By the author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete?
In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity-from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographic documents of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death ...
Drawing from interviews, personal accounts, and academic studies, On Killing is an important look at the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects the soldier, and of the societal ...
Tribe explains why we are stronger when we come together, and how that can be achieved even in today's divided world.
Offering a devastating rebuttal to the comfortable myth that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, and unimportant, Lawrence H. Keeley's groundbreaking "War Before Civilization" debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive ...
The conventional story is that these well-meaning attempts at peacemaking were repeatedly thwarted by the use of violence.
American Nonviolence offers an essential guide for both students and activists.
In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome through fifteenth-century France on to such notorious ...
Dugard recounts, in her own words, her story of being kidnapped on June 10, 1991. She was 11 years old.