Political Control & Freedoms

Widely recognized as one of the most pressing human rights issues, human trafficking has captured worldwide attention as a crucial moral and politi...

More than just a therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis as a school of thought has redefined our ideas on sexuality, the self, morality, family, and...

'I started reading this and couldn't stop. It's a remarkable piece of work, and very revealing. A stirring rendition of a people's revolution'- Noa...

The Global Commonwealth of Citizens critically examines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges ...

Genocide results from the culmination of conflicts over identity. A group of people that feels threatened by extinction resorts to genocide as a pa...

Derived from the word "to propagate," the idea and practice of propaganda concerns nothing less than the ways in which human beings communicate, pa...

One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundati...

The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most importa...

In an age where racial and ethnic identity intersect, intertwine, and interact in increasingly complex ways, Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and ...

Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more uniq...

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisone...

The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most importa...

Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice. The book reports powerful ...

Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in th...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever m...

A common perception of Jews during World War II is that they were passive and submissive in the face of German oppression. In Resistance, Holocaust...

The relationship between religion and human rights is complex and problematic throughout the world. Most of the world's religions have been used fo...

The Politics of Imprisonment seeks to document and explain the chronic long-term differences in American crime policy. It argues that the American ...

Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focu...

Even before the recent Newtown, CT massacre, gun violence and gun control has preoccupied public officals and legislators at all levels of governme...

A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political histor...

The history of deliverance politics in Anglo-American history contains remarkable moments of achievement, but this is not a story of triumphal prog...

By 1999, the Falungong religious movement had spread widely and broadly throughout China. While on the surface its ideology of spiritual and physic...

Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice. The book reports powerful ...