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While most western democracies have renounced the death penalty, capital punishment enjoys vast and growing support in the United States. A significant and vocal minority, however, continues to oppose it. Against Capital Punishment is the first full account of...
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Oxford University Press
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1999-08-19
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In this important and timely new study Professor Joppke compares the postwar politics of immigration control and immigrant integration in the United States, Germany, and Britain - three liberal states characterized by sharply distinct nationhood traditions and...
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Clarendon Press
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1999-04-08
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The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution" that is perceived by both conservatives and liberals as a threat to traditional values and our sense of community. Is...
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Oxford University Press
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1998-09-24
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The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Written more than two hundred years ago, these words now protect a wide range of expressive activity. A...
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Oxford University Press
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1992-05-07
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With a Foreword by Dr Gabor Maté.
Almost two years in and we continue to watch in horror as 2 million people living on 140 square miles of land bear an unprecedented and unfathomable pummelling by the Israeli Army. More bombs have been dropped on Gaza than in World War...
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Baraka Books
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2025-11-06
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This book debates a wide range of subjects reflecting Huxley's views towards the direction society is going. He puts forward a number of predictions, many of which resonate far beyond the time when it was written. A consistent theme throughout the essay is Huxley's...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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Il trattato alfieriano è suddiviso in due libri: nel primo, Alfieri compie una attenta analisi dell'inscindibile binomio potere-tirannia, esaminando minuziosamente la figura del tiranno e la struttura del regime dispotico; nel secondo libro, analizza il modo di...
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Cactus
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2025-01-16
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"The Classic Collection of Marcus Garvey " is a remarkable compilation of the essential writings and speeches of Marcus Garvey, a visionary leader, and influential figure in the Pan-African and civil rights movements of the early 20th century. This anthology features...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2023-09-08
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How will governments and courts manoeuvre within the boundaries of protected civil liberties in this new era of hacktivism? This monograph discusses moral and legal issues of ethical hacking and reviews analytics and trends.How will governments and courts protect civil...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2019-04-09
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A Book that Transformed America
Civil Disobedience was Thoreau's first published book and continues to transform American discourse. It is unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling.
The ideas...
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Pandora's Box Classics
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2018-09-24
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One of the most influential writers and reformers of his age, Thomas Paine successfully publicized the issues of his time in pamphlets that clearly and persuasively argued for political independence and social reform. Rights of Man, his greatest and most widely read...
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Green World Classics
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2017-11-18
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Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for “the commons” within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons (ARP Books) interrogates a very important debate that took place within Occupy camps and is...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2017-11-15
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Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved. Leenco Lata...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-10-30
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Australia and Canada are both lively, multicultural societies with British constitutional traditions. Historically, they have faced similar challenges in defining and sustaining citizenship that reach back into a common past. They also have similar approaches to address...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2004-02-27
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