Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / Warren I. Cohen.
| Author/creator | Cohen, Warren I. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, |
| Description | 1 online resource (xvii, 262 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Profiles in humanity Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009. 9780742567016 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021678815 |
| ISBN | 9780742567030 ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |