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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
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"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 electro-torture 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
You will be scared. But you won t know why In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. What follows is a twisted unraveling and an unforgettable ending that will haunt you long after the last page is turned. Jake and a woman known only as The Girlfriend are taking a long drive to meet his parents at their secluded farm. But when Jake takes a sudden detour, leaving...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explains what torture is, and discusses various types of torture, arguments for and against its use, its long-term effects on both victims and perpetrators, and what can be done to prevent or reduce torture.
16) Inside out
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Series
Language
English
Description
Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven is offered a deal by his former commander, Colonel Scott Horton. In exchange for his release, Ben has to find and eliminate Daniel Larison, a rogue operator who has stolen CIA torture tapes to blackmail the U.S. government. But Ben's not the only agent in play--and succeeding will mean surviving CIA hit teams and Blackwater mercenaries after the same objective. He'll
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Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Explains the history of torture, including the Inquisition and the witch hunts in Europe, and the efforts of Amnesty International to secure the banning of torture worldwide. Torture-the deliberate infliction of pain upon the human body-is condemned by most civilized countries as an inexcusable crime, but it is still practiced in many parts of the modern world. For over 3,000 years, it was regarded as acceptable and formed a part of most legal codes...