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You're History! : How People Make the Difference.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; A Poet's Response: De Rong Radio; Contributors; Foreword: From Live Aid to Live 8; Preface: the UN Millennium Campaign; Introduction: History in the making; Making Poverty History; The UN Declaration of Human Rights, printed with comments; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 'It's Positively Medieval': Challenging Some Preconceptions of History; Inequality: A Modest Proposal?; The Other, Man-made Tsunami; Africa, the Crisis Continent?; How the Modern-day Missionaries Called 'Human Rights Activists' Help Wreak Havoc in Africa; Twenty Years with AIDS; Reviving Democracy.
- Celebrating the Heroes of DemocracyCinema in Control and Conscience: Moviemakers from 'Double V' to McCarthyism; Time to Make War History As Well; Islam: Clash or Dialogue of Civilizations?; Conflict and Personal Liberty; What Price Imprisonment?; 'Places Without a Future': the Jarrow March and the Great Depression; Reporters on the Line: Risk Taking and Conscience in the Former Soviet Union; The Media's Fault?; Genocide: the Violence and the Silence; Change â#x80;#x93; and North Korea: Is Aid Really Making a Difference?
- The Dregs in the Pot of Gold: the Irish Experience of Exchanging Dignity for RacismSilent Suffering, Stoic Resistance: Human Rights Abuses of Women and Children in Latin America; Pious Aspiration or a Tool for Change? The Significance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; The Politics of Sexuality: Faith â#x80;#x93; the Final Frontier?; Surviving Ourselves: Environment, Society and the Future of Our Civilization; Greenbacks in the Garden of Eden: an Essay on How Not to Save the Rainforests; Ourselves and Other Animals: the Ethics of Farming.
- The Human Race â#x80;#x93; a Marathon, not a Sprint: the Millennium Development Goals and their EthosAppendices: 'So you think you know about ...?'; The Millennium Development Goals; The Faces of Poverty; Modern-day Slavery; Women's Rights; Childhood under Threat; Disability Rights; The Death Penalty; Arms and the Arms Trade; Global Landmine Crisis.