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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 12 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408803073 | ISBN 10: 1408803070
An impassioned defence of the civil liberties and the rule of law in the face of increasing pressure for ever greater ‘security’. "The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."(James Ma ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781851686445 | ISBN 10: 1851686444
Does free speech have limits? Can torture be justified? Who is really in charge of your rights? Every day we are confronted with news of foreign governments who refuse to acknowledge liberties that we in the Western world take for granted, comfortabl ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781858563749 | ISBN 10: 1858563747
The state is always in a sense authoritarian - it is just that the forms of authority change. But since New Labour came to power in 1997 the state apparatus has been significantly strengthened. Identity cards, the so-called anti-terrorist legislation ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780745325828 | ISBN 10: 0745325823
Have you ever wanted to know: Which doctor has the best operation success rate in your health trust? If MI5 has a file on you? The actual number and types of crimes that happen in your street? Which streets are targeted by parking attendants in your ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781583227381 | ISBN 10: 1583227385
Censored 2007 presents the most censored stories of 2005 and 2006. Read all about it: * How the "net neutrality" debate is being ignored by the media* Halliburton's connection to nuclear technology in Iran,* The catastrophic increase of dead z ... more
View book details£8.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904527107 | ISBN 10: 1904527108
On 25 October 2005, Maya Anne Evans stood near the Cenotaph, facing Downing Street, reading aloud the names of British soldiers who had died in the war in Iraq. She was arrested under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (2005). On 7 December 2 ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141024738 | ISBN 10: 0141024739
A law criminalizing incitement to religious hatred has been high on the Labour Government's list of priorities. It is a law with wide-ranging implications for freedom of expression in Britain: it could be used to censor anyone whether writer, comedia ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099458333 | ISBN 10: 0099458330
Helena Kennedy roundly challenges the record of modern governments - even, or especially, 'benign' democracies - with regard to essential democratic rights, and insists that we return to the fundamental values of equality, fairness and respect for hu ... more
View book details£29.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780745322766 | ISBN 10: 074532276x
Now expanded & extended in scope to include all new legislation that has come into force since the last edition in 2000. There is a new introduction covering the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights; a new chapter on the ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571226702 | ISBN 10: 0571226701
Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the most controversial prison in the world. The 600 detainees have been held in a legal black hole. Are they the 'hardest of the hard-core' Al Qaeda terrorists, ruthless men 'involved in a plot to kill thousan ... more
View book details£13.50 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780596001056 | ISBN 10: 0596001053
A graphic and blistering indictment of the burgeoning technologies used by business, government and others to invade the self-yourselves-and restrict both your freedom to participate in power and you freedom from abuses of power. The right of privacy ... more
View book details£85.00 hardback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781859732212 | ISBN 10: 1859732216
The use of Closed-Circuit Television, or CCTV, has dramatically increased over the past decade, but its presence is often so subtle as to go unnoticed. Should we accept that increased surceillance is in the public's best interests, or does this mean ... more
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