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Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-13 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-01 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of eve
Language: en
Pages: 417
Pages: 417
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-10 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Silver Gavel Award Finalist “A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms s
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-01 - Publisher: Metropolitan Books
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