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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788669503321

Autore

Kelly Tobias

Titolo

This side of silence [[electronic resource] ] : human rights, torture, and the recognition of cruelty / / Tobias Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-89655-9

0-8122-0523-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Disciplina

364.6/7

Soggetti

Torture - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain

Political prisoners - Abuse of - Great Britain

Political prisoners - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain

Suffering - Political aspects - Great Britain

Human rights - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Talking about Torture after the Human Rights Revolution -- Chapter 2. The Legal Recognition of Torture Survivors -- Chapter 3. Clinical Evidence about Torture -- Chapter 4. Predicting the Future Risk of Torture -- Chapter 5. Prosecuting Torture -- Chapter 6. The Shame of Torture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about violence, and our current understandings of the term are rooted in recent twentieth-century history. In This Side of Silence, social anthropologist Tobias Kelly argues that the tensions between post-Cold War armed conflict, human rights activism, medical notions of suffering, and concerns over immigration have produced a distinctively new way of thinking about torture, which is saturated with notions of law and trauma. This Side of Silence asks what forms of suffering and cruelty can be acknowledged when looking at the world



through the narrow legal category of torture. The book focuses on the recent history of Britain but draws wider comparative conclusions, tracing attempts to recognize survivors and perpetrators across the fields of asylum, criminal law, international human rights, and military justice. In this thorough and eloquent ethnography, Kelly avoids treating the legal prohibition of torture as the inevitable product of progress and yet does not seek to dismiss the real differences it has made in concrete political struggles. Based on extensive archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, the book argues that the problem of recognition rests not in the inability of the survivor to communicate but in our inability to listen and take responsibility for the injustice before us.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793651703321

Titolo

Insect molecular viology : advances and emerging trends / / edited by Bryony C. Bonning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Norfolk, UK : , : Caister Academic Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-912530-09-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Disciplina

595.702

Soggetti

Insects - Viruses

Insects - Virus diseases

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824454303321

Autore

Ball Derek <1942->

Titolo

An introduction to real analysis / / Derek G. Ball

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Pergamon Press, , 1973

©1973

ISBN

1-4831-5896-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

Commonwealth and International Library. Mathematical Topics

Disciplina

515

Soggetti

Mathematical analysis

Numbers, Real

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; An Introduction to Real Analysis; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION. THE PURPOSE OF REAL ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 1. SETS, RELATIONS, AND FUNCTIONS; 1.1. Sets; 1.2. Relations and Functions; CHAPTER 2. NUMBERS; 2.1. Natural numbers; 2.2. Integers; 2.3. Rationals; 2.4. Real Numbers; 2.5. Irrationals; 2.6. Appendix; CHAPTER 3. SEQUENCES; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Limits of sequences; 3.3. Elementary theorems about sequences; 3.4. Behaviour of monotonie sequences; 3.5. Sequences defined by recurrence relations; 3.6. More sequences and their limits

3.7. Upper and lower limitsCHAPTER 4. SERIES; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Convergence of a series; 4.3. More series, convergent and divergent; 4.4 The comparison test; 4.5. Decimal representation; 4.6. Absolute convergence; 4.7. Conditional convergence; 4.8. Rearrangement of series; 4.9. Multiplication of series; CHAPTER 5. FUNCTIONS OF A REAL VARIABLE; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Limits; 5.3. Properties of limits; 5.4. Continuity; 5.5. The place of pathological functions in real analysis; 5.6. The nature of discontinuities; 5.7. Properties of continuous functions; CHAPTER 6. THE DERIVATIVE

6.1. Derivatives and their evaluation6.2. Rolle's theorem and the nature of the derivative; 6.3. Mean value theorems; 6.4. Applications of derivatives; 6.5. Taylor series; CHAPTER 7. SOME IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS AND EXPANSIONS; 7.1. Power series; 7.2. The exponential function; 7.3. Trigonometric functions; 7.4. Logarithmic functions; 7.5.



Infinite products; 7.6. The binomial theorem; CHAPTER 8. THE RIEMANN INTEGRAL; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. The Riemann integral; 8.3. Integrability of monotonic functions; 8.4. Continuous functions and the Riemann integral

8.5. Further applications of the fundamental theorem8.6. Alternative approach to the logarithmic function; 8.7. Infinite and improper integrals; 8.8 Volumes of revolution; ANSWERS AND HINTS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

An Introduction to Real Analysis presents the concepts of real analysis and highlights the problems which necessitate the introduction of these concepts. Topics range from sets, relations, and functions to numbers, sequences, series, derivatives, and the Riemann integral. This volume begins with an introduction to some of the problems which are met in the use of numbers for measuring, and which provide motivation for the creation of real analysis. Attention then turns to real numbers that are built up from natural numbers, with emphasis on integers, rationals, and irrationals. The chapters tha