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BETWEEN VENGEANCE+FORGIVENESS CL

Martha Minow

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With Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Martha Minow, Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on justice and healing after horrific violence. Remembering and forgetting, judging and forgiving, reconciling and avenging, grieving and educatingMinow shows us why each may be necessary, yet painfully inadequate, to individuals and societies living in the wake of past horrors. She explores the rich and often troubling range of responses to massive, societal-level oppression. She writes of the legacy of war-crime prosecutions, beginning with the Nuremberg trials. She explores whether reparation - such as the monetary awards given to Japanese-Americans for internment during World War II, or art, such as Holocaust memorials - can be a basis for reconciliation after immeasurable personal and cultural loss. Minow also writes with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa, and in the process delves into the risks and requirements involved in hearing from victims, the dynamics of gender, and the value of even imperfect gestures in the midst of these riveting experiments in justice and healing.

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Andrew Clapham

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An enthusiastic but one-sided overview 3 out of 5 stars.
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This brief survey educates one about human rights while advocating a very liberal interpretation of them.

In truth, I was torn between assigning this book four stars or three. The book itself is quite good, but I found myself getting impatient with it by the end, and I wasn't sure whether it was because of the presentation, or because I found I didn't agree with Mr. Clapham's eagerness to stretch the concept of human rights to cover the widest possible set of circumstances.

This is the only volume of the "Very Short Introduction" series I've read so far, and I find this publishing idea very attractive. I bought the book because I was drawn to the idea of a high-level "briefing document" approach. What I was hoping for and expecting was a completely balanced treatment, and this is what I feel I did not get.

I really appreciated the short potted history of human rights early in the book, and learned many interesting things, such as the role H. G. Wells played in formulating and popularizing the idea of human rights. But as the book goes on to treat various social-justice issues, such as food, education, housing, work, and discrimination, I felt that I was really reading a progress report on how the human-rights movement has helped to promote a left-wing social agenda worldwide.

While there's nothing wrong with being politically progressive, I sense danger in the idea of having "human rights" overtaken by any one political point of view. For my part, I'm a passionate believer in human rights, but in a much more restricted set of rights than what is envisaged in this book and, apparently, in the human-rights movement generally. But Mr. Clapham is dismissive of those who criticize the "politicization" of human rights; to him, human rights are about politics, and those who don't see this just don't get it.

By the end of the book Mr. Clapham finally takes explicit aim at those who are more reserved in their definition of human rights:

"Those who insist on a narrow meaning seek to confine human rights to an historically based determination of specific governmental duties to refrain from infringing traditional liberties; the wider vision of human rights allows for consideration of the problems of hunger, poverty, and violence facing billions of people."

I suspect that not many people who question Mr. Clapham's liberal interpretation of human rights would accept his characterization of their viewpoint. In a "briefing document" of this kind, more balance is essential. Also, it would have been good to begin the book with this sentence, so that we could know from the start just how committed the author is to one side of the question.

Maybe I'm being too harsh. Mr. Clapham does make efforts throughout to present other views, noting that "critics say..." But it was as though by the end he just could not bear to wear the "impartial" mask any more.

Editorial Review:

From the controversial incarceration of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, to the brutal ethnic cleansing being practiced in Darfur, to the widespread denial of equal rights to women in many areas of the world, human rights violations are a constant presence in the news and in our lives. Taking an international perspective, and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health, and discrimination, this Very Short Introduction will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind this vitally relevant issue. Looking at the philosophical justification for rights, the historical origins of human rights and how they are formed in law, Andrew Clapham explains what our human rights actually are, what they might be, and where the human rights movement is heading.

An Insider's Guide to the UN

Linda Fasulo

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Total reviews: 19 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Horribly biased towards the United States, but does, sometimes, offer some useful information. 2 out of 5 stars.
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Though initially overjoyed at finding a book which I thought would give me a balanced account of the UN with which to supplemant my knowledge, after reading the first thrity pages my joy changed to regret for buying this book. With chapter labels such as "The American Ambassadors" and with phrases such as "The UN cannot succed if the US does not support it","A strong coherant US lead at the UN is nearly always followed by UN member states","Yet, can we ignore it?" ("It" being the UN, and "we" being Americans, with Mrs. Fasulo ungraciously asumming that the readers of her books with inevitably be Americans), and "I'm struck by how relevant the work that i've had to do at the UN has ben to the US national security and foreing policy agenda"(quoting John Negroponte), this book generally ignores anything non-American. Try another book if you'd prefer a more international and balanced account of the UN.

