Our Violent World

Cases of child homicide are rare but they are especially horrific. The author goes behind the sensationalist headlines to investigate why these cri...

"We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the worl...

Sometimes lyric, sometimes violent, Conor Carville's second collection of poetry teems with the martyrdoms, both everyday and epic, that punctuate ...

Reducere. We are Happy, We are Doomed collects fifteen stories of the strange and the terrifying and weaves them into a dark tapestry that magnifies and expl...

Reducere. A global movement guided by love Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thri...

In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of ...

Reducere. Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way—except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until ...

Reducere. Who are our enemies? And what would it mean to love them?Hyung Jin Kim Sun leads us on an exploration of God's call to love our enemies. What did J...

Reducere. New York Times bestseller To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . ....

Reducere. Discover the ultimate manga experience with the Tokyo Ghoul Series! Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their cra...

"American Time Bomb is a vital read for this moment. " --Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Blood in the Water: The Attica ...

Elia Hohauser-Thatcher's debut chapbook, The Prophet's Toothbrush, explores and deconstructs masculinity, coming of age in Detroit, and familial in...

Reducere. Four billion years in the palm of your hand, Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects is the story of our planet as you've never seen it ...

Reducere. What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers th...

Reducere. Visit the author's Web site at www.ourinnerape.comIt s no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form t...

Reducere. A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann ...

Reducere. Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the...

Reducere. Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much inf...

Reducere. Award NameBoston Globe-Horn Book AwardsAward categoryNonfictionDescriptionIn a text that mirrors their language and thoughts, Marcia Sewall has mas...

A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political th...

Reducere. 2021 International Book Awards - Religion: General - Award-Winner 2021 International Book Awards - Spirituality; Inspirational - Award-Winner 2021 ...

Reducere. In this new edition of a classic work, the great Catholic apologist and historian Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movem...

David French warns of the potential dangers to the country--and the world--if we don't summon the courage to reconcile our political differences. T...

Reducere. A short glance at the state of the world today reveals the obvious and harsh reality that we are at war. The media, politicians, and culture would ...

Reducere. Our planet can be violent and destructive. Volcanoes erupt, sending out clouds of ash and rivers of molten lava. Earthquakes shake up the land, des...

Reducere. Would there be a Western civilization without the Greek myths? Would we be able to define our civilization and ourselves without some reference to ...

The Godfather--the epic tale of crime and betrayal that became a global phenomenon. Almost fifty years ago, a classic was born. A searing portrayal...

DescriptionKilltopia is set in future Japan, and follows a salvage hunter called Shinji and his robot sidekick, Crash. Once word gets out that Cras...

Reducere. Think you know fae? Think again.From USA Today bestselling author Sarah K. L. Wilson comes a deliciously trope-filled young adult romantic fantasy ...

Reducere. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn Orange Prize FinalistNagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he lea...

Reducere. A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of ma...

Reducere. In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertiv...

Myths propagated by organized religion not only hamper efforts to apply reason to our problems but can even foster violent conflicts that threaten ...

A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's...

Reducere. 'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage - his version of the modern world with all its hideous but hilarious but contemptible but unavoidabl...

"No event in our world is real, my friend. Everything that occurs in this universe is illusory... And in a world of appearances, in which no thing ...

Reducere. A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of ma...

Reducere. Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images o...

Reducere. Children who claim to remember a previous life have been found in many parts of the world, particularly in the Buddhist and Hindu countries of Sout...

Reducere. DescriptionSet in the fictitious world of Westeros, the hit television series Game of Thrones chronicles the bitter and violent struggle between th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Edgar WidemanA philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism an...

Building resilience--the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively--is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is s...

The most violent places in the world today are not at war. They are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflic...

History is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals--it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbi...

Reducere. DescriptionHis body was sin, his cock was sin, and I was a sinner.To keep myself safe, I hide in the world and let life move around me.My new partn...

A personal and moral inquiry into the crime we do our best to ignore: the rape of adult men When Raymond M. Douglas was an eighteen-year-old living...

Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in Europe The Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our ...

Reducere. Fiction. California Interest. Asian & Asian American Studies. Four days before the 2016 Presidential Election, disgraced teacher Scott Bonneville f...

Reducere. AMERICAN HAUNTINGS THE RISE OF THE SPIRIT WORLD AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN GHOST HUNTER BY TROY TAYLORDo you believe in ghosts? You're not alone. ...

DescriptionWhat is matter? Matter is the stuff from which we and all the things in the world are made. Everything around us -- from desks, to books...

DescriptionHarper Regan follows a woman's road trip through the heart of England in a violent and comic exploration of the moralities of sex and de...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a world that thrives on aggression and physical force, male violence has become an all-too-frequent response to the frustrations and ...

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

Reducere. A young girl travels into a magical land to save her brother from real-world bullies...and from the evil King in Yellow. Reads L to R (Western Styl...

Reducere. A global pandemic, economic depression, raging unemployment, mass evictions, rampant homelessness, political and corporate corruption, election fra...

Reducere. This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of our existing kn...

Reducere. One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arriva...

Reducere. The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listenin...

Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most in...

Reducere. The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist...

Reducere. The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting ...

Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman "J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time." -- M...

Reducere. Deliver us from evil...Drowning in a meaningless existence flipping burgers, Matthew Davis suddenly collapses from a powerful psychic connection he...

Reducere. Somebody has to tell the truth sometime, whatever that truth may be. In this, her debut full collection, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie offers up a body...

Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer ...

Trent came to Idaho seeking solitude. He built a cabin, broke a few wild horses, and quietly put his pas behind him. Then King Bill Hale began layi...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative abo...

Reducere. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ag...

Orlandito "Dito" Montiel, son of Orlando, a Nicaraguan immigrant, and an Irish mother, grew wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks ...

Reducere. From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows...