Civil Rights & Liberties Books


Freedom or Security: The Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers to Fight Terror Best Price: $27.82 Freedom or Security is an interesting book on the use of emergency powers. You do not have to...	Breastfeeding Rights in the United States (Reproductive Rights and Policy) Best Price: $18.94 I take a special interest in this topic and this book was both interesting to read and...	Silenced!: Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America Best Price: $19.72 Silenced!: Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America...	Voting in America [Three Volumes] [3 volumes] (Praeger Perspectives) Best Price: $69.97 The three volumes of Voting in America offer the most comprehensive, authoritative, and useful...	Fixing Fragile States: A New Paradigm for Development Best Price: $39.89 This well written book offers an innovative perspective on the world's most troubling...



Freedom Is Not Enough: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas Best Price: $46.20 Led by the Office of Economic Opportunity, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty reflected the...	Naturalizing Mexican Immigrants: A Texas History Best Price: $20.55 During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a majority of the Mexican immigrant...	Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) Best Price: $19.81 Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward...	The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest (Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography) Best Price: $23.68 Treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest have had profound and long-lasting...	Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Best Price: $25.00 Federal voting rights legislation and the civil rights protests in Selma and Birmingham,...



Needless Deaths in the Gulf War : Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War, A Middle East Watch Report.	Human Rights: Generation Under Fire - Children & Violence in Colombia (Paper Only)	Human Rights: Angola - Arms Trade & Violations of the Laws of War Since the 1992 Elections (Paper Only)	Antidiscrimination Law and Social Equality Best Price: $6.95 Koppelman provides a useful discussion of the law of antidiscrimination, but he provides...	Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage Best Price: $10.00 Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940), daughter of the famous suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton,...

Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation (David Brion Davis (Gilder Lehrman)) Best Price: $26.70 Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770...	The Challenge: How a Maverick Navy Officer and a Young Law Professor Risked Their Careers to Defend the Constitution--and Won Best Price: $0.35 This book presents a compelling account of how the American justice system addresses and...	Popular Influence Upon Public Policy: Petitioning in Eighteenth-Century Virginia (Contributions in Legal Studies) Bailey examines a little-known but highly significant governmental mechanism in...	A Case of Black and White: Northern Volunteers and the Southern Freedom Summers, 1964-1965 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) Best Price: $107.95	Human Rights in a Pluralist World: Individuals and Collectivities Best Price: $172.11 Published in association with the Netherlands Commission for UNESCO and the Roosevelt Study...

The Convention on the Rights of the Child: International Law Support for Children (Studies in Human Rights) Best Price: $91.95 Mower deals first with the significance, origin, and development of the Convention on the Rights...	Part of the Problem, Part of the Solution: Religion Today and Tomorrow Best Price: $39.93 Part of the Problem, Part of the Solution unleashes religion's true potential to do good by...	The Dalai Lama: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) Best Price: $20.00 From his potty humor to his politics, Patricia Marcello paints a detailed and holistic picture...	Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State Best Price: $13.88 The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has...	The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe Best Price: $8.00 Wonderful expose of what is going on in Zimbabwe written by someone who really is knowledgable...

The Law and the Individual (Macmillan texts for business studies)	Silenced Media Best Price: $224.52 Focusing on freedom of speech, this text deals with the perennial problem of how a small country...	Words Fraught With Death Best Price: $120.29 Troubled by the "herd" instinct and repression unleashed by World War I, Justice...	Nelson Mandela: A Biography	Foot Soldiers for Democracy: The Men, Women, and Children of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement Best Price: $74.97 Drawn from the rich archives of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, this collection brings...

Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign Best Price: $20.00 This was a selection for my book club and there were two of us who really enjoyed the book and...	War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar Best Price: $21.48 The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon of transnational culture and racial...	Patterns of Negro Segregation (The African American Intellectual Heritage)	Choosing Equality: Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience Best Price: $31.54 The Supreme Court?s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 has long been heralded as a...	Eclipse of Freedom: The World of Oppression Best Price: $103.95 Eclipse of Freedom unravels the dynamics of oppression that frustrates human aspiration,...

