Readings in Syrian Prison Literature. The Poetics of Human Rights, Paperback - R. Shareah Taleghani

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

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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...

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

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

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

Reducere. Capitalist Punishment : Prison Privatization and Human Rights Edited by Rodney Neufeld, Andrew Coyle and Allison Campbell Prison privatization is r...

David Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and...

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...

Paul Celan (1920-1970) is perhaps the most widely read of modern German-language poets, and yet his reputation has been constructed on a small body...

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

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoAuthor(s): AristotleNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 5Cover type: Paperba...

The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing. In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama,...

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

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Art. Music. Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. BLACK...

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the a...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): John Rowe Q.C.Number of pages: 552Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 238 x 170 x 29Cover type: Paperb...

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privile...

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DescriptionContents- Shibboleth: For Paul Celan- "A Self-Unsealing Poetic Text" Poetics and Politics of Witnessing- Language Does Not Belong: An In...

Reducere. DescriptionRhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry, making legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed...

Lyndsey Stonebridge presents a new way to think about the relationship between literature and human rights that challenges the idea that empathy in...

What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre’s potential to expand our understanding of social, political a...

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Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society.

Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology is the definitive reference on the Rural-to-Urban Transect, a compilation of the most important essays...

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...

Publisher: Image PublishersAuthor(s): Julius Bikoloni SakalaNumber of pages: 202Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 267 x 171 x 2Cover type: Paperbac...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Emily (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley) ZazuliaNumber...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

An interpretation of human rights that centers on the rhetorical--and religious--power of testimony.Jeremy Bentham described the idea of human righ...

Policymakers, academics and the media have claimed that climate change causes conflicts. This study presents an innovative framework to evaluate th...

Bernard continually returns to the classical idea that the quality of desire shapes theological imagination. By attending to the multiple ways he d...

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five o...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Michael DavidsonIllustration(s): 24 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Collection: CripPublication...

This book examines the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view to determine what the presumption of innocence ...

Proiectul de educatie prin studierea drepturilor omului este realizat sub patronajul Consiliului Britanic din Bucuresti. Rights in deed ii ajuta pe...

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

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

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression...

Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. Queering...

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A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...