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Book SynopsisThis searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir's time inside America's most notorious prison. Lakhdar and Mustafa were living quiet, peaceful lives in Bosnia when, in October 2001, they were arrested and accused of participating in a terrorist plot. After a three-month investigation uncovered no evidence, all charges were dropped and Bosnian courts ordered their freedom. However, under intense U.S. pressure, Bosnian officials turned them over to American soldiers. They were flown blindfolded and shackled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were held in outdoor cages for weeks as the now-infamous military prison was built around them. Guantanamo became their home for the next seven years. They endured torture and harassment and force-feedings and beatings, all the while not knowing if they would ever see their families again. They had no opportunity to argue their innocence until 2008, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in their case, Boumediene v. Bush, confirming Guantanamo detainees' constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court. Weeks later, the George W. Bush–appointed federal judge who heard their case, stunned by the absence of evidence against them, ordered their release. Now living in Europe and rebuilding their lives, Lakhdar and Mustafa are finally free to share a story that every American ought to know. Learn more at witnessesbook.com or donate to a crowdsourced restitution fund at GoFundMe.com/witnesses.Trade Review"The U.S. government didn't want you to hear about life in the 'legal black hole' of Guantanamo. Having won the right to a judicial hearing and secured their release, Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir tell the urgent, compelling story behind their detention and one of the most important Supreme Court decisions of this century. It's a revealing and moving look at what the U.S. government tried desperately to hide."—David Cole, Professor, Georgetown Law, and National Legal Director, ACLU"Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir are two of the most notorious victims of the U.S.'s post-9/11 program of rendition, torture, and indefinite detention. Kidnapped on groundless suspicions, they are perfectly placed to reflect on the horrors of Guantanamo and the 'war on terror.' With a warmth and intelligence sadly lacking in America's treatment of them, this powerful joint memoir exposes their captors' cruelty and the Kafkaesque twists and turns of the U.S. government's efforts to build a case against them."—Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison"Witnesses of the Unseen courageously exposes an ugly episode in U.S. history, restoring to Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir the humanity hijacked from them by the American government. This book transcends geography and time to take readers from Boumediene and Ait Idir's early years of innocence to their long imprisonment in the cages of Guantanamo. A must read for all people of conscience."—Shakeel Syed, Former Executive Director, Islamic Shura Council"This no-frills account of their time in Guantánamo is disturbing, as the authors detail their mistreatment at the hands of prison guards and interrogators and how they were held in outdoor cages as the prison was built around them. Readers will be shocked by the lack of evidence against the men and how the tenuous ties among a group of casual friends fueled the government's crusade against them. An intense, important read for anyone interested in the American government's misguided efforts at Guantánamo. "—Kirkus Reviews "This book gives us insight into a dark period of U.S. history that is bound to repeat itself, unless more people like Mustafa and Lakhdar agree to tell their stories. Through their compelling first person accounts, told with enormous sensitivity, we learn how a culture of fear and suspicion can result in cruelty, injustice, and total disregard for humanity. There is horror, but there is also immense hope in this world where dedicated people, including the victims who have suffered untold indignities, speak up and speak out."—John Heffernan, Executive Director, Speak Truth To Power, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights"In Guantanamo, Mustafa and Lakhdar often lifted my spirits and gave me reasons to smile and to laugh in the midst of so much pain and darkness. I urge everyone to read this moment of history, which is so beautifully and graciously captured by my two brothers and friends."—Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of Guantánamo Diary"This book is crucial reading for all Americans. From a faculty perspective, it is invaluable to students in a number of disciplines: political science, criminal justice, and public administration are ones that come readily to mind because of the constitutional issues raised. At its most basic, this book offers two compelling and disturbingly similar accounts of former Guantanamo detainees Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir about their imprisonment in the notorious gulag over seven years...This book would be an excellent resource for exploring issues of ethics, checks and balances, and other issues. Highly recommended"—S. E. Blankenship, Choice"There is much that shocks the conscience in Mr. Boumediene and Mr. Idir's book, even to those of us who have read nearly everything about Guantanamo in the 16 long years since it opened. Their resilience, and continuing recovery from the brutal treatment meted out by the United States government, is deeply moving." —Alka Pradhan, Human Rights Counsel, Military Commissions Defense OrganizationTable of ContentsEpilogue: Epilogue:

