Domenico Starnone
First Execution

...something i keep trying to remember...



Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Article 1
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

* (a) Killing members of the group;
* (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
* (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
* (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
* (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 3
The following acts shall be punishable:

* (a) Genocide;
* (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
* (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
* (d) Attempt to commit genocide;
* (e) Complicity in genocide.

Article of the Day

Paradoxes of Free Will
Author(s): Gunther S. Stent
Source: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 92(6)
2002

in the library today

Arthur O. Lovejoy
Essays in the History of Ideas
B945 L58 E7 (1948)[UBC]

Has an essay on "The Chinese Origin of A Romanticism"
quote on beauty by Sir Christopher Wren (p. 99)

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Max Delbruck
Mind from matter? An essay on evolutionary epistemology
B818 D36 1986 (UBC)

the introduction makes mention of Niels Bohr's lectures "Light and Life" and "Biology and Atomic Physics" - discussions on the impacts of quantum theory on biology

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James Rachels
Created from animals: The moral implications of Darwinism
B818 R323 1990

Had a quote from Charles Darwin:

"Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy
the imterposition of a deity. More humble and I think
truer to consider him created from animals."

Books on Kafka & Conrad

Martin Greenberg. The Terror of Art - Kafka and Modern Literature. Basic Books, New York, 1968.
PT 2621 A3 Z74613 1968 (UBC)

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Angel Flores (ed). The Kafka Problem. Octagon Books, New York, 1963.
PT 2621 A3 Z6 1963 (UBC)

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Patrick Reilly. The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction. Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, 2003.
PN 3503 R42 2003.
Covers Dostoyevsy, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, West, Camus, Waugh, O'Connor

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Sven Lindqvist. Exterminate All the Brutes. The New Press, New York, 1996.
HT 1521 L4713 1996.

From the Preface:
This is a story, not a contribution to historical research. It is the story of a man traveling by bus through the Saharan desert and, at the same time, traveling by computer through the history of the concept of extermination. In small, sand-ridden desert hotesl, his study closes in on one sentence in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: "Exterminate all the brutes."

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Gene M. Moore (ed). Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, A Casebook. Oxford University Press 2004. PR 6005 O4 H476 2004 (UBC)

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