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Book Synopsis The Torture House by : Randy N. Scarborough
Download or read book The Torture House written by Randy N. Scarborough and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Torture House by Randy N. Scarborough The Torture House begins with a seemingly ordinary couple and their longing to have children. As readers follow the Carver family, everything seems to go wrong. This thriller shows the dangerous mind of a madman and details a web of horror that sucks in anyone unfortunate enough to have known the Carvers. Will detectives Richards and Roberts put together the pieces of the crime in time to save these unfortunate men and women from the torture house? Read on to find out.
Download or read book House of Evil written by John Dean and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come... When police found Sylvia's emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death. Soon they would learn how many others—including some of Baniszewski's own children—participated in Sylvia's murder, and just how much torture had been inflicted in one HOUSE OF EVIL
Book Synopsis Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House by : Carolyn Morrow Long
Download or read book Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House written by Carolyn Morrow Long and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-03-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the "Most Haunted" House in New Orleans The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron, has haunted the city of New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. When fire destroyed part of her home in 1834, the public was outraged to learn that behind closed doors Lalaurie routinely bound, starved, and tortured her slaves. Forced to flee the city, her guilt was unquestioned, and tales of her actions have become increasingly fanciful and grotesque over the decades. Even today, the Laulaurie house is described as the city 's "most haunted" during ghost tours. Carolyn Long, a meticulous researcher of New Orleans history, disentangles the threads of fact and legend that have intertwined over the decades. Was Madame Lalaurie a sadistic abuser? Mentally ill? Or merely the victim of an unfair and sensationalist press? Using carefully documented eyewitness testimony, archival documents, and family letters, Long recounts Lalaurie's life from legal troubles before the fire and scandal through her exile to France and death in Paris in 1849. Themes of mental illness, wealth, power, and questions of morality in a society that condoned the purchase and ownership of other human beings pervade the book, lending it an appeal to anyone interested in antebellum history. Long's ability to tease the truth from the knots of sensationalism is uncanny as she draws the facts from the legend of Madame Lalaurie's haunted house.
Book Synopsis A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo by : Jamal Barnes
Download or read book A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo written by Jamal Barnes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Abolishing torture -- 2 The taboo and the fear of regression -- 3 The Nuremburg Trials and the Universal Declaration -- 4 Decolonisation and the UN Convention Against Torture -- 5 The politics of the definition of torture -- 6 Torture and the 'war on terror' -- Conclusion -- Index
Book Synopsis Anatomy of Torture by : Ron E. Hassner
Download or read book Anatomy of Torture written by Ron E. Hassner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy of Torture, Ron E. Hassner mines the archives of the Spanish Inquisition to propose an answer that will frustrate and infuriate both sides of the divide. The Inquisition's scribes recorded every torment, every scream, and every confession in the torture chamber. Their transcripts reveal that Inquisitors used torture deliberately and meticulously, unlike the rash, improvised methods used by the United States after 9/11. In their relentless pursuit of underground Jewish communities in Spain and Mexico, the Inquisition tortured in cold blood. But they treated any information extracted with caution: torture was used to test information provided through other means, not to uncover startling new evidence. Hassner's findings in Anatomy of Torture have important implications for ongoing torture debates. Rather than insist that torture is ineffective, torture critics should focus their attention on the morality of torture. If torture is evil, its efficacy is irrelevant. At the same time, torture defenders cannot advocate for torture as a counterterrorist "quick fix": torture has never located, nor will ever locate, the hypothetical "ticking bomb" that is frequently invoked to justify brutality in the name of security.
Book Synopsis The Toolbox Killers: Lawrence Bittaker And Roy Norris' Reign Of Torture by : ANONYMOUS
Download or read book The Toolbox Killers: Lawrence Bittaker And Roy Norris' Reign Of Torture written by ANONYMOUS and published by THE PUBLISHER. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Toolbox Killers: Lawrence Bittaker And Roy Norris' Reign Of Torture," readers are taken on a chilling journey into the disturbing crimes committed by Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris. This true crime book explores the lives of the infamous duo, from their troubled childhoods to their fateful encounter in prison. The narrative delves into the planning and execution of their twisted crimes, as well as the horrifying details of their abductions and torture chamber. As the victims' final moments are uncovered, the book also follows the subsequent arrest, trial, and the lasting impact these crimes had on society. Through an exploration of the murderers' minds, unresolved questions are raised, leaving readers haunted by the lasting legacy of the Toolbox Killers.
Book Synopsis Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 by : Aaron Michael Kerner
Download or read book Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 written by Aaron Michael Kerner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saw, Hostel, The Devil’s Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label “torture porn.” Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply reflect iconic images, anxieties, and sadistic fantasies that have emerged from the War on Terror. In this timely new study, Aaron Kerner challenges that interpretation, arguing that “torture porn” must be understood in a much broader context, as part of a phenomenon that spans multiple media genres and is rooted in a long tradition of American violence. Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 tackles a series of tough philosophical, historical, and aesthetic questions: What does it mean to call a film “sadistic,” and how has this term been used to shut down critical debate? In what sense does torture porn respond to current events, and in what ways does it draw from much older tropes? How has torture porn been influenced by earlier horror film cycles, from slasher movies to J-horror? And in what ways has the torture porn aesthetic gone mainstream, popping up in everything from the television thriller Dexter to the reality show Hell’s Kitchen? Reflecting a deep knowledge and appreciation for the genre, Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 is sure to resonate with horror fans. Yet Kerner’s arguments should also strike a chord in anyone with an interest in the history of American violence and its current and future ramifications for the War on Terror.