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Book SynopsisThis searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir's time inside America's most notorious prison. Lakhdar and Mustafa were living quiet, peaceful lives in Bosnia when, in October 2001, they were arrested and accused of participating in a terrorist plot. After a three-month investigation uncovered no evidence, all charges were dropped and Bosnian courts ordered their freedom. However, under intense U.S. pressure, Bosnian officials turned them over to American soldiers. They were flown blindfolded and shackled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were held in outdoor cages for weeks as the now-infamous military prison was built around them. Guantanamo became their home for the next seven years. They endured torture and harassment and force-feedings and beatings, all the while not knowing if they would ever see their families again. They had no opportunity to argue their innocence until 2008, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in their case, Boumediene v. Bush, confirming Guantanamo detainees' constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court. Weeks later, the George W. Bush–appointed federal judge who heard their case, stunned by the absence of evidence against them, ordered their release. Now living in Europe and rebuilding their lives, Lakhdar and Mustafa are finally free to share a story that every American ought to know. Learn more at witnessesbook.com or donate to a crowdsourced restitution fund at GoFundMe.com/witnesses.Trade Review"The U.S. government didn't want you to hear about life in the 'legal black hole' of Guantanamo. Having won the right to a judicial hearing and secured their release, Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir tell the urgent, compelling story behind their detention and one of the most important Supreme Court decisions of this century. It's a revealing and moving look at what the U.S. government tried desperately to hide."—David Cole, Professor, Georgetown Law, and National Legal Director, ACLU"Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir are two of the most notorious victims of the U.S.'s post-9/11 program of rendition, torture, and indefinite detention. Kidnapped on groundless suspicions, they are perfectly placed to reflect on the horrors of Guantanamo and the 'war on terror.' With a warmth and intelligence sadly lacking in America's treatment of them, this powerful joint memoir exposes their captors' cruelty and the Kafkaesque twists and turns of the U.S. government's efforts to build a case against them."—Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison"Witnesses of the Unseen courageously exposes an ugly episode in U.S. history, restoring to Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir the humanity hijacked from them by the American government. This book transcends geography and time to take readers from Boumediene and Ait Idir's early years of innocence to their long imprisonment in the cages of Guantanamo. A must read for all people of conscience."—Shakeel Syed, Former Executive Director, Islamic Shura Council"This no-frills account of their time in Guantánamo is disturbing, as the authors detail their mistreatment at the hands of prison guards and interrogators and how they were held in outdoor cages as the prison was built around them. Readers will be shocked by the lack of evidence against the men and how the tenuous ties among a group of casual friends fueled the government's crusade against them. An intense, important read for anyone interested in the American government's misguided efforts at Guantánamo. "—Kirkus Reviews "This book gives us insight into a dark period of U.S. history that is bound to repeat itself, unless more people like Mustafa and Lakhdar agree to tell their stories. Through their compelling first person accounts, told with enormous sensitivity, we learn how a culture of fear and suspicion can result in cruelty, injustice, and total disregard for humanity. There is horror, but there is also immense hope in this world where dedicated people, including the victims who have suffered untold indignities, speak up and speak out."—John Heffernan, Executive Director, Speak Truth To Power, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights"In Guantanamo, Mustafa and Lakhdar often lifted my spirits and gave me reasons to smile and to laugh in the midst of so much pain and darkness. I urge everyone to read this moment of history, which is so beautifully and graciously captured by my two brothers and friends."—Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of Guantánamo Diary"This book is crucial reading for all Americans. From a faculty perspective, it is invaluable to students in a number of disciplines: political science, criminal justice, and public administration are ones that come readily to mind because of the constitutional issues raised. At its most basic, this book offers two compelling and disturbingly similar accounts of former Guantanamo detainees Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir about their imprisonment in the notorious gulag over seven years...This book would be an excellent resource for exploring issues of ethics, checks and balances, and other issues. Highly recommended"—S. E. Blankenship, Choice"There is much that shocks the conscience in Mr. Boumediene and Mr. Idir's book, even to those of us who have read nearly everything about Guantanamo in the 16 long years since it opened. Their resilience, and continuing recovery from the brutal treatment meted out by the United States government, is deeply moving." —Alka Pradhan, Human Rights Counsel, Military Commissions Defense OrganizationTable of ContentsEpilogue: Epilogue:

