Product Description: Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition? As American transforms in the post-Bush era, scholars have begun to assess the post-9/11 period in American foreign and domestic policy, asking difficult questions regarding torture and human rights...read more

Product Description: How did the United States, a nation known for protecting the "right to remain silent" become notorious for condoning and using controversial tactics like water boarding and extraordinary rendition to extract information? What forces determine the laws that define acceptable interrogation techniques and how do they shift so quickly from one extreme to another? In Confessions of Guilt, esteemed scholars George C...read more

Product Description: Stephen Kershnar’s take on torture is unique for four reasons. First, it provides a distinct analysis of what torture is. Second, it argues that on non-consequentialist grounds, specifically rights-based ones, torture is sometimes permissible...read more

Product Description: This series helps students to develop critical thinking, to form opinions, and may help them to become a part of the solution.

Product Description: The At Issue series includes a wide range of opinion on a single controversial subject. Each volume includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives -- eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials and many others...read more

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Citing the allegations of torture used within the domestic criminal justice system that were revealed by the events at Abu Ghraib, a collection of twelve essays by leading authorities includes Reed Brody's analysis of 'ghost detainees,' Eitan Felner's observations on the Israeli experience, and Kenneth Roth's exposé of the U.S. government's shift from cover-up to justification practices.

Every day, all over the world, men, women and children are subjected to torture. Usually these crimes are not investigated and no one is prosecuted. Torture is committed with impunity. This book highlights the need for more pressure on governments to investigate such cases.

This edition has been updated and revised to incorporate equal coverage of both physical and historical geology. It features: expanded discussion of dinosaurs in a chapter entitled "Mesozoic Life"; a new chapter, "The Proterozoic", which contains a thorough discussion of the origin of life; revised discussion of the solar system has been combined with "The Archean" to provide fundamental background information on the origin of the planet; and coverage of volcanic activity, earthquakes, coastal erosion and hazards, flooding, water supply, and landslides and human activities.