Vietnam : a television history. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Anh [produced by WGBH Boston Video].

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Violent beginnings : literary representations of postcolonial Algeria by Knight-Santos, Lucie

Table of Contents: “…The text(ure) of torture -- Internal exclusions -- Representations of the postcolonial Algerian family.…”
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Wild honey, tough salt : poems by Stafford, Kim Robert

Table of Contents: “…Economy of miracles -- The torturer's wife -- Lost leaves of earth -- Marriage in dog years.…”
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Power without constraint : the post-9/11 presidency and national security by Edelson, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Bush administration and national security power -- The Bush administration and the use of military force -- The Bush administration and surveillance -- The Bush administration and military detention -- The Bush administration and torture -- The Bush administration and secrecy -- The Barack Obama administration and national security power -- The Obama administrations and the use of military force -- The Obama administration and surveillance -- The Obama administration and military detention -- The Obama administration and torture -- The Obama administration and secrecy.…”
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The Trouble with Terror : Liberty, Security and the Response to Terrorism. by Meisels, Tamar

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Defining and Defending Terrorism; 1 Defining terrorism -- a typology; 2 The apologetics of terrorism: a refutation; PART II Freedom, Security, and Rights in a Terrorist Age: Liberal-Democratic Dilemmas; 3 How terrorism upsets liberty; 4 Combatants -- lawful and unlawful; PART III Fighting Terrorism; 5 Targeting terror; 6 Torturing terrorists; 7 Torture and the problem of dirty hands; Bibliography; Further sources; Index.…”
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The new Palestine

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The inquisitor's diary by Lewis, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…The Inquisitor's Diary; The Journey; The Dumb One; The Voice; The Pouch; The Torture; The Trial; As a Withered Branch; The Marrano.…”
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Tragedy offstage : suffering and sympathy in ancient athens by Sternberg, Rachel Hall

Table of Contents: “…Home nursing -- The ransom of captives -- Bystander intervention -- The transport of sick and wounded soldiers -- The judicial torture of slaves.…”
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Tragedy offstage : suffering and sympathy in ancient athens by Sternberg, Rachel Hall

Table of Contents: “…Home nursing -- The ransom of captives -- Bystander intervention -- The transport of sick and wounded soldiers -- The judicial torture of slaves.…”
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The Guantanamo Files : the Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison. by Worthington, Andy

Table of Contents: “…Torture, Abuse and False Confessions in Guantánamo; The abusive reign of Geoffrey Miller; "Setting the conditions"; Torture and the Pentagon; The torture of Mohammed al-Qahtani; False confessions; 16. …”
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24 hours that changed the world by Hamilton, Adam, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Last Supper -- The Garden of Gethsemane -- Condemned by the righteous -- Jesus, Barabbas, and Pilate -- The torture and humiliation of the King -- The crucifixion -- Christ the victor.…”
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Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation. by De Vos, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Psychologisation in late modernity: the afterbirth2 Psychologisation and the sciences; From Milgram to Zimbardo: the double birth of post-war psychology; Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib: the case of scientifically based torture; Conclusion: de-psychologising torture; 3 Psychologisation and culture; Image culture and its grounding in psychology; Modern subjectivity and the law of psychology; The empty stage and the empty theatre: the case of Daniel Dennett's 'cerebral celebrity'; De-psychologising subjectivity; 4 Psychologisation and politics; From biopolitics to psycho-politics.…”
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Albert Camus, the Algerian : colonialism, terrorism, justice by Carroll, David, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Terror -- Anguish -- Last words -- Terrorism and torture: from Algeria to Iraq.…”
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Life in debt : times of care and violence in neoliberal Chile by Han, Clara, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Symptoms of another life -- Social debt, silent gift -- Torture, love, and the everyday -- Neoliberal depression -- Community experiments -- Life and death, care and neglect -- Conclusion: relations and time.…”
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Masculine identity in the fiction of the Arab East since 1967 by Aghacy, Samira

Table of Contents: “…Oedipus king : tortured masculinity -- The politics of masculinity : goal-(dis)oriented masculinity -- Dictator as patriarch : the state and the (dys)functional male -- Oedipus deposed : the man's sex(uality).…”
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Dinner with Osama by Krysl, Marilyn, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Cherry Garcia, pistachio cream -- Belly -- Heraclitus, help me -- Air, a romance -- Mitosis -- Welcome to the torture center, love.…”
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Fighting terror : ethical dilemmas by Bellamy, Alex J., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…-- Is pre-emption legitimate? -- May we torture ticking-bomb terrorists? -- What comes next?…”
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Tyranny comes home : the domestic fate of U.S. militarism by Coyne, Christopher J., Hall, Abigail R.