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Book Synopsis''An intelligent and immersive courtroom drama, a compelling new voice in legal crime fiction'' ANDREA MARASHE SAW IT ALLBUT SHE CAN NEVER TELLA young black man is arrested for murder. The case against him is strong - a mum and a teacher saw him standing over a body in a park, a knife still in hand.But his up-and-coming barrister Rosa knows how people prejudge, but most of all, she suspects something is amiss. This boy comes from her neighbourhood. From a good family. So she begins to dig...As Rosa discovers secret upon terrible secret, she moves closer to finding a testimony that could win the case - or bring the whole establishment down on her.The Witness isthe start of a groundbreaking new series by young barrister and bestselling author of In Black and White, Alexandra Wilson.''This is exactly what it''s like to be a criminal barrister at the sharp end of Legal Aid work, and an importa

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Book SynopsisThe Witnesses presents findings from the first study of victim-witnesses who have testified before an international war crimes tribunal. Witnesses describe their family tragedies, their moral duty to testify on behalf of the dead, their courtroom encounters with the accused, their aspirations for justice, and their disappointments.Trade Review"Stover's important study illuminates new terrain and provides a valuable tool for evaluating and improving the performance of the international human rights courts that emerged in the 1990s. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Witnesses is clearly an important work. . . . Stover's interviews are often riveting, punctuated with critical evaluative and emotional voices of simple people describing unspeakable hardship. The author's compelling presentation succeeds where no structured randomized sample would shed light, namely, in demonstrating the very human moral sensitivities of the respondents as they talk about their family tragedies, their self-styled moral duty to testify on behalf of the dead, their aspirations for justice, and their disappointments." * Richard Pierre Claude, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: The Pursuit of Justice 2. Witnesses in the System 3. The Tribunal 4. Crimes and Consequences 5. Bearing Witness 6. Returning Home 7. Justice and Reconciliation 8. Conclusion Appendix A: Survey Questionnaire Appendix B: Victims' Rights and the International Criminal Court Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisDevelops an account of testimony and the ethics of witnessing through readings of nineteenth-century American literary texts, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James.Trade Review"Goldberg's book is both timely and exciting. Her readings of Emerson (a writer whose work has always seemed to me to resist the pressures of close reading) are quite simply brilliant American literature. Her work, more than that of any other critic since Charles Feidelson, allows us to teach Emerson and Melville together by pointing to similarities rather than differences as well as to see their formal and ethical concerns as establishing a trajectory that includes the work of Douglass and James. Goldberg's voice is one of the most exciting ones among the current group of young scholars of nineteenth-century." -- -Edgar Dryden University of Arizona "Quiet Testimony proceeds from a deceptively simple question: Who testifies in nineteenth-century America? The several answers Shari Goldberg exacts through the book's five chapters amount to a provocative reformulation of the concept of human agency, with significant ethical and political consequences." -Textual Practice "This is an ambitious, daring, and provocative book, and one that resonates deeply and significantly with contemporary debates over the relation between testimony and historical truth that have occupied a great deal of literary and philosophical work within the last two decades. Goldberg's wonderful readings of the ways in which nineteenth-century writers understood the force of silence in the act of bearing witness suggest that testimony is perhaps most audible, most powerful, when we are able to hear its silences, the silences that give voice not only to the issues that felt most urgent for these writers but also to those that are of most concern for us today." -- -Eduardo Cadava Princeton University "[Goldberg's] careful consideration of how Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and James think and write about testimony reveals myriad and unexpected sites of meaning... Goldberg seeks to adjust not only how we read these particular writers' works but how we read in general by considering the literary text's role in teaching us to understand and respond sensitively to the extra-textual world." -The Henry James Review "[T]heoretically sophisticated ... Goldberg considers how each of the writers she considers demonstrates a connection to earlier, 'enchanted' modes of confronting the natural world and the potentially permeable boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead." -Studies in the Novel "Through