Intrigued by the idea of what happens to radically tattooed skinheads when they get older, Francine Prose created the character of neo-Nazi Vincent Nolan, age 32, who "repents," goes to work for a foundation, and finds himself becoming famous as a do-gooder who wants to "keep guys like me from becoming guys like me." Not only Vincent, but the ...
Michael Ondaatje explores the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka, his homeland, in this story of an anthropologist living in America. She returns to Sri Lanka to investigate a suspected mass murder, and becomes part of a team that unearths the bodies of the "disappeared." A large cast of characters shares the narrative, including a doctor ...
President Jimmy Carter has had one of the most admired and productive post-presidencies in our nation's history. In "Beyond the White House," he recounts how and why he spent the last 25 years in the service of humanity, and in the process won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? "My Name is Rachel Corrie" tells the story of her short life and sudden death from the words she left behind. First presented at the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Alan Rickman - it was subsequently presented in the West ...
With the emotional power of the bestselling "Missing", this true story recounts the trials of Jennifer Harbury, an American woman who took on the United States government in an attempt to uncover the truth about the disappearance of her husband, Mayan guerrilla leader Everardo Bamaca Velasquez.
Despite a note beside her body addressed to other "sons-of-bitch" human rights lawyers, the Mexican government ruled Digna Ochoa's violent death "probable suicide" and slammed the case shut in July 2003. But journalist Linda Diebel, a three-time recipient of the Amnesty International Media Award, will not let Ochoa's story die. Here is her ...
"No Regrets" is the never-before-told story of one of this century's most influential women. This enthralling portrait of Marietta Tree, political activist and society doyenne, is also a vivid recreation of a bygone era of American life. Marietta Tree's rich, full life is filled with the names of the famous and the powerful with whom she shared ...
The first in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to work inside the highly influential human-rights organization Amnesty International.
The intimate, beautifully told memoir of a woman who helped create Human Rights Watch and bring about the fall of Communism-and in the process became free and independent herself. After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one ...
Corrie, a 23-year-old American activist killed in 2003, brings to life--through intense and poetic writings--the looming issues of her time as well as the ordinary angst of an young American woman. 35 illustrations.
Through profiles of famous and not-so-famous people who took a stand for human rights, an attorney and a photographer convey a common strain of courage and determination that unite these heroes, many of whom fought against very large odds--and some who did not win. Text and photographs illustrate the achievements of the Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel, ...
W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson were both leading figures of the African American movement; their writing and teachings continue to inspire people around the world today. The Professor and the Pupil chronicles the 40-year friendship between Du Bois and Paul Robeson. Journalist Murali Balaji explores how both men evolved into leaders of the ...
Following in the footsteps of Rigoberta Menchu, Maria Teresa Tula describes her childhood, marriage, and growing family, as well as her awakening political consciousness, activism, imprisonment, and torture. The human side of the civil war in El Salvador and decades of repression come to the fore in this woman's tale of extraordinary courage and ...
Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In "The Privacy Advocates ...
A sequel to Sakharov's "Memoirs", covering the last three years of his life, when he was at last allowed to travel outside the USSR. It talks of his efforts to secure the release of political prisoners, his encounters with Mikhail Gorbachev, his travels abroad, his investigation of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and, finally, his ...
In this memoir, a Palestinian lawyer writes as a witness and participant to history, offering a Palestinian perspective on decades of Arab-Israeli relations. Shehadah writes of his relationship with his lawyer-activist father, his schooling in England and India, and his own work for the Palestinian cause. He has worked within the legal system, ...
In the tradition of John le Carr, "The Secret Keeper," set in war-torn Sierra Leone, tells the story of one man's search for the truth in a nation where the rules of civilized society simply don't apply.
Inspiring interviews about the quality of courage with fifty remarkable men and women, including Wangari Maathai, Desmond Tutu, and the Dalai Lama. Kerry Kennedy explores the issues that compel human rights defenders: from free expression to religious self-determination, from minority rights to environmental activism, from child soldiers to sexual ...
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and, as a result, a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first time ever KGB files on Sakharov that became available during Boris Yeltsin's presidency. The documents ...
In this compelling biography, Andrew Boyd tells the story of Baroness Cox's humble beginnings as a nurse and her subsequent nine-year fight as a sociology lecturer and Labour supporter against intimidation by the hard left. Caroline Cox's secret expeditions to buy freedom for slaves captured by Arab traders in Sudan's war against black Africans. ...
Leo Cherne's life brimmed with paradox and improbability. He was born in the Bronx to a poor, immigrant, Jewish family, and yet rose to the heights of economic and political power in WASP America. A successful entrepreneur and an unofficial advisor to nine presidents, he nevertheless devoted the majority of his time to humanitarian causes, ...
During times of grave injustice, some individuals, groups, and organizations courageously resist maltreatment of all people, regardless of their backgrounds. Courageous resisters have assisted others in such locales as Nazi-controlled Europe throughout the 1930s and 40s, Argentina during the "Dirty War" of the 1970s, Rwanda in the 1990s genocide ...
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