The Atrocities

Author : Jeremy C. Shipp
Publisher : Tor.com
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250164384

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The Atrocities by Jeremy C. Shipp Pdf

Jeremy Shipp brings you THE ATROCITIES, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn't suffer. But Isabella's parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella's... condition, and when Ms Valdez arrives at the estate, having forced herself through a surreal nightmare maze of twisted human-like statues, she discovers that there is no girl to tutor. Or is there...? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Randle C. DeFalco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108487412

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Invisible Atrocities by Randle C. DeFalco Pdf

This book assesses the role aesthetic factors play in shaping what forms of mass violence are viewed as international crimes.

Author : Scott William Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1552388859

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Understanding Atrocities by Scott William Murray Pdf

Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other things, what are the limits of the law, of history, of literature, and of education in understanding and representing genocidal violence? What are the challenges we face in teaching and learning about extreme events such as these, and how does the language we use contribute to or impair what can be taught and learned about genocide? Who gets to decide if it's genocide and who its victims are? And how does the demonization of perpetrators of atrocity prevent us from confronting the complicity of others, or of ourselves? Through a multi-focused and multidisciplinary investigation of these questions, Understanding Atrocities demonstrates the vibrancy and breadth of the contemporary state of genocide studies. With contributions by: Amarnath Amarasingam, Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen, Travis Hay, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Scott W. Murray, Christopher Powell, and Raffi Sarkissian

Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216050643

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Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes [2 volumes] [2 volumes] by Alexander Mikaberidze Pdf

Both concise and wide-ranging, this encyclopedia covers massacres, atrocities, war crimes, and genocides, including acts of inhumanity on all continents; and serves as a reminder that lest we forget, history will repeat itself. The 400-plus entries in Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia provide accessible and concise information on the difficult subject of abject human violence committed on all continents. The entries in this two-volume work describe atrocities, massacres, and war crimes committed in the 20th century, thereby documenting how human beings have repeatedly proven their capability to commit horrific acts of inhumanity even in relatively recent times and within the modern era. The encyclopedia covers countries, treaties, and terms; profiles individuals who had been formally indicted for war crimes as well as those who have committed mass atrocities and gone unpunished; and addresses human rights violations, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.

Author : John Francis WITTY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021859263

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The Cause of the Atrocities in Sheffield. What is It? Where is it to be Found? [A Sermon] ... Preached ... Aug. 4, 1867 ... [on] Romans Iii. 9 to 18 by John Francis WITTY Pdf

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007322190

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The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard Pdf

First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’.

Author : Matthew White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393083309

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Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History by Matthew White Pdf

“An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes.”—New York Times Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or, in White’s piquant phrasing, “the numbers that people want to argue about.” Reaching back to the Second Persian War in 480 BCE and moving chronologically through history, White surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories.

Author : Matthew White
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921758768

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Atrocitology by Matthew White Pdf

Which wars killed the most people? Was the twentieth century the most violent in history? Are religions, tyrants or ideologies responsible for the greatest bloodshed? In this remarkable and original book, 'atrocitologist' Matthew White assesses man's inhumanity to man over several thousand years. From the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage to the cataclysmic events of World War II, Atrocitology spans centuries and civilisations as it measures the hundred most violent episodes in history. Relying on statistical analysis rather than grand theories, White offers three big lessons: chaos is more deadly than tyranny, the world is much more disorganised than we realise, and more civilians than soldiers are killed in wars—in fact, the army is usually the safest place to be during wartime. Our understanding of history's worst atrocities is patchy and skewed. This book sets the record straight, charting those events with the largest man-made death tolls without fear or favour.

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101208848

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The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross Pdf

The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .

