The book focuses on the ownership and distribution of marital property upon the dissolution of marriages in Africa. In each of the 16 African countries, the laws on the subject are drawn from different systems of law, whether customary, state law or...Loe edasi...
Government institutions have betrayed the trust of the American people for too long. Instead of serving a democracy that is of, by, and for the people, these organizations have been captured by the corporate greed of regulatory agencies—the agencies...Loe edasi...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s reflections on the civil rights struggle and the power of nonviolent action taken together in community. Part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.Martin Luther King Jr On Gat...Loe edasi...
Do you want to change the world but wonder if there’s any point trying? Are you unsure what you can offer, or don’t feel that you fit the activist mould? Do you think activists can be self-righteous, even oblivious t...Loe edasi...
The instant Sunday Times bestseller, updated with a new introduction Few books are as urgent as Shon Fayes debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we Independent Unsparing, important and weighty ... a...Loe edasi...
Jimmy Reid: Walking with History is the posthumous autobiography of the legendary Scottish trade union leader and orator. Drawn from fourteen years of conversations, it offers a firsthand account of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in and the ideas...Loe edasi...
In an era plagued by increasing inequality and intensifying climate change, residents of cities are facing crises on multiple fronts, including housing, transport, healthcare, policing, pollution, and dramatic population fluctuations. In response, pe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197774274)
People Power in Cities draws from research in cities around the world to show how ordinary people are developing strategies to achieve a greater say in how their cities are run and, more broadly, how the world works. It develops a people pow...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1938, The Voluntary Citizen discusses the distinctive features of charity and voluntary social service and gives the authors views as to their scope and limitations, especially in relation to the public social services at the...Loe edasi...
First published in 1981, this book covers the existence of Charter 77 from 1977 down to the end of 1980. The Charter movement was a significant phenomenon in the history of Czechoslovakia and Charter 77 was symbolic of the courage, the spirit of fre...Loe edasi...
Before there was the United States, there was America. The former is a country, a nation, a geographic reality, but the latteris an idea. Invented more than discovered, “America” signified a revolutionary ideal of freedom, liberty,equality, and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Doubleday & Co Inc., ISBN-13: 9780385550314)
A moving, harrowing and compulsively readable portrait of the lives of Iranians across five decades, tracing the promise of the 1979 revolution and a people’s undying spirit of resistanceIn 1979, a revolution in Iran swept aside a mona...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299356705)
Like in other parts of the world, the protection of human rights and other practices of constitutionalism remains uneven in Malawi and Kenya. However, as Eunice N. Sahle argues in this book, from a comparative historical perspective, these countries’...Loe edasi...
The book examines the consequences of Brexit on EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU27 as well as on the EU citizenship concept as such. Whereas previous scholarship has focused on what individuals gain from EU citizenship, the authors e...Loe edasi...
The USA, post-1945, has deployed public diplomacy to lead the global fight against sexual and labour trafficking. This book traces how the US has named and shamed Japan to improve its human rights performance as measured by US annual listings of traf...Loe edasi...
This is the first edited volume on the work of essential critical legal theorist Costas Douzinas. It brings together his collaborators, students and contemporaries in legal critique to reflect on different aspects of his oeuvre and to celebrate hi...Loe edasi...
This is the first edited volume on the work of essential critical legal theorist Costas Douzinas. It brings together his collaborators, students and contemporaries in legal critique to reflect on different aspects of his oeuvre and to celebrate hi...Loe edasi...
This open access book critically explores the intersections of education, conflict, war and peace, focusing on how global actors intervene in education systems in crisis. Drawing on diverse case studies and theoretical perspectives, it examines the...Loe edasi...
This Element examines the origins, development, and prospects of forensic linguistics in Indonesia, covering its definition, historical trajectory, research trends, and practical applications. By considering the challenges and the potential collabor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009474405)
This Element examines the origins, development, and prospects of forensic linguistics in Indonesia, covering its definition, historical trajectory, research trends, and practical applications. By considering the challenges and the potential collabor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009578738)
Across history, lotteries were used in political selection to combat corruption, ideological polarization, and inequity in access to governance. Today, democracy seems to be facing similar challenges. This Element responds to recent calls to incorpo...Loe edasi...
Across history, lotteries were used in political selection to combat corruption, ideological polarization, and inequity in access to governance. Today, democracy seems to be facing similar challenges. This Element responds to recent calls to incorpo...Loe edasi...
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Edward D. Mansfield, Jon C. W. Pevehouse
Sari: Elements in International Relations
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009638135)
The number of international human rights institutions (IOs) and countries participating in them has risen dramatically. This Element demonstrates that state decisions about joining IOs depends on the institutional design of the organizations and the...Loe edasi...
