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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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At the Dark End of the Street

By Danielle L. McGuire ,

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Quantum Night
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Quantum Night

By Robert J. Sawyer ,

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The Sorrows of Mexico
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The Sorrows of Mexico

By Emiliano Ruiz Parra , Lydia Cacho , Juan Villoro , Marcela Turati , Anabel Hernández

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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The Better Angels of Our Nature

By Steven Pinker ,

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The Break
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The Break

By Katherena Vermette ,

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Monster in His Eyes
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Monster in His Eyes

By J.M. Darhower ,

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Carter Reed
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Carter Reed

By Tijan ,

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They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
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They Left Great Marks on Me

By Kidada E. Williams ,

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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
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Don't Call Us Dead

By Danez Smith ,

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Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
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Lynching and Spectacle

By Amy Louise Wood ,

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In Idi Amin's Shadow: Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda
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In Idi Amin's Shadow

By Alicia C. Decker ,

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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
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Mighty Be Our Powers

By Leymah Gbowee , Carol Mithers ,

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Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate
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Killer on the Road

By Ginger Strand ,

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Life of the Party: Poems
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Life of the Party

By Olivia Gatwood ,

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Violence of Mind
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Violence of Mind

By Varg Freeborn ,

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The 1972 Munich Olympics
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The 1972 Munich Olympics

By Kay Schiller , Christopher Young ,

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Voices Behind The Tears: A Domestic Violence Anthology
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Voices Behind The Tears

By Saving Lives Through Lit ,

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When Men Murder Women
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When Men Murder Women

By R. Emerson Dobash , Russell P. Dobash ,

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Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
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Not in God's Name

By Jonathan Sacks ,

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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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1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back
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1919, The Year of Racial Violence

By David F. Krugler ,

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Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
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Virtuous Violence

By Alan Page Fiske , Tage Shakti Rai ,

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Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma
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Haunting Legacies

By Gabriele Schwab ,

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Final Girls
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Final Girls

By Riley Sager ,

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Wicked Lexington, Kentucky
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Wicked Lexington, Kentucky

By Fiona Young-Brown ,

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Into the Darkest Corner
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Into the Darkest Corner

By Elizabeth Haynes ,

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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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Not That Bad

By Roxane Gay ,

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I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
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I Will Find You

By Joanna Connors ,

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The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
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The Chinese Must Go

By Beth Lew-Williams ,

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
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The Other Wes Moore

By Wes Moore ,

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The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
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The Calculus of Violence

By Aaron Sheehan-Dean ,

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I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence
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I Am Not Your Victim

By Beth M. Sipe , Evelyn J. Hall ,

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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices
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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence

By Jennifer R. Wies (editor) , Hillary J. Haldane (editor) ,

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Violence Against Latina Immigrants: Citizenship, Inequality, and Community
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Violence Against Latina Immigrants

By Roberta Villalon ,

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Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering and Care in Chile
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Traumatic States

By Nia Parson ,

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The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman
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The Hollywood Kid

By Oscar Martinez , Juan Martinez , John Washington (translator) , Daniela Maria Ugaz (translator)

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Harm to Others: The Assessment and Treatment of Dangerousness
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Harm to Others

By Brian Van Brunt ,

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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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Prayers for the Stolen
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Prayers for the Stolen

By Jennifer Clement ,

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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
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The Great Leveler

By Walter Scheidel ,

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Aspects of Violence: A Critical Theory
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Aspects of Violence

By W. Schinkel ,

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Violence: A Writer's Guide
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Violence

By Rory Miller ,

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Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement
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Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement

By Wendy Pearlman ,

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The Resurrectionist
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The Resurrectionist

By Wrath James White ,

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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
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Invisible No More

By Andrea Ritchie ,

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All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
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All Our Trials

By Emily L Thuma ,

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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
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Tinderbox

By Robert W. Fieseler ,

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Scars Of Independence
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Scars Of Independence

By Holger Hoock ,

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The Revolution Starts at Home
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The Revolution Starts at Home

By Jai Dulani (editor) , Ching-in Chen (editor) , Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (editor)

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