Book Synopsis Secret Agent “X”: The Torture Trust by : Brant House
Download or read book Secret Agent “X”: The Torture Trust written by Brant House and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Torture Trust" they called themselves--that unholy trio who met in a hidden room in a deserted part of the city. Brilliant men by day, leading scholarly and productive lives as far as the police and the outside world were concerned, secretly they donned black cloaks and ran an organization of evil ... for "The Torture Trust" threatened their blackmail victims with a terrible acid bath, leaving a trail of faceless corpses to bear mute testimony to their power! Fearless, alone, Secret Agent X went against them in a desperate battle of wits at the gateway to destruction! A classic pulp adventure-mystery, ripped from the pages of the February, 1934 issue of Secret Agent "X" magazine!
Download or read book The Torture Trust written by Brant House and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Torture Trust is a crime-fighting adventure story by Brant House. It presents us with Secret Agent X, a super-secret crime-fighter who is a master of disguise and is pursued by the police as well as by criminals.
Book Synopsis Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God by : Mario I Aguilar
Download or read book Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God written by Mario I Aguilar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God can be used by the powerful to justify violence in the name of order, he can also be used by the weak to illuminate the position of the victims of political conflict. Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God explores the theological possibilities of a God who is a prisoner and a victim of torture. The book relocates God to the horrors of the military abuse of human rights in Chile and the systematic rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Aguilar argues that this theological exercise offers us new ways of understanding the abuse of power, whether it be the clerical abuse of children, violence against women, or homophobia. This examination of torture and rape becomes, through a theology of praxis and compliance, an examination of solidarity, love and affection. The book concludes with an exploration of the possibilities of a tortured God who liberates.
Book Synopsis One Generation of a Norfolk House by : Augustus Jessopp
Download or read book One Generation of a Norfolk House written by Augustus Jessopp and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Witnessing Torture by : Alexandra S. Moore
Download or read book Witnessing Torture written by Alexandra S. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber. By dismantling the rhetorical divide that typically separates survivors’ suffering from human rights workers’ expertise, contributors engage with the personal, professional, and institutional dimensions of torture and redress. Essays in this volume consider torture from diverse locations – the Philippines, Argentina, Sudan, and Guantánamo, among others. From across the globe, contributors witness both individual pain and institutional complicity; the challenges of building communities of healing across linguistic and national divides; and the role of the law, art, writing, and teaching in representing and responding to torture.
Book Synopsis A History of the House of Percy by : Gerald Brenan
Download or read book A History of the House of Percy written by Gerald Brenan and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Percy is one of the most illustrious in English history and the Percy family has controlled the Earldom (later Dukedom) of Northumberland with very few breaks since the time of William the Conqueror.
Book Synopsis Torture as State Crime by : Melanie Collard
Download or read book Torture as State Crime written by Melanie Collard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we understand torture by focusing on the torture chamber or even on the states in which it is practiced, or do we have to consider the wider political context in which it is embedded? This is the central question of this book which explores concepts of state crime for understanding and responding to the indirect use of torture by external nation states. Drawing on the cooperation between France and Argentina in Argentina's Dirty War, this book explores the utility of the concept of state crime for understanding and responding to the indirect use of torture by external nation states with a detailed examination of the exportation of torture techniques and training expertise as complicity in torture. Discussing the institutionalisation of torture in its international structural context, this book focuses on examining three alleged manifestations of the torturer: direct perpetrator, institutional perpetrator, and transnational institutional perpetrator. Important reading for those in the fields of criminology, sociology, international relations and human rights law, this book will also be of key interest to scholars and students in the areas of state crime, human rights and imperialism.
Book Synopsis The Amityville Horror by : Jay Anson
Download or read book The Amityville Horror written by Jay Anson and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times)—the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property—complete with boathouse and swimming pool—and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, shocking true story that gripped the nation about an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining—“this book will scare the hell out of you” (Kansas City Star).
Book Synopsis House Documents by : USA House of Representatives
Download or read book House Documents written by USA House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Torture in Popular Culture by : Alex Adams
Download or read book Political Torture in Popular Culture written by Alex Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural representations provide a vital arena in which political meaning is generated, negotiated, and contested. Adams explores whether liberal democracies can ever legitimately perpetrate torture, contrasting assertions that torture can function as a legitimate counterterrorism measure with human rights-based arguments that torture is never morally permissible. He examines the philosophical foundations of pro- and anti-torture positions, looking at their manifestations in a range of literary, filmic and popular cultural texts, and assesses the material effects of these representations. Literary novels, televisual texts, films, and critical theoretical discourse are all covered, focusing on the ways that aesthetic and textual strategies are mobilised to create specific political effects. This book is the first sustained analysis of the torture debate and the role that cultural narratives and representations play within it. It will be of great use to scholars interested in the emerging canon of post-9/11 cultural texts about torture, as well as scholars and students working in politics, history, geography, human rights, international relations, and terrorism studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and film studies.
