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Amnesia (Peter Zak Mysteries #1)
by G. H. EphronIf the only witness to a murder has amnesia, how do you catch the killer? Instead of matching fingerprints or DNA, forensic psychologist Dr. Peter Zak solves cases by studying psychological clues and phenomena. Peter, whose specialty is the brain and behavior, consults for the Boston public defenders office, analyzing the thought processes and personalities of witnesses and defendants. Sylvia Jackson was shot in the head and left for dead, her boyfriend murdered. Waking from a coma after six weeks, she remembers nothing-until three months later, when she begins to recall details of the crime and the killer. Finally, Syl accuses her ex-husband, remembering what seems like incontrovertible evidence of his guilt. But Stuart Jackson seems destroyed by his ex's ordeal; could he really be guilty of this vicious crime? Peter quit consulting on trials a year ago when his wife was brutally murdered by a killer angered by Peter's suggestion of an insanity defense. But when his old colleagues call for help with this bizarre case, he's hooked. It's Peter's job to determine how reliable Syl's memory really is, and to use those memories to uncover the truth. Amnesia is guaranteed to be the start of an intriguing and original crime series.
Amnesia Lead to A Wrong Love: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Ling LongA car accident, the one she loved the most, he had lost his memory. She only remembered the face of the person she liked …If someone else interfered, he would mistakenly believe that the person he liked had passed away! In order to make him fall in love with her again, she had wrongly believed that someone would change her character and stay by his side, but he could not remember who she was!Would she be able to recover her bereaved lover?Could they overcome the obstacles and come back together?"I will definitely make him remember again!"
Amnesia Moon
by Jonathan LethemIn Jonathan Lethem's wryly funny second novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans.It's an unusual and at times unbearable existence, but Chaos soon discovers that his post-nuclear reality may have no connection to the truth. So he takes to the road with a girl named Melinda in order to find answers. As the pair travels through the United States they find that, while each town has been affected differently by the mysterious source of the apocalypse, none of the people they meet can fill in their incomplete memories or answer their questions. Gradually, figures from Chaos's past, including some who appear only under the influence of intravenously administered drugs, make Chaos remember some of his forgotten life as a man named Moon.
Amnesia Remembered: Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact (Digital Archaeology: Documenting the Anthropocene #2)
by John AycockOur modern culture is increasingly expressed in the form of digital artifacts, yet archaeology is in its infancy when it comes to researching and understanding them. The study and reverse engineering of digital artifacts is no longer the exclusive domain of computer scientists. Presented by way of analogy to the process of archaeological fieldwork familiar to readers, the 1986 Electronic Arts game Amnesia is used as a vehicle to explain the procedure and thought process required to reverse engineer a digital artifact. As a go-to reference to learn how to begin studying the digital, Amnesia is shown to be a multi-layered artifact with a complex backstory; through it, topics in data compression, copy protection, memory management, and programming languages are covered.
Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction
by Marni GauthierThis book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works ofDon DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka. "
Amnesia and the Nation: History, Forgetting, and James Joyce (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
by Vincent J. ChengThis book examines the relationships between memory, history, and national identity through an interdisciplinary analysis of James Joyce’s works—as well as of literary texts by Kundera, Ford, Fitzgerald, and Walker Percy. Drawing on thinkers such as Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Luria, Anderson, and Yerushalmi, this study explores the burden of the past and the “nightmare of history” in Ireland and in the American South—from the Battle of the Boyne to the Good Friday Agreement, from the Civil War to the 2015 Mother Emanuel killings.
Amnesia: A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand
by Arjun SubrahmanyanThailand's monarchy and military have dominated the narrative of the country's modern history, and their leadership is often accepted as evidence of a cultural preference for authoritarianism. Despite a long history of military coups that have upended the course of the country's democracy, however, Thailand's democratic history is a vital though largely ignored aspect of modern Thai society. Based on extensive archival research, Amnesia delves into the social and political beginnings of Thai democracy and explains how a bloodless revolution against the monarchy in 1932 introduced a constitutional democracy and ignited enduring hopes for a fairer society and a more representative government. The "People's Party," a small group of commoners who staged the revolution in the name of democracy, found an enthusiastic audience for their bold populist rhetoric among wide swathes of society. In Amnesia, Arjun Subrahmanyan illustrates how the idealism of the first decade of Thai democracy, now largely forgotten, still shapes Thai society.
