4.09 avg rating — 101,175 ratings

"Classic work on effects of social and economic class from the inside.
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4.02 avg rating — 3,017 ratings

"Unvarnished and straightforward description of the affects of genocidal war crimes.
Written by a still young forensic anthropologist who worked in the aftermath of Rwanda and Bosnia. "

4.06 avg rating — 95 ratings

"One of the best books on the failure of imposing human rights from both the top and the outside. The DRC (formerly Zaire) is the center of large scale and largely unreported slaughter and mass rape. "

3.91 avg rating — 2,588 ratings

"The guy who started it all--the first and still the most cogent arguments against capital punishment and torture. "

4.18 avg rating — 112 ratings

"Democratic governments are just as likely to torture perceived enemies and those suspected of working against the state. An exhaustive, depressing but necessary look at the instruments of torture in the hands of those who answer to freely elected politicans. "