By: Michael A. Freeman (University of Essex)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639666, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Feb 2011, Pub Date Aus Feb 2011

Description: Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. It invites students to think conceptually about one of the most importa...

By: Christian Joppke
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642352, Pub Date US Mar 2010, Pub Date RoW Jan 2010, Pub Date Aus Jan 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642345, Pub Date US Mar 2010, Pub Date RoW Jan 2010, Pub Date Aus Jan 2010

Description: This incisive book provides a succinct overview of the new academic field of citizenship and immigration, as well as presenting a fresh and original ...

By: Antony Adolf
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641263, Pub Date US Mar 2009, Pub Date RoW Jan 2009, Pub Date Aus Jan 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654591, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: How peace has been made and maintained, experienced and imagined is not only a matter of historical interest, but also of pressing concern. Peace: A ...

By: Thomas W. Pogge
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641447, Pub Date US Feb 2008, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745641430, Pub Date US Mar 2008, Pub Date RoW Sep 2008, Pub Date Aus Sep 2008

Description: Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequ...

By: Philip W. Sutton (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen) and Stephen Vertigans (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632339, Pub Date US Nov 2005, Pub Date RoW Jul 2005, Pub Date Aus Jul 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745632322, Pub Date US Nov 2005, Pub Date RoW Aug 2005, Pub Date Aus Aug 2005

Description: The contemporary resurgence of Islam in all of its varied manifestations demands the attention of social scientists. This ground-breaking book provid...

By: Abdelmalek Sayad (Algerian Sociologist and Director of Research at CNRS (National Centre for Sociological Research) ), Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France) and David Macey
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626437, Pub Date US Mar 2004, Pub Date RoW Jan 2004, Pub Date Aus Jan 2004
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626420, Pub Date US Mar 2004, Pub Date RoW Jan 2004, Pub Date Aus Jan 2004

Description: This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of th...

By: Steve Bruce (University of Aberdeen)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628202, Pub Date US Jun 2003, Pub Date RoW Apr 2003, Pub Date Aus Apr 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745628196, Pub Date US Jun 2003, Pub Date RoW Apr 2003, Pub Date Aus Apr 2003

Description: Islamic fundamentalists wreck the financial heart of New York; Hindus destroy a mosque at Ayodhya; Orthodox Jews battle Palestinians for possession o...

By: Michael Banton (University of Bristol)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745630496, Pub Date US Dec 2002, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745630489, Pub Date US Dec 2002, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002

Description: In this important and timely new book, Michael Banton examines the international politics of racial discrimination and racism. The book recounts key ...

By: Janna Thompson (La Trobe University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628851, Pub Date US Dec 2002, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745628844, Pub Date US Dec 2002, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002

Description: Injustices of the past cast a shadow on the present. They are the root cause of much harm, the source of enmity, and increasingly in recent times, th...

By: Rama Mani (Cntre for Humanitarian Dialogue)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628363, Pub Date US May 2002, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745628356, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002

Description: Today's wars leave a crippling legacy of deprivation and suffering, of physical and structural injustice, long after they submit to peaceful resoluti...

Edited by: April Carter (University of Queensland) and Geoffrey Stokes (Deakin University)
By: April Carter (University of Queensland) and Geoffrey Stokes (Deakin University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745621951, Pub Date US Feb 2002, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745621944, Pub Date US Feb 2002, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001

Description: At the beginning of the twenty-first century, liberal democracy appears as the only valid form of democracy. Nonetheless, the well-established parlia...

By: Montserrat Guibernau (Open University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745618012, Pub Date US Oct 1999, Pub Date RoW Aug 1999, Pub Date Aus Aug 1999

Description: Guibernau offers a comparative analysis of nationalist movements in nations without states....

By: Norberto Bobbio (University of Turin)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615950, Pub Date US Jan 1991, Pub Date RoW Nov 1996, Pub Date Aus Nov 1996

Description: This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist....

By: Antonio Cassese (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745617220, Pub Date US Nov 1996, Pub Date RoW Sep 1996, Pub Date Aus Sep 1996

Description: This is a first-hand account of the often appalling conditions in prisons, police stations, psychiatric institutions, detention centres and other pla...

By: Titus Alexander (Independent Scholar)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745613536, Pub Date US Aug 1996, Pub Date RoW Jul 1996, Pub Date Aus Jul 1996

Description: Unravelling Global Apartheid provides a clearly written overview of global problems as well as a vigorous analysis of the underlying causes and strat...

By: Johan Galtung (University of Hawaii, US)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745613765, Pub Date US Oct 1994, Pub Date RoW Aug 1994, Pub Date Aus Aug 1994

Description: This is a refreshingly original analysis of human rights, past and present, which sets out major new terms of reference for political debate, it will...

By: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609300, Pub Date US Apr 1992, Pub Date RoW Nov 1991, Pub Date Aus Nov 1991
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745606859, Pub Date RoW Sep 1989, Pub Date Aus Sep 1989

Description: Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holo...