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By the authors of the international best seller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.

The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action. A Call to Action addresses the suffering inflicted upon women by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare. Key verses are often omitted or quoted out of context by male religious leaders to exalt the status of men and exclude women.

This riveting historical narrative reconstructs the armed resistance of Black activists, their challenge of racist terrorism, and their fight for human rights.

In America on Fire, acclaimed Professor Elizabeth Hinton draws on previously untapped sources to unravel this extraordinary history for the first time, arguing that we cannot understand the civil rights struggle without coming to terms with the astonishing violence and hugely expanded policing regime that followed it. A leading scholar of policing, Hinton underlines a crucial lesson in the book and shows how it continues to escape policy makers, who respond by further criminalising entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes.

In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and the persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.

When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms”, they also added the admonition that this right shall not be infringed. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of Rights. So why aren’t more people listening? History has proven that guns are essential to self-defense and liberty - but tragedy is a powerful force and has led many to believe that guns are the enemy, that the Second Amendment is outdated, and that more restrictions or outright bans on firearms will somehow solve everything. They are wrong.

In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets for deadly rampages? What can we do to curb the carnage of this disturbing form of firearm violence?

Activists from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi to the Movement for Black Lives have long recognized that there are times when, rather than having a duty to obey the law, we have a duty to disobey it. Taking seriously the history of this activism, A Duty to Resist wrestles with the problem of political obligation in real world societies that harbor injustice. Candice Delmas argues that the duty of justice, the principle of fairness, the Samaritan duty, and political association impose responsibility to resist under conditions of injustice.

Dershowitz on Killing is a timely examination of issues and questions that are front and center in today’s society. Employing a philosophical, moral, religious, and cultural lens to the legal aspects surrounding death and life, Alan Dershowitz elucidates the role of government to determine who shall live and who shall die in declaring wars, ordering executions, authorizing deadly force, permitting or denying abortions, providing or mandating vaccines, controlling climate change, allowing or refusing asylum for endangered migrants, and other life and death rulings.

Siamo immersi nelle turbolenze di una crisi spaventosa ma che può spalancarci – se sapremo agire con decisione – la strada di una grande svolta, quel cambiamento duraturo che in tanti auspichiamo. Oggi, nel mondo, una donna su tre è vittima di abusi e quotidianamente oltre cento donne sono assassinate da uomini che dichiarano di amarle. Occorre intervenire prima che questo tsunami di violenza destabilizzi, con conseguenze fisiche e psicologiche, anche le prossime generazioni, perché la violenza si ripercuote su tutta la famiglia e su intere comunità, e Rula Jebreal lo sa bene.

In this short volume, Robert Ryan examines the American gun debate and the role he plays in it, along with the rest of the country. With acerbic wit and striking practicality, Ryan also takes the time to examine current American gun laws and their effectiveness. Flip through this volume and find out what everybody’s been fighting about, or what they think they’ve been fighting about.

After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed Gabby Giffords and her family: Would Gabby survive the bullet through her brain? Would she walk again? Speak? Her hard-won recovery, though far from complete, has now allowed her and Mark to ask larger questions that confront us as a nation: How can we address our nation’s epidemic of gun violence? How can we protect gun rights for law abiding citizens, while keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill?

No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for decades. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know® delves into the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. With a balanced and broad-ranging approach, noted economist Philip J. Cook and political scientist Kristin A. Goss thoroughly cover the latest research.

No Justice is the harrowing story of Robbie Tolan, who early on one New Year's Eve morning, found himself being rushed to the hospital. A White police officer had shot him in the chest after mistakenly accusing him of stealing his own car...while in his own driveway.

Lou est une jeune manifestante passée “casseuse”. Les flics, elle leur fait la guerre, ce sont ses ennemis, des anonymes incarnant le pouvoir oppresseur honni. Mais lors d’une manifestation, elle se retrouve nez à nez avec un CRS qu’elle connaît, à savoir le voisin qu’elle croise régulièrement depuis l’enfance. Elle s’interroge : qu'est-ce qui finalement justifie, légitime, l'emploi de la violence ? Camp du bien versus camp du mal, est-ce aussi simple ? Un sujet brûlant – celui des violences policières et du lien distendu entre citoyens et forces de l’ordre.

Somewhat a controversial topic nowadays the issue of gun control has become increasingly prevalent as more and more incidences of children using guns have come to the fore. As such the book Say No To Guns: Why Gun Control Will Solve Our Problems is well timed as it addresses some of the main issues. It delves right into the current situation in the United States and also compares it to the United Kingdom.