The War is in the Mountains: Violence in the World's High Places
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Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly...
Defaced: The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
Valentin Groebner and Pamela Selwyn
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Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, invisible enemies: violence and anonymity go hand in hand....
Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea
Alastair Couper, Hance D. Smith and Bruno Ciceri
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Abuses and slavery at sea are largely missing from narratives of work and environmental exploitation...
Violence in Place, Cultural and Environmental Wounding
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Human life is intimately woven into place. Through nations and homelands, monuments and sacred sites...
Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia
Vladimir Tikhonov and Torkel Brekke
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It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a 'peaceful' religion. The Western public...
The Wire, Deadwood, Homicide, and NYPD Blue: Violence is Power
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This book offers the only examination of the television writing of David Milch and David Simon as...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
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-Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 This acclaimed book by Steven Pinker, author of The...