The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity,...
Nadia MuradWINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZEIn this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and s...
Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untol...
Karima BennouneWith a new afterword. "Compelling, meticulously researched. Should be required reading."—Washington Post In Lahore, Pakistan, Faizan Peerzada resisted being relegated to a "dark corner" by staging a performing ar...
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Vi...
Jimmy CarterIn the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world's most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.P...
Machine Gun Preacher: The True Story ...
Sam ChildersThe rise of Sam Childers from violent, drug-addicted biker to a man willing to risk everything to rescue the orphans and child soldiers of Sudan."All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man'...
President Trump's Pro-Christian Accom...
Steve CioccolantiIS TRUMP CHRISTIAN? IS HE GOD'S CHOICE? HOW ARE HIS ACTIONS AFFECTING CHRISTIANS AND BIBLE PROPHECY? This is more than a list of Donald Trump's untold words and actions. This book compares the most significant events of Trump's life...
Human Liberty 2.0: Advancing Universa...
Matthew DanielsA powerful look at the real-life heroes and heroines who have changed the world using social media to advance the cause of human rights and dignity.Human Liberty 2.0 showcases the inspiring stories of teens and adults channeling the p...
The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the ...
Laurel FletcherThis book, based on a two-year study of former prisoners of the U.S. government's detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, reveals in graphic detail the cumulative effect of the Bush administration's "war on terror." Scr...
Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt'A tour de force.'—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this...
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Rig...
Reece JonesA major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policedForty thousand people have died trying to cross between countries in the past decade, and yet international borders only continue to harden. ...
The New Human Rights Movement: Reinve...
Peter JosephSociety is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabi...
The Church and Religious Persecution
Robert J. JoustraReligious persecution is on the rise. Daily news stories and social science research chronicle the suffering of Christians and those of other faiths at the hands of both governments and private citizens. Yet, with few exceptions,the N...
Human Rights and the Uses of History:...
Samuel MoynWhat are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samu...
Revolution Startup: How to Use Rice P...
Srdja PopovicA handbook for anyone who wants to effectively (and peacefully) improve your neighborhood, make a difference in your community, or change the world Blueprint for Revolution will teach you how to• make oppression backfire by playing...
In this incredible volume of essays, collected over 30 years, Sheldon Richman exposes the true history of Israeli dispossession of the Palestinians. Coming to Palestine turns the typical story most Americans have been told about Israe...
The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice...
David RieffHailed as “invaluable…a substantial work of political thought,” (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within o...
From the award-winning author of The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline expose of brutal repression in IndiaIn her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-k...
Three Days in Damascus: A Memoir
Kim SchultzTHREE DAYS IN DAMASCUS is a memoir about a three-year fight for a chance at love with an Iraqi refugee the author met in Syria. While travelling to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria to interview Iraqi refugees and hear some of their stories, ...
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories:...
Liao YiwuThe Corpse Walker is a compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China...
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Lette...
Slavoj Zizek"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note ...