Violence in Society
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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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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
$17.99 Add to cartNamed a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews
“A smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . Th- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250798493
- Language: English
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How To Talk About Guns with Anyone
$19.99 Add to cartArm Yourself with the Facts: How to Talk About Guns in America
Firearms-related incidents kill more than 45,000 people in the US every year and are the leading cause of death for US children and adoles
- Author: Schweit, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1947635581
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom
$24.93 Add to cartA persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements.
Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy, m- Author: Lawson, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 520387848
- Language: English
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement
$19.99 Read moreA New York Times Bestseller
“A moving petition to America that it not look away from the catastrophes at Columbine, Newtown, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and, yes, Parkland. It succeeds as an in-depth re
- Author: Cullen, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0062882961
- 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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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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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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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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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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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1921 Tulsa’s Greenwood District, known then as the nation’s “Black Wall Street,” was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a whi… [more below]
- Author: Krehbiel, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0806168714
- Language: English
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Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis
$24.99 Add to cartThere are many books on the subject of safety, but paper cannot protect you from the next shooter. Stop the Killing can help you transform the way you take control of your safety. This book provides y
- Author: Schweit, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1947635573
- Language: English
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Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma
$24.95 Add to cartBlack Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the 400 Years of African American History Commiss
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 20 2020
- ISBN10: 168179179X
- Language: English
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I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
$19.99 Add to cartDetective Lt. Joe Kenda, star of Homicide Hunter, shares his deepest, darkest, and never before revealed case files from his 19 years as a homicide detective.
Are you horrified yet fascinated by abhor- Author: Kenda, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1478922419
- Language: English
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Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
$32.00 Add to cartThe author of the world’s best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of experience and knowledge grappling with the world’s toughest conflicts to offer a way out of the seemingly
- Author: Ury, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0063286904
- Language: English
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The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Now the basis for an investig
Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction
Winner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction- Author: Rubinstein, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849330
- 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
