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THE FACE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Edited by Walter Kälin, Lars Müller,
and Judith Wyttenbach
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 720 pages
500 illustrations, hardcover
2004, ISBN 978-3-03778-017-6, English
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-114-2, German (softcover)
EUR 44.90 GBP 34.90 USD 50.–
The Face of Human Rights attempts to present all
aspects of human rights visually and make them
tangible. Over 500 photographs show human
rights infringements world-wide and the tireless
struggle to implement and preserve those rights.
The extensive selection of texts explores the
background and creates a dense network of links.
With contributions by Slavenka Drakulić, Carlos
Fuentes, Ryszard Kapus´ciński, Alexander Kluge,
Sima Samar, Susan Sontag, Wole Soyinka,
and Margrit Sprecher
“The editors have fulfilled their task
outstandingly. With their encyclopaedic
knowledge they have presented human
rights more powerfully than ever before.”
Der Bund
WHO OWNS THE WATER?
Edited by Lars Müller, Klaus Lanz, Christian
Rentsch, and René Schwarzenbach
With the support of EAWAG, the Swiss Federal
Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Design: Integral Lars Müller
Text: Christian Rentsch
16,5 × 24 cm, 536 pages
ca. 200 illustrations, hardcover
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-018-3, English
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-015-2, German
EUR 44.90 GBP 34.90 USD 60.–
Industrialization and population growth have
brought about a global water crisis. Nature can
no longer compensate the exploitation of our
freshwater and our oceans. One billion people
have no reliable access to clean drinking
water; two billion live in precarious hygienic
conditions. Famine, poverty, epidemics, and infant
mortality are closely linked with the water crisis.
Social, ecological, political, and economic conflicts
obstruct efforts to resolve the global water crisis.
Water is an instrument of power. The key question
reads: Is water a commodity or is free access to
water an inalienable human right? By approaching
water from a phenomenological perspective,
Who owns the Water? seeks to persuade the
reader that an element that is constantly flowing
and changing defies all claims to own it, be they
political or economic, and is instead the responsibility
of the entire international community.
ALL WE NEED
Edited by Holzer
Kobler Architekturen
and iart interactive
16.5 × 24 cm, 271 pages
255 illus., softcover
ISBN 978-3-03778-119-7,
Eng/Fr/Ger
EUR 29.90 GBP 22.90
USD 39.95
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