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Book Synopsis The Story of Cruel and Unusual by : Colin Dayan
Download or read book The Story of Cruel and Unusual written by Colin Dayan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment. The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more recently at Guantánamo were shocking to most Americans. And those who condemned the treatment of prisoners abroad have focused on U.S. military procedures and abuses of executive powers in the war on terror, or, more specifically, on the now-famous White House legal counsel memos on the acceptable limits of torture. But in The Story of Cruel and Unusual, Colin Dayan argues that anyone who has followed U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment would recognize the prisoners' treatment at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo as a natural extension of the language of our courts and practices in U.S. prisons. In fact, it was no coincidence that White House legal counsel referred to a series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1980s and 1990s in making its case for torture.Dayan traces the roots of "acceptable" torture to slave codes of the nineteenth century that deeply embedded the dehumanization of the incarcerated in our legal system. Although the Eighth Amendment was interpreted generously during the prisoners' rights movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, this period of judicial concern was an anomaly. Over the last thirty years, Supreme Court decisions have once again dismantled Eighth Amendment protections and rendered such words as "cruel" and "inhuman" meaningless when applied to conditions of confinement and treatment during detention. Prisoners' actual pain and suffering have been explained away in a rhetorical haze—with rationalizations, for example, that measure cruelty not by the pain or suffering inflicted, but by the intent of the person who inflicted it. The Story of Cruel and Unusual is a stunningly original work of legal scholarship, and a searing indictment of the U.S. penal system.
Book Synopsis Stories of an Unusual Life by : Robert Hudson
Download or read book Stories of an Unusual Life written by Robert Hudson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of how the GI Bill made it possible for the author to travel around the world to teach in strange and exotic places, and still enjoy the luxury of a professional career as a Schoolteacher, a Scientific Research Analyst; a State Department Foreign Service Officer, and work for pay as a part-time boat captain. The book is a collage of episodes describing daring adventures abroad that will captivate the reader. On private contract he taught school in Haiti. He tells about brutality and poverty endured by most of the population. He relates how he was in harms way trying to prevent a brutal killing. The reader also gets an inside look about teaching six grades simultaneously in a one-room schoolhouse in the jungle of Sumatra, far removed from civilization: including some curious events that happened while living in almost complete isolation. A portion of the book tells about his research activities. One unusual experiment shows how devoted a researcher must be. Dr Woke and the writer sat half naked in a cage feeding hundreds of mosquitoes for two months. "Thou shalt not kill." While teaching in Afghanistan, the author gives a detailed account of his adventures including a solo trek through the infamous Khyber Pass, from Jalalabad, Afghanistan to Islamabad, Pakistan, and visits to other countries as well. As a Foreign Service Officer, in the U.S. State Department, the author shares his knowledge about foreign countries including Vietnam and Egypt, and related experiences with the reader. While in Egypt, the author documents memorable and sometimes risky experiences exploring the Sahara Desert and the Sinai.
Book Synopsis Stories of Your Life and Others by : Ted Chiang
Download or read book Stories of Your Life and Others written by Ted Chiang and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival
Download or read book Vanishings written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains fascinating facts about disappearances, including missing persons, lost worlds, extinct species, and more.
Book Synopsis Complete Stories by : Clarice Lispector
Download or read book Complete Stories written by Clarice Lispector and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves. Lispector's stories take us through their lives - and ours. From one of the greatest modern writers, these 85 stories, gathered from the nine collections published during her lifetime, follow Clarice Lispector throughout her life.
Book Synopsis The 'Reader's Digest' Book of Strange Stories, Amazing Facts by :
Download or read book The 'Reader's Digest' Book of Strange Stories, Amazing Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver by : Shawn Inmon
Download or read book The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver written by Shawn Inmon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could do it all again? The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver is a Sci Fi/Metaphysical journey about time travel, second chances, what life was really like in the 1970s, and one man's chance at redemption. Thomas Weaver was an ordinary kid, coming of age in the seventies, when a tragedy changed his life. Forty years later, at the end of a life forever changed, Thomas gives up and takes his own life. He is surprised to immediately open his eyes and find himself back in his teenage bedroom, in his teenage body, with all memories intact. The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver asks the question, "What would you do differently, if you could live your whole life over?" With a tragedy to avoid, a serial killer in training, a girl he grows close to, and trying to figure out why he has been given a second chance, there's a lot happening in Thomas Weaver's second life.
Book Synopsis The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by : Robert Dugoni
Download or read book The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell written by Robert Dugoni and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called "Devil Boy" or Sam "Hell" by his classmates; "God's will" is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother's devout faith, his father's practical wisdom, and his two other misfit friends.
Book Synopsis A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life by : Nina Wise
Download or read book A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life written by Nina Wise and published by Broadway. This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with simple ten-minute practices that can be performed anywhere and at anytime, a hilarious and sentimental guide shows readers how to unleash creativity and experience more pleasure, adventure, and wonder in their lives, providing guidance for rejuvenating every aspect of life.
