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“george ryley scott”

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  • History Of Corporal Punishment

    by George Ryley Scott ...
    First published in 2005. This is a wide-ranging study of flagellation in all its aspects - disciplinary, religious, educational and erotic. It presents a mass of detailed information on the various forms of flogging administered through the ages to thieves, prostitutes, soldiers, sailors, heretics, penitents, slaves, servants, schoolboys and schoolgirls. Scott's aim was to present the complete ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • The History Of Torture

    by George Ryley Scott ...
    First published in 2005. Torture, an enduring and seemingly not declining aspect of man's relationship to his fellow man, is an enduring thread through human history. Whether it be practiced by primitive people, the ancient Greeks or the Catholic Church, whether it be ancient China, Japan, 1930's Germany, or Northern Ireland today, torture is alarmingly systematic and consistent in its methods. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • A History of Prostitution

    From Antiquity to the Present Day

    by George Ryley Scott ...
    This scientific survey of history of prostitution from antiquity to the twentieth century is one of the first comprehensive studies of this sociological phenomenon of our time. George Ryley Scott writes this treatise in reaction to the lack of literature on the subject at this time, dismissing the only volumes available as outdated, fragmentary or prejudiced- as they were often sponsored by ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • The Whip And The Rod - An Account Of Corporal Punishment Among All Nations And For All Purposes

    by R. Yelyr ...
    The whip and the stick has been used for much of human history, this fascinating history reveals why corporal punishment seems to be such a common thing among all cultures through much of recorded history. ... Read more

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  • The History of Corporal Punishment - A Survey of Flagellation in Its Historical Anthropological and Sociological Aspects

    by George Scott ...
    A survey of flagellation in its historical, anthropological and sociological aspects. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Book of Pain

    Torture and Punishment Through History

    by Mark P Donnelly, Daniel Diehl ...
    For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of torture appears to us today, for at least 3,000 years it formed part of most legal codes throughout Europe and the Far East. The Big Book of Pain is an ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queer City

    Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    ‘Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts’ Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way – through the history and experiences of its gay population.In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria (‘wolf dens’ or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The History of Torture

    by Brian Innes ...
    Series series Crime & Punishment
    The History of Torture tells the complete story of torture, from its earliest uses right up to the present day. The book explains the tools and techniques of torture, from the first use of the rack in Ancient Greece to the use of modern drugs to elicit confessions. The book also details the fight against torture through the work of international campaigners such as Amnesty International. A subject ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whores, Harlots & Wanton Women

    The Story of Illicit Sex

    by Petrina Brown ...
    What did women who were attracted to other women do before our open, accepting and politically correct age? Did our ancestors ever indulge in 'illicit' sex? Or did their God-fearing mindset cause them to suppress their less-than-acceptable desires? And just how did prostitutes of the past pleasure their clients? Whores, Harlots & Wanton Women traces each step in the history of illicit and taboo ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Shaftesbury

    The great reformer

    by Revd Dr Richard Turnbull ...
    The best-loved politician and social reformer of nineteenth century England, Lord Shaftesbury's deep compassion for the poor became legendary. He campaigned tirelessly to limit factory hours, to stop the use of boys as chimney sweeps and children in coalmines, and to develop universal education. As a result he changed the character of English society forever. Areas covered in this important new ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Studies in the Psychology of Sex VI: Sex in Relation to Society

    by Havelock Ellis ...
    The origin of these Studies dates from many years back. As a youth I was faced, as others are, by the problem of sex. Living partly in an Australian city where the ways of life were plainly seen, partly in the solitude of the bush, I was free both to contemplate and to meditate many things. A resolve slowly grew up within me: one main part of my life-work should be to make clear the problems of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amatory Pleasures

    Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

    by Julie Peakman ...
    Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, criminal conversation, erotic gardens, gentlemen's homosocial societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and the world of female friendship, revealing the secret or hidden meanings ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD