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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist
£6.00 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571353217 | ISBN 10: 0571353215
At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we argue over who has the right to speak. To pr ... more
View book details£25.00 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780712356893 | ISBN 10: 0712356894
The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted t ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780326405 | ISBN 10: 1780326408
When thousands marched through ice and snow against a copyright treaty, their cries for free speech on the Internet shot to the heart of the European Union and forced a political U-turn. The mighty entertainment industries could only stare in dismay, ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007518500 | ISBN 10: 0007518501
The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards.After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web which al ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141049571 | ISBN 10: 014104957x
Does free information mean free people? At the start of the twenty-first century we were promised that the internet would liberate the world. We could come together as never before, and from Iran's 'twitter revolution' to Facebook 'activism', ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781851686742 | ISBN 10: 1851686746
When we think of the word "censorship", we imagine blacked out words and authoritarian political regimes of the past. However, censorship is alive and well today, and just as pervasive in capitalist democracies as repressive regimes. Offeri ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781840028812 | ISBN 10: 1840028815
'They're outside. Even if you write down what I tell you and you get the world to read the book, I don't think they'll be bothered. They're not frightened of the truth. What hope have we got?' Chaotic, fast, and furious, ZERO is the new play fro ... more
View book details£38.99 paperback (1993) - ISBN 13: 9780813384283 | ISBN 10: 0813384281
Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a firs ... more
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