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UNINA9910828958503321 |
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Arsenault Elizabeth Grimm |
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How the gloves came off : lawyers, policy makers, and norms in the debate on torture / / Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault |
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New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare |
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Torture - Government policy - United States |
Prisoners of war - United States - History |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Background -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of Pow Treatment in The United States -- 3. Modern Pow Treatment in The United States -- Part Two. Evolution of Norms around Pow Treatment -- 4. Pow Treatment and Lawyers -- 5. Pow Treatment and Policy Makers -- 6. Pow Treatment and Interrogators -- Part Three. Conclusion -- 7. Implications and Recommendations -- Appendix A: Who's Who -- Appendix B: Timeline of Major Events -- Appendix C: Acronyms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Guantánamo Bay, and far-flung CIA "black sites" after the attacks of 9/11 included cruelty that defied legal and normative prohibitions in U.S. and international law. The antitorture stance of the United States was brushed aside. Since then, the guarantee of American civil liberties and due process for POWs and detainees has grown muddled, threatening the norms that sustain modern democracies. How the Gloves Came Off considers the legal and political arguments that led to this standoff between civility and chaos and their significant consequences for the strategic interests and standing of the United States. Unpacking the rhetoric surrounding the push for unitary executive action in wartime, How the Gloves Came Off traces the unmaking of the consensus against torture. It implicates |
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U.S. military commanders, high-level government administrators, lawyers, and policy makers from both parties, exposing the ease with which powerful actors manipulated ambiguities to strip detainees of their humanity. By targeting the language and logic that made torture thinkable, this book shows how future decision makers can craft an effective counternarrative and set a new course for U.S. policy toward POWs and detainees. Whether leaders use their influence to reinforce a prohibition of cruelty to prisoners or continue to undermine long-standing international law will determine whether the United States retains a core component of its founding identity. |
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UNINA9910816202603321 |
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Autore |
MacPhail Eric |
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Dancing around the well : the circulation of commonplaces in Renaissance humanism / / Eric M. MacPhail |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, , 0920-8607 ; ; Volume 232 |
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European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - Classical influences |
Proverbs - History and criticism |
Maxims - History and criticism |
Metaphor |
Clichés |
Humanism in literature |
Commonplace books - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Dancing Around the Well -- 1 In the Beginning there was Chaos -- 2 A Gem in its Setting -- 3 Words Frozen and Thawed -- 4 Rhapsody in Prose -- 5 The Mosaic of Speech -- 6 The Universal Library -- 7 In a Roman Mirror -- Conclusion: |
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Emptying the Well -- Bibliography -- Index locorum communium -- Index rerum perutilium -- Index nominum illustrium -- Index Erasmianus. |
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This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process of reanimation and revitalization, where frozen sayings thaw out and come to life, or conversely as a process of immobilization and incrustation that petrifies tradition. The paradigmatic figure for this process is the proverbial dance around the well, which expresses both the danger and the compulsion of borrowed speech. |
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UNINA9910140313003321 |
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Autore |
Frink Richard J (Richard James), <1929-> |
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Inflammatory atherosclerosis : characteristics of the injurious agent / / Richard J. Frink |
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Sacramento, Calif., : Heart Research Foundation, c2002 |
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1 online resource (xiii, 111, [2] p. of plates ) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; |
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Coronary Artery Disease - etiology |
Arteriosclerosis |
Arteriosclerosis - Etiology |
Thrombosis |
Cardiovascular system - Diseases |
Coronary Disease |
Myocardial Ischemia |
Arterial Occlusive Diseases |
Vascular Diseases |
Heart Diseases |
Cardiovascular Diseases |
Disease |
Coronary Artery Disease |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-104) and index. |
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The beginnings. a multicentric disease -- The smooth muscle cell. the pivot in atherosclerosis -- Inflammation. a sign of active disease -- Atheromas are caseous abscesses -- Calcification: a physiologic defense -- Adventitia -- the ultimate defense -- Surface erosions -- Blind pockets and false channels -- Thrombosis and the injurious agent -- Chronic ulcerated plaques -- What is the injurious agent? -- The toxic atheroma -- Plaque toxins and clinical coronary syndromes. |
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