Tattoo, torture, mutilation, and adornment : the denaturalization of the body in culture and text /

Table of Contents: “…The greatest story (n)ever told / Helena Michie -- Cinematic gifts / Louise Krasniewicz -- Olfactory constitution of the postmodern body / Colleen Ballerino Cohen -- Vandalized vanity / Anne Bolin -- As you stand, so you feel and are / Robyn R. Warhol -- Torture / 䎡cu䮢an S⡥z -- The marked and the un(re)marked / Frances E. …”
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Tattoo, torture, mutilation, and adornment : the denaturalization of the body in culture and text /

Table of Contents: “…The greatest story (n)ever told / Helena Michie -- Cinematic gifts / Louise Krasniewicz -- Olfactory constitution of the postmodern body / Colleen Ballerino Cohen -- Vandalized vanity / Anne Bolin -- As you stand, so you feel and are / Robyn R. Warhol -- Torture / Ñacuñán Sáez -- The marked and the un(re)marked / Frances E. …”
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Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2003 report (to accompany H.R. 1813) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office).

Subjects: “…Torture victims Rehabilitation United States Finance.…”
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Writing on the Body? Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh : Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh. by Inckle, Kay

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The voiages and travels of John Struys through Italy, Greece, Muscovy, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other countries in Europe, Africa and Asia : containing remarks and observations upon the manners, religion, polities, customs and laws of the inhabitants;, and a description of their several cities, towns, forts, and places of strength : together with an account of the authors many dangers by shipwreck, robbery, slavery, hunger, torture, and the like. : And two narratives of the taking of Astracan by the Cossacks, / by Struys, Jan Janszoon, d. 1694

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Lithgow's nineteen years travels through the most eminent places in the habitable world : containing an exact description of the customs, laws, religion, policies and government of emporers, kings, and princes : also of the countries and cities, trades, rivers, and commerce in all places through which he travell'd : also an account of the tortures he suffered under the Spanish Inquisition by racking and other inhumane usages, for his owning the Protestant religion : together with his miraculous deliverance from the cruelties of the papists, which far exceeded any of the heathen countries herein largely described. by Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?

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Reading the social body /

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Virtual war and magical death : technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing /

Table of Contents: “…Ethnography, knowledge, torture and silence /…”
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Repairing play : a Black phenomenology / by Trammell, Aaron

Table of Contents: “…On thinking playfully -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Decolonizing play -- Play as affect -- The capture of play -- Torture and the black American experience -- Recentering blackness in games and play -- Conclusion -- Notes.…”
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An intellectual history of cannibalism / by Avramescu, Cătălin, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A Hobbesian life raft -- The tortures and fate of the body -- Creatures of evil -- The conquest of the savages -- The predicaments of identity -- A question of taste -- The anthropophagus in the city -- The agent of absolute cruelty.…”
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Houdini : the elusive American / by Begley, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the Chinese water torture cell -- A father's legacy -- From dime museums to vaudeville -- The Handcuff King conquers Europe -- Return of the hero -- Aloft Down Under -- The great dissolution -- Making movies -- Among the spirits -- Sucker punch -- Ever after.…”
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Houdini : the elusive American / by Begley, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the Chinese water torture cell -- A father's legacy -- From dime museums to vaudeville -- The Handcuff King conquers Europe -- Return of the hero -- Aloft Down Under -- The great dissolution -- Making movies -- Among the spirits -- Sucker punch -- Ever after.…”
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Houdini : the elusive American / by Begley, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the Chinese water torture cell -- A father's legacy -- From dime museums to vaudeville -- The Handcuff King conquers Europe -- Return of the hero -- Aloft Down Under -- The great dissolution -- Making movies -- Among the spirits -- Sucker punch -- Ever after.…”
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In search of an alternative biopolitics : anti-bullfighting, animality, and the environment in contemporary Spain / by Beilin, Katarzyna Olga, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Bullfighting biopolitics and debates on national culture -- Anti-bullfighting activists as marginal intellectuals -- Science, politics, and animals: Tiempo de silencio as an anti-bullfighting novel -- Meanings of animalization and humanity as anthropomorphism -- Animal rights movement for an alternative biopolitics -- Bullfighting and the war on terror: debates on culture and torture in Spain, 2004-11 -- Die or laugh: biopolitical crisis in Biutiful and Nocilla experience -- Debates on GMOs in Spain and Rosa Montero's Lágrimas en la lluvia (with Sainath Suryanarayanan) -- Conclusion: In search of alternative biopolitics.…”

