The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law

The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law
Francis A. Boyle (Author)
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Sri Lanka’s government declared victory in May, 2009, in one of the world’s most intractable wars after a series of battles in which it killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting to create a separate homeland for the country’s ethnic Tamil minority. The United Nations said the conflict had killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people in Sri Lanka since full-scale civil war broke out in 1983. A US State Department report offered a grisly catalogue of alleged abuses, including the killing of captives or combatants seeking surrender, the abduction and in some cases murder of Tamil civilians, and dismal humanitarian conditions in camps for displaced persons. Human Rights Watch said the U.S. report should dispel any doubts that serious abuses were committed during the final months of the 26-year civil war. The report gains added significance since, during these five months, the Sri Lankan Government denied independent observers, including the media and human rights organizations, access to the war zone, and conducted a “war without witnesses.” This book traces the ongoing engagement of international lawyer Francis A. Boyle during the last years of the conflict. Boyle was among the very few addressing the international legal implications of the Sri Lankan Government’s grave and systematic violations of Tamil human rights while the conflict was taking place. This is the first book to develop an authoritative case for genocide against the Government of Sri Lanka under international law.

• Rank: #367165 in Books
• Published on: 2009-12-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .43 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 140 pages

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Categories: International Security * General. Contributors: Francis Boyle - Author. Format: NOOK Book

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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)

When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)
Norman R. Yetman (Editor)
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More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative Collection, a project funded by the U.S. Government. An illuminating source of information.

• Rank: #4291 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.19" h x .51" w x 5.20" l, .30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 157 pages

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Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict

Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict
John Burt (Author)
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In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: Can a liberal political system be used to mediate moral disputes? And if it cannot, is violence inevitable?

As they campaigned against each other, both Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict as profound as the one over slavery strained the commitment upon which democracy depends—namely, to rule by both consent and principle. This commitment is not easily met, because what conscience demands and what it is able to persuade others to consent to are not always the same. While Lincoln ultimately avoided a politics of morality detached from consent, and Douglas avoided a politics of expediency devoid of morality, neither found a way for liberalism to mediate the conflict of slavery.

That some disputes seemed to lie beyond the horizon of deal-making and persuasion and could be settled only by violence revealed democracy’s limitations. Burt argues that the unresolvable ironies at the center of liberal politics led Lincoln to discover liberalism’s tragic dimension—and ultimately led to war. Burt’s conclusions demand reevaluations of Lincoln and Douglas, the Civil War, and democracy itself.

• Rank: #3351 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-07
• Released on: 2012-12-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.73" w x 6.38" l, 2.68 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 832 pages

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Categories: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)->Political and social views, United States->History->Civil War, 1861-1865->Moral and ethical aspects, Democracy->Moral and ethical aspects. Contributors: John Burt - Author. Format: NOOK Book

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Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism : Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict, ISBN-13: 9780674050181, ISBN-10: 0674050185

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid (Author)
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Now a major motion picture
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize
New York Times bestseller

“Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel.” —Washington Post

“One of those achingly assured novels that makes you happy to be a reader.” —Junot Diaz

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . .
Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. 
But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.

“Brief, charming, and quietly furious . . . a resounding success.” —Village Voice

A Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book

• Rank: #7808 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x .55" w x 5.39" l, .51 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 191 pages

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist, ISBN-13: 9780156034029, ISBN-10: 0156034026

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama (Author)
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Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.

Obama opens his story in New York, where he hears that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has died in a car accident. The news triggers a chain of memories as Barack retraces his family’s unusual history: the migration of his mother’s family from small-town Kansas to the Hawaiian islands; the love that develops between his mother and a promising young Kenyan student, a love nurtured by youthful innocence and the integrationist spirit of the early sixties; his father’s departure from Hawaii when Barack was two, as the realities of race and power reassert themselves; and Barack’s own awakening to the fears and doubts that exist not just between the larger black and white worlds but within himself.

Propelled by a desire to understand both the forces that shaped him and his father’s legacy, Barack moves to Chicago to work as a community organizer. There, against the backdrop of tumultuous political and racial conflict, he works to turn back the mounting despair of the inner city. His story becomes one with those of the people he works with as he learns about the value of community, the necessity of healing old wounds, and the possibility of faith in the midst of adversity.

Barack’s journey comes full circle in Kenya, where he finally meets the African side of his family and confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life. Traveling through a country racked by brutal poverty and tribal conflict, but whose people are sustained by a spirit of endurance and hope, Barack discovers that he is inescapably bound to brothers and sisters living an ocean away—and that by embracing their common struggles he can finally reconcile his divided inheritance.

A searching meditation on the meaning of identity in America, Dreams from My Father might be the most revealing portrait we have of a major American leader—a man who is playing, and will play, an increasingly prominent role in healing a fractious and fragmented nation.



Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).

• Rank: #16574 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-09
• Released on: 2007-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.53" h x 1.50" w x 6.45" l, 1.63 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 464 pages

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Years before becoming the 44th President-elect of the United States Barack Obama published Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance a lyrical unsentimental and powerfully affecting memoir which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. It tells the story of Obama's struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother -- a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego. Get the paperback Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama and get inspired.

Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan

Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
David Cunningham (Author)
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In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most surprisingly, the state with the largest Klan membership-more than the rest of the South combined-was North Carolina, a supposed bastion of southern-style progressivism.

Klansville, U.S.A. is the first substantial history of the civil rights-era KKK's astounding rise and fall, focusing on the under-explored case of the United Klans of America (UKA) in North Carolina. Why the UKA flourished in the Tar Heel state presents a fascinating puzzle and a window into the complex appeal of the Klan as a whole. Drawing on a range of new archival sources and interviews with Klan members, including state and national leaders, the book uncovers the complex logic of KKK activity. David Cunningham demonstrates that the Klan organized most successfully where whites perceived civil rights reforms to be a significant threat to their status, where mainstream outlets for segregationist resistance were lacking, and where the policing of the Klan's activities was lax. Moreover, by connecting the Klan to the more mainstream segregationist and anti-communist groups across the South, Cunningham provides valuable insight into southern conservatism, its resistance to civil rights, and the region's subsequent dramatic shift to the Republican Party.

Klansville, U.S.A. illuminates a period of Klan history that has been largely ignored, shedding new light on organized racism and on how political extremism can intersect with mainstream institutions and ideals.

• Rank: #17986 in Books
• Published on: 2012-11-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.17" h x 6.30" w x 1.18" l, 1.35 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 360 pages

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Klansville, USA: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan by David Cunningham Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most surprisingly, the state with th

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KLANSVILLE, USA The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan By David Cunningham PUBLISHER'S PRICE $29.95 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING Dimensions: 6.5 by 9.5 inches, 337 pages Amidst the rising tide of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, the prominence of the Ku Klux Klan boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Surprisingly, it was North Carolinaostensibly a bastion of Southern progressivismthat boasted the larges