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Freedom from Poverty As a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor?
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Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together clarify and defend the claim that freedom from poverty is a human right with corresponding binding obligations on the more affluent to practice effective poverty avoidance. The nature of human rights and their corresponding duties is examined, as is the theoretical standing of the social, economic and cultural rights. The authors largely agree in concluding that there is… More >>
Freedom from Poverty As a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor?
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From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
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Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King’s nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson argues in this searching reinterpretation of King’s public ministry. Between the 1940s and the 1960s, King was influenced by and in turn reshaped the political cultures of the black freedom movement and democratic le… More >>
From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- ISBN13: 9780385495325
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In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code… More >>
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
- ISBN13: 9780520256415
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Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book that brilliantly synthesizes historical and intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today’s era of globalization. As she chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies that have played a part in this struggle, Ishay illustrates how the history of human rights has evolved from one era to the next through texts, cultural traditions, and … More >>
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
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