Human Rights Books
Disposable People
by Kevin Bales
University of California Press, 2000.
This book pulls back the curtain so that we can learn about escalating worldwide slavery and eradicate it.
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves
by Kevin Bales
University of California Press, 2007.
What can people, community and governments do to end slavery now?
Privilege, Power & Difference
by Allan Johnson
An opportunity to look inward and outward at hidden aspects of privilege and prejudice.
Free the Children
by Craig Kielburger
HarperPerennial, 1998.
A boy learns about child slavery and does everything about it.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Knopf Doubleday, 2009. (320 p)
A call to stop the oppression of women and girls and help provide opportunities to transform their lives.
Democracy’s Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life
by Frances Moore Lappé
Jossey-Bass, 2006.
A must-read for those wanting to engage in “living” democracy.
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
by Peter Menzel
Sierra Club Books, 1994.
This is a pictorial account of what the average family from different countries owns.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
Berrett-Koehler, 2004.
A bestseller as riveting as any mystery and as important as any exposé of corrupt and destructive systems.
The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope
by Zainab Salbi & Laurie Becklund, eds.
National Geographic Society, 2006. A collection of letters and first-person narratives by amazing women who survived war's devastation and now must find the strength to rebuild families and communities.
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End Poverty
by Peter SingerRandom House, 2009
Singer provides a compelling moral argument for how we can all make poverty history be outlining why people in affluent countries should donate money to help the poorest of the poor and how much they should give.
Crossing the Boulevard: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America
by Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer
Norton, 2003.
Funny, sad, powerful, moving – a celebration of immigrant stories.
Faces of Racism
by Joseph Szwarc
Amnesty International, 2001.
A short, powerful introduction to the many forms of bigotry in our world.
The Lucifer Effect
by Philip Zimbardo
Random House, 2007.
An in-depth discussion of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment that provides a paradigm for thinking about change that takes into consideration the person, the situation, and the system.
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March 16, 2010 - 2:00 pm | Location: University of Maine - Orono (100 Neville Hall)
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