Feminism and Nursing: An Historical Perspective on Power, Status, and Political Activism in the Nursing Profession This book examines nursing's feminist consciousness as the profession has developed and...	International Rights and Responsibilities for the Future Best Price: $110.95 Underpinning contemporary political debates and organizational restructuring is a serious...	The Challenge of Cultural Pluralism: Best Price: $98.95 Many believe that we are passing through a period during which, due largely to...	The Shame of the Sacrifice: Life and Teaching of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Before I get started, an apology is in order to the ghost of Karl Popper ("Autobiography of...	White Gold Best Price: $8.79 This book is VERY interesting. It tells the story of this young boy who is captured by the north...

The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992 (American Century Series) Best Price: $3.31 I had to read this book for my History 401 class, a week long seminar recently completed. I was...	The Good Listener: Helen Bamber, A Life Against Cruelty Best Price: $5.00 A book very worthy of being read. Both of a document about Bamber and her efforts to make a...	Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt Best Price: $11.47 This is certainly one of the best books I've ever read. Jack Olsen did an outstanding job of...	The Story of American Freedom Best Price: $8.00 Being a self proclaimed philosopher by nature, I always find an exact definition of terms...	World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States (Norton Essays in American History) Best Price: $15.09

Human Rights Act 1998: a Special Bulletin for Family Lawy Hb The Human Rights Act, expected to come into force in early 2000, will affect all areas of family...	New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights Best Price: $124.00 On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a...	Achieving Human Rights Best Price: $30.53 Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do -...	Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies) Although many Westerners claim human rights as a major achievement of Western civilization,...	Disposable People This is a book that should be required reading in schools all over the world. It tells the...

Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American Best Price: $8.50 In the interest of full disclosure, I'm only halfway through the book. But I'm really...	The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958 Best Price: $57.60 Acclaimed by Ebony magazine as "one of those rare publishing events that generate as much...	Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal Best Price: $16.83 This book contains several very readable chapters that review organizations, movements and...	Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past (American Crossroads, 10) Best Price: $22.37 David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of...	International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960 Best Price: $15.00 In the period following World War II, the federal government devoted more time and attention to...

Human Rights and Structural Adjustment Best Price: $34.26 'Structural adjustment' has been a central part of the development strategy for the...	The Rainbow People Of God: South Africa's Victory Over Apartheid	Nunca Mas Never Again : A Report by Argentina's National Commission on Disappeared People	Minority Report: Evaluating Political Equality in America (American Politics and Political Economy Series) Best Price: $47.47 Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? ...	It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics Best Price: $17.00 Francesca Poletta's latest, It Was Like A Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics, is...

Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment Best Price: $29.49 Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly monitor many...	The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (American Politics and Political Economy Series) Best Price: $64.97 Winner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the...	The Capacity for Civic Engagement: Public and Private Worlds of the Self Best Price: $40.88 How do we form a connection to the ideals and institutions of public life? This connection...	Globalization and Human Rights in the Developing World (Global Ethics) Best Price: $42.50 Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and...	A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot Best Price: $15.99 "Girls, get out your hatpins; they are going to rush us," warned a young woman as she...

Agents of Atrocity: Leaders, Followers, and the Violation of Human Rights in Civil War Best Price: $14.00 Who is responsible for the terror, atrocities, and violations of human rights that occur in...	The Columbia Documentary History of American Women, 1941-2000 Best Price: $49.00 This far-ranging collection of public and private sources illuminates a revolutionary half...	India's Silent Revolution Best Price: $21.75 Since the 1960s a new assertiveness has characterized India's formerly silent majority, the...	The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries Best Price: $65.51 Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and...	Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $11.33 This is really a must read book for anyone interested in the issues surround desegregation and...

The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery Best Price: $14.16 One of the first books about the US Civil War I've read was Don Fehrenbacher's The Dred...	The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation Best Price: $93.95 Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.S. Supreme Court have all alleged that jury...	Mandela, Tambo and the African National Congress: The Struggle against Apartheid, 1948-1990	The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group (Oxford Science Publications) Best Price: $62.40 This is a highly pedagogical book on the theory of critical phenomena and the renormalization...	Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights aims to provide undergraduate and...

The Politics of American Foreign Aid Best Price: $8.80 Every year the Administration and the Congress battle stubbornly and often bitterly over...	Human Rights

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