Political Control & Freedoms

At its founding, social workers were human rights defenders who advocated for societal reforms and fought against social exclusion and discriminato...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenans new book chronicles ten days that tested us and ulti...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administrations most significant foreign policy breakthrough...

Between the years of 1963 and 1965, civil rights protests rocked rural communities like Enfield, a small North Carolina town where segregationist a...

A collection of texts that provide the foundation for the University of Chicagos longstanding tradition of free expression, principles that are at ...

This book presents the lived experiences of young people with cognitive disability and their struggles as they transition to adulthood. Whether you...

Ethnic conflict is not new. Nor are international attempts to prevent or contain it. Reversing Ethnic Cleansing through Minority Returns examines w...

What would our country be today if Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy had survived their assassinations? Would ...

Useful to both professional persuaders and students of media effects, this book presents theories and empirical research on methods of social influ...

Social media has become a key space for young people to experiment with their political voice and to hone it through interaction with others. Howev...

This book provides a wide-ranging, global exploration of policies and practices which have sought to undermine dissent during recent and less recen...

This open access volume provides the first-ever comprehensive framework of indicators to measure progress in the implementation of the UN Conventio...

This open access book consolidates a collection of scholarly papers presented at the academic conference titled Corporate Human Rights Responsibili...

In Homelessness, Liberty and Property, Terry Skolnik establishes a novel theory about the government's duties to end homelessness, maintain public ...

Elections are random events.From individuals deciding whether to vote, to individuals deciding who to vote for, to election authorities deciding wh...

Elections are random events.From individuals deciding whether to vote, to individuals deciding who to vote for, to election authorities deciding wh...

Sexual rules and regulations are among societys oldest yet it is only in recent decades that this once-stigmatized field has become the focus of sc...

Since its inception in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), also known as the Jamaat-ul-Dawa (JuD), has arguably been the mo...

Exam board: International BaccalaureateLevel: IB DiplomaSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Reinforce knowledge a...

In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety....

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build...

Political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance. Theatre and performance researchers hav...

This short book offers an avenue for understanding the parameters and scope of environmental protest, the meanings of such acts of resistance, and ...

This book revisits Rabindranath Tagores opinion and standpoints on constituent elements of politics from the stance of this markeraxiology, so that...

This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the worlds most progressive national constitution...

With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent poli...

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critic...

The return of the Taliban has undermined EU external action, reversed twenty years of state-building efforts and represents the most significant fa...

The return of the Taliban has undermined EU external action, reversed twenty years of state-building efforts and represents the most significant fa...

Women around the world face substantial barriers to reporting their victimization, and in some contexts, the classical criminal justice response to...

This book critiques the practices of managerialism and their effects on those who live and work in prisons. It draws upon ethnographic research con...