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The New York Review Abroad
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
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The New York Review Abroad
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
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World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
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eBook.
World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
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Cuba
La lucha por la libertad
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $20.00
La isla de Cuba fue, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, un territorio clave para el control del tráfico marítimo de las rutas hacia el Nuevo Mundo. Su privilegiada situación geográfica y la mezcla de culturas y tradiciones han hecho de esta pequeña isla un lugar esencial en el Caribe... Read more >
La lucha por la libertad
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $20.00
La isla de Cuba fue, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, un territorio clave para el control del tráfico marítimo de las rutas hacia el Nuevo Mundo. Su privilegiada situación geográfica y la mezcla de culturas y tradiciones han hecho de esta pequeña isla un lugar esencial en el Caribe... Read more >
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Captivity
118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War
Written by James Loney
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $18.00
The powerful account of the remarkable peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation and held for ransom by Iraqi insurgents until his paradoxical release by a crack unit of special forces commandos.
In November 2005, James Loney and three other men — Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, British citizen Norman Kember and... Read more >
118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War
Written by James Loney
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $18.00
The powerful account of the remarkable peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation and held for ransom by Iraqi insurgents until his paradoxical release by a crack unit of special forces commandos.
In November 2005, James Loney and three other men — Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, British citizen Norman Kember and... Read more >
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The Path to Hope
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $8.00
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $8.00
A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy...
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The Path to Hope
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $5.99
A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy... Read more >
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $5.99
A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy... Read more >
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World Report 2012
Events of 2011
Edited by Human Rights Watch
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $30.00
The 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2011 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2012 gives particular focus on the roles—positive or negative—played in each... Read more >
Events of 2011
Edited by Human Rights Watch
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $30.00
The 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2011 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2012 gives particular focus on the roles—positive or negative—played in each... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
World Report 2012
Events of 2011
Edited by Human Rights Watch
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $30.00
The 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2011 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2012 gives particular focus on the roles—positive or negative—played in each country by key domestic... Read more >
Events of 2011
Edited by Human Rights Watch
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $30.00
The 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2011 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2012 gives particular focus on the roles—positive or negative—played in each country by key domestic... Read more >
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My Name is Victoria
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Written by Victoria Donda
Translated by Magda Bolin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.95
Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the... Read more >
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Written by Victoria Donda
Translated by Magda Bolin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.95
Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
My Name is Victoria
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Written by Victoria Donda
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $12.99
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Written by Victoria Donda
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $12.99
Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the...
Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Madame Prosecutor
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Written by Carla Del Ponte and Chuck Sudetic
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.99
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide... Read more >
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Written by Carla Del Ponte and Chuck Sudetic
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.99
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Scorched Earth
Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
Written by Fred A. Wilcox
Introduction by Noam Chomsky
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $23.95
Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person... Read more >
Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
Written by Fred A. Wilcox
Introduction by Noam Chomsky
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $23.95
Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person... Read more >
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Then They Came for Me
A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Written by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $27.00
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART
When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye... Read more >
A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Written by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $27.00
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART
When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye... Read more >
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Then They Came for Me
A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Written by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $13.99
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART
When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye... Read more >
A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Written by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $13.99
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART
When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye... Read more >
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hardcover.
Liu Xiaobo's Empty Chair
Chronicling the Reform Movement Beijing Fears Most; Includes the full text of Charter 08 and other primary documents
Written by Perry Link
Format: eBook, 100 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $6.99
When the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced it was awarding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese literary critic and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, it made special note of his role in writing a remarkable political manifesto called Charter 08. In China, that same document has caused officials to throw... Read more >
Chronicling the Reform Movement Beijing Fears Most; Includes the full text of Charter 08 and other primary documents
Written by Perry Link
Format: eBook, 100 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $6.99
When the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced it was awarding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese literary critic and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, it made special note of his role in writing a remarkable political manifesto called Charter 08. In China, that same document has caused officials to throw... Read more >
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World Report 2011
Events of 2010
Written by Human Rights Watch
Format: Trade Paperback, 664 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $30.00
Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights Watch World Report prioritizes events in the most affected countries during... Read more >
Events of 2010
Written by Human Rights Watch
Format: Trade Paperback, 664 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $30.00
Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights Watch World Report prioritizes events in the most affected countries during... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Abolition Democracy
Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context... Read more >
Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Against War with Iraq
An Anti-War Primer
Written by Michael Ratner, Jennie Green and Barbara Olshansky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
Despite public outcry at home and international opposition abroad, the Bush Administration deployed troops and invested millions in preparation for a massive military assault on Iraq. In this Open Media Series special edition, three legal scholars from the Center for Constitutional Rights argue persuasively that the looming war against Iraq is... Read more >
An Anti-War Primer
Written by Michael Ratner, Jennie Green and Barbara Olshansky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
Despite public outcry at home and international opposition abroad, the Bush Administration deployed troops and invested millions in preparation for a massive military assault on Iraq. In this Open Media Series special edition, three legal scholars from the Center for Constitutional Rights argue persuasively that the looming war against Iraq is... Read more >
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trade paperback.
America's Disappeared
Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the War on Terror
Edited by Rachel Meeropol
Contribution by Reed Brody, Barbara Olshansky, Michael Ratner and Steven Macpherson Watt
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
The confirmation proceedings for Alberto R. Gonzales and Condeleeza Rice, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, triggered a national debate about the U.S. government’s controversial treatment of detainees and its practice of torture. At the heart of the debate is the question: Is the United States undermining democracy, freedom, and human... Read more >
Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the War on Terror
Edited by Rachel Meeropol
Contribution by Reed Brody, Barbara Olshansky, Michael Ratner and Steven Macpherson Watt
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
The confirmation proceedings for Alberto R. Gonzales and Condeleeza Rice, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, triggered a national debate about the U.S. government’s controversial treatment of detainees and its practice of torture. At the heart of the debate is the question: Is the United States undermining democracy, freedom, and human... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of... Read more >
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Army of None
Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World
Written by Aimee Allison and David Solnit
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis.
However, even as... Read more >
Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World
Written by Aimee Allison and David Solnit
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis.
However, even as... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Between the Fences
Before Guantanamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center
Written by Tony Hefner
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays... Read more >
Before Guantanamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center
Written by Tony Hefner
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Bin Laden, Islam, & America's New War on Terrorism
Written by As'Ad Abukhalil
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $8.95
Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed militant fundamentalist networks that... Read more >
Written by As'Ad Abukhalil
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $8.95
Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed militant fundamentalist networks that... Read more >
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trade paperback.