Editorial Review:

The United Nations increasingly finds itself at the center of world events in an age of rapid globalization. Now, more than ever, it is imperative that we understand its structure and functions. In this highly readable book, a prominent news correspondent at the UN provides a colorful introduction to its activities and goals.
UN correspondent Linda Fasulo draws on her own observations as well as on the insights of other individuals who have been active in the UN, including US ambassadors Richard Holbrooke, Madeleine Albright, and John Negroponte. She explains how the UN came into existence, what governing principles guide its operation, and what it is like to be a participant. She describes the organization, responsibilities, and often-tense politics of the Security Council. Surveying the many humanitarian, crime-fighting, and peacekeeping programs of the UN, Fasulo concludes that there are important reasons for Americans to give the United Nations their support.

Practical Guide to U.s. Taxation of International Transactions

Robert E. Meldman

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Practical Guide to U.S. Taxation of International Transactions provides readers with a practical command of the basic concepts and issues surrounding U.S. taxation of international transactions, with an emphasis on essential areas that businesses and their financial advisors need to understand. The Fifth Edition is substantially a new book because it is completely revised and reorganized to reflect the current state of U.S. international tax law after passage of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. It covers the repeal of the extra-territorial income (ETI) regime and its replacement by the domestic production deduction, the new temporary dividends-received deduction, modifications to the foreign tax credit, changes to the anti-deferral regimes, the tightening of tax rules on expatriation of individuals, and a number of other important changes. Even with increased coverage and substantial reorganization, the book maintains its initial mission of providing a well-written and concise explanation of this increasingly important subject that is accessible to all those who toil over U.S. international tax issues. This classic text was developed to shed light on the U.S. rules in a way that all practitioners and students of U.S. international tax can understand and apply. It's the one book that can be found in the libraries of both sophisticated U.S. international tax experts, as well as small firm general practitioners working with a clients who are just getting involved in doing business beyond U.S. borders.

International Business Transactions in a Nutshell, Seventh Edition (Nutshell Series)

Ralph H. Folsom, Michael W. Gordon, John A. Spanogle Jr.

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Thorough introduction to international business transactions 4 out of 5 stars.
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I found the bood to be very informative, and very easy to understand, unlike other law books on the matter. It was a short read, and a thorough introduction to international business transactions.

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This Nutshell examines the negotiation of business transactions; the documentary sale; currency issues; technology transfers; dispute settlement; and the immunity of states and the act of state doctrine in commercial arbitration. Also provides an evaluation of business transactions in developing and non-market economies.

A Procession of Them (William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Cultur)

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In some countries, they call them the "abandonados," the abandoned ones. They're the impoverished mentally ill and mentally disabled patients being warehoused in psychiatric asylums that are more run-down, more uncaring than the most brutal American prisons. Confined in cage-like cells, tied to beds soiled with human waste, medicated to the point of senselessness, or wandering naked in unheated and garage-like wards, they live in what can only be called the shadows, their plight unseen and too easily ignored by the rest of the human family.

Working first as a journalist, later as a volunteer for the human rights organization Mental Disability Rights International, photographer Eugene Richards gained access to psychiatric institutions in Mexico, Argentina, Armenia, Hungary, Paraguay, and Kosovo. His wrenchingly intimate images reveal the often inhumane treatment suffered by the mentally disabled. Offered little that would qualify as effective care, patients are denied even the most basic human amenities: privacy, protection from harm, clean clothing. Accompanying the book, A Procession of Them, is a DVD of a short film of the same name. Directed and narrated by Richards, this unique and expressionistic film speaks of the chaos, claustrophobia, and loneliness of these living hells.

Making us face some hard truths, A Procession of Them drives home the point that when it comes to the plight of the mentally disabled, "no one much cares." As Richards concludes, it's "as if there is a kind of worldwide agreement that once people are classified as mentally ill or mentally retarded, you're free to do to them what you want."

A New World Order

Anne-Marie Slaughter

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Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It's not a collection of nation states that communicate through presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, and the United Nations. Nor is it a clique of NGOs. It is governance through a complex global web of "government networks."

