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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
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American Midnight

By Adam Hochschild ,

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We Need New Names
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We Need New Names

By NoViolet Bulawayo ,

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Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
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Betrayal

By Jonathan Karl ,

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The Logic of Violence in Civil War
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The Logic of Violence in Civil War

By Stathis N. Kalyvas ,

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The Killing Wind: A Chinese County's Descent Into Madness During the Cultural Revolution
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The Killing Wind

By Tan Hecheng , Guo Jian (translator) , Stacy Mosher (translator)

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Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
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Violence in War and Peace

By Nancy Scheper-Hughes (editor) , Philippe I. Bourgois (editor) ,

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Wave of Terror
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Wave of Terror

By Theodore Odrach , Emma Odrach (translator) ,

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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters

By Jason Stearns ,

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Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
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Unthinkable

By Jamie Raskin ,

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When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier's Story
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When Rains Became Floods

By Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez , Margaret Randall (translator) ,

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Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern
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Killing Strangers

By T. K. Wilson ,

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Morality and Political Violence
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Morality and Political Violence

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Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
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Anatomy of a Killing

By Ian Cobain ,

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The Commander's Dilemma: Violence and Restraint in Wartime
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The Commander's Dilemma

By Amelia Hoover Green ,

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The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile
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The Cry of the Renegade

By Raymond B. Craib ,

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The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey: Political Violence, Fear and Pain
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The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey

By Ramazan Aras ,

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A Hall of Mirrors
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A Hall of Mirrors

By Robert Stone ,

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Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
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Force and Freedom

By Kellie Carter Jackson ,

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Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
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Frames of War

By Judith Butler ,

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Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
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Violence

By Slavoj Zizek ,

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Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages
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Abolishing State Violence

By Ray Acheson ,

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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
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A Lexicon of Terror

By Marguerite Feitlowitz ,

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1968
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1968

By Marc Aronson (editor) , Susan Campbell Bartoletti (editor) ,

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The Making of a Human Bomb
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The Making of a Human Bomb

By Nasser Abufarha ,

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