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Guantanamo and Its Aftermath: U. S. Detention and Interrogation Practices and Their Impact on Former Detainees
by Fletcher, Laurel E., Eric Stover, et alia
Berkeley: Human Rights Center, University of California, 2008. Paperback. ix, 124p., illustrated with a few documents in facsimile and two cover photos in color, softbound in 11x8.5 inch photodecorated wraps; a fine unblemished copy. The principal authors are Berkeley professors.
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£12.14
Torture in South Africa; recent documents
London: Catholic Institute for International Relations :: Human Rights Forum (British Council of Churches) :: International Commission of Jurists, 1982. Pamphlet. 43p., [iii], 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound wraps;.
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£13.76
The Diary of Kosa Pan (Ok-Phra Wisut Sunthon) Thai Ambassador to France June-July 1686
by Kosa Pan (Ok-Phra Wisut Sunthon)
Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2002. Paperback. [xii], 76p., illustrated with a half-dozen period portraits &c and a modern line map, softbound, a paperback in 9x6 inch glossy decorated wraps. Alkaline paperstock, a nice item in perfectly sound, clean and unmarked condition. On Kosa Pan's return, a change in kingship brought wholesale torture and massacre, which he did not survive.
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£14.57
THE GANGRENE
by Silvers, Robert translator
New York: Lyle Stuart. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 96 pages; Minor rubbing to the dust jacket. Previous owner's name is inked to the front free end paper. .
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£24.28
Shut it down! Lexington Prison Control Unit
Chicago :: San Francisco :: New York: New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism, [c198-?]. Pamphlet. [4p]., 7x8 inch folio; photo., in very good condition.
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£24.28
![Soldan-Heppe / Geschichte der Hexenprozesse; neu bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Max Bauer. Band I. Band II [pair, complete set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/784/444/1383444784.0.b.0.jpg)
Soldan-Heppe / Geschichte der Hexenprozesse; neu bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Max Bauer. Band I. Band II [pair, complete set]
by Soldan, Wilhelm G. [and] Heinrich Heppe, [with] Max Bauer
Hanau/M: Muller & Kiepenheuer, 1969. Hardcover. Respectively xv + [i], 562, 455p., two volumes of matching design: gray buckram boards spine-titled and -ruled gilt on maroon printblock labels, and enclosed in glossy pictorial dust jackets. The casebound books have an eccentric ownership stamp inside rear covers, else are unmarked, clean and sound, really nearly immaculate, while djs are edgeworn with short rears. Very good set. Text in German.
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£32.38
The Prisons of the Venetian Republic
by Franzoi, Umberto
Venice: Stamperia di Venezia editrice, 1966. Paperback. 143, xxvii [documents]p., numerous site and instrument photos plus floorplans &c; an upright softbound in 8.5x4.5 inch photo-decorated glossy wraps. A bit edgeworn with light corner-creasing, free of any marks within, a good copy.
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£12.14
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror
by Danner, Mark
London: Granta Books. 2004. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xi, 573pp. Includes the torture photographs and the major documents and reports. . 1st thus. Trade Paperback.
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£12.70
We Are Accountable: A View of Mental Institutions
by Edelstein, Leonard
Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill, 1945. Pamphlet. 34p., stapled skyblue wraps, 5x7.5 inches, pages faintly toned, hint of dust-soil to covers plus an inked ownership to upper left, sound copy else clean and unmarked. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 24. Argues against mistreatment of patients at mental institutions.
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£14.57
Tortura: boletin mensual. No. 1 (June 1979)
Barcelona: Colectivo Antitortura, 1979. 12.25x15.25 inches, single sheet, printed both sides, some yellowing along a horizontal fold. Text in Spanish. OCLC lists two holdings in Barcelona. Single issue of the anti-torture publication, with discussion of the torture of local activists.
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£16.19
The Good Listener : Helen Bamber A Life Against Cruelty
by Belton, Neil
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1998. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 374 pages. The biography of the celebrated British psychotherapist and human rights activist. She started in 1945 working with Holocaust survivors and later set up an organisation to assist the victims of torture. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£7.94
THE HISTORY OF PERSECUTION,; in four parts. Viz. I. Amongst the Heathens. II. Under the Christian Emperors. III. Under the Papacy and Inquisition. IV. Amongst Protestants. With a preface, containing remarks on Dr. Roger's Vindication of the Civil Establishment of Religion
by CHANDLER, Samuel
London: J. Gray, 1736. First Edition. 8vo, xcii, vi, 468. Illustrated with 9 folding engraved plates, one of a person being tortured by the Inquisition. Bookplate. Bound in worn contemporary calf, front cover separate, rubbed and worn. Some foxed, minor stains and foxing. Lowndes, 409. Chandler (1693-1766) was a non-conformist divine. After his wife lost her fortune in a South Seas scam, he wa forced to open a bookshop. He later was a pastor for 40 years. In many ways, this is an attack on Catholicism.