Shari Goldberg's passionately attentive readings of core texts within 19th century American literature, Quiet Testimony bears witness to the intimacy between testimony and literary thinking, and in so doing provides a model for radically rethinking the very concept of literature." -- -Donald Pease Dartmouth College "This is a major and exemplary work that deftly situates the authors in their historical situations while at the same time deeply respecting their thinking, reading them in order to adduce their complicated attitudes toward testimony, which Goldberg successfully advances as an urgent and central issue for each of them." -- -Mitchell Breitwieser University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Arriving at Quiet 1 Emerson: Testimony without Representation 2 Douglass: Testimony without Identity 3 Melville: Testimony without Voice 4 James: Testimony without Life Conclusion: Staying Quiet Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJennifer Lynn Kelly explores the significance of contemporary solidarity tourism in Palestine/Israel, showing how such tourism functions both as political strategy and emergent industry.Trade Review“In this sophisticated academic study, Jennifer Lynn Kelly probes the complexities of solidarity tourism in Palestine. . . . Kelly’s impressive field research yields a nuanced analysis rather than an uncritical celebration of solidarity tourism." -- Walter L. Hixson * Washington Report on Middle East Affairs *"This book offers deep insights into the Palestinian memories of loss, and the cultural boundaries between insiders and outsiders. . . . The author succeeds in using a variety of materials (interviews, films, history, literature, etc.), mobilizing different tools of cultural studies to reveal the impasses of telling the past and the present of Palestine." -- Abdessamad Belhaj * Social Identities *"Kelly makes a major contribution to the study of so-called solidarity tourism in Palestine, exploring its well-researched effect on national identity, lived experience, political strategy, and economic influence throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories. . . . Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- B. Osborne * Choice *"A guide to how non-Palestinian researchers can conduct research that neither essentializes or erases Palestinian knowledge and experience. … Kelly's book is a welcome addition to the literature on global phenomenon in Palestine." -- Charles Finn * Postcolonial Interventions *"[Kelly's book] will inspire students to examine the past and benevolently imagine the future unflinchingly." -- Lynne Rogers * Al Jadid *"Kelly’s Invited to Witness is ripe with Palestinian moments that speak of the intricacy, beauty, and courage embedded in our ways of being and doing things. . . . the most illuminating aspect of Kelly’s book becomes what she herself represents in her study: a cultural translator, a US citizen writing to other 'Americans' about the responsibility involved in visiting and writing about Palestine. You cannot just witness it—you have to actively pursue its liberation and reflect it in your actions, scholarship, and your intentional conversations with others." -- Eman Ghanayem * Public Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Colonial Calculus of Veracity: Delegations under Erasure and the Desire for Evidentiary Weight 21 2. Asymmetrical Itineraries: Militarism, Tourism, and Fragmentation under Occupation 59 3. Recitation against Erasure: Planting, Harvesting, and Narrating the Continuities of Displacement 87 4. Itineraries under Duress: Tours across Three Occupations of One City 112 5. Colonial Ruins and a Decolonized Future: Witnessing and Return in Historic Palestine 138 6. “Welcome to Gaza”: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism 179 7. Witnesses in Palestine: Imperfect Analogies, Acts of Translation, and Refusals to Perform 211 Conclusion: On Futurity, Failure, and Precarious Hope 245 Notes 253 Bibliography 287 Index 311

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Book SynopsisWitness to Power provides fascinating new insights into South Africa's ruling party and its leaders by an ANC elder who worked with them all.

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Book Synopsis''If you''re after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she''s your woman'' The Guardian''Nora Roberts is, quite simply, a one-woman phenomenon''Heat''I love Nora Roberts''Stephen KingAbigail Lowery has a dark and terrifying secret. Aged just sixteen, she witnessed a shocking mafia murder. Narrowly escaping with her life, she was forced to leave her old identity - even her real name - behind for good. Fifteen years later Abigail is still hiding from the world - a semi-recluse in the quiet, rural town of Bickford, Arkansas. She has convinced herself that this is all she needs: peace, safety... and her faithful guard dog Bert. Perhaps now, at last, she can stop running. But Brooks Gleason, the local chief of police, has other ideas. Abigail intrigues him - and he''d like nothing better than to break through the walls she has built around herself. His persistence and det