Amnesiac Aloof Wife: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Feng QuShe purple xiao wei a woman with a unique appearance as if by heaven born in a good family chased by all men she is almost without a trace of trouble a disaster let her lose everything overnight an accident but also caused her to lose memory she had nothing but a face noble she fell from heaven to hell from princess to cinderella everything in life has been turned upside down the only thing that hasn t changed is the men who love her since the god gave up that is to create their own future shaking hands she decided to create her own life
Amnesiac Ex, Unforgettable Vows
by Robyn GradyThe last woman Samuel Bishop expected to have in his arms was his ex-wife. Left with amnesia from an accident, Laura had no memory of their bitter divorce. In her mind, she and the business tycoon were still newlyweds. With her ready to pick up where she thought their scorching-hot marriage had left off, he couldn't turn her down. But soon Bishop realized he was playing with fire. He wanted to reclaim the wedded blissthisLaura had shown him, but what would happen when her memory returned? And what would happen if it didn't?
Amnesiac Love: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by San TianHe is her dream lover in her most ignorant time appeared in her world brought her a new life new life but also he gave her the most painful pain in this life she would have given her life for him lost her memory to save him nearly lost her life for his child love is like a catastrophe trapped him she trapped her two people in the long river mutual support love but hurt each other separation is not eternal forever separation are painful declaration and lead them to meet again but is a long life in the life of a joke he and her children a child who is bound by flesh and blood becomes the hub of the two men s detente and whether they end up together or is this fate once again to play a joke on them who knows
Amnesiac President and Celebrity Wife: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Luo ShuyueyingShe is not favored two miss su he is the powerful ming s cold president a glass of wine on the wedding she walked into the house in a daze he was forced to marry the woman he did not love she wanted him to remember but he wanted to get rid of her su jin laughs divorce we have no love he treated her coldly again and again her wounds black and blue his heart pricked when she gave up hope four years later with the little princess back he pursued soft language coax outside her fingers where should she and the baby go
Amnesiac President and Celebrity Wife: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Luo ShuyueyingShe is not favored two miss su he is the powerful ming s cold president a glass of wine on the wedding she walked into the house in a daze he was forced to marry the woman he did not love she wanted him to remember but he wanted to get rid of her su jin laughs divorce we have no love he treated her coldly again and again her wounds black and blue his heart pricked when she gave up hope four years later with the little princess back he pursued soft language coax outside her fingers where should she and the baby go
Amnesiac President and Celebrity Wife: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Luo ShuyueyingShe is not favored two miss su he is the powerful ming s cold president a glass of wine on the wedding she walked into the house in a daze he was forced to marry the woman he did not love she wanted him to remember but he wanted to get rid of her su jin laughs divorce we have no love he treated her coldly again and again her wounds black and blue his heart pricked when she gave up hope four years later with the little princess back he pursued soft language coax outside her fingers where should she and the baby go
Amnesiac Princess 1: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xin YueEvian s happy journey to xi an is just beginning unexpectedly inexplicable came to the beauty of the tang dynasty not only did he see yang one of the four beauties also met elegant and noble mei fei that s great the original three thousand love all in one not every woman like yang mei is charming and sexy elegant and high and clean mei fei seems unhappy
Amnesiascope: A Novel
by Steve EricksonA washed-up novelist navigates the dreamscape of a cataclysm-ravaged Los Angeles In the apocalyptic Los Angeles of Amnesiascope, time zones multiply freely, spectral figures roam the streets, and rings of fire separate the city from the rest of the country. The narrator, a former novelist, lives in a hotel and writes film criticism for a newspaper whose offices are located in a bombed-out theater. Viv, his girlfriend, is a sexually voracious artist, and together the two are collaborating on an avant-garde pornographic film. But in this world, what&’s real and what&’s merely the conjuring of the protagonist&’s imagination—obsessed with dreams, movies, sex, and remembrance—is far from clear. At once outrageous and hypnotically lyrical, Amnesiascope enflames the reader&’s memory.
