In Sam We Trust

In Sam We Trust
Author: Bob Ortega
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780749431778

From a single tiny store in a backwater town in Arkansas, Sam Walton created Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. In this business history, the author reveals the retailing genius and obsessive vision of the man.

Human Rights in the Americas

Human Rights in the Americas
Author: James T. Lawrence
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781590339343

The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. This book surveys the countries of the Americas and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.

Somebody's Children

Somebody's Children
Author: Laura Briggs
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0822351617

A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.

A Beauty that Hurts

A Beauty that Hurts
Author: W. George Lovell
Publisher: Between the Lines
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1771134550

When A Beauty That Hurts first appeared in 1995, Guatemala was one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. An accord brokered by the United Nations brought a measure of peace after three decades of armed conflict, but the country’s troubles are far from over. George Lovell revisits Guatemala to grapple once again with the terror inflicted on its Maya peoples by a military-dominated state.

War: The Impact on Minority and Indigenous Children

War: The Impact on Minority and Indigenous Children
Author: CATHERINE BARNES
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1997-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1897693818

While children who are members of minority and indigenous communities suffer discrimination at the hands of the majority community, in today’s armed conflicts – where most are fought internally, pitching one group against another – this discrimination frequently turns to violence, with such children seen as ‘legitimate targets’ despite the wealth of international law to the contrary. MRG’s Report War: The Impact on Minority and Indigenous Children focuses on three recent or current armed conflicts and, through interviews with children and others, pieces together the effect these wars have had on: the Jumma children of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, the Maya children of Guatemala, and minority children of Somalia. The Report shows that these children have often come to be seen as ‘the enemy’, being murdered, raped, or tortured in the course of the war. Others have been forced to watch the killing or abuse of their parents and other members of their communities. Some have been forced to join militias where they have killed or been killed. Yet more have had to flee their homes, often without their families, and live as internally displaced people or as refugees; many have little hope of ever being reunited with their families or of being able to return home. A special feature of this Report is its recommendations which aim to help minimize the risks and threats to minority and indigenous children in armed conflicts. Each section offers a series of recommendations to the relevant governments and international bodies concerned, and these are complemented by a general set of recommendations at the end of the Report.

Social Sciences

Social Sciences
Author: Lawrence Boudon
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 998
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780292705357

"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2001, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 2000. The subject categories for Volume 59 are as follows: Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences

Commitment and Compliance

Commitment and Compliance
Author: Dinah Shelton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780199270989

The studies in this book concern the nature of international law, how it is and is not constituted, and whether commitments that are legally binding can change the behaviour of states as well as or better than non-binding legal norms do.

A Finger in the Wound

A Finger in the Wound
Author: Diane M. Nelson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1999-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520212851

"Nelson brings the insights of postmodern theory to a highly charged situation and offers compelling interpretations of the state's intense ambivalence toward Mayan culture and Mayans. The writing is lively and accessible, the issues current, and the theoretical contributions very important in this study of the heterogeneity and flux of urban national culture."—Kay B. Warren, author of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics