Richard Matthews

Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported.

Why Torture Must Be Prohibited

The Absolute Violation

An Act for Marriages in England, 6 & 7 William IV., c. 85, and an Act for registering births, deaths and marriages in England, 6 & 7 William IV., c. 86: with a practical arrangement of their provisions, notes, forms, etc

‘No I Will’ is a father’s own story of his experiences raising a special child. It is a searingly honest account of his struggles and the challenges he faced. It is heartfelt and uplifting, incredibly moving and full of laugh out loud humour. “I don’t believe any parent, if they had the choice, would choose a physical or mental handicap for their child. No parent want’s their child to suffer. But despite my son’s limitations, he inspires me every day. He is innocence personified and sees the world as the truly wonderful and magical place that it is. He reminds me how to have fun, to find humour in everything and show kindness to everyone.”

No I Will

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A Digest of the Law Relating to Offences Punishable by Indictment, and by Information in the Crown Office

Modality is a subject that has attracted increasing attention over the last decade or so. In English, and to a lesser extent in German, there is a class of syntactically restricted auxiliary verbs that is primarily associated with modal concepts. Following on from work presented in his Edinburgh PhD-thesis and suggestions made in Lyons' "Semantics" (1977), the author discusses the differences between modal logic and linguistic modality, and then examines what kind of verbal expression, whether auxiliary or not, can reflect the various modality parameters. A chapter each is devoted to epistemic, -logical-, deontic, dynamic-dispositional, and bouletic modality, and to how modality interacts with sentence type. The discussion mainly concerns English, but with a number of side-glances at German. In a final chapter, the author sets up semantic specifications for the modal auxiliaries in the light of his findings in previous chapters."

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