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41) Rendition
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen format (2.35:first).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116, 15 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Investigates the torture and killing of an innocent Afghani taxi driver in a gripping probe into reckless abuses of government power. This stunningly crafted narrative demonstrates how one man's life and death symbolizes the erosion of our civil rights.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ben Jameson begins his teaching career in a small private school in Northern Virginia. He is idealistic, happy to have his first job after graduate school and hoping some day to figure out what he really wants out of life. In the two years he teaches English at Glenn Acres Preparatory School, he discovers what he believes will be his life's work; teaching is what he finally comes to with all his heart. His fiance believes he suffers from a 'Christ...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum...
48) Canaan's gate
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bay Tanner investigates the suspicious death of a wealthy matron amid allegations of a scam targeting seniors, a situation that is complicated by the disappearance of Bay's client and Red's mixed feelings about working for the agency.
Publisher
BookaVivo
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
[1o edición].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (01 hr., 51 min.))
Language
Español
Description
Formal authority implicitly carries power. But very few people are aware that there is also an informal power, which is not linked to any position or hierarchy, but capable of exerting great impact. How can you use your power to make it more influential? This book explains how power affects our emotions, our behavior and the way we interact with others. You will learn how to be self-aware to keep your power in check, as well as connect with the right...
52) Councilor
Author
Series
The grand illusion volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
514 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Continued poor harvests and steam-powered industrialization displace and impoverish thousands. Protests grow and gather followers. Against this rising tide of social unrest, Steffan Dekkard, newly appointed to the Council of Sixty-Six, is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths. This makes him dangerous. As unknown entities seek to assassinate him, Dekkard struggles...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 381 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back. Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Twenty-fifth Anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 750 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beset by the political tension of an unsettled ear, Gandhi calls for British removal from India. Police Superintendent Ronald Merrick arrests an Indian news reporter. Daphne Manner arrives from London. Merrick vents his frustrations on Kumar in a vicious jailhouse beating. Daphne gives birth. Mildred Layton prepares for her daughter's wedding. The Governor finds out about Merrick's abuse. Sarah is seduced by an officer. Susan delivers a baby boy....
56) Colditz
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This films tells a remarkable story of the prisoners in the German POW camp called Colditz.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former InStyle senior news editor examines the underside of our historic clothing binge and the fashion industry's fall from grace, exploring the lives of the millions of garment workers around the world and exposing the complicity of celebrities whose endorsements obscure the exploitation behind marquee brands.
Author
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
vii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The inside story of the first female general ever to command troops in a combat zone, and of how the scandal of Abu Ghraib destroyed her career. It traces the rise of a groundbreaking woman from the Republican suburbs of New Jersey to a commanding position in a man's army. She earned her insignia as a master parachutist, received the Bronze Star in the first Gulf War, and as the leader chosen for a special mission to train Arab women as a fighting...
Publisher
Shelter Island
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal, and medical experts and portrayed through staged demonstrations as spelled out in declassified government...
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