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(2007) by Helen Fein

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  • Review from Amazon.com:Human Rights and Wrongs is a magnificent book: lucid, insightful, nuanced, and encompassing. I know of no other work that deals with all of the major threats to human rights: slavery, terror, and genocide. Moreover, its discussion of the place of democracy in fostering and preserving human rights is original, chastening, yet encouraging. Fein s book will be a classic in social science, standing in the company of Barrington Moore s Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy and Robert Putnam s Making Democracy Work. --Roger W. Smith, College of William and Mary, and past president, International Association of Genocide scholars

    • (2006) edited by Paul Kimmel and Chris Stout

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    • Book Description from Amazon.com: Color-coded terrorism "alerts" are issued, then "lifted" with no explanation. False alarms can, like crying wolf, desensitize people to a real need to be on alert. And that psychic numbing is just one effect discussed in this book by fifteen psychologists teamed up for a critical look at the U.S. war on terrorism. These experts are led by the Chairman of the American Psychological Association task force charged with pinpointing the effect of our anti-terrorism efforts on America's mental health. Together, they present the most up-to-date and intriguing picture we have of the fallout on our own people from our own programs. The text spotlights fueled stereotyping of foreigners, increased domestic hate crimes, fear, depression and helplessness, as well as increasing militancy and belligerence, especially among students. Perhaps most disturbing in the "land of the free," our attention is drawn to growing acceptance of restrictions on our personal freedoms, and acceptance of human rights violations. Contributors to this collection aim to give us a reality check, looking at what our national reactions to terrorism have been, how those reactions have affected the psyche of our people and whether this has made us stronger or weaker, and more or less likely to be the target for future attacks.

    • (2002) by Samantha Power

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    • Book description from Amazon.com: During the three years (1993-1996) Samantha Power spent covering the grisly events in Bosnia and Srebrenica, she became increasingly frustrated with how little the United States was willing to do to counteract the genocide occurring there. After much research, she discovered a pattern: "The United States had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred," she writes in this impressive book. Debunking the notion that U.S. leaders were unaware of the horrors as they were occurring against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Rwandan Tutsis, and Bosnians during the past century, Power discusses how much was known and when, and argues that much human suffering could have been alleviated through a greater effort by the U.S. She does not claim that the U.S. alone could have prevented such horrors, but does make a convincing case that even a modest effort would have had significant impact. Based on declassified information, private papers, and interviews with more than 300 American policymakers, Power makes it clear that a lack of political will was the most significant factor for this failure to intervene. Some courageous U.S. leaders did work to combat and call attention to ethnic cleansing as it occurred, but the vast majority of politicians and diplomats ignored the issue, as did the American public, leading Power to note that "no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on." This powerful book is a call to make such indifference a thing of the past. --Shawn Carkonen

    • (1989) by Gretel Ehrlich

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    • Ingram: Ehrlich explores the twin solitudes of political exile and geographic isolation in this powerful novel--the story of Japanese Americans forced into a relocation camp--set in Wyoming during World War II.

    • (2000) by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman

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    • Book description from Amazon.com:Denying History is a courageous and accessible study of "a looking-glass world where black is white, up is down, and the normal rules of reason no longer apply." Authors Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the conferences, literature, and Web culture of Holocaust deniers; they have engaged the pseudo-historians in debate; and they have visited the concentration camps in Europe to investigate the truth of what happened there. Denying History presents Shermer and Grobman's findings. The book refutes, in detail, the Holocaust deniers' claims, and it demonstrates conclusively that the Holocaust did happen.It also explores the fundamental historical issue in all debates over the truth of the Holocaust: the question of "how we know that any past event happened." Thus, Denying History is a doubly useful book; it sets the record straight on one of history's most terrible events, and it instructs readers in the scientific, logical, and historiographical principles that can help us make wise judgments about history on our own. --Michael Joseph Gross.

    • (2001) by Chanrithy Him

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    • Dith Pran, editor ofChildren of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Chanrithy's memoir helps bring to light the suffering of the Cambodian people during the Khmer Rouge reign. Even though Chanrithy was young during the genocide, she never forgot her mission to educate the world. I commend her for this effort.

    • (1998) by Mike Resnick

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    • Book Description from Booklist:Kirinyaga was born of an idea given to Resnick by Orson Scott Card: conceive of a story in which earth people migrate to a terraformed world and set up a utopia. Resnick, possessed of a bounty of knowledge about East Africa, devised Kirinyaga, the ancient home of the Kikuyu and Maasai peoples before the Europeans came and invented Kenya. Kirinyaga is presided over by Koriba, the mundumugu, or, as Europeans would have it, witch doctor. Koriba is intent on the old ways because he feels modern Kenyans have lost their way, and he imposes strict disciplines: no machinery, no weapons but spears, no modern medicine. In one of the more touching stories in a book that is basically a collection, Koriba will not allow a brilliant young girl to learn to read, since reading is a European corruption; the girl kills herself. In another, particularly clever episode, Koriba appears to invoke magic when he trains hyenas to attack a Maasai hunter who briefly takes over the colony; but there is no magic, only the wisdom of the ancients. Each story inKirinyaga has won several awards; in an afterword, Resnick claims this is "the most honored science-fiction book in history." As disquieting and lyrical as the tales are, they are somewhat repetitive when presented as a whole. Even so, Kirinyaga is extraordinary work. --John Mort

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