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Asylum and Exile The Hidden Voices of London
ISBN: HB: 9780857422101, Seagull Books, December 2014
152 pp., 25x15 cm
"Asylum and Exile" is the result of several months of personal outreach to refugees and asylum seekers that goes behind the headlines to reveal the humanity, tragedy, and bravery of the individuals who have left everything behind to seek sanctuary fr...
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£14,50
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Multiculturalism and its Discontents Rethinking Diversity after 9/11
ISBN: PB: 9780857421142, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a progressive, modern democracy. Yet despite embracing many of its values, we have at the same time become...
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£7,00
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End of Equality
ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...
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We are the Roma! One Thousand Years of Discrimination
ISBN: PB: 9780857420381, Seagull Books, December 2013
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm
The Roma or Romani people, commonly called gypsies, comprise one of the largest ethnic minorities in the European Union, with significant populations in the Balkan Peninsula as well as Spain, France, Russia, and the Ukraine. Persecution of the Roma d...
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£7,00
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Beyond the Wall Writing a Path through Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9780857420398, Seagull Books, May 2012
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm
Their voices come from Bethlehem and Hebron. You can hear them from Jerusalem to Nazareth, and witness their protests in Gaza and Ramallah. From the refugee camps in the West Bank, you can hear the voices of the Palestinian people call out to demand...
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Offence: The Hindu Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497385, Seagull Books, November 2009
102 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm, 6 halftones
To many outside India, Hinduism is envisioned as the foundation of an ideal, all-embracing society. Yet this is far from the truth. Though historically the practice of Hinduism does promote the idea of an inclusive and tolerant way of life, in the pa...
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£15,00
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Offence: The Jewish Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497392, Seagull Books, September 2009
102 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm, 6 halftones
Part of an ongoing series published in cooperation with the "Index on Censorship" that deals with religion and free expression, "The Jewish Case" is distinctive in several ways. To begin with, even calling Judaism a religion is problematic. The bread...
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£15,00
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Offence: The Christian Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497040, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm
During the cold-war years, Western Christians basked in a sense that they were living on the right side of the ideological divide, harboring humane values, freedom, democracy and the right to irrationality, belief and non-belief. The atheist Communis...
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Offence: The Muslim Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497033, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm
In recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within...
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Taking Offence
ISBN: HB: 9781906497026, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm
From plays to cartoons, books to Teddy Bears – interest groups, often using the language of human rights, are claiming that they are offended and attempting to ban, gag, even kill, those deemed to be the offenders. Intellectual heavyweights throughou...
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