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On violence 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
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood Benjamin Alire Sáenz As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, th… OL106704W
Violence Violence James Gilligan Drawing 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 b… OL109014W
Violence 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
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness Erich Fromm,Erich Fromm A study of man’s destructive nature that utilizes evidence from psychoanalysis, neurophysiology, animal psychology, paleontology, and anthropology and is documented with clinical examples. OL1185035W
When something feels wrong When something feels wrong Deanna S. Pledge Provides checklists, journaling ideas, and other positive ways of dealing with being physically, sexually, and/or emotionally abused, emphasizing the importance of talking about what has happened and… OL12039459W
The border between them 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
Violence risk Violence risk Christopher D. Webster,Stephen J. Hucker,Christopher D. Webster The decision to release someone from psychiatric hospital, forensic services or prison is often controversial, and forensic psychologists play a key role in assessing the risk of recidivism. In Viole… OL12643746W
Rage in the streets Rage in the streets Jules Archer A history of mob violence in the United States, from the time of the American Revolution to the riots in Los Angeles in 1992. OL1437044W
Double Vision 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
Teen violence Teen violence Scott Barbour Presents opposing viewpoints on the problem of teen violence, discussing how serious the problem may be, its causes, and ways to reduce it. OL15119158W
The Other Wes Moore The Other Wes Moore Wes Moore Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentenc… OL15165120W
Extremely violent societies 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
Leverage Leverage Joshua Cohen High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the foot… OL15488099W
Complete novels Complete novels John Cheever Here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but als… OL15580574W
Gender, violence and security Gender, violence and security Laura J. Shepherd How do understandings of the relationships between gender, violence, security and the international inform policy and practice in which these notions are central? What are the practical implications … OL15741964W
Savage Day Savage Day Jack Higgins Simon Vaughan's life of adventure and arms trafficking came to an abrupt end the day the police threw him into a jail cell in Greece. But then the British Army comes calling with an offer he can't re… OL157534W
Double vision Double vision Pat Barker Profoundly affected by the events of September 11th and its aftermath, two British journalists return to England to face different fates, in a study of the effects of violence on those who come in co… OL15830263W
Redemption Redemption Nicholas Lemann A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. Jour… OL15839444W
Keeper of the keys Keeper of the keys Perri O'Shaughnessy The disappearance of his wife, Leigh, sends obsessive and brilliant architect Ray Jackson on a quest to discover the truth about the incident, while Leigh's best friend launches an investigation into… OL15843642W
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