Pain Torture Agony

Pain Torture Agony
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ISBN-10 : 1940391237
ISBN-13 : 9781940391236
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Pain Torture Agony by : Ron Hutchison

American AGONY

American AGONY
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Publisher : Fresh Ink Group
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781947867703
ISBN-13 : 1947867709
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis American AGONY by : Helen Borel

Managing pain with opioids is a science—except politics, money, and overzealous law enforcement are denying American patients the relief they so desperately need. Demonizing the best pain reliever we have leads to needless suffering, even suicides, and it drives the rise in deadly street drugs. Helen Borel gathers and presents the evidence, the intimidation, the raids of clinics, the chilling effect on those very professionals we trust to care for our loved ones and ourselves. She looks hard at the Veterans Administration, Drug Enforcement Agency, Department of Justice, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chapters include “The Suboxone Hoax,” “The Wrong Arms of the Law,” and “The Epidemic of Death,” plus an entire section on solutions for this widespread crisis. Read American AGONY now—or youmight be the next one hurt.

Drawing Heat

Drawing Heat
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Publisher : Windsor, Ont. : Black Moss Press
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000014737916
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Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Drawing Heat by : Jim Freedman

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780195036015
ISBN-13 : 0195036018
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by : Elaine Scarry

Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Kissinger, She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain enormously difficult to describe in words--confronted with it, Virginia Woolf once noted, "language runs dry"--it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme instances to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry analyzes the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of torture and warfare, and shows how to be fictive. From these actions of "unmaking" Scarry turns finally to the actions of "making"--the examples of artistic and cultural creation that work against pain and the debased uses that are made of it. Challenging and inventive, The Body in Pain is landmark work that promises to spark widespread debate.

LIFE

LIFE
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Total Pages : 132
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis LIFE by :

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way

Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
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Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780983358909
ISBN-13 : 0983358907
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by : Brad Warner

This new translation and commentary of ancient Buddhist text by a best-selling author and teacher transcends idealism and materialism.

The Secret Life of Houdini

The Secret Life of Houdini
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 998
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ISBN-10 : 9781847396198
ISBN-13 : 1847396194
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Secret Life of Houdini by : William Kalush

Using exclusive access to newly uncovered archives, Kalush and Sloman reveal the clandestine agreements in which the British and Americans recruited Houdini to be an active secret agent. In exchange for his cooperation, the governments of these two countries facilitated his rise to the top of the world stage. The authors give thrilling accounts of his assignments, such as his participation in early aerial surveillance and his use of his own magic magazine to communicate espionage-related information. After the war, Houdini embarked upon what became his most dangerous mission when he took on the Spiritualist movement. Convinced that Spiritualist mediums were frauds, he became obsessed with exposing them. But the Spiritualists were a powerful adversary. An organized network of fanatics, led by Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, worked relentlessly to orchestrate a campaign that would silence Houdini forever. Grounded in solid research, but as exciting and dramatic as a good thriller, THE SECRET LIFE OF HOUDINI traces the magician's long and circuitous route from struggling vaudevillian to worldwide legend.

The Pall Mall Magazine

The Pall Mall Magazine
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Total Pages : 700
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015027986622
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Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pall Mall Magazine by :