The invisible hook : the hidden economics of pirates / by Leeson, Peter T., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The invisible hook -- Vote for Blackbeard : the economics of pirate democracy -- An-arrgh-chy : the economics of the pirate code -- Skull & bones : the economics of the Jolly Roger -- Walk the plank : the economics of pirate torture -- Pressing pegleg : the economics of pirate conscription -- Equal pay for equal prey : the economics of pirate tolerance -- The secrets of pirate management -- Epilogue: omnipresent economics -- Postscript: You can't keep a sea dog down : the fall and rise of piracy.…”
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The invisible hook : the hidden economics of pirates / by Leeson, Peter T., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The invisible hook -- Vote for Blackbeard : the economics of pirate democracy -- An-arrgh-chy : the economics of the pirate code -- Skull & bones : the economics of the Jolly Roger -- Walk the plank : the economics of pirate torture -- Pressing pegleg : the economics of pirate conscription -- Equal pay for equal prey : the economics of pirate tolerance -- The secrets of pirate management -- Epilogue: omnipresent economics -- Postscript: You can't keep a sea dog down : the fall and rise of piracy.…”
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American tricksters : thoughts on the shadow side of a culture's psyche / by Jackson, William J. 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Bush as painter -- Appendix 7. On torture.…”
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Living waters : reading the rivers of the lower Great Lakes / by Wooster, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Interlude: harmonic convergence, Niagara Falls -- Scajaquada: portrait of an urban creek -- Buffalo River abandoned -- Interlude: the power of water -- II: Beginnings -- Genesee torture tree: rereading little beard's signs -- Zoar Valley genesis -- Interlude: killdeer and other mysteries -- III: The eastern door -- High peaks, cloud lakes -- Oswego, Onondaga, and the politics of listing -- Le Fleuve -- Interlude: second voyage -- Leopold revisited.…”
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In search of an alternative biopolitics : anti-bullfighting, animality, and the environment in contemporary Spain / by Beilin, Katarzyna Olga, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Bullfighting biopolitics and debates on national culture -- Anti-bullfighting activists as marginal intellectuals -- Science, politics, and animals: Tiempo de silencio as an anti-bullfighting novel -- Meanings of animalization and humanity as anthropomorphism -- Animal rights movement for an alternative biopolitics -- Bullfighting and the war on terror: debates on culture and torture in Spain, 2004-11 -- Die or laugh: biopolitical crisis in Biutiful and Nocilla experience -- Debates on GMOs in Spain and Rosa Montero's Lágrimas en la lluvia (with Sainath Suryanarayanan) -- Conclusion: In search of alternative biopolitics.…”
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The cutting edge : Khoe-San rock-markings at the Gestoptefontein-Driekuil engraving complex, North West Province, South Africa / by Hollmann, Jeremy C.

Table of Contents: “…Preface; I Introduction; 1 What this all means; 2 Research context; II The rock art of the GDC; 3 Gestural markings; 4 Anthropomorphs and zoomorphs; 5 Decorative designs and patterns; 6 Ethnography; 7 Depictions of clothing in the GDC; 8 Ornaments and decorations; III Khoe-San womanhood; 9 Girls' puberty rites; IV Back to the hills; 10 The significance of gestural markings; 11 Themes in referential art; V Conclusion; 12 The value of the GDC study; Bibliography; Appendix: A kind of torture: the GDC survey.…”
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