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Book SynopsisGeorge and Barbara Bush belonged to and were active members of a Houston church for more than 50 years. The rector of that church, Reverend Russell Jones Levenson, Jr., believes he was invited into private moments with these public individuals so he could serve as a witness: a witness to observe, and a witness to tell.With never-before shared correspondence, experiences, and personal stories, Levenson offers new insight into the Bushes' wit and wisdom; their commitment to family and friends; their tireless desire to bless the lives of others; and their steadfast loyalty to their church, their faith, and their God. Before embarking on writing this book on faith, Levenson sought and received the blessing of all the Bush children, including the 43rd president.Readers will laugh, cry, and be inspired as Levenson ponders how and why he was put in this unique pastoral position, asking questions like, "What on earth was I doing reading the sports section of the paper with the forty-first president, his cabinet member Brent Scowcroft, and a Chinese official on a breezy morning at Walker's Point in Kennebunkport, Maine?" Levenson writes with emotion about being with President Bush and Barbara Bush as they each took their last breaths on this earth. He then describes in full detail the surreal experience of planning a state funeral and giving a eulogy with other presidents in the front row. This is book is for readers who yearn for our public officials to serve with faith and integrity like the Bushes. But above all else, this book shows how powerful it is when world leaders are humbled before the power that rests above all powers.

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Book SynopsisWhat is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise...Trade Review"Wieviorka retraces the evolution of the figure of the Holocaust witness and analyzes the different, and sometimes competing, uses of Holocaust testimonies, with the rigor and clarity that perfectly suits her subject."-Le Monde "A reflection on the production of Holocaust testimonies, their evolution in time, and their part in the construction of the collective memory."-Liberation "Written by one of France's leading historians of the Holocaust, The Era of the Witness is a fascinating and readable exploration of the emergence of survivor testimony into the public sphere. Annette Wieviorka's provocative yet sensitive account will be of interest to all who are concerned with the legacies of the Holocaust and other traumatic histories. Jared Stark's beautiful translation makes this essential work accessible to a new audience."-Michael Rothberg, author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation and coeditor of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings "This book on witnessing itself bears witness to a close, careful, and often difficult engagement with a vast array of testimonies in different genres and media. It raises the question of how empathy and unsettlement provoked by testimonies may be combined with resistance to a cult of intimacy, a confusion of empathy with identification, and an impairment of the critical perspective necessary for writing history."-Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University, author of History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory

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Book SynopsisThe practice of spiritual direction is a large part of the faith journey for many people. This study looks at the actuality of spiritual direction in concrete terms.

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Book SynopsisHe loved her, but she knew too much . . .On a rain-slick road, a car crash leaves only three survivors: an infant, a man clinging to his life, and Kendall Deaton. But she doesn''t dare reveal any of their true identities to the authorities. Instead, she plans her escape. Her perilous flight begins.The best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall had stumbled upon the town''s chilling secret, making her marriage into a powerful family a living hell. Now Kendall, a terrified mother trying to protect her child and a reluctant witness to evil, is surrounded by forces that will stop at nothing to protect what is ''theirs''.***********Praise for Sandra Brown''An edge-of-the-seat thriller that''s full of twists . . . Top stuff!'' Star ''Virtuoso plot twists . . . Brown''s thriller engages the primal senses'' Kirkus Reviews'Trade ReviewPraise for Sandra Brown * : *'An excellent thriller' * Daily Telegraph, Australia *'Through a mosaic of tantalizing clues, premonitions and withheld identities, Brown has created another page-turner to ensure her phenomenal popularity' * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *'It's a great, entertaining read, with lots of surprising twists and turns, credibly flawed characters and a love affair that's as steamy as a Savannah summer.' * Lisa Scottoline, Washington Post on RICOCHET *'Brown's novels define the term page turner' * Booklist *Fires your imagination with irresistible characters, unexpected plot twists, scandalous secrets . . . so electric you feel the zing * Literary Guild *'A masterful storyteller, carefully crafting tales that keep readers on the edge of their seats' * USA Today *'If you want romantic suspense that has teeth . . . Sandra Brown is your gal.' * Stephen King *'An edge-of-seat thriller that's full of twists . . . Top stuff!' * Star *'Fast fun' * Cosmopolitan *'Perfectly plotted' * People Magazine *'An excellent thriller' * Daily Telegraph, Australia *

