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This volume conveys a critique of the mayors of Washington, D.C since 1968 and an analysis of public policies that have confronted D.C. since congress granted limited Home Rule. This analysis of public policy problems and assessment of contemporary mayors should be of interest across disciplines-political science, urban studies and public policy.

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This book examines the rhetorical/legal dynamics of the NAACPs twentieth-century struggle to overturn the separate but equal doctrine through school desegregation cases. It reveals that the Supreme Court relied not only on logical arguments but emotional and ethical appeals to reach Brown IIs with all deliberate speed decree.

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Describes the status and work of human rights groups in Africa that uphold such basic rights as employment, education, children's and women's rights, as well as political rights.

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A small group founded Amnesty International in 1961 to translate human rights principles into action. This text provides an account of how the organization pioneered a combination of popular pressure and expert knowledge to advance global human rights.

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This book explores the issue of information disorder in our society, explores how conspiracy theories are shaping citizen engagement with information and reality, and weaves throughout how metaliteracy and information literacy can be utilized to produce a more democratic, civil discourse.

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This book explores the issue of information disorder in our society, explores how conspiracy theories are shaping citizen engagement with information and reality, and weaves throughout how metaliteracy and information literacy can be utilized to produce a more democratic, civil discourse.

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Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should be promoted because it lies at the heart of a core American value: free speech.

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This book traces the story of the civil rights movement through the written and spoken words of those who participated in it.

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This book explores the understudied area of the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.

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Manzo examines, by means of historical analysis, the effects of global power relationships on the politics of South Africa. Manzo's sound interpretation unifies and enriches the historical progression and establishes a solid foundation for analyzing the lessons South Africa offers about the use of power in international relations.

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Pogrund examines the accusation that Israel is practicing apartheid and the motives of those who make it. A belief in Israel, combined with frank criticism, provides a balanced view of Israels strengths and problems. It deconstructs the criticisms of Israel and the boycott movement before arguing for two states as the only way forward.

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Pogrund examines the accusation that Israel is practicing apartheid and the motives of those who make it. A belief in Israel, combined with frank criticism, provides a balanced view of Israels strengths and problems. It deconstructs the criticisms of Israel and the boycott movement before arguing for two states as the only way forward.

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This collection of essays looks at the history of the black struggle for equality in the USA since the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s, and at the policies and political and economic realities that have brought progress to a near standstill.

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The war on drugs is a war on ordinary people.

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Eclipse of Freedom unravels the dynamics of oppression that frustrates human aspiration, highlights policy linkages that explain unwarranted misery, assesses the human damage caused by dysfunctional social policies and fragmented services, and identifies a progressive mechanism of social transformation.

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Unlike many who separate environmental from other social issues in their analyses of the locally unwanted land use (LULU) problem, O'Looney argues that the issues are really connected and must be addressed jointly.

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This volume addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining "habits of the heart".

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This edited collection addressses both theoretical issues and actual case studies of human rights violations in the African context.

Shepherd, a pioneer in African studies, provides a pathbreaking overview of the political economy of African human rights.

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This outstanding, comprehensive, and up-to-date encyclopedia on human rights issues from 1945 to 1998 features more than 400 entries on incidents and violations, instruments and initiatives, countries and human rights activists.

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Economic growth and burgeoning populations have put South Asia's energy security in a perilous state. Already energy and power shortages are stunting development in some of the region's least developed locations spurring political insurgences and social dislocation.

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Situates the academic boycott of Israel in the broader context of academic freedom

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Draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. This title takes the reader along to the dramatic final confrontation between writers and engineers that signalled the end of the Soviet empire.

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An introductory survey of the government's role in America's continuing drive for equality.