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The Human Right to Health

By Jonathan Wolff (Oxford University)

Dispatches From the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice

By Gareth Peirce

Working in the Silence: An Analysis of a Short Period of Human Rights Witness in the Palestinian West Bank

By Hopper, Maurice

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

By Jon Meacham

The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists

By Abou El Fadl, Khaled M.

And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi

By Eric Burner

Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962: Early Years, 1918-1962 v. 1

By Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela., 12pp b/w Photographs.

The Cost of Free Speech

By Lee, Simon

Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies

By Aleksandar Fatic, Klaus Bachmann, Igor Lyubashenko

Torture - Does It Make US Safer? Is It Ever Ok?: A Human Rights Perspective

By Roth Kenneth

Justice in a Non-Ideal World: Bridging the Gap Between Political Theory and Real-World Politics

By Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh, Postdoctoral Fellow, MacM

Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

By Hampton Sides

The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don't - yet

By Keon West

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Colin Grant

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation

By Wrong, Michela

Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

By David Miller (, Professor of Political Theory, University of Oxford. Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford)

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

By Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen

A System of Rights

By Rex Martin (, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas, and Professor of Political Theory and GovernmentUniversity of Wales, Swansea.)

Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community

By Loren E. Lomasky (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota)

Brown v. Board of Education:: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

By Patterson

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance

By Rufus Burrow, Jr.

Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle

By Steven F. Lawson

Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2: 1962-1994

By Nelson Mandela

Princess: Stepping Out Of The Shadows

By Jean Sasson

The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations is Not Inevitable

By Michael Novak

Predatory Globalization: A Critique

By Richard Falk (Princeton University, USA)

The Last Christians: Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East

By Andreas Knapp, Sharon Howe

Citizenship and Welfare State Reform in Europe

By Jet Bussemaker

Globalization, Development and Human Security

By Anthony McGrew (University of Southampton), Nana K. Poku (Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa)

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Branch