Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Science, development, and violence	Claude Alphonso Alvares	Study in the Indian context.	OL1032853W
Living with torturers and other essays of intervention	Sasanka Perera	Collection of essays focussing on causes that led to current political crisis in Sri Lanka.	OL1042551W
On violence	Hannah Arendt	El término «violencia», en su sentido más elemental, refiere al daño ejercido sobre las personas por parte de otros seres humanos. Los experimentos totalitarios del siglo xx ampliaron este uso de la …	OL10460632W
Violence	Slavoj Žižek	"Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Zizek brings n…	OL11189910W
For your own good	Alice Miller	Miller proposed here that German traumatic childrearing produced heroin addict Christiane F., serial killer of children Jürgen Bartsch and dictator Adolf Hitler. Children learn to accept their parent…	OL11649843W
The border between them	Jeremy Neely	"Jeremy Neely recounts the exploits of John Brown, William Quantrill, and other notorious guerrillas, as well as the stories of everyday people who lived through the conflict that marked the terrible…	OL12250063W
La sexualité	Bernard Germain	Ouvrage d'ensemble sur divers aspects de la sexualité. Sommaire : Regards multiples sur la sexualité - Anatomie sexuelle - Réponses sexuelles - Conception et contrôle des naissances - Psychophysiolog…	OL12966256W
Bad Boy	Jim Thompson	At thirteen Jim Thompson was learning how to smoke cigars and ogle burlesque girls under the tutelage of his profane grandfather. A few years later, he was bellhopping at a hotel in Fort Worth, where…	OL13420877W
Gender and violence in the Middle East	David Ghanim	Gender and Violence in the Middle East argues that violence is fundamental to the functioning of the patriarchal gender structure that governs daily life in Middle Eastern societies. Ghanim contends …	OL13609334W
Double Vision	Pat Barker	Insomnia, exhaustion, recurring nightmares – Stephen Sharkey is suffering the aftereffects of his career as a war reporter, most recently in Afghanistan, where Ben Frobisher, war photographer and fri…	OL14865043W
Roadwork	Stephen King	Roadwork is a thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bach…	OL149156W
Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum	Heinrich Böll	The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: how violence develops and where it can lead (original German title: *Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen k…	OL15394878W
Extremely violent societies	Christian Gerlach	"Violence is a fact of human life. This book trace the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. Christian Gerlach s…	OL15444736W
Aspects of violence	Willem Schinkel	"While most analyses don't define violence and regard it as an essentially contested concept, this book argues for an ontological definition of violence as a reduction of being. This enables a critic…	OL15531885W
The Savage City	T. J. English	The safest big city in America? That would be the question a certain generation of New Yorkers would ask someone who praises New York for it's safety and prosperity. A generation that has experienced…	OL15695648W
Marca de sangre	Héctor de Mauleón	Recounts the rise and fall of the most notable figures in Mexico's drug dealing cartels since 1985, highlighting the violence, the betrayals, and the role of corrupted law enforcement and government …	OL15978939W
Looking for history	Alma Guillermoprieto	"Since Alma Guillermoprieto became The New Yorker's Latin American correspondent a decade ago, she has emerged as the most informed and admired writer on her part of the world. In these superb pieces…	OL16028778W
What It Is Like to Go to War	Karl Marlantes	From the author of the New York Times bestseller Matterhorn, this is a powerful nonfiction book about the experience of combat and how inadequately we prepare our young men and women for war. …	OL16099615W
Sometimes Bad Things Happen	Ellen Jackson	Mentions some of the bad things that happen in the world and presents some positive ways to respond to them.	OL161702W
The Blackwell companion to religion and violence	Andrew R. Murphy	"The timely Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who provide a coherent state of the art overview of the complex relation…	OL16190447W