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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The End of War by John Horgan Synopsis War is a fact of human nature. As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes. But longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking,... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Zižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zižek... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Ohio University Research in International Studies: Global and Comparative Studies #13: Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention by Sean Byrne Publisher Comments In a world desperate to comprehend and address what appears to be an ever-enlarging explosion of violence, this book provides important insights into crucial contemporary issues, with violence providing the lens. Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games by David Clay Large Publisher Comments Munich 1972 tells the compelling story of the most controversial of all modern Olympiads within the turbulent context of simmering global tensions: the ongoing Cold War, political posturing between the two Germanys, seemingly endless warfare in Indochina,... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Why Peace Fails: The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence by Charles T. Call Publisher Comments Why does peace fail? More precisely, why do some countries that show every sign of having successfully emerged from civil war fall once again into armed conflict? What explains why peace sticks after some wars but not others? In this illuminating study... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera (Chicana Matters) by Alicia Gaspar De Alba Publisher Comments Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have been sexually violated and mutilated as well. Thousands more have been reported missing and remain... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Fist Stick Knife Gun (Rev 10 Edition) by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a small, vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Mogadishu. In... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy Publisher Comments "Part jeremiad, part gripping crime thriller,"* Dont Shoot is David M. Kennedys chronicle of his decades-long crusade to solve one of Americas most pressing and shameful social problems. Kennedy, who engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the 1990s, cutting... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames Publisher Comments An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued — and baffled — America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Batterer As Parent (2ND 11 Edition) by R. Lundy Bancroft Publisher Comments Moving beyond the narrow clinical perspective sometimes applied to viewing the emotional and developmental risks to battered children, The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics, Second Edition offers a view... (read more) List Price $54.00 Your price: $49.70 New - Trade Paper
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A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us about the Grand Canyon State and Life in America by Tom Zoellner Publisher Comments A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet-and-greet held by U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response by Aaron J. Klein Publisher Comments “This is a thriller, a page-turner, a probing look into the inner workings of the assassination squads that Israel mobilized after the Munich massacre.” -David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Arab and Jew “Gratitude is due... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Sociology of War and Violence by Sinisa Malesevic Publisher Comments War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This new book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings Fron the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre (Radical Imagination) by Douglas Kellner Synopsis Winner-2008 AESA Critics' Choice Book AwardFrom the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University to the tragedies at Columbine and Oklahoma City, certain common traits can be traced. In "Guys and Guns Amok," media and cultural critic Douglas Kellner... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity (Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict) by Patricia Marchak Publisher Comments The UN has adopted a "responsibility to protect" mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate. Patricia Marchak argues that unless would-be interveners have an understanding of... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Gordon Riots: Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ian (edt) Haywood Publisher Comments The Gordon riots of June 1780 were the most devastating outbreak of urban violence in British history. For almost a week large parts of central London were ablaze, prisons were destroyed and the Bank of England attacked. Hundreds of rioters were shot... (read more) Your price: $95.00 New - Hardcover
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Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington Publisher Comments This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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Victims, Perpetrators or Actors?: Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence by Caroline O N Moser Publisher Comments Increasing levels of global conflict and political violence provide a critical challenge for development theorists and practitioners. Many countries have endured decades of armed conflict, and others live under the permanent menace of political violence.... (read more) List Price $105.25 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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