Violence in Society
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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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The Red Record
$6.99 Add to cartIda B. Wells exposes a series of racially-motivated acts that disproportionately affect African Americans and is overwhelmingly ignored by a majority white criminal justice system. It’s crucial docume
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1513271032
- Language: English
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Lynching at Port Jervis
$18.00 Add to cartAn account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.
On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black ma- Author: Dray, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250867134
- Language: English
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Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence
$18.99 Add to cart“Prisoners of Hate offers a profound analysis of a most pressing human challenge: the causes–and prevention–of hatred. Of the many important books Aaron Beck has written, this may be his greatest gi
- Author: Beck, Aaron T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0060932007
- 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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Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
$27.00 Add to cartThe first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet
On May 31, 2014, in t… [more below]
- Author: Hale, Kathleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 080215980X
- Language: English
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Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me about Recovery, Purpose, and Hope (School Safety, Grief Recovery)
$19.95 Add to cartHow a Parkland Dad and 9/11 Brother Faced Tragedy
“Don’t tell me there’s no such thing as gun violence. It happened in Parkland.” ―Fred Guttenberg
2020 Nautilus Silver Winner
2021 Chanticleer Heart- Author: Guttenberg, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1642505358
- 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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Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence–And a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America
Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. B… [more below]- Author: Abt, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1541645723
- Language: English
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Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence
$19.95 Add to cartA Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real-World Violence.
Experienced martial artist and veteran correction officer Sgt. Rory Miller distills what he has learned from jailhouse brawls, tactical o
- Author: Miller, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1594391181
- Language: English
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Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a “thought-provoking meditation” (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime–now av… [more below]
- Author: James, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 141655274X
- 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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The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central
$17.95 Read more“One of the best true crime books of all time.” —Time
The inside story of the notorious and elusive serial killer who stalked
As seen on Investigation Discovery’s The Grim Sleeper: Mind of a Monster- Author: Pelisek, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1640090231
- Language: English
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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
