The idea of human rights
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Title: the idea of human rightsbinding: paperbackauthor(s): beitz, charles r
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What do human rights mean in an age of counter-terrorism? how does globalization affect the protection of human rights? can human rights contribute to the eradication of hunger and the promotion of education for all? this book presents a wide-ranging survey of the scope and significance of international human rights lawthroughout, the aim is to invite reflection on human rights in a way that avoids idealizationarranged thematically in alphabetical format, it side-steps the traditional categories of human rights law, to investigate rights in the specific contexts in which they are invoked, debated, and consideredfor the authors, international human rights law is a process or tool, which is neither inherently beneficent nor essentially problematic, but always potentially boththis book provides the reader with the necessary background to understand, evaluate and, above all, deploy human rights as a strategy for change in the contemporary worldentries are included on traditional topics such as children, the death penalty, and housing, along with newer issues such as culture, sexuality, and terrorismsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeach entry introduces key concepts, norms and debates, and additionally contains suggestions for further readingoxfam bookshop thame very good condition
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This contemporary multicoloured african artwork is entitled “declaration of human rights dec-” and is signed by the renowned artist caroline cullinan this is a very rare " x x 47 cm art print, is in excellent condition and has been professionally framedit is impossible to find another copy of this wonderful multicoloured subject by this stylish renowned south african artist anywherethis is a true art statement and is a real collectors itemplease see all photographs for a full and better descriptionpostage on application
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After evil a politics of human rights by robert meister (paperback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is usually within 8 to 10 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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The ideas presented here form a major addition to the widespread current interest in evolutionary theory as applied to human behaviourthese papers bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on what is arguably the central question in the study of human social evolution: how did the simple hunting and foraging bands of the upper palaeolithic evolve into the institutionally complex societies of the so-called neolithic revolution? the contributors to this volume are leading experts from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and game theory, all of whom share a common evolutionary perspectivesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop leeds 259pp
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Times literary supplement books of the year in the soul of the marionette, john gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedomoxfam bookshop raeburn place signed with signature to title pagewe flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every actionthis is a stimulating and enraging meditation on everything from cybernetics to the fairground marionettes of the titledustjacket price unclippedmany writers and intellectuals have always understood this, but instead of embracing our condition we battle against it, with everyone from world conquerors to modern scientists dreaming of a 'human dominion' almost comically at odds with our true statesee oxfam website for delivery information read morevery good condition
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This edition goes even farther to incorporate traditional thinking about national security in the context of human rights, democracy, population, health, environment, energy, and especially education he builds on the first edition's emphasis on the role of trade and technology, the militarization of space, the privatization of security, the use of sanctions, ethnic conflict, and transnational crimeoxfam bookshop raeburn place this thoroughly updated edition of global security in the twenty-first century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas in the world sean kay assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and peace has evolved in relation to major flashpoints including in the middle east, asia, and eurasia writing in an engaging style, kay integrates traditional and emerging challenges in one easily accessible study that gives readers the tools they need to develop a thoughtful and nuanced understanding of global securitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morekay focuses especially on the implications of the election of barack obama and the changing role of the united states in global security
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Since the dawn of human history life has battled for survival, with human beings evolving to dominate this process on planet earthhuman knowledge is a fractured system of investigation born out of mathematics, literacy and imageryfor to be human, is to know unequivocally that one day you will die and it is this truth which has precipitated a passion for knowledge and the pursuit of immortality initially through divine methods but more recently through scientific endeavouroxfam shop macclesfield mr carbon atom and the theory of carbon entromorphologysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop morpeth the brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaestheticsmany now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems that neuroscientists are poised to become the new experts in the management of human conduct see oxfam website for delivery information read more excellent conditionuncreased spine and pristine pagesneuro describes the key developments--theoretical, technological, economic, and biopolitical--that have enabled the neurosciences to gain such traction outside the laboratory
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It shows the whole of human civilization under threat, as terrifying, tentacled martians land in england, build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human preythe forces of the earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appearedited by patrick parrinder with an introduction by brian aldiss and notes by andy sawyer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'the classic tale of alien invasion, and still the best' the timesthe first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, the war of the worlds remains one of the most influential of all science-fiction works
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As the vietnam war created a critical flashpoint, bringing the idea of american imperialism into the us mainstream, radical students of the new left turned toward marxist critiques, admiring revolutionaries like che guevaraoxfam bookshop knutsford the idea that the united states-a nation founded after a war of independence-operates as an imperialist power on the world stage has gained considerable traction since the turn of the twenty-first centurysimultaneously, a small school of revisionist scholars, led by historian william appleman williams at the university of wisconsin, put forward a progressive, nuanced critique of american empire grounded in psychology, economics, and broader historical contextmorgan shows how radical and revisionist scholars in the s and s first challenged the paradigm of denying an american empirebut just a few decades earlier, this position was considered radical and even òun-americanó how did this dramatic change come about?tracing the emergence of the concept of us imperialism, james gsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is this more sophisticated strand of thinking, morgan argues, which demonstrated that empire can be an effective analytical framework for studying us foreign policy, thus convincing american scholars to engage with the subject seriously for the first time
