Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones. From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights, Paperback - ***

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...

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

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture...

Reducere. Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and wa...

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World's Worst Military Disasters examines some of the worst battle defeats in military history from ancient times through to the present day, inclu...

Reducere. John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victori...

World's Worst Historical Disasters examines some of the most significant natural and man-made disasters in world history, from plagues, earthquakes...

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years, but recently the U.S. National Security Strate...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Matthew (Professor in the Department of Government, Professor in the Department of Government, Geo...

Reducere. From Socrates and the Sophists to Kant, from Augustine to Aquinas and the Reformers, Colin Brown traces the turbulent, often tension-filled, always...

DescriptionNew edition of a classic work on the history of propaganda. Topical new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, September 11 and terrorism. An id...

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in co...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

Examines human rights disasters during Myanmar's democratisation.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Anchalee RulandIllustration(...

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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...

The Agency of Children: From Family to Global Human Rights - David Oswell

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...

This book traces the development of the discourse used by the pro-life movement since the 1970s, and its relationship to public policy efforts at t...

Reducere. After the Holocaust brings together scholarship, activism, poetry, and personal narratives from some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust ...

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

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward Shorter"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory andpractice into a compelling and coherent narrative ...

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

Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Conn IgguldenNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 240 x 43Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. DescriptionUnderstanding race in America--its history of oppression, inequality, inequity, prejudice, and discrimination--has been a journey for ma...

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

Since the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap and cultural icon Tupac Shakur. In this work, pree...

A new theoretical concept is becoming increasingly visible within the current human rights framework on violence against women (VAW): intersectiona...

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

A radical new collection addressing violence against women in conflict zones across the global South.

DescriptionWhat did Greek speakers in the Roman empire do when they wanted to learn Latin? They used Latin-learning materials containing authentic,...

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This book examines recent critical accounts of human rights and argues that the international human rights movement remains powerful and significan...

This book tells the dramatic story of how ordinary Kurds and their lawyers tried to mobilize the European Court of Human Rights against state viole...

Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural int...

Reducere. The pages of Scripture consistently beckon readers and believers to a counter-intuitive lifestyle; a different path. Jesus described it as "narrow,...

The Cambridge History of Religion in the Classical World provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the religions of the ancient Near East a...

Reducere. Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians a...