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The Politics of Collective Violence by Charles Tilly
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Tilly [Tilly, Charles]

* * * 1 Oct 90 (Predominantly Tutsi) Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), first organized in 1987 partly in response to Rwandan exiles’ loss of property rights within Uganda, invades northwest ...
( Category: Violence in Society November 24,2015 )
Little Black Book of Violence: What Every Young Man Needs to Know About Fighting by Kane Lawrence A
epub |eng | 2009-04-01 | Author:Kane, Lawrence A. [Kane, Lawrence A.]

2. Stop him from continuing to attack you 3. Always have a Plan B The first rule we’ve already described to you. “Don’t get hit” is always sound advice. Previously ...
( Category: Violence in Society October 30,2015 )
Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence by Greg Graffin
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Greg Graffin [Graffin, Greg]

7 WAR IS UNWINNABLE America’s most infamous war is the one we call “Civil.” After its brutal conclusion, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman told the citizens of the united Republic, in ...
( Category: Violence in Society October 12,2015 )
The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch by Jonathan Gottschall
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Jonathan Gottschall [Gottschall, Jonathan]

• • • LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: what we find in women’s sports is exactly consistent with what we find in girls’ forms of play. Girls use play to ...
( Category: Violence in Society October 9,2015 )
Disposable Futures : The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle by Giroux Henry A.; Evans Brad
epub |eng | | Author:Giroux, Henry A.; Evans, Brad

Let’s take as an example here the cruelty displayed within popular Hollywood films such as Fast Five (2011) and Acts of Valor (2012). These films, only two examples of an ...
( Category: Democracy September 26,2015 )
Better Angels of Our Nature : Why Violence Has Declined by Pinker Steven
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

Today the story leaves us in shock. But in the moral universe of the settlers, allowing the girl to die and actively ending her life were live options. Though we ...
( Category: Violence in Society September 8,2015 )
American Violence by Richard Hofstadter
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Richard Hofstadter

Smoke was curling languidly from the old pipe Gunner Jessie Blake puffed upon as he reclined in an easy chair in the dimly lit drawing room of his mansion amid ...
( Category: Violence in Society July 20,2015 )
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz by Michela Wrong
epub |eng | | Author:Michela Wrong

CHAPTER EIGHT The importance of being elegant ‘It seems that our country has been Abandoned to its sad fate Why did we fight against the white man’s rule? Did we ...
( Category: Comparative Politics July 19,2015 )
Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger by Molotch Harvey
epub |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Molotch, Harvey [Molotch, Harvey]

DESIGN RISES Well before the dust began clearing, schemes began to unfold as to what, specifically, to build. Leaving the site open with a meadow for peaceful repose got a ...
( Category: Urban June 13,2015 )
Columbine (2010) by Cullen Dave
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Cullen, Dave [Dave, Cullen,]

____ As the conspiracy theory crumbled, far from the eyes of the public, a new motive emerged. The jock-feud theory was accepted as the underlying driver, but that had supposedly ...
( Category: State & Local June 12,2015 )
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Prunier Gerard
mobi |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Prunier, Gerard [Prunier, Gerard]

Diplomacy slowly deconstructs the continental conflict The actors start jockeying for position What was the situation of the continental war in early 2001? First of all, one of weariness. The ...
( Category: African June 11,2015 )
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Chua Amy
mobi |eng | 2004-01-05 | Author:Chua, Amy [Chua, Amy]

2 Nor are market-dominant minorities present today in most Eastern European countries; the terrible exception of the former Yugoslavia has already been discussed. While virtually all countries in Africa are ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies June 11,2015 )
WAR by Junger Sebastian
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Junger, Sebastian [Junger, Sebastian]

We drive into the KOP late that afternoon, our destroyed Humvee chained to the one ahead of us and getting dragged through the mud like some kind of stubborn farm ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars June 11,2015 )
Revolutions without Borders by Janet Polasky
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Janet Polasky

SEVEN Correspondence between a “Virtuous spouse, Charming friend!” Correspondence gave husbands, wives, lovers, and friends a toehold in this mobile society when revolution disrupted traditional social bonds. Men and women ...
( Category: European June 8,2015 )
Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up A Woefully Incomplete Guide by Harris Bob
epub |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Harris, Bob [Harris, Bob]

NEPAL (WITH BHUTAN ADDED FOR EXTRA ENLIGHTENMENT) In the Himalayas lie two ancient lands, one Hindu, one Buddhist, both undergoing enormous change. NEPAL • Maoist rebellion v. royalty; tentative peace, ...
( Category: Violence in Society June 1,2015 )

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