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images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator
Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that
confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible
mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush's 2001 declaration
of the "war on terror" until 2008, an unknown number of people
disappeared into a network of secret prisons organized by the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency-transfers without legal process known
as extraordinary renditions. No public records were kept as
detainees were shuttled all over the globe. Some were eventually
sent to Guantanamo Bay or released without charge, while others
remain unaccounted for. The paper trail assembled in this volume
shows these activities via the weak points of business
accountability: invoices, documents of incorporation, and billing
reconciliations produced by the small-town American businesses
enlisted in detainee transportation. Clark has traveled worldwide
to photograph former detention sites, detainees' homes, and
government locations. He and Black recreate the network that links
CIA "black sites," and evoke ideas of opacity, surface, and
testimony in relation to this process-a system hidden in plain
sight. Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition,
copublished with the Magnum Foundation, its creation supported by
Magnum Foundation's Emergency Fund, raises fundamental questions
about the accountability and complicity of our governments, and the
erosion of our most basic civil rights.
Taken over the course of more than a year of exclusive access, this
work applies large format still life photography to the context of
a unique prison community, E Wing at Kingston Prison in Portsmouth.
For eight years this was Britain's only wing dedicated to holding
elderly lifers: murderers, rapists, paedophiles and other violent
criminals aged from their late 50s to over 80 years old. "Still
Life: Killing Time", is not simply a reportage about a particular
prison. Elements of metaphor, abstraction and documentary explore
the experience of long term incarceration and the passage of time,
and touch on how ageing and physical decline affect the prison
environment. The claustrophobia of these close up, deliberate and
regular compositions reflects both the nature of the place and the
experience of working in E Wing.The recurring motifs - bars,
squares, boxes, grids - show the segmentation and ordering of time
and space that is fundamental to prison life, while the details of
the inmates' possessions, notice-boards, walls, tables and bedsides
suggest their state of mind and how they adapt to long term
incarceration and getting old in an institution.
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Perspectives of Systems Informatics - 8th International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference, PSI 2011, Novosibirsk, Russia, June 27 - July 1, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Edmund Clarke, Irina Virbitskaite, Andrei Voronkov
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This book contains thoroughly refereed and revised papers from the
8th International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference on Perspectives
of System Informatics, PSI 2011, held in Akademgorodok,
Novosibirsk, Russia, in June/July 2011. The 18 revised full papers
and 10 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 60 submissions. The volume also contains 5 invited
papers covering a range of hot topics in computer science and
informatics. The papers are organized in topical sections on
foundations of program and system development and analysis, partial
evaluation, mixed computation, abstract interpretation, compiler
construction, computer models and algorithms for bioinformatics,
programming methodology and software engineering, information
technologies, knowledge-based systems, and knowledge engineering.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
'When you are suspended by a rope you can recover, but every time I
see a rope I remember. If the light goes out unexpectedly in a
room, I am back in my cell.' Binyam Mohamed, Prisoner #1458. For
eight years the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba has
been home to hundreds of men, all Muslim, all detained in the
aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on suspicion of varying degrees of
complicity or intent to carry out acts of terror against American
interests. Labelled 'the worst of the worst', most of these men
were guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the
wrong time. Many fell prey to a US military policy of paying bounty
money for anyone the Pakistani secret service, border guards or
village leaders on both sides of the blurred Afghan-Pakistan border
considered a possible or potential 'suspect', thereby becoming
currency in the newly defined 'War on Terror'. Held in legal limbo
for years and repeatedly interrogated, almost all have been
released without charge and only a very few have been tried in the
special military commissions set up for the purpose. Guantanamo: If
the light goes out illustrates three experiences of home: at
Guantanamo naval base, home to the American community; in the camp
complex where the detainees have been held; and in the homes where
former detainees, never charged with any crime, find themselves
trying to rebuild lives. These notions of home are brought together
in an unsettling narrative, which evokes the process of
disorientation central to the Guantanamo interrogation and
incarceration techniques. It also explores the legacy of
disturbance such experiences have in the minds and memories of
these men.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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