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Deliver me from pain : anesthesia and birth in America / by Wolf, Jacqueline H.

Table of Contents: “…"Terrible torture" or "the nicest sensation I've ever had"? …”
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Liberal faith essays in honor of Philip Quinn /

Table of Contents: “…/ Paul J. Weithman -- Torture, justification, and human rights : toward an absolute proscription / Sumner B. …”
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Liberal faith essays in honor of Philip Quinn /

Table of Contents: “…/ Paul J. Weithman -- Torture, justification, and human rights : toward an absolute proscription / Sumner B. …”
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Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / by Edmunds, Susan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "As with a startling picture" : modernism and the domestic sphere -- "For she asks forever only help" : the critique of maternalist reform discourse in Djuna Barnes's Ryder -- Tortured bodies and twisted words : the antidomestic vision of Jean Toomer's Cane -- Freaked : eastern European immigration and the "American home" in Edna Ferber's American beauty -- "Not sentimental" : the double bind of white working-class femininity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio -- Siren calls : consumer revolution and the body beautiful in Nathanael West's The day of the locust -- "Not charity yet!" …”
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Hybrid Justice : The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia / by Ciorciari, John D. (John David), Heindel, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Forging a hybrid court : a mountain never has two tigers -- Pairing the court's national and international features -- Serving two masters : dual administration, oversight, and funding -- Case 001 : convicting an infamous Khmer Rouge torture chief : you cannot cover an elephant with a rice basket -- Case 002 : the centerpiece case against senior leaders : cutting the head to fit the hat? …”
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Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / by Edmunds, Susan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "As with a startling picture" : modernism and the domestic sphere -- "For she asks forever only help" : the critique of maternalist reform discourse in Djuna Barnes's Ryder -- Tortured bodies and twisted words : the antidomestic vision of Jean Toomer's Cane -- Freaked : eastern European immigration and the "American home" in Edna Ferber's American beauty -- "Not sentimental" : the double bind of white working-class femininity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio -- Siren calls : consumer revolution and the body beautiful in Nathanael West's The day of the locust -- "Not charity yet!" …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Hybrid Justice : The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia / by Ciorciari, John D. (John David), Heindel, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Forging a hybrid court : a mountain never has two tigers -- Pairing the court's national and international features -- Serving two masters : dual administration, oversight, and funding -- Case 001 : convicting an infamous Khmer Rouge torture chief : you cannot cover an elephant with a rice basket -- Case 002 : the centerpiece case against senior leaders : cutting the head to fit the hat? …”
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On monsters an unnatural history of our worst fears / by Asma, Stephen T.

Table of Contents: “…The art of human vulnerability : angst and horror ; Criminal monsters : psychopathology, aggression, and the malignant heart ; Torturers, terrorists, and zombies : the products of monstrous societies ; Future monsters : robots, mutants, and posthuman cyborgs.…”
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On monsters an unnatural history of our worst fears / by Asma, Stephen T.

Table of Contents: “…The art of human vulnerability : angst and horror ; Criminal monsters : psychopathology, aggression, and the malignant heart ; Torturers, terrorists, and zombies : the products of monstrous societies ; Future monsters : robots, mutants, and posthuman cyborgs.…”
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Oxford readings in the Attic orators

Table of Contents: “…Humphreys -- The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin -- 'Artless proofs' in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey -- Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady -- Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober -- Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd -- Arguments from precedent in the Attic oratory / Lene Rubinstein -- Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis.…”
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Emergencies and the limits of legality

Table of Contents: “…Scheuerman -- Necessity, torture and the rule of law / A.P. Simester -- Deny everything : intelligence activities and the rule of law / Simon Chesterman -- Exceptions, bare life and colonialism / Johan Geertsema -- Struggle over legality in the midnight hour : governing the international state of emergency / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Inter arma silent leges? …”
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We dissent talking back to the Rehnquist court : eight cases that subverted civil liberties and civil rights /

Table of Contents: “…Martinez : the court fails to hold that interrogation by means of torture is unconstitutional / Marjorie Cohn -- Saucier v. …”
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Oxford readings in the Attic orators

Table of Contents: “…Humphreys -- The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin -- 'Artless proofs' in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey -- Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady -- Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober -- Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd -- Arguments from precedent in the Attic oratory / Lene Rubinstein -- Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis.…”
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Emergencies and the limits of legality

Table of Contents: “…Scheuerman -- Necessity, torture and the rule of law / A.P. Simester -- Deny everything : intelligence activities and the rule of law / Simon Chesterman -- Exceptions, bare life and colonialism / Johan Geertsema -- Struggle over legality in the midnight hour : governing the international state of emergency / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Inter arma silent leges? …”
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We dissent talking back to the Rehnquist court : eight cases that subverted civil liberties and civil rights /

Table of Contents: “…Martinez : the court fails to hold that interrogation by means of torture is unconstitutional / Marjorie Cohn -- Saucier v. …”
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Under deadman's skin discovering the meaning of children's violent play / by Katch, Jane

Table of Contents: “…-- The white ninja -- The shooting game -- Hippo and baboon -- Bottled up -- Baba yaga -- Forgiveness -- Keeping calm -- Half bulldog, half chihuahua -- Exorcising the exorcist -- Tortured -- Mama's little baby -- Puppy power -- The baby business -- The finger -- The car race -- A cold duckling, a school shooting, and a home for a dead butterfly -- Placing blame -- Empathy -- A big, big teacher.…”
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Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / by Hagelin, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…. -- Vulnerability beyond the body -- The violated body after 9/11: torture, and the legacy of vulnerability in 24 and Battlestar Galactica -- Vulnerability by proxy: Deadwood and the future of television form -- Afterword -- Female power and Tarantino's basterds.…”
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Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / by Hagelin, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…. -- Vulnerability beyond the body -- The violated body after 9/11: torture, and the legacy of vulnerability in 24 and Battlestar Galactica -- Vulnerability by proxy: Deadwood and the future of television form -- Afterword -- Female power and Tarantino's basterds.…”
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Under deadman's skin discovering the meaning of children's violent play / by Katch, Jane

Table of Contents: “…-- The white ninja -- The shooting game -- Hippo and baboon -- Bottled up -- Baba yaga -- Forgiveness -- Keeping calm -- Half bulldog, half chihuahua -- Exorcising the exorcist -- Tortured -- Mama's little baby -- Puppy power -- The baby business -- The finger -- The car race -- A cold duckling, a school shooting, and a home for a dead butterfly -- Placing blame -- Empathy -- A big, big teacher.…”
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Horror after 9/11 world of fear, cinema of terror /

Table of Contents: “…the politics of video in the new torture film / Catherine Zimmer -- Cutting into concepts of "reflectionist" cinema? …”
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