Violence in Society
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Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day
$18.99 Add to cartIn this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont c
- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0062444263
- Language: English
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On Violence and on Violence Against Women
$20.00 Add to cartA blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.
Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visibl- Author: Rose, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849373
- Language: English
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Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
$20.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction * Winner of the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
Based on the acclaimed series–a finalist for the Pulitz
- Author: Cox, John Woodrow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0062883941
- Language: English
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Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer
$21.99 Add to cartThe horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen’s reign of terror
As oil-boom money poured into Anchorage, Alaska the city quickly became a prime destination for the see- Author: Gilmour, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049489
- Language: English
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Daddy: A Son’s Reckoning with Personal and Collective Trauma in America
$34.99 Add to cart“A thoughtful and expansive biography of PTSD.” -Annie Vainshtein, The San Francisco Chronicle
When Dr. Tim Lewis was twenty-eight years old, his father shot his mother while she was sleeping i
- Author: Lewis, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986026022
- Language: English
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Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
$16.95 Read moreLong before President Barack Obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children,” and First Lady Michelle Obama cal
- Author: Canada, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0807044490
- Language: English
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Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
$28.00 Add to cartThe author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide — and what we must do about it.
Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old- Author: Grossman, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316265934
- Language: English
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Tell Your Children: The Truth about Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
$19.99 Add to cartIn “a brilliant antidote to all the…false narratives about pot” (American Thinker), an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and ment… [more below]
- Author: Berenson, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1982103671
- Language: English
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Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
$20.00 Add to cartPhilosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.
Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacani- Series: Big Ideas//Small Books
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427182
- Language: English
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Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
$17.95 Add to cartAn expert in the field offers a mindfulness-based approach to nonviolent action, demonstrating how nonviolence is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation
Nonviolence was once considere- Author: Haga, Kazu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1946764434
- Language: English
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The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartNo topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Cook, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0190073454
- Language: English
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Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$21.95 Read moreSet in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.
Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, fro
- Author: Delgado-Kling, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1682194477
- Language: English
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A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective
$17.95 Read more‘A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism’ – Angela Y. Davis
***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence:- Author: Verg?s, Fran?oise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0745345670
- Language: English
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Revolutions
$12.99 Add to cartFrom 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldstone, Jack A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0199858500
- Language: English
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The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos
$29.00 Read moreBased on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where
- Author: Garcia, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605785
- Language: English
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Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief
$19.95 Read more“This intimate, moving, and timely collection of essays points the way to a world in which the burden of grief is shared, and pain is reconfigured into a powerful force for social change and collectiv
- Author: Milstein, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1849352844
- Language: English
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Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
$26.95 Add to cartWinner, 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment “Best Book” Award from the East Texas Historical Association
In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne Scott examines how white Texans transformed lynching from a largely- Author: Scott, Terry Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1682262189
- Language: English
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We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism
$29.00 Read moreA gripping investigation into the nation’s most notorious far-right group, revealing how they created a new blueprint for extremism and turned American politics into a blood sport
After the 2016 elect- Author: Campbell, Andy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0306827468
- Language: English
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Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right
$21.95 Add to cartA startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-r- Author: Miller-Idriss, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0691222940
- Language: English
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Training for Sudden Violence: 72 Practice Drills
$19.95 Add to cartThe speed and brutality of a predatory attack can shock even an experienced martial artist. The sudden chaos, the cascade of stress hormones―you feel as though time slows down. In reality, the a
- Author: Miller, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 159439380X
- Language: English
