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An account of the Venerable Palden Gyatso's 33 years as a political prisoner in a Chinese prison in Tibet.

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As the leading Muslim political spokesman and intellectual, Izetbegovi'c was imprisoned by the Yugoslavian government in 1983 for a 14-year sentence.

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Ellen Schrecker gives us a post-Cold War account of McCarthyism.

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This volume introduces the reader to an important set of newcomers to America. Each chapter examines the cultural and social context from which the refugees came, traces their initial and long-term encounters with American society, and assesses their future prospects.

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Show Trials combines first-hand knowledge with hitherto unpublished, confidential material, to offer a penetrating and candid account of the Stalinist purges that occurred in Albanian, East German, Bulgarian, and Rumanian purges, as well as in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

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Among the various secret or staged processes in court that are all to some degree the focus of public attention, the process against Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy of the 1956 Revolution is especially noteworthy.

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This volume investigates the mass detention of Uyghurs in China, exploring the regimes of surveillance to which they are subjected both inside and outside the detention centres of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It offers new insights into the future of the CCPs domestic governance strategies and troubling international behaviour.

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Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, this book looks in depth at the use of torture during the French-Algerian War (1954-1962) to reveal the failure of that liberal democratic state to uphold its obligations on rights.

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A sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish society -- .

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A sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish society -- .

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The southwest Virginia murder trials of a young schoolteacher named Edith Maxwell made her a cause celebre of the 1930s. Feminist organizations like the National Women's Party and other women's business and professional organizations rallied to Edith's defense because women were not allowed on criminal juries in Virginia in the 1930s.

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One woman's harrowing story of imprisonment and survival in the face of the Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong.

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'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press' NAOMI KLEIN

Essential reading' YANIS VAROUFAKIS

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The worlds largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947.

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Operation Condor, set up by Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, was a secret alliance among six Southern Core intelligence agencies that waged an international dirty war against internal enemies.

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The erosion of US influence in Latin America has led to setbacks for press freedom, and impunity in journalist murders remains a problem in nations from Russia to the Philippines. This book serves as a guide to press freedom worldwide, providing an analyses of media conditions across 120 nations.

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A powerful examination of the conflicts in Southeast Asia that risk destabilising its remarkable development.

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A hard-hitting book from an award-winning investigative journalist, Cruel Britannia tells the hidden story of Britain's secretive and shameful record of torture, for the first time.

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The disturbing reality of a political landscape where autocracy reigns and civil liberties are being crushed

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The story of one Baha'i woman's experiences at the hands of the Iranian Revolutionaries in the 1980s. Amid the escalating program she witnessed friends, neighbours and relatives being imprisoned, tortured and executed. She visited prisoners, comforted relatives and then it was her turn.