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Paperback. Tosaka Jun (1900-1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka. Editor(s): Kawashima, Ken C.; Schafer, Fabian; Stolz, Robert. Series: Cornell University East Asia Program. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947686
- ISBN
- 9781933947686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.44
€ 46.99
€ 41.44
Paperback. This text tells the story of how the idea that physical suffering could be a path to redemption became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Using documents from criminal cases, it looks at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HRAB; JFCX; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226757544
- ISBN
- 9780226757544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Series: War Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; APFA; HBJK; HBLX; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813564029
- ISBN
- 9780813564029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.80
€ 46.99
€ 45.80
Hardback. Looks at the relationship between torture and colonial domination through a examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. This book presents an anatomy of torture - its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. It also shows how torture was central to guerre revolutionnaire. Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBA; 3JJPG; HBW; JWKT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691131351
- ISBN
- 9780691131351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.63€ 54.20
€ 70.63
€ 54.20
Paperback. This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation. Series: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405162029
- ISBN
- 9781405162029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.55
€ 30.55
Hardback. This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation. Series: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405162012
- ISBN
- 9781405162012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.86
€ 84.86
Paperback. Explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, this crisply written book provides an account of how European legal systems became dependent on the use of torture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3J; HBT; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226468945
- ISBN
- 9780226468945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.52
€ 34.99
€ 27.52
Hardback. S. Editor(s): Pallitto, Robert M. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402482
- ISBN
- 9781421402482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.33€ 58.90
€ 65.33
€ 58.90
Paperback. S. Editor(s): Pallitto, Robert M. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402499
- ISBN
- 9781421402499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.31
€ 33.99
€ 28.31
Paperback. * Ties together eucharistic theology with concrete eucharistic practice* Includes interviews with ecclesiastical officials and grassroots Church workers in Chile. . Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCM; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631211990
- ISBN
- 9780631211990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 52.61
€ 52.99
€ 52.61
Hardback. Contends that the Eucharist is the Church's response to the use of torture as a social discipline. This book develops a theology of the political which presents torture as one instance of a larger confrontation of powers over bodies, both individual and social. Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCM; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 186 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1128.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631211198
- ISBN
- 9780631211198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.12
€ 154.12
Paperback. Takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the democracies of Latin America and Europe. Num Pages: 880 pages, 1 halftone. 9 tables. BIC Classification: HBT; JPA; JWA; JWKT; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1234.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 880
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143330
- ISBN
- 9780691143330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.50€ 44.53
€ 56.50
€ 44.53
Paperback. "In the restrained prose of Torture lies a passionate message about the intentional violation of the bodies of human beings, in our time and in the past."-New York Times Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFE; JKVP1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215991
- ISBN
- 9780812215991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.80
€ 36.99
€ 35.80
Paperback. Explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews Editor(s): Biswas, Shampa; Zalloua, Zahi. Series: Global Re-Visions. Num Pages: 4 illus. BIC Classification: HPQ; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991221
- ISBN
- 9780295991221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.97
€ 36.97
Paperback. This history of tort law in America looks at how the subject has been conceptualized, pointing out why changes in rules occurred, and who did the changing. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 31. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 2 Expanded ed
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195139655
- ISBN
- 9780195139655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.52
€ 72.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBG; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Aboriginal Studies Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780855753139
- ISBN
- 9780855753139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.96
€ 29.99
€ 21.96
Hardback. Travel with Toronto's 75th Battalion to Niagara, England and to the First World War zone in Belgium and France and witness how ordinary young men carried out extraordinary deeds through the terror and horror of the first global conflict. Foreword by His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales. Num Pages: 340 pages, colour illus & maps. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 180 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771121828
- ISBN
- 9781771121828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.30
€ 79.30
Hardback. Toronto, the Belfast of Canada explores the intolerant origins of today's cosmopolitan city. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1KBCO; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442646872
- ISBN
- 9781442646872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.13
€ 78.13
Hardback. Following in the wake of Javelin: An Operational History this new release from Mike Napier approaches the subject of the Tornado GR1 from the perspective of the RAF squadrons that actually operated the aircraft. Num Pages: 256 pages, 250 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; HBW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473873025
- ISBN
- 9781473873025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.25
€ 33.99
€ 24.25
Hardback. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic, liberal Judaism and tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over what an authentically Jewish position ought to be on issues ranging from desegregation to Zionism, and from Vietnam to gender relations, sexuality, and family life. Series: Religion & American Culture S. Num Pages: 392 pages, 38 illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123747
- ISBN
- 9780231123747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.30€ 81.33
€ 108.30
€ 81.33