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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
DescriptionTwo Pulitzer Award winners expose the much pervasive human rights violation of our era—the oppression of women in the developing world—and inform us what we can do concerning it.

An old Chinese proverb says “Women hold up half the sky.” Then why do the women of Africa and Asia persistently suffer human rights abuses? Continuing their focus on ...
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Categories Nonfiction   Textbooks Trade-In   Civil Rights & Liberties   Human Rights   General   Books on CD   Unabridged  
Civil Disobedience
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Originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government this he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mohanda Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles.
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ManufacturerApplewood Books
Categories 19th Century   General   Civil Rights & Liberties   All 4-for-3 Deals   American Literature   General AAS   Civil Rights   Thoreau, Henry David   Hardcover   4-for-3 Books   Printed Books  
Rules for Radicals
DescriptionThis primers tells the "have-nots" how they can categorize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.
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ManufacturerVintage
Categories Blue Politics   Textbooks Trade-In   Civil Rights & Liberties   Civics   Radical Thought   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Up from Slavery (Oxford World's Classics)
DescriptionFor the 50 years this followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the much widely known book written by an African American. The life of Booker T. Washington embodied the legendary rise of an American self-made man, and his autobiography gave voice for the first time to a vast group this had to pull itself up from nothing. In the ...
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ManufacturerOxford University Press, USA
Categories General AAS   African-American & Black   General   Educators   Civil Rights & Liberties   African-American Studies   Minority Studies   College   Paperback   Printed Books  
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NELSON MANDELA
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ManufacturerLittle Brown and Co
Categories Mandela, Nelson   General   Human Rights   Civil Rights & Liberties   Hardcover   Printed Books  
A Nation of Sheep
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In A NATION OF SHEEP, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano frankly discusses how the federal government has circumvented the Constitution and is systematically dismantling the rights and freedoms this are the foundation of American democracy.  He challenges Americans to distinguish this they are being led down a very dangerous path and this the ...

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ManufacturerThomas Nelson
Categories Red Politics   Textbooks Trade-In   Civil Rights & Liberties   Constitutions   Federal Government   U.S.   General   Government   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin Education)
DescriptionThis topic argues this the ignorance and lethargy of the poor are the direct outcome of the whole economic, social and political domination. The book suggests this in some countries the oppressors use the system to preserve a 'culture of silence'. Throughout the right kind of education, the book suggests, avoiding authoritarian teacher-pupil models and ...
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Categories Human Rights   Civil Rights & Liberties   General   Portuguese   History & Theory   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Penguin History)
DescriptionIn 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the Atlantic ...
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Categories Dominican Republic   Haiti   General   Slavery & Emancipation   Civil Rights & Liberties   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Description Utilizing special access to key government insiders, Shane Harris chronicles the rise of America's surveillance state over the past 25 years and highlights a dangerous paradox: Our government's strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on the rest of us.

In 1983, Admiral John Poindexter, President Reagan's ...
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ManufacturerPenguin Press HC, The
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   1945 - Present   21st Century   Civil Rights & Liberties   Terrorism   Intelligence   General   Civil Rights   Hardcover   Printed Books  
How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life (Revised Edition)
DescriptionFrom cyberspace to crawl spaces, new improvements in information gathering have left the private life of the average person open to scrutiny, and worse, exploitation. In this thoroughly revised update of his immensely popular guide How to Be Invisible, J.J. Luna shows you how to protect yourself from these information predators by securing ...
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ManufacturerThomas Dunne Books
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   General   Government   Privacy   Civil Rights & Liberties   Hardcover   Printed Books  
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