The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (Sikkink Kathryn)(Pevná vazba)

The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (Sikkink Kathryn)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing on extensive research and illuminating personal experience, Sikkink reveals how the stunning emergence of human rights prosecutions has come about; what effect it has had on democracy, conflict, and repression; and what it means for leaders and citizens everywhere, from Uruguay to the

Christian Human Rights (Moyn Samuel)(Pevná vazba)

In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman

Human Rights Prosecutions in Democracies at War (Lynch Moira)(Pevná vazba)

Though many of the longest and most devastating internal armed conflicts have been fought within the boundaries of democratic states, these countries employ some of the highest numbers of human rights prosecutions. What conditions prompt this outcome and what explains the variable patterns of

You Are Mighty - A Guide to Changing the World (Paul Caroline)(Pevná vazba)

The Endtimes of Human Rights (Hopgood Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of

Secret Body - How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live (Davis Daniel M)(Pevná vazba)

Burmese Moons (Ansel Sophie)(Pevná vazba)

The human rights abuses of the Myanmar republic are brought to horrifying life in this tale of hardship and perseverance in the face of impossible conditions. The peaceful jungles of Burma are ripped apart as the People Power Uprising of 1988 incites the brutal military rulers of Myanmar to crush a

Speculations Transformations (Bttger Matthias)(Pevná vazba)

How are changing conditions in society likely to affect Germany's builtenvironment? What are the catalysts for transformation in its cities and regions?Speculations Transformations is devoted to the social and spatial transformationsthat Germany will face in the future, speculating on their

Mexico's Human Rights Crisis (Anaya-Muoz Alejandro)(Pevná vazba)

Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors. The sharp increase in the number of victims of homicide, disappearances and torture over the past

The Politics of Order in Informal Markets (Grossman Shelby)(Pevná vazba)

Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don't protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by providing an institutional structure to enforce agreements, but with this power comes the ability to extort group members. Under what circumstances, then,

Listen - How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations (Mannix Kathryn)(Pevná vazba)

'Powerful, humane and wise' JULIA SAMUEL 'Everyone should read it' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Beautiful ... This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it' PHILIPPA PERRY Most of us have a conversation we're

Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World (Gilbert Shirli)(Pevná vazba)

The Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Western educators and politicians draw seemingly obvious lessons of tolerance and anti-racism from the Nazi past, and their work rests on

Pay Off - How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything (Leibbrandt Gottfried)(Pevná vazba)

Money may be power, but payments are the real

100 Things to Know About Saving the Planet (Martin Jerome)(Pevná vazba)

How could plastic-eating bacteria help reduce waste? Can a river be given human rights? Could we generate all the power we need from the sun and the wind? How do woolly sweaters help penguins in peril? Would building a giant sunshade in space stop the world from overheating? Find the answers to

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Susskind Jamie)(Pevná vazba)

Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? Now the debate is different: to what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by powerful

Young, Fearless, Awesome - 25 Young People who Changed the World (Caldwell Stella)(Pevná vazba)

Meet 25 young people who changed, or are changing, the

Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and Life (Rosen Bob)(Pevná vazba)

Conscious is a deeply human approach to personal changeOur world is changing faster than our ability to adapt. Ambushed by speed, complexity, and uncertainty, many of us are unprepared for this acceleration. We act on autopilot as new challenges confront us. We are too reactive to problems and miss

The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch (Denardis Laura)(Pevná vazba)

A compelling argument that the Internet of things threatens human rights and security'Sobering and important.'―Financial Times, 'Best Books of 2020: Technology' The Internet has leapt from human-facing display screens into the material objects all around us. In this so-called Internet of

Planet Under Pressure - How is globalisation changing the world? (Dickmann Nancy)(Pevná vazba)

An introduction to the world's growing population and globalisation, covering topics such as population growth, migration and refugees, free movement, globalisation, food miles and international

Future Morality (Edmonds David)(Pevná vazba)

The world is changing so fast that it's hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how scientific advances will affect our lives before they're upon us. New kinds of dilemma are springing up. Can robots be held responsible for their actions? Will

In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate The World (Garfield Simon)(Pevná vazba)

A delightful and illuminating exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the

A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (Campt Tina M.)(Pevná vazba)

Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see--and see Blackness in particular--anew. In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their

The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World (Zirin Dave)(Pevná vazba)

Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how 'taking a knee' triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African Americans, the celebrated NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of quiet protests on the field,

Monsters and Mythical Creatures from Around the World (Frigiola Heather)(Pevná vazba)

Mythical creatures are cultural artifacts--creations of the human imagination from all around the world. From terrifying monsters to sacred mystical beasts, weird-looking humanoids, magical birds, and many other fantastic beings, the mythological creatures in this book are sure to enchant and amaze