Book Synopsis Highlighted Story of a Long and Unusual Life by : Ralph Belknap Baldwin
Download or read book Highlighted Story of a Long and Unusual Life written by Ralph Belknap Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Word: Obituaries of 100 Indians Who Led Unusual Lives by : Rahul Bedi
Download or read book The Last Word: Obituaries of 100 Indians Who Led Unusual Lives written by Rahul Bedi and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rahul Bedi has been a journalist for 38 years, beginning his career with the Indian Express in 1979. He was posted in London in the late 1980s after attending Oxford University as a Reuters Fellow. Presently, he is New Delhi correspondent for Jane’s Defence Weekly, UK, the Irish Times, Dublin, and the Daily Telegraph. He was also Assistant Master at Mayo College, Ajmer and the Doon School, Dehra Dun in the 1970s.
Download or read book Some Unusual People written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Most Unusual Life written by Wes Harvey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TEN TRUTHS (BY K.B.) 1. THE COSMOS, UNIVERSE, OUTER SPACE, ETC. ARE REALLY THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 2. THE GREATEST TRUTH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS THE GOLDEN RULE. 3. EARTHLINGS ARE SOULS WITH BODIES, NOT BODIES WITH SOULS. 4. THERE IS LIFE AFTER RELIGION. IT IS CALLED SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT OR THE REVELATION OF THE SOUL. IT IS YOUR UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. 5. OUR EARTHLY LIFETIME IS JUST ONE OF MANY UNCOUNTABLE LIFETIMES ON DIFFERENT WORLDS THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BRING US TO GOD. WHEN YOU DIE YOU CAN BE REINCARNATED ON THIS WORLD, GO TO ANOTHER WORLD, GO TO A COUNCIL FOR ADVICE, OR GO TO SCHOOL. 6. ALL EARTHLY RELIGIONS ARE MAN-MADE AND ARE BASED ON MYTHOLOGY AND FAITH. 7. BY DESIGN, THE WORLD IS ABOUT MONEY, RELIGION IS ABOUT CONTROL, AND SEX IS ABOUT PLEASURE. 8. GOD IS NO RESPECT OF PERSONS. HE CARES ONLY ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE, NOT WHAT YOU DO. 9. THE ONLY JUDGMENTAL SIN ON EARTH IS DELIBERATELY HURTING ANOTHER PERSON OUT OF REVENGE, OR FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL GAIN. THIS TRUTH SHOWS THAT THE 10 COMMANDMENTS ARE A MYTH, CREATED BY MOSES TO CONTROL THE HEBREWS. 10. BE IN THE WORLD, BUT NOT OF THE WORLD. MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.
Book Synopsis As you Life it - Work as usual. Life as unusual by : Ayon Banerjee
Download or read book As you Life it - Work as usual. Life as unusual written by Ayon Banerjee and published by BecomeShakespeare.com. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is a queer commodity that is reconstructed in memories and deconstructed in regrets as it goes by. Most of us sleepwalk through our youth in trying to win some kind of an identity . Then we stumble upon middle age & scramble to preserve that identity . And suddenly, standing at mid-point , we realize that somewhere in this medley of all the artificial races we were enlisting in, we have quietly let go of our greatness. Partly by default , partly by design. The first pangs of urgency hit us. We know this is no dress rehearsal. It is our own life that is gliding past. We straighten up and reach for it. And try to snare it on print. This book is Ayon’s attempt to capture his journey at intermission, narrated through a heterogeneous ensemble of his articles that take you through events, relationships, successes and failures which add up into the randomness of his life that he joins backwards into coherent stories.
Book Synopsis List of Books of School Libraries for the State of Oregon by :
Download or read book List of Books of School Libraries for the State of Oregon written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unusual Dream Stories by : Walter Stewart
Download or read book Unusual Dream Stories written by Walter Stewart and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unusual Dream Stories by Walter Stewart [--------------------------------------------]
Book Synopsis The Unusual Life of Pearl Lux by : Donna R. McGrew
Download or read book The Unusual Life of Pearl Lux written by Donna R. McGrew and published by Author House. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you read The Horsewhisperer youll love Pearl. He has taken the role of horse trainer into the arena of fascination where the reader can experience the love he had for horses. The little bad boy becomes a legend that lives and breathes his art. He surmounts all the odds to achieve excitement and love through his passion. He rescues the love of his life, Hannah, from physical and mental abuse then becomes the suspect in the murder of Benny Ahrens. He takes a cattle drive to the Nebraska plains with Hannah, Lone Bear and Sweet Water from the Red Cliff Nations of Wisconsin, along with his pals, Jesse and B.J. A cattle stampede is caused by storms in Wisconsin. It leads them to the traders, Vasques and Wilson, and the rescue of the slave Cynci from the Sauk Nations. The group rescues a courier rider tortured by the Ogallalla Sioux, who dies in the arms of the gentle Sweet Water. Transport yourself to another era and time that fascinates and enthralls the reader with every word.