Slaughter provides the most compelling and authoritative description to date of a world in which government officials--police investigators, financial regulators, even judges and legislators--exchange information and coordinate activity across national borders to tackle crime, terrorism, and the routine daily grind of international interactions. National and international judges and regulators can also work closely together to enforce international agreements more effectively than ever before. These networks, which can range from a group of constitutional judges exchanging opinions across borders to more established organizations such as the G8 or the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, make things happen--and they frequently make good things happen. But they are underappreciated and, worse, underused to address the challenges facing the world today.

The modern political world, then, consists of states whose component parts are fast becoming as important as their central leadership. Slaughter not only describes these networks but also sets forth a blueprint for how they can better the world. Despite questions of democratic accountability, this new world order is not one in which some "world government" enforces global dictates. The governments we already have at home are our best hope for tackling the problems we face abroad, in a networked world order.

Federal Rules of Evidence in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Michael H. Graham

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This comprehensive guide presents each federal rule of evidence in the order it appears. Each rule is followed by expert commentary explaining the concepts underlying the rule. The relationship between each rule is also discussed. Reflects recent amendments and judicial interpretations from the more than 5,000 citations appearing since the last edition.

History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (P.S.)

Deborah E. Lipstadt

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A personal and moving fight against censorship and lies. 5 out of 5 stars.
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It is interesting to read the other reviews of this book and see that few reviewers felt neutral about it. Some loved it, believing it to be the work of a determined, principled person fighting against evil. Others hated it, considering it to be a boring, self-centered account of the trial, and another piece of libel against David Irving.

Well, I have to say that I am in the first camp. I regard this as a very fine book by a very fine person who was fighting an important battle on behalf of all of us, Jews and non-Jews alike.

It is a very personal book. If you want an impersonal and purely objective account of the issues at stake, there are other sources. But it seems to me that a personal book is precisely what this subject requires.

Pulling unarmed and harmless men, women, old people, children, and infants out of their houses and shooting them or throwing them into gas chambers is a very personal act. Covering it up and lying to convince people it didn't happen is also a personal act. Both of those acts cry out for accountability.

Dr. Lipstadt sat in a courtroom and listened to Irving deny that the Holocaust happened. By just turning her head she could see elderly people in the gallery with numbers tattood on their arms who had watched this happen to their own families. What was at stake was not a technical issue regarding percentages of hydrogen cyanide in cement, or the interpretation of dark spots on aerial photos, it was whether some of the most massive crimes in human history actually occurred. It was about whether the truth about a man who lied to deny and cover up those crimes would be allowed to be published.

Irving sued Lipstadt to censor her. He demanded that the publishers withdraw her book from publication. He insisted that he was telling the truth and she was not. He threatened other publishers and actually succeeded in censoring a number of other writers, keeping their books from being published, or forcing them to be edited, out of fear of his starting more lawsuits.

Lipstadt and her brilliant legal and research team proved that it was Irving who was lying and that it was Lipstadt who had told the truth.

I'm very glad that she stood up to him. I'm very glad that Penguin, and Emory University, and the Jewish community backed her. I'm very glad that she proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was Irving who lied and not her. And I'm very glad that she wrote this very lucid and moving account of the experience.

Editorial Review:

In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving responded by filing a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom -- where the burden of proof lies on the defendant, not on the plaintiff. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians but the record of history itself.

Nuremberg Diary

G. M. Gilbert

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In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, had an unrivaled firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi war criminals. With scientific dispassion he encouraged Göering, Speer, Hess, Ribbentrop, Frank, Jodl, Keitel, Streicher, and the others to reveal their innermost thoughts. In the process Gilbert exposed what motivated them to create the distorted Aryan utopia and the nightmarish worlds of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Buchenwald. Here are their day-to-day reactions to the trial proceedings; their off-the-record opinions of Hitler, the Third Reich, and each other; their views on slave labor, death camps, and the Jews; their testimony, feuds, and desperate maneuverings to dissociate themselves from the Third Reich's defeat and Nazi guilt. Dr. Gilbert's thorough knowledge of German, deliberately informal approach, and complete freedom of access at all times to the defendants give his spellbinding, chilling study an intimacy and insight that remains unequaled.