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1	Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry more books like this by Michael Ignatieff, Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor David A Hollinger add to wishlist These essays by Ignatieff address difficult questions about the human rights movement's motives, assumptions, record, and rhetoric. Four scholars--K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher--comment and Ignatieff responds. see all copies from $4.77! new only from $9.47! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Blood & belonging : journeys into the new nationalism more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist Written to accompany a BBC2 series, this book explores both sides of modern nationalism, one of the most complex and volatile issues of our time. It is a personal odyssey which begins in the nightmare of the former Yugoslavia and ends with the author's return to the disunited United Kingdom. He journeys also to the Ukraine, Quebec and Germany, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.89! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Russian Album more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist In this work, Michael Ignatieff re-creates the lives of his grandparents before and during the Russian revolution. Through his own trips to modern day Russia and through family documents and journals, he brings together two generations whose times did not connect. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.92! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist Must we fight terrorism with terror, match assassination with assassination, and torture with torture? Must we sacrifice civil liberty to protect public safety? In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But we are pulled in the other direction too by the anxiety that a violent response to violence makes us ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.85! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Isaiah Berlin: A Life more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.05! \| first editions
6	Magnum Degrees more books like this by Michael Ignatieff (Introduction by) add to wishlist Here the photographers of Magnum, 50 years after the legendary group began its documentary mission, address the world following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; a period which has seen the triumph of US capitalism at one extreme and the resurgence of ancient blood feuds at the other. The book is built around photo-essays selected and ... see all copies from $16.30! new only from $35.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Nineteen Nineteen more books like this by Michael Ignatieff, Hugh Brody add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
8	The Needs of Strangers more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist A collection of essays on religion, human society, and the uses and limits of reason by the celebrated novelist and journalist. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.83! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Truth & lies : stories from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa more books like this by Jillian Edelstein, Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist Photographs and text by Jillian Edelstein document four years of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Accompanying the photographs are excerpts from the witnesses' testimony of their experiences under apartheid. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Warrior's Honor more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist A prominent commentator on nationalism and ethnic violence reflects on the destructive power of ethnic warfare and the redemptive potential of modern universal human-rights culture. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.27! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc more books like this by Gustaf Sobin, Michael Ignatieff (Foreword by) add to wishlist Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene - these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the landscape of southeastern France are the points of departure for Gustaf Sobin's lyrical ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $14.88! \| SVS
12 view cover	American Exceptionalism and Human Rights more books like this by Michael Ignatieff (Editor) add to wishlist With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? "American Exceptionalism and Human Rights" addresses this question as it applies to U.S. ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $29.95!
13	A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist see all copies from $2.61! first editions
14 view cover	Asya more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist An account of one woman's search for love through revolution, war and exile. It is above all a story of betrayal and lost love, spanning the most turbulent historical events of the 20th century: from the Russian Revolution to 1920s Paris, wartime London and, finally, Gorbachev's Soviet Union. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Scar Tissue more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist A novel of family illness and death. The unnamed narrator is a young Englishman whose mother is dying of Alzheimer's disease. Her husband dies brokenhearted shortly after her, and the narrator's wife grows more and more distant from him in the midst of all this. The narrator's brother, a neurologist, resists his brother's attempt to find some ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Empire Lite: Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist In "Empire Lite", Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of what he sees as a new global empire - the imperial and the humanitarian - and argues that the international community has failed to engage intelligently with the problems of nation building in the aftermath of apocalyptic events. The collapse of political order around the world is now seen ... see all copies from $10.00!
17	Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist see all copies from $4.97! new only from $11.71!
18 view cover	Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist This text looks at the way the war in Kosovo was fought. Kosovo was a virtual war, fought by pilots at 15,000 feet, commanded by Generals whose only view of the battle was through their pilot's bombing sights, and reported by opposing media with competing versions of collateral damage stories. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	The Granta Book of the Family more books like this by Granta Books, Michael Ignatieff, Raymond Carver add to wishlist Over the past 15 years, Granta has published fiction, memoir, biography, and reportage inspired by the relationships forced on us by the accident of birth. From Saul Bellow's tale of his immigrant parents to Bret Easton Ellis' chilling description of a Hollywood marriage, the best and, at times, the most disturbing are collected here in this ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20 view cover	Charlie Johnson in the Flames more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist In his critically acclaimed "New York Times" Notable Book, the author of "The Needs of Strangers" delivers a profound meditation that explores war, guilt, and one man's search for justice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	For Most of It I Have No Words more books like this by Simon Norfolk (Photographer), Michael Ignatieff (Introduction by) add to wishlist December 9th, 1998 marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations convention on genocide. This book collects the photographs of Simon Norfolk as he captures the sights of war crimes, with names such as Auschwitz and Cambodia ringing like a death knoll for the 20th Century. see all copies from $33.77! new only from $33.77! \| first editions
22 view cover	Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance more books like this by Simon Chesterman (Editor), Michael Ignatieff (Editor), Ramesh Chandra Thakur (Editor) add to wishlist This book examines the strategies and tactics of international actors, local political elites, and civil society groups to build or rebuild public institutions before they reach the point of failure-- to make the state work. see all copies from $36.50! new only from $46.00!
23 view cover	Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment more books like this by Michael Ignatieff (Editor), Istvan Hont (Editor) add to wishlist Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement of the eighteenth century and explores the process by which the boundaries between economic thought, jurisprudence, ... see all copies from $48.41! new only from $63.10! \| SVS
24 view cover	Los Derechos Humanos Como Politica E Idolatria more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist Michael Ignatieff se apoya en su gran experiencia como escritor y comentarista sobre asuntos internacionales para presentar un lucido resumen de los exitos, fracasos y perspectivas de la revolucion de los derechos humanos. Desde que las Naciones Unidas adoptaron la Declaracion Universal de los Derechos Humanos en 1948, esta revolucion ha aportado ... see all copies from $39.57! new only from $39.58!
25 view cover	The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience more books like this by Michael Ignatieff add to wishlist A prominent commentator on nationalism and ethnic violence reflects on the destructive power of ethnic warfare and the redemptive potential of modern universal human-rights culture. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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