Table of Contents: “…Mark Twain's ominous warning -- The boomerang effect : how social control comes home -- A perfect storm : why America is susceptible -- Surveillance -- The militarization of police -- Drones -- Torture -- Conclusion : reclaiming the Great Republic.…”
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Crimes of power & states of impunity : the U.S. response to terror by Welch, Michael, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…A post-9/11 world -- A new configuration of power -- Unlawful enemy combatants -- Guantanamo Bay -- Torture -- Ordering Iraq -- Collateral damage -- Governing through terror -- States of impunity.…”
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Commons and Lords : a Short Anthropology of Parliament by Crewe, Emma

Table of Contents: “…COMMONS AND LORDS; Contents; Parliamentary curiosities; Party discipline: the whips have no clothes; Women in Parliament: Performing patriarchy; Parliamentary scrutiny: Reading the runes; Seductive gilded village and addictive city of torture; Notes.…”
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Wonder Woman and Philosophy. by Irwin, William

Table of Contents: “…; The Caring Warrior; Notes; 11: Wonder Woman: Saving Lives through Just Torture?; Torture and the Ticking Bomb; Torture and the Golden Lasso; The Right Thing is Not the Ideal Thing; Notes; 12: Wonder Woman Winning with Words: A Paragon of Wisdom, Disarming Threats One at a Time ... ; In a World of Superheroes, She is Still a Wonder Woman; Lassos, Truth, and Wisdom.…”
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Bentham. by Schofield, Philip, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter Three: The Principle of Utility; Chapter Four: Panopticon; Chapter Five: Political Fallacies; Chapter Six: Religion and Sex; Chapter Seven: Torture; Further Reading; Notes; Index.…”
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Parallel lines : post-9/11 American cinema by Westwell, Guy

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Title Page; Copyright; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Uncertainty; Unity; Conspiracy; The Return to Ground Zero; The End of the World; The September 11 Syndrome; Torture; The Iraq War; History; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.…”
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For Putin and for Sharia : Dagestani Muslims and the Islamic State by Kaliszewska, Iwona

Table of Contents: “…Political and Social Instability in Dagestan -- Torture, Exorcisms, and Checkpoints : Experiencing the "Fight Against Terrorism" -- The Resurgent Importance of Islam in the Everyday Life of Dagestanis -- Wahhabis, Tariqatists, and "New Muslims" -- Sharia : Thinking Beyond the (Secular) State?…”
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Stolen youth : the politics of Israel's detention of Palestinian children by Cook, Catherine, 1971-, Hanieh, Adam, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The political context -- Israel's system of control -- International law and child detention -- Arrest and transfer -- Interrogation and detention -- Imprisonment -- State violence and discrimination -- Psychological and social impacts of prison and torture -- Myths and politics : the foundation of Israel's impunity.…”
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Cesare Beccaria : the genius of On crimes and punishments by Hostettler, John

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Watershed -- Visionary -- Cri de Coeur -- Critique of Inquisition Procedure -- A Final Note -- About the author -- Beccaria's Life And Times -- A Modest Man -- Crime and Punishment -- House Arrest -- Academy of Fists -- Thomas Jefferson -- A Changing World -- Retribution -- Break with Friends -- Death of Teresa -- Consideration of "On Crimes and Punishments" -- Secret Accusations and Torture -- The Effects of Secrecy -- "Torture a Mercy" -- Trial by Ordeal -- Consecrated Cruelty…”
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Memory's turn : reckoning with dictatorship in Brazil by Atencio, Rebecca J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the turn to memory in Brazilian culture and politics -- Testimonies and the amnesty law -- A prime-time miniseries and impeachment -- Literary and official truth-telling -- From torture center to stage and site of memory -- Conclusion: memory's turns and returns.…”
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Memory's turn : reckoning with dictatorship in Brazil by Atencio, Rebecca J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the turn to memory in Brazilian culture and politics -- Testimonies and the amnesty law -- A prime-time miniseries and impeachment -- Literary and official truth-telling -- From torture center to stage and site of memory -- Conclusion: memory's turns and returns.…”
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Warped mourning : stories of the undead in the land of the unburied by Ėtkind, Aleksandr, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Mimetic and subversive -- Mourning and warning -- The parable of misrecognition -- Writing history after jail -- On tortured life and world culture -- The debt to the dead -- The cosmopolitan way -- The tale of two turns -- The hard and the soft -- Post-Soviet hauntology -- Magical historicism.…”
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Warped mourning : stories of the undead in the land of the unburied by Ėtkind, Aleksandr, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Mimetic and subversive -- Mourning and warning -- The parable of misrecognition -- Writing history after jail -- On tortured life and world culture -- The debt to the dead -- The cosmopolitan way -- The tale of two turns -- The hard and the soft -- Post-Soviet hauntology -- Magical historicism.…”
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Citizenship and disadvantaged groups in Chile