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Book SynopsisWhat is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise...Trade Review"Wieviorka retraces the evolution of the figure of the Holocaust witness and analyzes the different, and sometimes competing, uses of Holocaust testimonies, with the rigor and clarity that perfectly suits her subject."—Le Monde"A reflection on the production of Holocaust testimonies, their evolution in time, and their part in the construction of the collective memory."—Libération"Written by one of France's leading historians of the Holocaust, The Era of the Witness is a fascinating and readable exploration of the emergence of survivor testimony into the public sphere. Annette Wieviorka's provocative yet sensitive account will be of interest to all who are concerned with the legacies of the Holocaust and other traumatic histories. Jared Stark's beautiful translation makes this essential work accessible to a new audience."—Michael Rothberg, author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation and coeditor of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings"This book on witnessing itself bears witness to a close, careful, and often difficult engagement with a vast array of testimonies in different genres and media. It raises the question of how empathy and unsettlement provoked by testimonies may be combined with resistance to a cult of intimacy, a confusion of empathy with identification, and an impairment of the critical perspective necessary for writing history."—Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University, author of History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory

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Book Synopsis"It gives me great pleasure to see the work of Benedetti, one of the great poets of our language, made available to US readers in Popkin's wonderful translations. Her carefully crafted adaptations of Mario's poems convey all the wisdom, nostalgia, and irony that inform his verses in language that retains their musicality. Anyone who has translated poetry will appreciate what an accomplishment that represents."--Claribel Alegria Mario Benedetti (1920--2009) is regarded as one of Latin America's most important twentieth-century writers and one of Uruguay's most revered writers of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and essays.

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Book SynopsisIn The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence. Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and her years of activism, Fregoso traces the micro and macro scales of misogyny and the patterns of state complicity with gender violence. She shows how different forms of witnessing—from activist-mothers’ bearing witness to the memories of their daughters and expert witnesses in court cases to communal witnessing and a scholar-activist-citizen witnessing her own actions—are key to resisting feminicidal violence. Fregoso situates these forms of witness in the histories, contexts, structures, bodies, and intersectional struggles they emerge from. By outlining the complexities of feminicidal violence in relation to witnessing processes, Fregoso challenges the notion of witness as an individual or autonomous subject inscribed solely in the legal or religious arenas. Rather,Trade Review"Fregoso masterfully and poignantly combines theory, scholarship, and activism in this volume, thereby bearing witness and accompanying others in their struggles for justice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- I. Coronado * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prelude 1 1. Chronicles of Witness 13 Interlude 1: Re-Memory for the Dead 58 2. Mexico’s Longest War 63 3. The Artist and Witness 96 Interlude 2: Redressing Injustice 115 4. The Art of Witness 119 5. Witnesses to Mexico’s “Living Dead” 138 Interlude 3: Flor de Arena 159 6. Stolen Lives and Fugitivity 163 Postlude 183 Notes 185 Bibliography 211 Index 229

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Book SynopsisOn writing our pain we inevitably write about the past because it is impossible to produce art in situations of acute physical pain. As Elaine Scarry has convincingly argued in The Body in Pain, during severe illness individuals spontaneously lose the means to convey their feelings and emotions. So the art of pain inevitably comes from a witness to this pain, i.e. doctors, sympathetic onlookers and ex-patients who examine their pain once it has remitted. This interdisciplinary collection of essays identifies as its core issues the translation of pain into art, the (im)possibility of finding your own voice in situations of pain, and the presumed therapeutic power of the artistic representation of pain. This volume assembles contributions from scholars in New Zealand, Canada, The United States, Germany, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. Photographs, films, paintings, fictional narratives, autobiographies and poems on pain are analyzed using a variety of critical approaches and different perspectives that range from structuralism to psychoanalysis.