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£400.70
Torture A Collection
by Levinson, Sandford (Edited by)
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. A couple of black & white illustrations. Foreword by Ariel Dorfman. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 319 pages. Brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the issue of torture in the modern world. . 2nd...
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£15.87
Of Governments and Guerrillas
by Cuevas de Dolmetsch, Angela
London: Institute for the Study of Terrorism, 1988. 64p., 5.5x8.5 inches; staplebound, in very good condition. Terrorism & Torture in Latin America.
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£9.71
Women of Algeria: an Essay on Change
by Gordon, David C
Cambridge: Harvard University Press / Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1968. Paperback. 98p., softbound in 8x5 inch plain printed grey wraps; front cover is creased in two places and back has small smudges. Titlepage bears an ownership signature and a crease corresponding to one on cover, else sound, clean and free of markings. A good-only copy. Harvard Middle Eastern monographs XIX.
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£12.14
The Method; A Personal Account of the Tortures in Greece
by Korovessis, Pericles
Panther, London, 1970. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Plain card cover with pale blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. Recollections of the author, a young Greek actor, who was taken to Asphalia, a Greek Junta prison, where he was systematically interrogated and tortured till he confessed. "This factual,unhysterical account of what happened to one man in a Greek Junta prison is a devastating indictment of a regime...
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£13.24
Poetry against torture: criticism, history, and the human
by Bové, Paul A
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. xvi, 159 pages, very good softcover; inscribed by the author. "Set against the dogmas of state regimes that torture, against the misapplications of technology to the destruction of human subjectivities, and against the use of spiritual traditions to suppress human poesis, this book speaks for poetry as the highest form of human consciousness, selfmaking, and imaginative possibility. Paul Bove sets out to remind society and intellectuals of the species'...
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£16.19
The History of Torture
by MANNIX, DANIEL P
DELL PAPERBACK, 1964. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£11.31
Iran erupts. Independence, news and analysis of the Iranian National Movement
by Nobari, Ali-Reza, editor
Stanford, CA: The Iran-America Documentation Group, 1978. Paperback. ii, 237p., map illustrations, drawing illustrations of torture techniques used, photos., wraps a tad sunned, pages slightly browned, else very good. Blurb by Noam Chomsky on back.
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£9.71
Tolerating Abuses - Violations of Human Rights in Peru. An Americas Watch Report, October 1988
by Bernstein, Robert L., chairman
New York / Washington DC: Americas Watch Committee, 1988. Paperback. i, 83p., plus appended material. Illustrated with two line maps on a single page, set as a frontispiece. Softbound in 9x6 inch journal wraps (but has a "paperback" ISBN, as here), covers somewhat worn and rubbed. Else sound, and entirely clean and unmarked.
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£16.19
Cowboy republic: six ways the Bush Gang has defied the law
by Cohn, Marjorie, foreword by Richard Falk
Sausalito: PoliPointPress, 2007. Paperback. xiv, 189p., personal inscription signed by the author, very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps.
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£9.71
Pietro's Pilgrimage. A Journey to India and back at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century
by Blunt, Wilfred [Scawen]
London: James Barrie, 1953. Hardcover. xii, 320p., scattered period illustrations in b&w, the hardbound first edition in not quite collectable condition, but a good reading copy: spine panel is sunned with the light blue of the covers faded to grey, covers look a little "handled," a copyright cancellation strip has bled through onto titlepage, lacks the dust jacket, text pages are entirely clean and unmarked, and textblock and casing together are square and sound. A useful book as is. Pietro spent two...
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£9.71
Body Image in Cultural Context; Interdisciplinary Essays
by Dosamantes, Irma, editor
Los Angeles: DMT Publications / The University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. Paperback. 130p., coated paperstock throughout with a few b&w period illustrations, softbound in gilt-decorated 10x7 inch wraps, mildest signs of any handling, a very good copy.
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£20.24
The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American media
by Rajiva, Lila
New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005. Paperback. 224p., wraps, 6x9 inches, very good first paperback edition.
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£9.71
Young Blood: The Story of the Family Murders (Inscribed by Author)
by O'Brien, Bob
Sydney: Harper Collins. 2002. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. This copy is signed by author and inscribed by him to previous owner, a South Australian District Court Judge. The copy also has pencil annotations by the previous owner and some related newspaper clippings pasted to preliminary pages. Bookplate to inside of Front Cover. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 266 pages. The story of 'The Family' murders in Adelaide...
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£26.46