The number of international human rights institutions (IOs) and countries participating in them has risen dramatically. This Element demonstrates that state decisions about joining IOs depends on the institutional design of the organizations and the...Loe edasi...
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Foreword by Gianni Magazzeni, former Senior UN/OHCHR Official and UPR Chief at the United Nations. This book analyses the impact of the United Nati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9789633868522)
Using Romania as a case study, and drawing on fifty-one interviews with civil society stakeholders, community activists, and Romanian state officials, and twenty-five interviews with international students who were in Ukraine at the time of the inva...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the urban crises of food insecurity and vacant land by examining how community gardens in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro serve as vital mechanisms for realizing the human right to food. Through a comparative study conducted between...Loe edasi...
This book explores how the alt-right has appropriated human rights rhetoric – once rooted in progressive ideals – to resist public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Phrases like “My body, my choice” have been retooled to challenge vacc...Loe edasi...
Fascinating examination of the roles of both the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union as protectors of fundamental rights....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia Global Reports, ISBN-13: 9781967190140)
For decades, the oil-rich Niger Delta—an important wetland and farming area—has seen its natural environment devastated as a result of oil extraction that has brought little economic benefit to its people. Following a nonviolent campaign for environm...Loe edasi...
The book explores the links between fundamental rights and cultural identity in the European legal order especially in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The book analyses the issues surrounding the relationship between cultural div...Loe edasi...
This striking collection of more than 200 full-color infographics is a vivid portrait of Israeli settler colonialism and the Palestinian struggle for freedom.As a new generation of movement-builde...Loe edasi...
This book offers new insights into the political representation of young people globally. The authors address key issues such as the effects of different levels...Loe edasi...
Keith Hayward, Clifford Shearing, Joe Greener, Laura Naegler, Anna Schliehe, Elspeth Van Veeren, Jason Luger, Katharina Newbery, Christopher Peys, Julie Berg...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529245684)
This book brings fresh insights into how social spaces shape the way we experience and understand security. Chapters unite voices from critical security studies, urban geography, criminology and political science to rethink the link between securi...Loe edasi...
Sari: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469694443)
A striking triptych once displayed in countless African American households, the Trinity typically features Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., and John F. Kennedy. More than decoration, these portraits were deliberate acts of memory and quiet r...Loe edasi...
Sari: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469694436)
A striking triptych once displayed in countless African American households, the Trinity typically features Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., and John F. Kennedy. More than decoration, these portraits were deliberate acts of memory and quiet res...Loe edasi...
This book builds on the editors earlier work and once again brings together women scholars of Turkish foreign policy from different parts of the world. The contributors take an interdisciplinary approach to foreign policy analysis that is increasing...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the power of two critical peace theories, namely sequencing and hybrid peace theories, in managing the conflict-triggering elements of liberal peace theory. The effectiveness of liberal peace theorys ability to build sustaina...Loe edasi...
Governing Truth argues that transitional justice is not a set of domestic, government-led processes, but a transnational, civil society-led institution. Transitional justice, which aims to deliver truth, justice, reparations, and guarantees...Loe edasi...
This book explores the place and the role of the right to the truth in municipal trials for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. Using a definition of the right to the truth derived from international human rights jurisprudence, it anal...Loe edasi...
This book examines how a mandatory UN oversight mechanism can influence State behaviour and legal reform in one of the worlds least studied regions. It reveals that the Human Rights Committees (hereafter: HRCtee) State reporting procedure is far mor...Loe edasi...
This book offers a critical analysis of the situation of Tibetan refugees in India through the lenses of human rights, refugee agency, refugee law, and refugeehost community conflict. The first book to mark the 1994 Dharamshala riot as a turning poi...Loe edasi...
This book puts forward interlegal reasoning as a means of coping with normative legal pluralism, that is, with conflicts between competing legal systems, such as national law, European law, international law, and indigenous law. It introduces interl...Loe edasi...
This book examines the transitional justice ecosystem actors, demands, strategies and networks - in Turkey in the Kurdish conflict despite the lack of a transitional period. It situates grassroots actors as the driving forces of the grassroots tran...Loe edasi...
This book conceptualises different news recommendation practices from a legal perspective and establishes ways forward for dealing with them. In recent years, online news distributors (online news media, social media, search en...Loe edasi...
Across the globe, international norms are gaining increasing political relevance - both in rhetoric and in practice. This growing importance is mirrored by the rise of norm research within the field of International Relations. This textbook offers a...Loe edasi...
PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars, second edition looks at how digital transformation is being used to support peace and transition processes, at a moment when war is on the rise. This Open Access book combines an overview of transforma...Loe edasi...