Table of Contents: “…The institutional response to sexually diverse citizenship : readaptation and resistance / Fernando Muñoz -- Autonomy, vulnerability, and resistance : brief history of the feminist fight for abortion / Lieta Vivaldi -- Political participation of women : potentialities, limits, and challenges / Yanira Zúñiga -- Torture and domestic violence : a view from cases of terroristic torture and intimate terrorism / Paula Hollstein -- The response to sex work : a regulation with a voice of their own / Paula Nuño and Ximena Valencia -- Toward a multicultural jurisdiction : the case of Mapuche women / Luis Villavicencio -- Frustrated multiculturalism : (neo)liberalism and the Mapuche people / Matías Meza-Lopehandía -- Immigrants : legal configuration of a disadvantaged group / Jaime Bassa and Fernanda Torres -- Public order and inequality in the streets / Paz Irarrázabal -- Citizenship and prisoners / Pablo Marshall and Carla Moscoso -- The worker by himself : thwarting workers' collective action through law / José Luis Ugarte.…”
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Our Lost Border : Essays on Life Amid the Narco-violence

Table of Contents: “…The Tortured Landscape -- The Personal Stories.…”
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Body Gothic : Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film by Aldana Reyes, Xavier

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Acknowledgements; Introduction: From Gothic Bodies to Body Gothic; 1 Splatterpunk; 2 Body Horror; 3 The New Avant-pulp; 4 The Slaughterhouse Novel; 5 Torture Porn; 6 Surgical Horror; Conclusion: Corporeal Readings; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Index; Back Cover.…”
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State Power and the Legal Regulation of Evil by Dominello, Francesca

Table of Contents: “…Collective Security -- The Criminalisation of Speech in an Age of Terror -- PART II: The Limits of Law to Eliminate Evil -- Torture in Postcolonial India: A Liberal Paradox? …”
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Surveillance cinema by Zimmer, Catherine, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Surveillance cinema in theory and practice -- Video surveillance, torture porn, and zones of indistinction -- Commodified surveillance: first-person cameras, the internet, and compulsive documentation -- The global eye: satellite, GPS, and the "geopolitical aesthetic" -- Temporality and surveillance I: terrorism narratives and the melancholic security state -- Temporality and surveillance II: surveillance, remediation, and social memory in strange days -- Conclusion.…”
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Music in American crime prevention and punishment by Hirsch, Lily E., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Classical music in crime prevention -- Sound for sound : a new approach to punishment in noise abatement -- Rap lyrics as evidence -- The music made me do it : obscenity and incitement in legal valuations of music -- Music in prison -- Music as torture -- Epilogue.…”
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Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : Ethics and Liberal Democracy. by Miller, Seumas

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1; The Varieties of Terrorism; 2; Defining Terrorism; 3; Terrorism and Collective Responsibility; 4; Terrorism-as-Crime; 5; Terrorism, War and States of Emergency; 6; Torture; 7; Bioterrorism and the Dual-Use Dilemma; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens) and the prohibition of terrorism by De Beer, Aniel Caro

Table of Contents: “…The prohibition of terrorism under international law -- The prohibition of terrorism as a jus cogens norm -- The prohibition of terrorism and the prohibition of torture -- The prohibition of terrorism and the right to a fair trial -- The prohibition of terrorism and international law relating to the use of force -- Conclusion.…”
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Worst case bioethics : death, disaster, and public health by Annas, George J.

Table of Contents: “…American healthcare -- Bioterror and bioart -- State of emergency -- Licensed to torture -- Hunger strikes -- War -- Cancer -- Drug dealing -- Toxic tinkering -- Abortion -- Culture of death -- Patient safety -- Global health -- Statue of security -- Pandemic fear -- Bioidentifiers -- Genetic genocide.…”
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Power play : the Bush presidency and the Constitution by Pfiffner, James P.

Table of Contents: “…-- The nature of executive power -- Creating individual rights and an independent legislature -- The American Constitution -- The power to imprison : habeas corpus -- The power to torture -- The power to surveil -- The power to ignore the law : signing statements -- Conclusion: Constitutionalism and the rule of law.…”
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