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Nonviolence to Animals/E
Christopher Key Chapple
Paperback - $33.95
This book probes the origins of the practice of nonviolence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, including its impact on East Asian Cultures. It then turns to a variety of contemporary issues relating t ...
Why Not Kill Them All? : The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder
Daniel Chirot
Hardcover - $56.95
""Why Not Kill Them All?" is an excellent book that adopts a fresh and complex approach to the problem of mass killings. In a study that ranges widely around the globe and through history, Chirot and McCauley demonstrate that genocides and other larg ...
Lust for Liberty : The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425
JR. Cohn
Paperback - $42.95
In the Fig Tree : Surviving Domestic Violence in Words and Pictures
Grace Coleman
Paperback - $21.95
Violence in the Media and Its Influence on Criminal Defense
Cynthia A. Cooper
Paperback - $75.95
How much are today's youth actually influenced by violence in the media? People who would never dispute the positive influence of programs like Sesame Street are reluctant to acknowledge that other programming may do harm. As early as the 1930s, howe ...
Violence Assessment and Intervention
Michael H., Corcoran
Hardcover - $212.95
The principle focus of this book is not sociological theory, or even clinical assessment, but practical intervention, monitoring, and control of violence. Unlike other books which focus on violence at work or in school, Violence Assessment and Interv ...
Gandhi and Beyond : Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism
David Cortright
Paperback - $39.95
Is there room for nonviolence in an age of terrorism? Longtime peace activist and authority on creative nonviolence David Cortright makes a strong case for the need for nonviolent action now more than ever. Drawing on the legend and lessons of Gandhi ...
A War of Words : Political Violence and Public Debate in Israel
Gerald Cromer
Hardcover - $317.95
Heavily influenced by Max Weber's definition of the state, political scientists and criminologists alike have focused their attention on the legitimization struggles of non-state actors who resort to violence. This book constitutes an attempt to redr ...
Life and Words : Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary
Veena Das
Hardcover - $117.95
In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about viole ...