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1	The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community more books like this by David C Korten add to wishlist In his classic international bestseller, "When Corporations Rule the World," David Korten exposed the destructive and oppressive nature of the global corporate economy and helped spark a global resistance movement. Now, he shows that the problem runs deeper than corporate domination -- with far greater consequences. Korten argues that global ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Justice Blind? Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice more books like this by Matthew B Robinson add to wishlist For courses in Introduction to Criminal Justice and Issues in Criminal Justice. Unlike most other introductions to criminal justice--which cover the traditional topics from the perspective of how "things are supposed to be," this text compares these ideals with the realities of criminal justice today and provides a critical interpretation of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Justice and Peace more books like this by Joseph Stoutzenberger add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.09!
4	Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases and Issues That Define Medical Ethics more books like this by Gregory E Pence add to wishlist This rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics. The book presents each famous (or infamous) case using extensive historical and contextual background, and then proceeds to illuminate it by careful discussion of pertinent philosophical theories ... see all copies from $32.00! new only from $38.19! \| SVS
5	Radical Equations: Bring the Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement to America's Schools more books like this by Robert P Moses, Charles E Cobb, Jr. add to wishlist Through personal narrative and impassioned argument, activist Bob Moses shows the lessons of the civil rights movement at work in a remarkable educational movement today, a math literacy program called the Algebra Project. see all copies from $2.33! new only from $9.76! \| first editions \| SVS
6	A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict more books like this by Peter Ackerman, Jack Duvall add to wishlist In this volume, Peter Ackerman, an authority on non-violent strategy, and Jack DuVall, a veteran writer, show how popular movements used non-violent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. A cavalcade of far-flung locations and history-changing crises, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism more books like this by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards add to wishlist Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, "Grassroots" is an activism handbook for social justice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.81! \| SVS
8	Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed more books like this by Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, Michael Quinn Patton add to wishlist A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world's hungry, fix the damage of a ... see all copies from $10.48! new only from $10.48! \| SVS
9	Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader more books like this by Robert C Solomon (Editor), Joanne B Ciulla (Editor), Clancy Martin (Editor) add to wishlist "Honest Work" is a reader and case book in business ethics containing classic and recent articles and cases across a broad spectrum of issues. The working premise of the book is that ethics lies both at the very core of business activity and defines the overall context in which business plays its role. It is addressed to the student reader, and ... see all copies from $22.23! new only from $68.00! \| SVS
10	Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership more books like this by Professor Martha C Nussbaum add to wishlist Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition. ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $20.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality more books like this by Professor Walter Benn Michaels add to wishlist Michaels urges readers to start thinking about real justice, about equality instead of diversity. Attacking both the right and the left, this volume could be the most controversial political book of the year. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.70! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate more books like this by Ronald Dworkin add to wishlist Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders. The result, Ronald Dworkin writes, is a deeply depressing political ... see all copies from $4.88! new only from $13.35!
13 view cover	Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice more books like this by Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers, Martin Lipton add to wishlist In cities across the nation, low-income African American and Latino parents hope that their children's education will bring a better life. But their schools, typically, are overcrowded, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. Unless things change dramatically, more than half the students will never graduate and many will face a life of poverty ... see all copies from $8.80! new only from $14.95! \| SVS
14 view cover	Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice more books like this by Howard Zinn, Ph.D. add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "A People's History of the United States" comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at American political ideology. Howard Zinn brings to Passionate Declarations the same astringent style and provocative point of view that led more than a million people to buy his book "A People's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Law of Peoples: With "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" more books like this by Professor John Rawls add to wishlist This work consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism anon some of the most pressing problems of ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $20.23! \| SVS
16 view cover	Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace more books like this by Vandana Shiva add to wishlist World-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva boldly confronts the neoconservative Project for the New American Century with her own plan, describing what Earth democracy "could" look like, and outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures, and living democracies. see all copies from $11.99! new only from $13.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly more books like this by Norman Daniels add to wishlist In this new book by the award-winning author of Just Healthcare, Norman Daniels develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health that answers three key questions: What is the special moral importance of health? When are health inequalities unjust? How can we meet health needs fairly when we cannot meet them all? Daniels' theory has ... see all copies from $9.84! new only from $25.00! \| SVS
18 view cover	Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth more books like this by Sam S Souryal add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00!
19 view cover	Justice & Peace: A Christian Primer more books like this by Joseph Milburn Thompson add to wishlist Introduces students and concerned Christians to the complex challenges of our time: including globalization, peace and security, and ethnic conflict. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.57! \| SVS
20 view cover	One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future more books like this by Professor Paul R Ehrlich, Anne H Ehrlich add to wishlist The acclaimed writers Paul and Anne Ehrlich explore how overpopulation, overconsumption and political and economic inequity are increasingly determining today's politics and shaping humankind's future. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Catholic Social Teaching and Movements more books like this by Marvin L Krier Mich, S.T.D. add to wishlist This introductory book to Catholic social teaching covers not only the official documents and encyclicals but also gives a sense of the movements and people who embodied the struggle for social justice in the last 100 years. see all copies from $8.35! new only from $21.77! \| SVS
22 view cover	Rescuing Justice and Equality more books like this by G A Cohen add to wishlist In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people's material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate ... see all copies from $35.49! new only from $35.49!
23 view cover	Mountains of the Moon: Stories about Social Justice more books like this by Stephanie Weller Hanson add to wishlist The ten short stories in this collection for young adults put flesh and blood on issues of justice and offer in-depth material for discussion about the meaning and practice of Christian justice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.25! \| SVS
24 view cover	If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? more books like this by G A Cohen add to wishlist This work presents G.A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, ... see all copies from $24.94! new only from $24.94! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Justice and the Politics of Difference more books like this by Iris Marion Young add to wishlist This book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Starting from claims of excluded groups about decision making, cultural expression, and ... see all copies from $12.51! new only from $29.95! \| SVS

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