Reversing the Rivers: A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights 1512824038, 9781512824032

From 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confron

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Reversing the Rivers: A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights
1512824038, 9781512824032

Presenting poignant stories combined with amusing anecdotes and philosophical reflection, Reversing the Rivers is an eng

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Hope and History is both a memoir and a call-to-action for the renewal of faith in democracy and America. US Ambassador

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He exhorts us to embrace all the challenges and opportunities that life in the United States can offer.

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In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in

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An engaging, informative, and personal exploration of some of the great rivers of North America. The physical nature of

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"People would look at me and instinctively know something was deeply wrong. I felt and looked like the life had bee

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Daniel Whelan illustrates how the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that hav

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Although truth and reconciliation commissions are supposed to generate consensus and unity in the aftermath of political

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The exceptionality of America’s Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is

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This textbook gives a comprehensive overview of the human rights issues facing more than half of the Western Hemisphere.

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