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  • Audiolibro

    I Pick You

    Integrale

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    A story about a single mother about to turn 40 who falls in love with someone unexpected. She just wanted to escape her abusive past and start over back in her hometown of Indiana. All she hoped for was to give her and her kids a better life. She never imagined it would end up the way it did, a drama filled romance of the ages, packed with secrets, lies and devastation. ... Altre info

    13,13 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • State Terrorism and Human Rights

    International Responses since the End of the Cold War

    Serie series Political Violence
    This book aims to improve understanding of the broad trends in the utilisation of political violence by examining the use of state terror in world politics.The ending of the Cold War and the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe led many to assume that this presaged the demise of the one-party terror regime and acceptance of Western concepts of democracy, freedom and human rights throughout the ... Altre info

    58,53 €

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  • Life After Life

    A Guildford Four Memoir

    Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath. Life after Life is a ... Altre info

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    di Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Altre info

    1,98 €

  • Bin Laden, Islam, & America's New War on Terrorism

    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 came to perceive the United States as an enemy. Beginning ... Altre info

    6,33 €

  • The Edge of Disaster

    Rebulding a Resilient Nation

    di Stephen Flynn ...
    Why do we remain unprepared for the next terrorist attack or natural disaster? Where are we most vulnerable? How have we allowed our government to be so negligent? Who will keep you and your family safe? Is America living on borrowed time? How can we become a more resilient nation?Americans are in denial when it comes to facing up to how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack ... Altre info

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  • The Convenient Terrorist

    Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies

    A startling spotlight on the darkest corners of America’s War on Terror,” where nothing is quite what it seems.The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value target” captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still being indefinitely held by the United States under shadowy circumstances, the ... Altre info

    16,90 €

  • Behind the Killing Fields

    A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims

    Serie series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's Killing Fields, where tens of thousands of victims were executed and hastily disposed of by Khmer Rouge cadres. Nearly thirty years after these bloody purges, two journalists entered the jungles of Cambodia to uncover secrets still buried there.Based on ... Altre info

    54,90 €

  • Justice and Security in the 21st Century

    Risks, Rights and the Rule of Law

    Serie series Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
    This book examines the question of whether justice or security is the primary virtue of 21st-century society.The issue of enhancing security without undermining justice – managing risk without undermining the rule of law – has always been problematic. However, recent developments such as new counter-terrorism measures, the expanding scope of criminal law, harsher migration control and an ... Altre info

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  • Access to Justice as a Human Right

    Rivisto da Francesco Francioni ...
    Serie series Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
    In international law, as in any other legal system, respect and protection of human rights can be guaranteed only by the availability of effective judicial remedies. When a right is violated or damage is caused, access to justice is of fundamental importance for the injured individual and it is an essential component of the rule of law. Yet, access to justice as a human right remains problematic ... Altre info

    55,21 €

  • Crisis and Terror in the Horn of Africa

    Autopsy of Democracy, Human Rights and Freedom

    Serie series Law, Social Change and Development Series
    Contemporary social life in the Horn of Africa is generally a state-orchestrated experience that terrorizes the majority of the people. This collection of carefully selected essays, explores the different aspects of the current crisis in the Horn region of Africa, where to marginalized indigenous groups the crisis materializes itself as social experiences of terror. The result is a far-reaching ... Altre info

    65,70 €

  • Counter-Terrorism Strategies in a Fragmented International Legal Order

    Meeting the Challenges

    Few events have influenced our global order as intensely as the events of September 11, 2001. At various levels in the past ten years, persistent attempts have been made to address the threat of terrorism, yet there is still urgent need for a joint and coherent application of a variety of regulations relating to international criminal justice co-operation, the use of force and international human ... Altre info

    52,61 €