Violence in Society
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Under the Gun: An Er Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic
$27.95 Add to cartA 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
$18.95 Read moreLos 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 Add to cartOne 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
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Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810-1935
$39.95 Add to cartIn Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana’s Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition
- Author: Hyde, Samuel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0807169277
- Language: English
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The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
$18.99 Add to cartA veteran, award-winning journalist and a former New York Times correspondent and true crime writer team up to create the first major nonfiction work based on the ongoing, international phenomenon of … [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743292049
- Language: English
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
$17.95 Add to cartResponding to the US’s perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.
In this profound appraisal of post-September 11, 2001 America, Judith Butler considers the conditions of he- Author: Butler, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1788738616
- Language: English
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Nobody Left to Hate
$19.99 Add to cartOn April 20, 1999, the halls of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, reverberated with the sound of gunshots as two students, highly armed and consumed with rage, killed thirteen students and
- Author: Aronson, Elliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0805070990
- Language: English
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Landscape with Sex and Violence
$18.00 Add to cartThe poems in Landscape with Sex and Violence explore what it means to exist within a rape culture so entrenched that it can’t be separated from the physical landscapes in which it enacts itself. Lyric
- Author: Melnick, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1936919559
- Language: English
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Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky
$17.99 Add to cartA shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart–the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled … [more below]
- Author: Van Meter, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1416538690
- Language: English
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Defend / Defund: A Visual History of Organizing Against the Police
$22.00 Read moreA sweeping and poignant history of community response to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the US, told through interviews, archival reproductions, and narrative.
In the summer of
- Author: Interference Archive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173881
- Language: English
