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies

    by Eve Stoddard, John Collins ...
    Series series Foundations in Global Studies
    From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early chapters of the book survey the key concepts and processes of globalization as well as a critical look at the meaning and role globalization. Students ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Global Issues

    A Cross-Cultural Perspective

    by Shirley A. Fedorak ...
    Global Issues is a pedagogically rich text that offers a unique way of looking at contemporary issues, such as food security and global conflict, from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective. By exploring each issue in depth, students gain an applied understanding of more abstract concepts like conflict, globalization, culture, imperialism, human rights, and gender, while the cross ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Diaspora, Development, and Democracy

    The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India

    by Devesh Kapur ...
    What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries.Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Understanding Modern Nigeria

    Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development

    by Toyin Falola ...
    Since its independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has emerged as Africa's second largest economy and one of the biggest producers of oil in the world. Despite its economic success, however, there are deep divisions among its two hundred and fifty ethnic groups. Centered around three of the dominant themes of Nigeria's post-colonial narrative - ethnicity, democracy and governance, this is an ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • From Empire to Community

    by Amitai Etzioni ...
    Whether one favors the U.S. global projection of force or is horrified by it, the question stands - where do we go from here? What ought to be the new global architecture? Amitai Etzioni follows a third way, drawing on both neoconservative and liberal ideas, in this bold new look at international relations. He argues that a "clash of civilizations" can be avoided and that the new world order need ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queer Wars

    by Dennis Altman, Jonathan Symons ...
    The claim that �LGBT rights are human rights� encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to �LGBT rights� to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence.Queer Wars explores the growing international polarization over sexual rights, and the creative responses from ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Apostles of Development

    Six Economists and the World They Made

    by David C. Engerman ...
    Apostles of Development recounts the work of six individuals, all former classmates at Cambridge University, who helped make international development--the effort to reduce poverty and inequality around the world--into a juggernaut of the second half of the twentieth century. International development employed millions, affected billions, and spent trillions; it held the hopes of the former ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions

    by Rosemary Radford Ruether ...
    Series series Nature's Meaning
    Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions addresses the practical relevance of the interconnection of feminism, ecology, and religious theological thought, and will ask questions about the lack of attention to gender issues in both ecological theology and deglobalization theory. The book knits together four concerns: globalization, interfaith ecological theology, ecofeminism, and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD