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  • The Guilt Project

    Rape, Morality, and Law

    by Vanessa Place ...
    An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,” as evidence of her unwillingness. Beginning in the 1970s, however, feminist and victim-advocacy groups began changing attitudes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is an American classic of race, culture and education at the turn of the twentieth century. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in a magazine called, Atlantic Monthly.This book comprises fourteen essays written between 1897 and 1903 that range across social, political and economic history, religion ... Read more

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  • With Liberty and Justice for Some

    How the Law is Used To Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

    by Glenn Greenwald ...
    A scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America that sanctions immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else."The most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years." —Bill MoyersThe founding principle of the United States was that the rule of law would be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules ... Read more

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  • Spying on Democracy

    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

    by Heidi Boghosian ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have ... Read more

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  • Covering

    The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

    by Kenji Yoshino ...
    A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel ... Read more

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  • Acting for Freedom

    Fifty Years of Civil Liberties in Canada

    by Marian Botsford Fraser, Joseph Boyden ...
    The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians and their rights as citizens. Through a series of discussions and interviews, a picture of Canada over the last half-century evolves. From the Charter of Freedoms to life and death matters such as ... Read more

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  • Gay Marriage

    The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution

    by Sylvain Larocque ...
    Translated by Louisa Blair, Robert Chodos ...
    A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada.Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage.As a political correspondent for The Canadian Press, Sylvain Larocque had a front-row seat for this battle in the fight for gay rights in Canada. He recounts the story here on every level, from the legal decisions to the social impact to the political ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law

    by Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier ...
    Translated by Laura Brav, Camille Michel ...
    Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges. Central concerns include the war on terror, new forms of armed conflict and humanitarian action, the emergence of international criminal justice, and the reshaping of fundamental rules and consensus in a multipolar world. ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Place, Not Race

    A New Vision of Opportunity in America

    by Sheryll Cashin ...
    From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative actionRace-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of four ... Read more

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  • Freedom of Speech

    Mightier Than the Sword

    by David K. Shipler ...
    A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in AmericaWith his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical American ideal: freedom of speech. Anchored in personal stories—sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, ... Read more

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  • A Will to Be Free

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men who rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. Up from ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Cultural Defense of Nations

    A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights

    by Liav Orgad ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    The Cultural Defense of Nations presents a timely, thought-provoking thesis on some of the most pressing issues of our time-global immigration, majority groups, and national identity. Never in human history has so much attention been paid to human movement. Global migration yields demographic shifts of historical significance, profoundly shaking up world politics-as has been seen in the refugee ... Read more

    $41.99 USD