The essays in this volume explore some of the diverse and contradictory ways that the lives of women in the Asia-Pacific region are shaped by two powerful regimes - 'religion'...
This book presents a cogent set of explications of the nature of government, democracy, ideology, law, the place of violence, criminality, merit, poverty and property - which together encompass the...
Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Expulsion of the Bulgarian Turks
Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Persecution of Gypsies in Romania
Public Participation and Minorities
Traditional Chinese edition of Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline Baz Dreisinger. Dreisinger is an Associate Professor...
In the last two decades, the field of comparative genocide studies has produced an increasingly rich literature on the targeting of various groups for extermination and other atrocities, throughout history...
In a society in which women were expected to take a backseat to men, Marietta Peabody was a rebel. Her first marriage, to Desmond FitzGerald, one of the founders of...
This new edition of The Kurds in Iraq brings the book fully up-to-date in the light of recent events in Iraq, and the ever-present danger of civil war.Yildiz explores the...
Drugs and Development: The Global Impact on Sustainable Growth and Human Rights
This major new study examines the use of political trials by the apartheid regime in South Africa against its opponents in the 1970s, the decade when the ideology of apartheid...
This two volume set offers easy to grasp explanations of the basic concepts, laws, and case law in the field, with emphasis on human rights in the historical, political, and...
This book describes the encounter between the common law legal system and the tribal peoples of North America and Australasia. It is a history of the role of anglophone law...
一、本書為比較公民投票制度專書,特研究出全世界主要三種投票模式〈集權式、權力下放式、政黨式〉及六大投票系統〈丹麥系統、法國系統、義大利系統、瑞士系統、混合系統、拉丁美洲系統〉等。二、作者特以歐美國家投票的規範及實施經驗、案例等詳加探討分析,內容至為豐富。三、在現今實務方面,能對我政府及民間團體在推行公民創制、複決投票之參考。四、在理論方面,本書屬於法政學領域,當可提供讀者在「政治學」、「公共政策」、「比較法學」等相關學科研讀參考之用。
How America’s prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedureOriginally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend...
Exploitation and Exclusion: Race and Class in Contemporary US Society
Organs for Sale: China's Growing Trade and Ultimate Violation of Prisoners' Rights : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Operations...
هذا الكتاب يفتح خزائن التاريخ المغلقة، بسلاسة، ويعود بنا إلى حكايات عاشها الأسرى قبل عقود من الزمن، بعضها عاصرته الأجيال، وبعضها الآخر تناقلته الألسن وحملته صفحات بعض الكتب، وجزء لم...