Dictionary Of Torture

Author : Nigette M. Spikes
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Torture
ISBN : 9781458217912

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Dictionary of Torture by Nigette M. Spikes Pdf

From ancient times to today, there is no question that torture has been an integral part of human history. From the world's first documented society of Mesopotamia to the present day; from the famous to the most obscure; and from the Far East to the West and every society in between, the Dictionary of Torture shares fascinating facts on how torture and execution methods have been used throughout history. Nigette Spikes, a researcher and torture historian, relies on years of research to share a compilation of torture methods from around the world. Whether it was to punish criminals in Abu Gharib, extract confessions from accused witches of Salem, or for the sadistic pleasures of Vlad the Impaler, every alphabetical entry graphically describes a torture and its origins. From the fearsome breast ripper, the terrifying spiked collar, the pear of anguish, and the Judas cradle, Spikes reveals what went on in the dungeon of a medieval castle, how Inquisitioners extracted confessions from "sinners," and what kind of tortures are still used today. Dictionary of Torture is a one-of-a-kind collection of torture facts that reveal detailed descriptions of methods and explore world history from the first documented society several millennia ago to present day.

Author : Nigette M. Spikes
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781458217929

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Dictionary of Torture by Nigette M. Spikes Pdf

From ancient times to today, there is no question that torture has been an integral part of human history. From the world’s first documented society of Mesopotamia to the present day; from the famous to the most obscure; and from the Far East to the West and every society in between, the Dictionary of Torture shares fascinating facts on how torture and execution methods have been used throughout history. Nigette Spikes, a researcher and torture historian, relies on years of research to share a compilation of torture methods from around the world. Whether it was to punish criminals in Abu Gharib, extract confessions from accused witches of Salem, or for the sadistic pleasures of Vlad the Impaler, every alphabetical entry graphically describes a torture and its origins. From the fearsome breast ripper, the terrifying spiked collar, the pear of anguish, and the Judas cradle, Spikes reveals what went on in the dungeon of a medieval castle, how Inquisitioners extracted confessions from “sinners,” and what kind of tortures are still used today. Dictionary of Torture is a one-of-a-kind collection of torture facts that reveal detailed descriptions of methods and explore world history from the first documented society several millennia ago to present day.

Author : Henk ten Have,Maria do Céu Patrão Neves
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1063 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030541613

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Dictionary of Global Bioethics by Henk ten Have,Maria do Céu Patrão Neves Pdf

This Dictionary presents a broad range of topics relevant in present-day global bioethics. With more than 500 entries, this dictionary covers organizations working in the field of global bioethics, international documents concerning bioethics, personalities that have played a role in the development of global bioethics, as well as specific topics in the field.The book is not only useful for students and professionals in global health activities, but can also serve as a basic tool that explains relevant ethical notions and terms. The dictionary furthers the ideals of cosmopolitanism: solidarity, equality, respect for difference and concern with what human beings- and specifically patients - have in common, regardless of their backgrounds, hometowns, religions, gender, etc. Global problems such as pandemic diseases, disasters, lack of care and medication, homelessness and displacement call for global responses.This book demonstrates that a moral vision of global health is necessary and it helps to quickly understand the basic ideas of global bioethics.

Author : Darius Rejali
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400830879

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Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali Pdf

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 : William Allan Neilson,Paul Worthington Carhart,Thomas Albert Knott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015038986785

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Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language by William Allan Neilson,Paul Worthington Carhart,Thomas Albert Knott Pdf

Author : J. Jeremy Wisnewski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748686728

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Understanding Torture by J. Jeremy Wisnewski Pdf

Understanding Torture surveys the massive literature surrounding torture, arguing that, once properly understood, there can be no defense of torture in any circumstances.

Author : Nonieqa Ramos
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781541577619

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The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary by Nonieqa Ramos Pdf

A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection A 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in how others define her. She's got more pressing problems: her mom can't move off the couch, her dad's in prison, her brother's been kidnapped by Child Protective Services, and now her best friend isn't speaking to her. Writing in a dictionary format, Macy explains the world in her own terms--complete with gritty characters and outrageous endeavors. With an honesty that's both hilarious and fearsome, slowly Macy reveals why she acts out, why she can't tell her incarcerated father that her mom's cheating on him, and why her best friend needs protection . . . the kind of protection that involves Macy's machete.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788074843952

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The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions) by Ambrose Bierce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book is a classic satire in the form of a dictionary on which Bierce worked for decades. It was originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book before being retitled in 1911. A number of the definitions are accompanied by satiric verses, many of which are signed with comic pseudonyms. It offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language which lampoon cant and political double-talk as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. The definitions provide satirical, witty and often politically pointed representations of the words that is seeks to "define". The Devil's Dictionary has inspired many imitations both in its day and more recently. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce".

Author : Xia Yong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004215818

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The Philosophy of Civil Rights in the Context of China by Xia Yong Pdf

Based on the author’s comprehensive knowledge of Chinese and Western legal philosophy, this book guides readers to an understanding of traditional Chinese legal thinking as well as the impact of Western rights theories on China’s contemporary politics and legal development.

Author : David Kohut,Olga Vilella
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810873742

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Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars by David Kohut,Olga Vilella Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of 'The Dirty Wars' focuses on the period 1954-1990 in South America, when authoritarian regimes waged war on subversion, both real and imagined. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on the countries; guerrilla and political movements; prominent guerrilla, human-rights, military, and political figures; local, regional, and international human-rights organizations; and artistic figures (filmmakers, novelists, and playwrights) whose works attempt to represent or resist the period of repression.

Author : Charles Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNVA1001550031

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Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English Compiled from the Dictionaries of Johnson, Todd ... by Professors Fleming and Tibbins by Charles Fleming Pdf

Author : Marnia Lazreg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691173481

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Torture and the Twilight of Empire by Marnia Lazreg Pdf

Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. Drawing extensively from archives, confessions by former torturers, interviews with former soldiers, and war diaries, as well as writings by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and others, Lazreg argues that occupying nations justify their systematic use of torture as a regrettable but necessary means of saving Western civilization from those who challenge their rule. She shows how torture was central to guerre révolutionnaire, a French theory of modern warfare that called for total war against the subject population and which informed a pacification strategy founded on brutal psychological techniques borrowed from totalitarian movements. Lazreg seeks to understand torture's impact on the Algerian population--especially women--and also on the French troops who became their torturers. She explores the roles Christianity and Islam played in rationalizing these acts, and the ways in which torture became not only routine but even acceptable. Written by a preeminent historical sociologist, Torture and the Twilight of Empire holds particularly disturbing lessons for us today as we carry out the War on Terror.

Author : John Bessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108845571

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The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights by John Bessler Pdf

This book details how capital punishment violates universal human rights and traces the evolution of the world's understanding of torture.

Author : David Pickering
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0304365629

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Cassell's Dictionary of Witchcraft by David Pickering Pdf

Separating truth from myth, an expert offers an A to Z guide to one of the most intriguing aspects of the super-natural. Hundreds of carefully researched articles provide explanations of the key concepts of witchcraft, from demons and exorcisms to sabbats and spells, as well as fascinating biographies of key figures. Articles on witch trials through the centuries draw on records of torture, confessions, and recantations.

Author : Benjamin Humphrey Smart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047698118

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A New Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language by Benjamin Humphrey Smart Pdf