Book Notes

Recently Received Books: Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights

 

Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption

Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
 Edited By Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzel


Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 283pp.

* Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics
Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights

Transnational Threats: Smuggling and Trafficking in Arms, Drugs and Human Life

Transnational Threats: Smuggling and Trafficking in Arms, Drugs
and Human Life
Edited by Kimberley L. Thachuk

Bridgeport, CT: Praeger Security International. 2007. 241pp.

* Cross-listed in Refugees & Displaced Persons
Housing, Land and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Person: Laws, Cases and Materials

Housing, Land and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and
Displaced Person: Laws, Cases and Materials
 Edited by Scott Leckie


New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 570pp.

* Cross-listed in Refugees & Displaced Persons

Poverty and Discrimination

Poverty and Discrimination
By Kevin Lang

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2007. 407pp.

The Challenges of Globalization: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom

The Challenges of Globalization: Rethinking Nature, Culture,
and Freedom
Edited by Steven V. Hicks & Daniel E. Shannon

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. 2007. 270pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History

Human Rights, Human Plights in a Global Village

Human Rights, Human Plights in a Global Village
By Rob Buitenweg

Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press. 2007. 276pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History
The Idea of Poverty

The Idea of Poverty
By Paul Spicker

Bristol, UK: Policy Press. 2007. 175pp.

*Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health
Economic Analysis of Law in China

Economic Analysis of Law in China
Edited by Thomas Eger, Michael Faure & Zhang Naigen

Cheltenham, UK: Edward Eger Publishing. 2007. 324pp.

*Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics
Regional Focus on Asia
Identity Matters

Identity Matters : Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict
Edited by James L. Peacock, Patricia M. Thornton & Patrick B. Inman

New York, NY: Berghahn Books. 2007. 244pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History
War, War Crimes & Genocide
Beyond the workfare state: Labour markets, equalities and human rights

Beyond the Workfare State:
Labour Markets, Equalities and Human Rights
Edited by Mick Carpenter, Belinda Freda & Stuart Speeden

Bristol, UK: The Policy Press. 2007. 192pp.
Private Property, Community Development, and Eminent Domain

Private Property, Community Development, and Eminent Domain
Edited by Robin Paul Malloy

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2008. 220pp.

*Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics
Africa and the New Globalization

Africa and the New Globalization
Edited by George Klay Kieh, Jr.

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2008. 192pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional Focus on Africa & the Middle East

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