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Bad People - and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Twenty years ago Geoffrey Robertson inspired the global justice movement with his ground-breaking book, Crimes Against Humanity. Since then, the movement has stalled, as nationalism takes hold and populist governments retreat from international courts and refuse to comply with their rulings.But there is ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
9.95 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Geoffrey Robertson's Crimes Against Humanity is a superb and highly influential account of the history of the human rights movement up to the present day. From the French Revolution and the Nuremberg trials to 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, Robertson traces the developing concept of human rights and sho ...Show more
Dreaming Too Loud by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
34.95 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Christopher Hitchens described Geoffrey Robertson as 'the greatest living Australian' and the satirical magazine Private Eye calls him 'an Australian who has had a vowel transplant'. Just before he was to cross-examine Princess Diana, the London Times complained that he was 'anti-establishment, republic ...Show more
Mullahs Without Mercy Human Rights and Nuclear Weapons (1st Edition) by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Geoffrey Robertson QC explains how to avoid war in the Middle East and a catastrophic nuclear disaster. - What is worse: Iran getting the bomb or America bombing Iran? - Will our children ever live in a world without nuclear weapons? - Can states that mass-murder their own people be trusted with a weapo ...Show more
Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
45.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his best-selling The Justice Game, Australia?s inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for human rights ...Show more
Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his best-selling The Justice Game, Australia?s inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for human rights ...Show more
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse by Geoffrey Robertson QC
14.95 AUD
Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
THE CASE OF THE POPEdelivers a devasting indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should h ...Show more
The Statute of Liberty: How Australians can take back their rights by Geoffrey Robertson
19.95 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The Australian people emerged from a polyglot mixture of nationalities and other races: a kind of human minestrone. Not only a race, but a race apart, thanks to the kindness of distance. What distinctive moral vision have we attained from the struggles and sacrifices of our forebears? If we are to prese ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
Who Owns History? Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure by Geoffrey Robertson
22.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Hard on the heels of his best-selling autobiography Rather His Own Man, one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals turns his mind to one of the most important contemporary questions that divides the world of art and culture- the restitution of heritage treasures removed in earlier times from subju ...Show more
Who Owns History? The Case of Elgin's Loot (HB) by Geoffrey Robertson
39.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The controversy about the Elgin Marbles continues to rage. This book will be the first to propound a system for the return of cultural property, based on human rights law principles that are being developed by the courts to decide whether artworks, manuscripts and sculptures have cultural importance and ...Show more
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