En Medellain, Colombia, in the 1980s, Rosario Tijeras, who was hit by a bullet just as she got her first kiss, follows her brother into the violent world of the drug gangs.
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The world was shocked by the images that emerged from Abu Ghraib, not only because the US military was implicated in institutionalized torture, but also because women were seen as likely perpetrators
Having set out the problem of civilization in the first volume, environmentalist Jensen here suggests what to do about it. Among his perspectives are identification, dams, psychopathology, fewer than
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A history of the United States from its beginnings to the early twenty-first century, as told from the point of view of ordinary people, including slaves and Native Americans, to reveal the violence,
The theory of evolution that Charles Darwin put forth in the nineteenth century has been broadly confirmed and enriched by the discovery of genes and by advances in the life sciences, from paleontolo
Before she and others formed the Red Army Faction, known to the press as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, Meinhof (1934-76) was a respected German journalist read throughout Europe. Here is a selection of her
“Schwartz does a fine job of evoking this elusive author.”—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times“If this interesting book of criticism and interviews introduces you to
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Long dismissed as an ideology of 19th-century bomb-throwers, anarchy "came back" in the 1990s with the anti-globalization movement and anti-WTO protests in Seattle and elsewhere. In this book, Leier (
Warren Grossman interweaves his expertise as a psychologist with his natural gift for healing in this tranquil, generous acknowledgment that physical strength and emotional wellbeing are possible to g
They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a "street gang with an analysis." Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ’60s counterculture is also an unflin
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Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our mos