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Book SynopsisA wide range of UK and US LGBT+ Christians share their stories, perspectives, and experiences as they have worked hard to reconcile their faith and sexuality.Trade Review'We each have unique gift – our individual testimony of what God has done in our lives, and how we have come to know and accept His amazing love. No one can ever take this away from us, although some do try to silence us. That’s why this book is so important. It is a powerful witness of the love of God in action, and beautifully tells how each individual came to the full realization that they are passionately loved by a God who created them to love and be loved.' -- Jane Ozanne * Writer, Broadcaster and LGBT Campaigner *'The stories of witness which Christians have told, but which have not been heard, typify much of Christian history. The sad but powerful words of witness in this book are a sign of the Gospel which allows LGBT + voices to be heard. They offer an urgent message which needs to be heeded by Christians in this and every generation.' -- Christopher Rowland * Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture Emeritus, University of Oxford *'This is a tremendous collection of deeply moving stories. Some of them are heart-rending, some wonderfully positive, some both. I hope before long such a book will be neither needed nor possible.' -- Revd Professor Michael J Reiss * UCL Institute of Education, University College London *

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Book SynopsisThe leading resource on forensic practice The Psychologist as Expert Witness, Second Edition introduces practitioners to the law and the role of psychologists in the courtroom, covering all facets of forensic practice-one of the most rapidly growing areas of professional specialization.Table of ContentsComing of Age. Present and Future Roles of the Psychologist. The American Court System. Preparing to Serve as an Expert Witness. Admissibility. Psychological Tests in the Courtroom. Competency to Stand Trial, to Testify, and To Make Decisions. The Insanity Defense. Addiction and the Law. Domestic Issues: Marriage, Dissolution, and Custody. The Expert Witness and Personal Injury Litigation. Malingering, Deceit, and Exaggeration. Your Day in Court. Emerging Applications and Issues. Ethics, Constraints, Concerns, and Standards. Appendix A: Landmark Cases. Appendix B: Current Training in Psychology and the Law. Appendix C: Expert Witness Admissibility--Federal Rules of Evidence, 1993. Appendix D: Custody Evaluation Guidelines Recommended by the APA. Appendix E: Tables and Formulae for Comparing Military Test Performance with Current Test Results. Appendix F: Forensic Psychology Specialty Guidelines. Appendix G: Comparison of Neuropsychological Test Performance in Forensic and Non-Forensic Populations. Appendix H: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. Forensic Glossary. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisIn The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence. Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and her years of activism, Fregoso traces the micro and macro scales of misogyny and the patterns of state complicity with gender violence. She shows how different forms of witnessing—from activist-mothers’ bearing witness to the memories of their daughters and expert witnesses in court cases to communal witnessing and a scholar-activist-citizen witnessing her own actions—are key to resisting feminicidal violence. Fregoso situates these forms of witness in the histories, contexts, structures, bodies, and intersectional struggles they emerge from. By outlining the complexities of feminicidal violence in relation to witnessing processes, Fregoso challenges the notion of witness as an individual or autonomous subject inscribed solely in the legal or religious arenas. Rather,Trade Review"Fregoso masterfully and poignantly combines theory, scholarship, and activism in this volume, thereby bearing witness and accompanying others in their struggles for justice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- I. Coronado * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prelude 1 1. Chronicles of Witness 13 Interlude 1: Re-Memory for the Dead 58 2. Mexico’s Longest War 63 3. The Artist and Witness 96 Interlude 2: Redressing Injustice 115 4. The Art of Witness 119 5. Witnesses to Mexico’s “Living Dead” 138 Interlude 3: Flor de Arena 159 6. Stolen Lives and Fugitivity 163 Postlude 183 Notes 185 Bibliography 211 Index 229

