History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath. On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its afte...(展开全部)

History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath. On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its afte...(展开全部)

Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, road rage, and even the events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of many disciplines, this book seeks the common causes of these events in collective violence. In collective violence, social interaction immediately i...(展开全部)

Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, road rage, and even the events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of many disciplines, this book seeks the common causes of these events in collective violence. In collective violence, social interaction immediately i...(展开全部)

How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that engage Valentine Daniel in this exploration of life and death in...(展开全部)

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. “Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times”(Nation). Index. An analysis of the nature, causes,...(展开全部)

阿德里安·雷恩（Adrian Raine），神经犯罪学创始人，暴力生物学领袖，理查德·佩里大学犯罪学和精神病学教授，宾夕法尼亚大学心理学教授。过去35年来，雷恩一直致力于反社会和暴力行为的神经生物学与生物社会根源的研究，他运用平生所学，探索预防和治疗儿童品行障碍及成年人反社会与暴力犯罪的方法。

阿德里安·雷恩（Adrian Raine），神经犯罪学创始人，暴力生物学领袖，理查德·佩里大学犯罪学和精神病学教授，宾夕法尼亚大学心理学教授。过去35年来，雷恩一直致力于反社会和暴力行为的神经生物学与生物社会根源的研究，他运用平生所学，探索预防和治疗儿童品行障碍及成年人反社会与暴力犯罪的方法。

With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques to investigate t...(展开全部)

Smashing such stereotypes as "the monolithic Middle East" or "the Western Mind," Amartya Sen examines the much-misunderstood concept of identity. The world may be more riven by murderous violence than ever before; yet Amartya Sen, the galvanizing Nobel Laureate, proposes in this sweeping philosophical work that the brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable ...(展开全部)