Violence in Society
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The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America
$16.99 Read moreA New York Times Best Seller Baltimore, one of our country’s quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D. Watkins
To many, the past 8 years under President Oba- Author: Watkins, D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1510716394
- Language: English
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The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World
$29.95 Read moreIn today’s modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it ha… [more below]
- Author: Thornton, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1634312309
- Language: English
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The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
$19.95 Add to cartOne New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to pris
- Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066024
- Language: English
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Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
$19.99 Add to cartFor four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively–to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools
- Author: Stern, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 17, 2004
- ISBN10: 0060505338
- Language: English
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Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
$24.00 Add to cartTwenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, contemporary case st
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0060548193
- Language: English
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From Conflict to Community: Transforming Conflicts Without Authorities
$16.95 Add to cartConflict is everywhere: our living rooms, our streets, our community organizations, and every corner of the internet. But few of us have the training to successfully intervene or resolve these conflic… [more below]
- Author: Olton, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1648410588
- Language: English
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The Greatest Evil Is War
$14.95 Add to cartNow with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents.
Drawn from experience and intervie- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1644213311
- Language: English
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Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
$49.92 Read moreAn eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attack
Gun sellers sell more than just guns. They also sell politics. Merchants of the R- Author: Carlson, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0691230390
- Language: English
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The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
$18.00 Read moreAn examination of the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and an urgent call to implement evidence-based strategies to stop these tragedies.
“Groundbreaking.” ―Rachel Louise Snyder, bestsell- Author: Peterson, Jillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 1419752960
- Language: English
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know about Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE HILLMAN PRIZE FOR BOOK JOURNALISM, THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD, AND THE LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD F
- Author: Snyder, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 9, 2020
- ISBN10: 1635570980
- Language: English
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Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
$20.00 Add to cartA comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide–including information on America’s most prolific serial killers such as:
Jeffrey Dahmer – Ted Bundy – “Co-ed Kil- Author: Vronsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: October 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0425196402
- Language: English
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
$18.00 Add to cartAn entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common–murder. Romulus killed Rem- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1419753061
- Language: English
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Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels
$26.95 Read moreDrug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists.
VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth- Author: Bonello, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0807007048
- Language: English
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Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
$35.00 Add to cartFumbling Towards Repair is a workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan that includes reflection questions, skill assessments, facilitation tips, helpful definitions, activities, and hard-learned lesso… [more below]
- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: June 18, 2019
- ISBN10: 1939202329
- Language: English
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail Volume 36
$37.43 Add to cartIn this gripping and provocative “ethnography of death,” anthropologist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Jason De Le n sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time–the human cons… [more below]
- Series: California Public Anthropology #36
- Author: de Leon, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 23 2015
- ISBN10: 520282752
- Language: English
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No More Police: A Case for Abolition
$26.90 Add to cartAn instant national best seller
A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers“One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist
- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 162097732X
- Language: English
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What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
$29.99 Add to cartWhen a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of color at a Waffle House, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl once again advocated for
- Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 132405025X
- Language: English
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Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies
$22.00 Add to cartAn exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.
Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adapt- Series: Emergent Strategy #9
- Author: Ritchie, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355118
- Language: English
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The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
$32.00 Add to cart“Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of its
- Author: Flock, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0063048809
- Language: English
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
$21.99 Add to cartThe revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman’s modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as “an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and h… [more below]
- Author: Grossman, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316040932
- Language: English
