Bricks And Torture

Author : Alan Neale
Publisher : Authors On Line Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780755201204
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bricks and Torture written by Alan Neale and published by Authors On Line Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such blatant honesty here. This open diary of events into the purchase of a house, and great endeavours to make it into a home, leaves us breathless. Yet it shouldn't, as we have all been there sometime in our lives. We have suffered the disasters, disappointments and sheer helplessness, but Alan Neale seems to have excelled in his quest to allow us into his own private misery. Told with extremely hilarious off-side comments, he is an obvious master of wit and deep scepticism. This brilliant diary allows us into his personal life - his love of family life is so simplistic as is his endeavour to provide a dream home, but disasters plague him and he shares them with excellent frankness. One moment he has us laughing hysterically at some of the almost unbelievable faux pas and then brings tears to our eyes, as we witness the deep and obvious love of the family to whom he is trying so desperately to give his all. This author obviously doesn't suffer fools gladly; anyone buying a house could learn a lot from this book, especially what NOT to do.

Author : Darius Rejali
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830877
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torture and Democracy written by Darius Rejali and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the new democracies of Latin America and Europe. As Rejali traces the development and application of one torture technique after another in these settings, he reaches startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argues, democracies not only tortured, but set the international pace for torture. Dictatorships may have tortured more, and more indiscriminately, but the United States, Britain, and France pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks. Under the watchful eyes of reporters and human rights activists, low-level authorities in the world's oldest democracies were the first to learn that to scar a victim was to advertise iniquity and invite scandal. Long before the CIA even existed, police and soldiers turned instead to "clean" techniques, such as torture by electricity, ice, water, noise, drugs, and stress positions. As democracy and human rights spread after World War II, so too did these methods. Rejali makes this troubling case in fluid, arresting prose and on the basis of unprecedented research--conducted in multiple languages and on several continents--begun years before most of us had ever heard of Osama bin Laden or Abu Ghraib. The author of a major study of Iranian torture, Rejali also tackles the controversial question of whether torture really works, answering the new apologists for torture point by point. A brave and disturbing book, this is the benchmark against which all future studies of modern torture will be measured.

Author : Hilda Bernstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Africa - the Terrorism of Torture written by Hilda Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An analysis of political trials and the use of torture in South Africa today"--Cover.

Author : Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings written by Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Asiatic Society of Bengal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by Asiatic Society of Bengal and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United Nations. General Assembly. Special Committee on Apartheid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maltreatment and Torture of Prisoners in South Africa written by United Nations. General Assembly. Special Committee on Apartheid and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library Collection.

Author : Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torture and Enhanced Interrogation written by Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at torture, this book examines societal understanding of its use, how we got here, and how it might be regarded in the future. Torture and Enhanced Interrogation: A Reference Handbook begins with an overview of the history of torture, beginning in Ancient Greece and continuing to Guantanamo Bay and beyond. After grounding the reader in the historical fundamentals, the work goes on to examine the key controversies that surround the use of torture, including but not limited to whether it should be used at all as an aid to interrogation or to procure testimony. Then, the book presents the views of several outside contributors with personal experience or special expertise in the area. The book achieves a balance of profiles of those persons and organizations that have played a role in the development of our understanding of torture, a data and documents section, and an annotated bibliography for future research, as well as an event timeline and glossary of key terms. This volume is aims to present facts in as objective a way as possible while providing readers with the resources they need for further study.

Author : Brian Innes
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 190827395X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Torture written by Brian Innes and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Torture tells the complete story of torture, from its earliest uses right up to the present day, from the tools and techniques used, to the campaigns to abolish its use.

Author : Michael Khatkar
Publisher : Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
ISBN 13 : 1861514085
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tortured Love written by Michael Khatkar and published by Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿTortured Love follows the meandering life of one individual and his bizarre effect on a handful of people. The reader will acknowledge the ever changing pattern of the world and how a personal influence can incite everything from suicide and murder to love and romance. There will be a tidal wave of emotions from happiness to disgust as violence; retribution, regret and happiness are explored with a veritable force. This unique journey will be enlivening and disheartening in equal measures, concentrating on a colourful array of characters from psychopaths to poets and their parallel coexistence. Tortured Love is not for the faint of heart but then neither is life itself.