Author : Jeanne Guillemin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231544986

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Hidden Atrocities by Jeanne Guillemin Pdf

In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied intent to bring Axis crimes to light led to both the Nuremberg trials and their counterpart in Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Yet the Tokyo Trial failed to prosecute imperial Japanese leaders for the worst of war crimes: inhumane medical experimentation, including vivisection and open-air pathogen and chemical tests, which rivaled Nazi atrocities, as well as mass attacks using plague, anthrax, and cholera that killed thousands of Chinese civilians. In Hidden Atrocities, Jeanne Guillemin goes behind the scenes at the trial to reveal the American obstruction that denied justice to Japan’s victims. Responsibility for Japan’s secret germ-warfare program, organized as Unit 731 in Harbin, China, extended to top government leaders and many respected scientists, all of whom escaped indictment. Instead, motivated by early Cold War tensions, U.S. military intelligence in Tokyo insinuated itself into the Tokyo Trial by blocking prosecution access to key witnesses and then classifying incriminating documents. Washington decision makers, supported by the American occupation leader, General Douglas MacArthur, sought to acquire Japan’s biological-warfare expertise to gain an advantage over the Soviet Union, suspected of developing both biological and nuclear weapons. Ultimately, U.S. national-security goals left the victims of Unit 731 without vindication. Decades later, evidence of the Unit 731 atrocities still troubles relations between China and Japan. Guillemin’s vivid account of the cover-up at the Tokyo Trial shows how without guarantees of transparency, power politics can jeopardize international justice, with persistent consequences.

Author : Matthew White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393081923

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Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History by Matthew White Pdf

Presents both hard facts and military, social, and political histories of the world's one hundred most violent events, from the second Persian War in 480 BCE to the modern war in the Congo.

Author : Mark A. Drumbl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139464567

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Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law by Mark A. Drumbl Pdf

This book argues that accountability for extraordinary atrocity crimes should not uncritically adopt the methods and assumptions of ordinary liberal criminal law. Criminal punishment designed for common criminals is a response to mass atrocity and a device to promote justice in its aftermath. This book comes to this conclusion after reviewing the sentencing practices of international, national, and local courts and tribunals that punish atrocity perpetrators. Sentencing practices of these institutions fail to attain the goals that international criminal law ascribes to punishment, in particular retribution and deterrence. Fresh thinking is necessary to confront the collective nature of mass atrocity and the disturbing reality that individual membership in group-based killings is often not maladaptive or deviant behavior but, rather, adaptive or conformist behavior. This book turns to a modern, and adventurously pluralist, application of classical notions of cosmopolitanism to advance the frame of international criminal law to a broader construction of atrocity law and towards an interdisciplinary, contextual, and multicultural conception of justice.

Author : Stanley Cohen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745656786

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States of Denial by Stanley Cohen Pdf

Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve 'maximum deniability'. Truth Commissions try to overcome the suppression and denial of past horrors. Bystander nations deny their responsibility to intervene. Do these phenomena have anything in common? When we deny, are we aware of what we are doing or is this an unconscious defence mechanism to protect us from unwelcome truths? Can there be cultures of denial? How do organizations like Amnesty and Oxfam try to overcome the public's apparent indifference to distant suffering and cruelty? Is denial always so bad - or do we need positive illusions to retain our sanity? States of Denial is the first comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical studies of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the 'passive bystander' and 'compassion fatigue'. The book shows how organized atrocities - the Holocaust and other genocides, torture, and political massacres - are denied by perpetrators and by bystanders, those who stand by and do nothing.

Author : Aaron Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Indian captivities
ISBN : WISC:89047087184

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The Atrocities of the Pirates by Aaron Smith Pdf

Author : Simon Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000330724

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Mass Atrocities, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future of Human Rights by Simon Adams Pdf

This book ambitiously weaves together history and politics to explain all of the major situations where mass atrocities have occurred, or been prevented, over the 15 years since the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) was adopted at the 2005 UN World Summit. The author provides a history of human rights, mass atrocities and the principle of the R2P from the perspective of someone whose day job has been to work with the UN Security Council, various governments and civil society to help ensure the international community does not fail those who face the threat of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity today. It examines the implementation of the controversial principle of R2P since 2011 and how we end the politics of impunity, indifference and inaction once and for all. Using case studies from Iraq, Syria, Myanmar and Libya, the book offers a unique perspective regarding how we make 'never again' a living principle, rather than a cliché and how we end the politics of impunity, indifference and inaction once and for all. It will be of especial interest to scholars, students and policymakers working in the fields of international politics or concerned about human rights, atrocities, the United Nations and international justice in the world today.