Author:
Publisher: Arc Manor
Keywords: torture, memos, justice, april, department, administration, bush, secret, released
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2009-04-23
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1604504390
ISBN-13: 9781604504392

Here are exact reproductions of the secret memos on torture released by the U.S. Department of Justice on April 16, 2009.**** A unique look at the outlook of the Bush administration, these memos make fascinating reading as they attempt to justify and provide legal cover for measures generally opposed by the United States for the last few decades.

Author: Edward Peters
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: torture
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0812215990
ISBN-13: 9780812215991

"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present.A landmark study since its original publication a decade ago, Torture is now available in an expanded and updated paperback edition. Included for the first time is a broad and disturbing selection of documents charting the historical practice of torture from the ancient Romans to the Khmer Rouge.

Author: Sanford Levinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: collection, torture
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-08-10
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0195306465
ISBN-13: 9780195306460

Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet recent photographs from Abu Ghraib substantiated claims that the United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning relating to the war on terrorism that could be described as torture or, at the very least, as inhuman and degrading. In terror’s wake, the use of such methods, at least under some conditions, has gained some prominent defenders, notably from within the White House. In this revised edition, Torture: A Collection brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social sci

Author: Octave Mirbeau
Publisher: Charles Press
Keywords: garden, torture
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2008-05-18
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1409727688
ISBN-13: 9781409727682

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Darius Rejali
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: democracy, torture
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2009-06-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691143331
ISBN-13: 9780691143330

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

Author: Sue Limb
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: torture, absolute, girl
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 0440238978
ISBN-13: 9780440238973

Just when things were going so well.Jess had the perfect summer planned: She and Fred, lounging in the park, gazing into one another’s eyes and engaging in witty repartee. It was going to be so romantic. And then her maddening mum stepped in: She suddenly announced a two-week “road trip” to Cornwall to visit Jess’s dad, something Jess might have enjoyed, actually, were it not for the monstrously bad timing. Not only will this force Jess and Fred apart for two whole weeks, it will also leave the darling and handsome Fred in the clutches of Jess’s blindingly beautiful best friend, Flor

Author: Karen J. Greenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: america, debate, torture
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2005-11-28
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521674611
ISBN-13: 9780521674614

Widely acclaimed as a publishing milestone, The Torture Papers (Cambridge, 2005) constitutes the definitive book of public record detailing the Bush Administration’s policies on torture and political prisoners. In the process of assembling the documents, memoranda, and reports that comprise the material in The Torture Papers, a vital question arose: What was the rationale behind the Bush Administration’s decision to condone the use of coercive techniques in the interrogation of detainees suspected of terrorist connections? The use of these techniques at Abu Ghraib and Guantan