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Oxfam books & music lichfield the dream of the cosmos is the story of a multi-layered quest to understand the causes of human suffering and to reconnect with a deeper reality than the one we inhabit in this physical dimension of experienceit is written with two voices: one the voice of a personal quest and the other which explores the historical and psychological causes that have brought into being our present view see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit seeks to answer the questions: "who are we?" and "why are we here, on this planet?" it is offered to those who are looking for something beyond the superficial values of our culture, who may be disillusioned with religious and secular belief systems as currently presented and who question political values which are deeply mired in the pursuit of power
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What young woman can be safe from the dangers of wilderness when its shadowy thickets spring up so easily in the soil of human hearts? much will oppose charis' longings for renewal and peace; she must pursue and discover the hero's path to a larger, more vivid life" clambering into the branches of a tree, a young woman flees flaming arrows and massacreand even if she survives the wilds, it is no simple matter to discover and nest among her own kind-the godly, those called puritans by othersstreams of darkness run through the seventeenth-century villages of the massachusetts bay colonyfor charis, the world outside the window of home is a maze of hazardswe are meant to go in and out of doors in civilized style, but my mother bade me climb into woodsy wildness and a darkness flushed with crimson light and torchesshe will need to struggle for survival: to scour the wilderness for shelter, to strive and seek for a new family and a setting where she can belongher unmarked way is costly and hardoccult fears have a way of creeping into the mindoxfam bookshop victoria "when i swung over that windowsill, everything changed for meshe may be tugged by her desires for companionship, may even stumble into an intense love for a man, and may be made to try the strength of female heroism in ways no longer familiar to women in our centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morenewly published paperback
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In this extraordinary book, developed from the bbc radio 4 reith lectures, soyinka explores the changing face of fear: the conflict between power and freedom; the complex motives behind unthinkable acts of violence; the meaning of human dignity; while comparing the fanaticism of powerful terrorists with the attitude of world leaders - discovering terrifying similaritiesoxfam bookshop carlisle wole soyinka was the first african to be awarded the nobel prize for literaturefrom the fear of a terrorist with a bomb in his bag to the threat of a virus sent by a computer hacker with a lust for destruction, fear of the invisible threat is now omnipresentin this year's prestigious series of reith lectures, soyinka considers fear as a predominant theme in world politicsfrom niger to manhattan, and now to madrid, this climate of fear has stretched to engulf the globe, warning its inhabitants that there is now no distinction between the involved or non-involvedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepages are slightly dog-eared and shows signs of agethe fear is created by tyranny and by furtive, invisible power, the power of the quasi-state, and terrorismnow it is much more complexfor soyinka, 11th september did not instigate the development of the climate of fear that has enveloped the world, it was in when, a few months before the lockerbie disaster, a passenger plane was brought down by terrorists over the republic of nigercover & spine in very good conditiona few decades ago the existence of collective fear had an immediately identifiable face - the nuclear bombwe are all potential targets
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But he is also clear that we can't hope to understand the effects and implications fully without a better understanding of how the mind came to be what it is over the course of human evolutionwork, friends, games, reading - all are increasingly digital and virtualjack huber is clear that what he calls 'the cyberous' is changing the whole way that our minds workso he takes us on a historical and biological tour of the human-mind-in-its-environment and focuses on three 'trajectories' in particular: 1)our capacity to recognise patterns (which includes our capacity to use and understand metaphor), 2) vision (which is much more than sight), 3)post-birth developmentfascinating stuff! is the future bright? you decidefrom there he looks at how our past will influence our future, giving us a glimpse of what collaboration with cyberous environments will bring to our minds and to 'self' in the future - a glimpse of what and who we will becomeoxfam books & music totnes our lives are increasingly spent onlinegoogle glass is nextin doing so, he suggests three futures of the mind: 1) unknowable mind, 2)absentee mind, 3)transcendent mindpaperback in excellent condition showing few signs of wear and tearsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehow are these extraordinary changes affecting our brains, our minds and the way we think, talk and relate? parents, scientists, doom-mongers and sociologists are among the many people speculating about what is going to become of us as we become increasingly absorbed by electronic media and ever more remote from our natural environment
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a surprise best seller in england, the abolition of britain is bitingly witty and fiercely argued, yet also filled with somber appreciation for what "the idea of england" has always meant to the west and to the world at largelooking at the changed face of his country, hitchens finds a "politically correct zeal for the new" whose impact on daily life has been "as devastating in effect, if not in violence, as mao tse tung's cultural revolution in china"writing with passion and flair, hitchens targets the pernicious effects of tv culture, the "corruption and decay" of the english language, the loss of politeness, and the "syrupy confessional mood" brought on by the death of diana, which hitchens contrasts with the somber national response to the death of winston churchillif there is a term that summarizes everything that has gone wrong in britain, it is "tony blairism," which hitchens sees as having rewritten england's history, trivialized its journalism, subverted its educational system and cultural standards, and overthrown accepted notions of patriotism, faith, and moralitythe new britain is government by focus group in which people are told what to feel as a way of preventing them from asking how they want to be governedone english critic called the abolition of britain "an elegant jeremiad" in which peter hitchens identifies everything that has gone wrong with britain since world war ii and makes the case for "those many millions who feel that they have become foreigners in their own land and wish with each succeeding day that they could turn the clock back" see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the greek thinker heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "phusis kruptesthai philei"green/black boards with gold titlesoxfam books & music winchester 399pp  dust jacket in very good condition with very slight signs of shelf wear  clean and tightly bound with no inscriptions or annotations but with very occasional side-linings in text  taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess isis as a guide and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as goethe, rilke, wittgenstein and heidegger, hadot traces successive interpretations of heraclitus' words  (taken from inside the front of the dust jacket) see oxfam website for delivery information read morefine overall, with dj (unclipped "$")  the aphorism, usually translated as "nature loves to hide", has haunted western culture ever since and is the subject of this engaging study by pierre hadot
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The crisis in university education has been the subject of vigorous debate in recent yearsin this eloquent and deeply personal book, a distinguished scholar reflects on the character and aims of the university, assessing its guiding principles, its practical functions, and its role in society
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