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Book Synopsis You've watched Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, the top 5 true-crime docuseries on Netflix. Now discover the revealing memoir of one woman featured in the series who was forced into polygamous marriage and her brave struggle to protect others from the same fate.  Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the 'dangerous' outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed by Warren Jeffs. Always seeking to be an obedient Priesthood girl, in her teens she became the nineteenth wife of her people's prophet: 85-year-old Rulon Jeffs, Warren's father. Finally sickened by the abuse she suffered and saw around her, she pulled off a daring escape and sought to build a new life and family. The church, however, had a way of pullinTrade ReviewThe books speaks to the ways isolation, fear and secrecy can shelter insidious abuses until someone has the courage to step forward as a witness. - Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels - from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces - this work explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2002 Best Book Award "By using extensive interviews with publishers, booksellers, and readers, along with surveys and her own insights into the novels, Griswold offers on of the few truly comprehensive views of the world of literature in Africa. It is also a wonderfully optimistic book that suggests the vitality of the written word in contemporary Nigerian life."--Choice "Griswold wears her learning lightly, using footnotes to show broader debates, keeping her text uncluttered... Bearing Witness provides a useful counterbalance to much detached, contemporary literary criticism; it demonstrates the needs for novels to be examined by scholars from a variety of disciplines."--James Gibbs, World Literature Today "It is rare to find an American scholar so committed to and successful in melding the approaches of the social sciences and the humanities as Griswold does."--Vera Zolberg, American Journal of Sociology "To those readers who have explicit memories of Nigeria, whether good or not so good: Please read Wendy Griswold's Bearing Witness. And likewise to those who have never been to Nigeria: please read Grisworld's book. In other words, for anyone with an interest in historical political, cultural, and literary development in Nigeria (and Africa in general), Bearing Witness is a very good book."--Glen Bush, African Studies ReviewTable of ContentsFigures ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Key Dates In Nigerian History xv CHAPTER 1 To Understand the Novel in Nigeria 3 In Nigeria 6 The Novel 13 To Understand 17 CHAPTER 2 The Nigerian Fiction Complex 26 The Novels 29 The Writers 38 The Business 60 The Readers 88 CHAPTER 3 Nigerian Novels 120 Village and City 12 3 Women and Men 167 Pen and Sword 208 Crime and Politics 238 CHAPTER 4 Capturing the Past and Inventing the Future 269 APPENDIX A. Nigerian novels 275 APPENDIX B. Nigerian authors 288 APPENDIX C. Coding forms 292 Notes 297 Bibliography 323 INDEX 333

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Book SynopsisExplores the development of religious media in America. This book shows how the homiletic tradition in Protestant sermons provided a foundation for the development of visual and literary realism.Trade Review"This is a smart and ambitious book. Jackson exhibits a refreshing mixture of punchy prose, playful allusiveness, lucid explanation, and careful use of sources. By reconnecting realist narrative to its religious roots, his book is destined to leave its mark on critical narratives about American readers and texts." - Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin - Madison"

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Book SynopsisWITH A FOREWORD BY NIGEL McCRERY, CREATOR OF SILENT WITNESSGoing beyond the popular TV show, this is the true story of forensic science from those who solve crimes without witnesses. How do you identify a serial killer?What are the tell-tale signs of guilt?Can we now solve the unsolvable?Since even before the first season of Silent Witness in 1996, forensic science has played an increasingly important role in the investigation of violent crimes.With a boom in cold-blooded cases throughout the 1980s, police began to rely on DNA evidence to help them find perpetrators and since then forensic science has taken off as a powerful tool in solving murders. Bestselling true crime author Wensley Clarkson takes us beyond the headlines to examine the real-life stories where forensics have played a crucial role. He speaks to experts who have worked on the most gruesome, most chilling and most shocking crime scenes and explains how notorious criminal cases from across the world were solved.And he shows how the silent witness is often the one who screams the loudest.

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Book SynopsisThe Belated Witness examines major works by Art Spiegelman, Cynthia Ozick, Christa Wolf, and Paul Celan, focusing specifically on the unsettling configuration of birth-as-death trauma around which these texts are organized.Trade Review"The Belated Witness is a remarkable book and a stunning accomplishment. This beautiful, finely wrought, and impeccably argued text makes a vital and refreshing contribution to existing scholarship in a number of fields: Holocaust literary studies, contemporary German literature, psychoanalytic literary criticism, and literary theory, more generally. Timely, profound, thoughtful, and ambitious in scope, it could very well become an instant classic of literary criticism."—Elissa Marder, Emory University"The book's importance lies not only in its insights into particular texts, but in its redefinition of testimony and our responses to it. This is an outstanding work." -- Marianne Hirsch * Columbia University *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:1. Introduction 1 2. Necessary Stains: The Bleeding of History in Spiegelman's maus I 000 3. The Vanishing Point: Spiegelman's maus II 000 4. Writing Anxiety: Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood and the Throat of the Witness 000 5. Toward an Addressable You: Ozick's The Shawl and the Mouth of the Witness 000 6. Silent Wine: Celan and the Poetics of Belatedness 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000

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