Amnesic Wife: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Chu YunErLan shiling just for this man leave me leave our son mr cold six years ago i did not know you where to betray you all this because of a conspiracy an unexpected amnesia let the two originally happy people fragmented six years after the encounter more than a perfect belly black adorable son two people s love hate entanglement will go to where a father with a cold belly and a dark belly meets a cute son from then on the son of the big surprise although let him a headache but repeatedly try also without a trace of discomfort when the mother appears the son is like a small servant everywhere to defend the mother and cold dad staged a wonderful duel
Amnesic Wife: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Chu YunErLan shiling just for this man leave me leave our son mr cold six years ago i did not know you where to betray you all this because of a conspiracy an unexpected amnesia let the two originally happy people fragmented six years after the encounter more than a perfect belly black adorable son two people s love hate entanglement will go to where a father with a cold belly and a dark belly meets a cute son from then on the son of the big surprise although let him a headache but repeatedly try also without a trace of discomfort when the mother appears the son is like a small servant everywhere to defend the mother and cold dad staged a wonderful duel
Amnesic Wife: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Chu YunErLan shiling just for this man leave me leave our son mr cold six years ago i did not know you where to betray you all this because of a conspiracy an unexpected amnesia let the two originally happy people fragmented six years after the encounter more than a perfect belly black adorable son two people s love hate entanglement will go to where a father with a cold belly and a dark belly meets a cute son from then on the son of the big surprise although let him a headache but repeatedly try also without a trace of discomfort when the mother appears the son is like a small servant everywhere to defend the mother and cold dad staged a wonderful duel
Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Renée JefferyFor the last thirty years, documented human rights violations have been met with an unprecedented rise in demands for accountability. This trend challenges the use of amnesties which typically foreclose opportunities for criminal prosecutions that some argue are crucial to transitional justice. Recent developments have seen amnesties circumvented, overturned, and resisted by lawyers, states, and judiciaries committed to ending impunity for human rights violations. Yet, despite this global movement, the use of amnesties since the 1970s has not declined.Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights examines why and how amnesties persist in the face of mounting pressure to prosecute the perpetrators of human rights violations. Drawing on more than 700 amnesties instituted between 1970 and 2005, Renée Jeffery maps out significant trends in the use of amnesty and offers a historical account of how both the use and the perception of amnesty has changed. As mechanisms to facilitate transitions to democracy, to reconcile divided societies, or to end violent conflicts, amnesties have been adapted to suit the competing demands of contemporary postconflict politics and international accountability norms. Through the history of one evolving political instrument, Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights sheds light on the changing thought, practice, and goals of human rights discourse generally.
Amnesties, Pardons and Transitional Justice: Spain's Pact of Forgetting
by Roldan JimenoIn a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme circumstances, such as transitions from dictatorships to democracies, as has occurred in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Spain, this book analyses the country's transition, from the antecedents from 1936 up to the present, within a comparative European context. The amnesties granted in Greece, Portugal and Spain saw the release of political prisoners, but in Spain amnesty was also granted to those responsible for the grave violations of human rights which had been committed for 40 years. The first two decades of the democracy saw copious normative measures that sought to equate the rights of all those who had benefitted from the amnesty and who had suffered or had been damaged by the civil war. But, beyond the material benefits that accompanied it, this amnesty led to a sort of wilful amnesia which forbade questioning the legacy of Francoism. In this respect, Spain offers a useful lesson insofar as support for a blanket amnesty – rather than the use of other solutions within a transitional justice framework, such as purges, mechanisms to bring the dictatorship to trial for crimes against humanity, or truth commissions – can be traced to a relative weakness of democracy, and a society characterised by the fear of a return to political violence. This lesson, moreover, is framed here against the background of the evolution of amnesties throughout the twentieth century, and in the context of international law. Crucially, then, this analysis of what is now a global reference point for comparative studies of amnesties, provides new insights into the complex relationship between democracy and the varying mechanisms of transitional justice.
