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Midnight's Children
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Midnight's Children

By Salman Rushdie ,

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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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Imagined Communities

By Benedict Anderson ,

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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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Nothing to Envy

By Barbara Demick ,

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

By Tracy Kidder , Michael French ,

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Freeing Teresa: A True Story
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Freeing Teresa

By Franke James , Teresa Heartchild , Billiam James

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Inventing Human Rights: A History
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Inventing Human Rights

By Lynn Hunt ,

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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
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Fields of Blood

By Karen Armstrong ,

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Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
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Proud Shoes

By Paul Murray ,

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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
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Being Heumann

By Judith Heumann , Kristen Joiner ,

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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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A World Made New

By Mary Ann Glendon ,

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The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America
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The Condor Trials

By Francesca Lessa ,

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Cantoras
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Cantoras

By Carolina De Robertis ,

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Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom
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Life's Dominion

By Ronald Dworkin ,

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The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention
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The Conservative Human Rights Revolution

By Marco Duranti ,

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The Woman Who Saved the Children
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The Woman Who Saved the Children

By Clare Mulley ,

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Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict
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Dignity

By Donna Hicks ,

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Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees
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Placeless People

By Lyndsey Stonebridge ,

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Poetry of the Taliban
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Poetry of the Taliban

By Felix Kuehn , Alex Strick Van Linschoten ,

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Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
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Gaza

By Norman Finkelstein ,

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Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law
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Making Hong Kong China

By Michael C. Davis ,

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The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany
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The Human Rights Dictatorship

By Ned Richardson-Little ,

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No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History
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No Voice Too Small

By Lindsay H. Metcalf , Keila V. Dawson , Jeanette Bradley

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The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet!
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The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet!

By Carmen Agra Deedy , Eugene Yelchin (illustrator) ,

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Fear No Evil
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Fear No Evil

By Allen Brokken ,

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Dementia and Human Rights
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Dementia and Human Rights

By Suzanne Cahill ,

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Ursa
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Ursa

By Tina Shaw ,

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Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea
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Marching Through Suffering

By Sandra Fahy ,

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A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma's Karen People
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A Land Without Evil

By Benedict Rogers ,

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The Story of Zoya and Shura
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The Story of Zoya and Shura

By Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya ,

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Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma: The Soldier and the Teacher
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Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma

By Saw Ralph , Naw Sheera ,

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A Suffragette My Own Story
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A Suffragette My Own Story

By Emmeline Pankhurst ,

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Making Sense of Human Rights
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Making Sense of Human Rights

By James Nickel ,

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Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
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Evidence for Hope

By Kathryn Sikkink ,

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Human Rights and Their Limits
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Human Rights and Their Limits

By Wiktor Osiatyński ,

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Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law Into Local Justice
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Human Rights and Gender Violence

By Sally Engle Merry ,

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Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War
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Pity the Nation

By Robert Fisk ,

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Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia
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Aid Imperium

By Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme ,

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Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body
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Accessible Yoga

By Jivana Heyman ,

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Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist
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Against the Wall

By Jenn Budd ,

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The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
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The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature

By Crystal Parikh (editor) ,

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The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa
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The Weekenders

By Alex Garland , W.F. Deedes , Tony Hawks , Irvine Welsh , Victoria Glendinning , Andrew O'Hagan , Giles Foden

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Latin American Politics and Society: A Comparative and Historical Analysis
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Latin American Politics and Society

By Gerardo L. Munck , Juan Pablo Luna ,

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Religion and Violence, Religion and Peace
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Religion and Violence, Religion and Peace

By Joseph H. Ehrenkranz (editor) , David L. Coppola (editor) ,

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Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
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Not in God's Name

By Jonathan Sacks ,

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Cry of the People
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Cry of the People

By Penny Lernoux ,

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Peacemakers in Action: Volume 2: Profiles in Religious Peacebuilding
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Peacemakers in Action

By Joyce S. Dubensky (editor) ,

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To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré
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To Catch a Dictator

By Reed Brody ,

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Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded
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Pamela

By Samuel Richardson , Tom Keymer (editor) , Alice Wakely (editor)

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The Social Contract
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The Social Contract

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ,

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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
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Sources of the Self

By Charles Taylor ,

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Sovereign Debt and Human Rights
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Sovereign Debt and Human Rights

By Ilias Bantekas (editor) , Cephas Lumina (editor) ,

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Aging A-Z: Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology
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Aging A-Z

By Carroll L. Estes , Nicholas B. DiCarlo ,

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Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
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Coercive Control

By Evan D. Stark ,

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Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
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Against Our Will

By Susan Brownmiller ,

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Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times
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Human Rights for Pragmatists

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Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile
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Bread, Justice, and Liberty

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Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy
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Principles in Power

By Vanessa Walker ,

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Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia
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Counting the Dead

By Winifred Tate ,

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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism
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The Morals of the Market

By Jessica Whyte ,

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Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention
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Human Rights and the End of Empire

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

By Johannes Morsink ,

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The American Language of Rights
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The American Language of Rights

By Richard A. Primus ,

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So You Think You're Human?
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So You Think You're Human?

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Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer
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Screwed

By Ronnie Thompson ,

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Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy
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Basic Rights

By Henry Shue ,

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Tired Ladies Take a Stand
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Tired Ladies Take a Stand

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No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian' Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests
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No More War

By Dan Kovalik ,

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Transnational LGBT Activism
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Transnational LGBT Activism

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