Making Sense of Human Rights, Paperback - James W. Nickel

* New, revised edition of James Nickel's classic study. * Explains and defends the conception of human rights found in the Universal Declaration of...

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Nussberger traces the history of the European Court of Human Rights from its political context in the 1940s to the present day, answering pressing ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: United Nations PublicationsThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting ou...

Reducere. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the time of its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, has been a sou...

This systematic overview of the main arguments made against human rights is the first of its kind. It proposes a strong democratic defence of human...

Science in the Service of Human Rights presents a framework for debate on controversial questions surrounding scientific freedom and responsibility...

By highlighting the institutional and socio-cultural context of human rights, this timely collection provides illuminating insights into the emerge...

How does the ECtHR in Strasbourg interpret the European Convention on Human Rights? This book analyses one of the tools of interpretation: European...

Prison literature has played an essential role in generating the "experimental shift" in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani's groundbreak...

DescriptionHow and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have different strategies, tactics, and strands of international solidarity emerged or...

Drawing on examples from the ancient world to the two world wars, from the conquest of the Americas to Muslim Central Asia, this collection of essa...

This book analyses the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a powerful actor in International Relations by examining how the ASEAN com...

Lea David goes against the well-embedded belief that 'proper' remembrance leads to a better appreciation of human rights values, helping us to unde...

Human dignity is not just gloss. Rather, its protection and amplification should be understood as the overall end to which international human righ...

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Reducere. This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

This book proposes a transformation from human rights organized around a state determined practice to one that is focused on a people-centric appro...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Peter (University of Gloucestershire, UK) HalsteadIllustration(s): 13 Tables, colorNumber of pages: 256Co...

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Some 2. 5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, ad...

Western legal culture looked to the Christian religion for its foundational cosmopolitan ideas, and at the beginnings of the human rights movement ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kevin W. McCarthyIs Your Life Filled, Yet Unfulfilled? Do you feel pulled in a thousand different directions? Are your days...

DescriptionThe definitive work in the field, International Human Rights provides a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. Wr...

Reducere. Are there any human rights that apply to all women and all men in all cultures at all times? Can we ground human rights in an abstract rationality ...

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Deliver engaging, enquiry-driven lessons and help pupils gain a coherent chronological understanding of and across periods studied with this comple...

DescriptionMaking Sense of Heidegger presents a radically new reading of Heidegger's notoriously difficult oeuvre. Clearly written and rigorously g...

Handy reaches here for a philosophy beyond the mechanics of business organisations, beyond material choices, to try and establish an alternative un...

Publisher: HopscotchAuthor(s): Christine HowardNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 295 x 211 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

A groundbreaking book that fundamentally opens the Central African Republic to African policymakers and scholars.

Taking a fresh and innovative approach to the subject, Making Sense of Land Law is an essential textbook designed to help those coming to the subje...

Reducere. 'The hole gapes still. It always will. And I fall in periodically.' Durban-based journalist Glynis Horning and her husband Chris woke one Sunday mo...

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This handbook explains the crucial role that psychology plays in: defending individuals' human rights, health, well-being, and dignity; supporting ...

Everybody has heard of human rights. But what are human rights, where do they originate and what do they mean? This book answers these questions, o...

A straightforward and stimulating account of this fascinating area of law that covers all the key topics on undergraduate human rights modules. It ...

Reducere. This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was...

The author explains structure and then shows how it works in different language contexts - the literary, the non-literary, the spoken and the writt...

Publisher: Templar PublishingAuthor(s): Elizabeth Hartley-BrewerNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 15Cover type: Pap...

Making Sense of Public Opinion: American Discourses about Immigration and Social Programs - Claudia Strauss

Explores how everyone can be good global citizens through case studies and practical suggestions

Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? T...

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Reducere. Race is our age's great taboo. Public intellectuals insist that it does not exist-that it's a "social construct" and biological differences between...

A bracing and ambitious work of practical philosophy, tightly argued and beautifully writtenPublisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Phil SmokeNum...

Through a series of examples of statistics in the media, this book shows you how to critically assess the presentation of data in the media, to ide...