Amnesty After Atrocity?: Healing Nations After Genocide and War Crimes
by Helena Cobban"A compelling read." Richard J. Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the UN tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda "A very important contribution." Princeton N. Lyman, Council on Foreign Relations "A powerful reminder that dealing with the legacy of wartime atrocities is not simply a matter of bringing perpetrators to justice. It also means overcoming the divisions within the society and healing the victims." Marina Ottaway, Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace In Amnesty after Atrocity? veteran journalist Helena Cobban examines the effectiveness of different ways of dealing with the aftermath of genocide and violence committed during intergroup conflicts. She traveled to Rwanda, Mozambique, and South Africa to assess the various ways those nations tried to come to grips with their violent past: from war crimes trials to truth commissions to outright amnesties for perpetrators. She discovered that in terms of both moving forward and satisfying the needs of survivors, war crimes trials are not the most effective path. This book provides historical context and includes interviews with a cross-section of people: community leaders, victims, policymakers, teachers, rights activists, and even some former abusers. These first-person accounts create a rich, readable text, and Cobban's overall conclusions will surprise many readers in the West.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977 (Human Rights in History)
by Tom BuchananIn this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as 'human rights activists'. This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from anti-fascism, anti-apartheid and decolonisation to civil liberties and the peace movement, began to come together under the banner of human rights. The launch of Amnesty International in 1961, and its landmark winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 provided a model and inspiration to many new activist movements in 'the field of human rights', and helped to affect major changes towards public and political attitudes towards human rights issues across the globe.
Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability
by Leigh A. Payne Francesca LessaThis edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the limited approaches of 'truth versus justice' or 'stability versus accountability' in which many of these issues have been cast in the existing scholarship. The theoretical and empirical contributions in this book offer new ways of understanding and tackling the enduring persistence of amnesty in the age of accountability. In addition to cross-national studies, the volume encompasses eleven country cases of amnesty for past human rights violations: Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Uganda and Uruguay. The volume goes beyond merely describing these case studies, but also considers what we learn from them in terms of overcoming impunity and promoting accountability to contribute to improvements in human rights and democracy.
Amnesty, Serious Crimes and International Law: Global Perspectives in Theory and Practice (Post-Conflict Law and Justice)
by Josepha CloseAmnesty, Serious Crimes and International Law examines the permissibility of amnesties for serious crimes in the contemporary international order. In the last few decades, there has been a growing tendency to consider that amnesties are prohibited in respect of certain grave crimes. However, the question remains controversial as there is no explicit treaty ban and general amnesties continue to be frequently issued in post-conflict and transitional contexts. The first part of the book explores the use of amnesties from antiquity to the present day. It reviews amnesty traditions in ancient societies and provides a global picture of modern amnesties. In parallel, it traces the development of the accountability paradigm underpinning the current prohibitive stance on amnesties. The second part assesses the position of modern international law on amnesties. It comprehensively analyses the main arguments supporting the existence of a general amnesty ban, including the duty to prosecute international crimes, the right to redress of victims of human rights violations, international standards and trends in state practice, and the mandate of international criminal courts. The book argues that, while international legal or policy requirements restrict the freedom of states to extend amnesty in respect of serious crimes, or the effectiveness of amnesty measures in preventing the prosecution of such crimes, these restrictions do not add up to an absolute and universal prohibition.
Amnesty: A Novel
by Aravind AdigaA riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation.Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he&’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life. But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. The deed was done with a knife, at a creek he&’d been to with her before; and a jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another of his clients—a doctor with whom Danny knows the woman was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of this day, evaluating the weight of his past, his dreams for the future, and the unpredictable, often absurd reality of living invisibly and undocumented, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights still has responsibilities. Propulsive, insightful, and full of Aravind Adiga&’s signature wit and magic, Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.