Violence in Society
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Violence: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures a- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dwyer, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0198831730
- Language: English
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Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West
$18.99 Add to cart“Beautifully observed. . . This jewel of a book belongs on the shelf with our best Western writers–Norman MacLean, Pam Houston, and Annie Proulx.”–John Vaillant, bestselling author of The Tiger and
- Author: Andrews, Bryce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 006331651X
- Language: English
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50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist de… [more below]
- Author: Storey, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1447362195
- Language: English
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Self-Defense for Women: Fight Back
$22.95 Add to cartSomewhere in America right now are four or five women who will be killed tomorrow. They are going about their day, and I know if they were prepared to counter attack in the ways Loren Christensen and
- Author: Christensen, Loren W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 159439492X
- Language: English
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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable BookAn ALA Notable Book
“Original and illuminating.” —The Washington Post
What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that b… [more below]- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1455543705
- Language: English
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The Soweto Uprising
$19.95 Add to cartThe Soweto uprising was a true turning point in South Africa’s history. Even to contemporaries, it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. This compelling book examines both the underlyi
- Series: Ohio Short Histories of Africa
- Author: Nieftagodien, Noor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: December 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0821421549
- Language: English
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Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
$36.95 Add to cartOn June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with some of its parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he be
- Author: Williams, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0820349577
- Language: English
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Under the Gun: An Er Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic
$27.95 Read moreA doctor’s firsthand account of the devastating impacts of gun violence–and how we can end this epidemic.
Gun violence has become the leading cause of death for children and has decreased the lifespan
- Author: Dark, Cedric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1421449110
- Language: English
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World Too Loud to Hear: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartStephen Kampa’s World Too Loud to Hear confronts today’s zeitgeist of dark social norms online or off. Our litany of individual and collective shortcomings is laid bare or castigated-as, for instance,
- Author: Kampa, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1773491563
- Language: English
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Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present
$18.00 Read moreFrom the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their h… [more below]
- Author: Vronsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 042527697X
- Language: English
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Toxic Families, Violent Lives
$21.99 Add to cartIF YOU ARE A PARENT, SCHOOLTEACHER, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, OR MENTAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDER, Toxic Families, Violent Lives lays out what you need to know about
what is causing heightened levels of child… [more below]- Author: Lindsey, Stephen G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1039173926
- Language: English
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Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic
$20.00 Add to cartDrawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others bu… [more below]
- Author: Gilligan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 1997
- ISBN10: 0679779124
- Language: English
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A Parade of Grief: Gun Violence in America
$42.48 Add to cartFraga “… traces America’s history … from the days of Bleeding Kansas to the long tradition of political assassination; exploring the ways that American gun culture has become more radical over tim
- Author: Fraga, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1941237991
- Language: English
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Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
$26.95 Add to cartThe editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and p… [more below]
- Author: Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0822362953
- Language: English
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Topology of Violence
$19.95 Add to cartOne of today’s most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.
Some things never disappear–violence, for example. Viol
- Series: Untimely Meditations #9
- Author: Han, Byung-Chul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0262534959
- Language: English
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The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the Polk Award-winning investigative duo comes “a meticulously researched and enraging account” (Shane Bauer, New York Times bestselling author) of the systematic corruption and brutality within … [more below]
- Author: Winston, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1982168609
- Language: English
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The Conversation on Guns
$16.95 Read moreFrom TheConversation.com, an exploration of the devastating gun violence in the United States–and possible ways to stop it.
In The Conversation on Guns, editor James Densley brings together a group of
- Series: Critical Conversations
- Author: Densley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1421447363
- Language: English
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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles
$40.99 Add to cartLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous lo
- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353656
- Language: English
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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
$31.18 Read moreOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United
“A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.”–Publishers Weekly- Author: Lindsey, Treva B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 520384490
- Language: English
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Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against Women
$43.93 Add to cartSkating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.
- Author: Dekeseredy, Walter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1487547102
- Language: English
