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1	Dew Breaker more books like this by E Danticat add to wishlist From the universally acclaimed author of "Breath, Eyes, Memory" comes a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"--a torturer--a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Inventing Human Rights: A History more books like this by Professor Lynn Hunt add to wishlist Human rights is a concept that only came to the forefront during the eighteenth century. When the American Declaration of Independence declared "all men are created equal" and the French proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were bringing a new guarantee into the world. Professor Lynn Hunt questions why it happened then and how ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $8.76! \| SVS
3	Haunted more books like this by Chuck Palahniuk add to wishlist Cult favorite Chuck Palahniuk outgrosses even himself in this series of grotesque tales about a group of writers at a three-month writing retreat at an old theater. In a scheme to become rich and famous when they later write about their ordeal, they embark on an experience of extreme communal brutality--eventually even consuming parts of each ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $8.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Death and the Maiden: Tie-In Edition more books like this by Ariel Dorfman add to wishlist Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
5	The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World more books like this by Professor Elaine Scarry add to wishlist Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $11.90! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values more books like this by Philippe Sands add to wishlist The Rumsfeld Memo authorized controversial interrogation practices that migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere. Sands investigates how the memo set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention and the Torture Convention, and he holds the Bush administration accountable. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $12.37! \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror more books like this by Professor Alfred W McCoy add to wishlist In this revelatory account of the CIAUs secret, 50-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy uncovers the deep, disturbing roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Far from aberrations, these abuses are the product of a long-standing covert program of interrogation. see all copies from $2.66! new only from $4.10! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib more books like this by Karen J Greenberg (Editor), Joshua L Dratel (Editor), Anthony Lewis (Introduction by) add to wishlist This huge compendium of materials relating to the events at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and to the issue of detention and torture by the US military in time of war, includes official documents, reports by outside investigators, and the photographs that shocked the world when their existence was revealed in 2004. Some of the internal memos and legal ... see all copies from $4.19! new only from $8.75! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment more books like this by Kate Millett add to wishlist In this groundbreaking new work, Kate Millett fleshes out a new theory of politics for our time, a disturbing view of the modern state based on the practice of torture both as a method of rule and as a conscious policy. Using literature, witness reports, legal theory, and historical account, Millett looks at the individual's monumental fear of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror more books like this by Mark Danner add to wishlist "Includes the torture photographs in color and the full texts of the secret administration memos on torture and the investigative reports on the abuses at Abu Ghraib." In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison flashed around the world, provoking outraged debate ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $12.00! \| SVS
11 view cover	The 50/50 Killer more books like this by Steve Mosby add to wishlist Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mackey - a highly-decorated and successful detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mackey is a legend in the force and it's a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to his job ever since the ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $9.12! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness more books like this by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela add to wishlist In this acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murdered, Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, enters Pretoria's maximum security prison to meet a man called "Dr. Death" who is serving 212 years in prison for crimes against humanity. see all copies from $2.02! new only from $8.98! \| first editions
13 view cover	La Muerte y la Doncella more books like this by Ariel Dorfman add to wishlist Dorfman's award-winning play is set in a fictional South American country that has recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head a commission that will investigate crimes of the old regime. His wife, who was tortured in a military detention center years before, has her own plans for vindication. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $14.71! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Abu Ghraib Effect more books like this by Stephen F Eisenman add to wishlist The photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison aroused world-wide condemnation - or did they? Opinion polls showed that most citizens of the us were unmoved by the images. And in the two countries that promoted the war in Iraq and instigated torture against detainees, George Bush and Tony Blair were returned to office only months after the ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
15	Death and the maiden more books like this by Ariel Dorfman add to wishlist In this gripping new play about a woman who confronts the man she believes was her torturer, Ariel Dorfman has created a tense, moral thriller of extraordinary power that asks the question: Does injustice justify revenge? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.41! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Anatomy of Evil more books like this by Michael H Stone, MD add to wishlist The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would not hesitate to label them 'evil'. In this ground-breaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H Stone - host of Discovery Channel's former series "Most Evil" - uses this common ... see all copies from $14.90! new only from $19.98! \| SVS
17	Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse more books like this by Gordon Thomas add to wishlist The first fully detailed investigation of secret mind-control experiments andmedical tortures that are still being performed around the world--a real lifeManchurian Candidate expose. see all copies from $8.58! new only from $75.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Torture: A Collection more books like this by Sanford Levinson (Editor) add to wishlist Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet within six weeks after September 11, articles began appearing suggesting that torture might be "required" in order to interrogate suspected terrorists about future possibilities of violence. The United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $14.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
19	Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments more books like this by Geoffrey Abbott add to wishlist "Little Ease" - a cell only four feet square and nine feet high, in which it was impossible to lie down. "The Duke of Exeter's Daughter" and "Skeffington's Gyves" - two of the many excruciating versions of the rack. This text offers an account of instruments of torture through the ages. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.39! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Torture and the Ticking Bomb more books like this by Bob Brecher add to wishlist This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation. It argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terror needs urgently to ... see all copies from $12.79! new only from $12.79! \| SVS
21 view cover	The Torture Debate in America more books like this by Karen J Greenberg (Editor) add to wishlist As a result of the work assembling the documents, memoranda, and reports that constitute the material in The Torture Papers the question of the rationale behind the Bush administration's decision to condone the use of coercive interrogation techniques in the interrogation of detainees suspected of terrorist connections was raised. The condoned use ... see all copies from $2.74! new only from $11.44! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Tortured Confessions more books like this by Ervand Abrahamian add to wishlist The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and public confession under the Islamic Republican ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $19.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Torture: A Human Rights Perspective more books like this by Kenneth M Roth (Editor), Minky Worden (Editor), Amy D Bernstein (Editor) add to wishlist This expose contains a selection of essays that address specific topics regarding torture in today's world, from whether torture is ever justified to domestic torture within American prisons to the victim's perspective. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.91! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The History of Torture & Execution: From Early Civilization Through Medieval Times to the Present more books like this by Jean Kellaway add to wishlist A full-color history of the cruel and violent ways in which humans have meted out punishment--from early civilizations to the present. see all copies from $3.43! new only from $3.46! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War more books like this by Mark Danner add to wishlist For the first time, the award-winning reportage of Mark Danner--one of America's most brilliant foreign correspondents--brought together at last in a single volume see all copies from $12.50! new only from $16.88! \| first editions \| SVS

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