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  • Andrew Hiscock The best books on thinking about how violence can shape our lives Book cover of Aspects of Violence: A Critical Theory Book cover of Conflict And The Web of Group-Affiliations Book cover of Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? Book cover of Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic Book cover of Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
  • Allison Bloom The best books to learn about domestic violence from a cross-cultural perspective Book cover of I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence Book cover of To Have and To Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating Book cover of Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices Book cover of Violence Against Latina Immigrants: Citizenship, Inequality, and Community Book cover of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering and Care in Chile
  • Hannibal B. Johnson The best books of Black history: the Black experience in Oklahoma Book cover of The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice Book cover of Murder In The Streets: A White Choctaw Witness To The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Book cover of Release Me: The Spirits of Greenwood Speak Book cover of The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History Book cover of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
  • Anna C. Salter The best books that enlarged our understanding of interpersonal violence and contributed to reduced predation Book cover of Trauma and Recovery Book cover of Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us Book cover of Influence Book cover of People of the Lie Book cover of The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
  • Joanne Leedom-Ackerman The best books that combine international political intrigue, romance, and family drama Book cover of The Poisonwood Bible Book cover of Things Fall Apart Book cover of Acts of Faith Book cover of Prayers for the Stolen Book cover of The Comedians
  • Ryan Smithson The best war books about turning PTSD into post-traumatic growth Book cover of War Book cover of The Things They Carried Book cover of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Book cover of War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder Book cover of The Yellow Birds
  • Robert Gay The best books about the drugs and violence in Brazil Book cover of Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown Book cover of Children of the Drug Trade Book cover of The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil Book cover of Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City Book cover of Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
  • Terence Keel The best books about justice in America that will terrify you Book cover of City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 Book cover of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Book cover of America on Fire Book cover of Not A Crime To Be Poor Book cover of No Human Involved
  • Leigh Goodmark The best anger-inducing non-fiction books on women and the criminal legal system Book cover of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women Book cover of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color Book cover of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence Book cover of Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights Book cover of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
  • Martin Daly The best nonfiction books about why people sometimes kill one another Book cover of Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City Book cover of When Men Murder Women Book cover of Killings Book cover of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Book cover of Maria Murder and Suicide
  • AJ Adams The best books for dark romance lovers: irresistible stories of violence, depravity, and love Book cover of Reaper's Property Book cover of Tears of Tess Book cover of Monster in His Eyes Book cover of Dirty Angels Book cover of Carter Reed
  • Jennifer Loren The best dark, twisted, and sexy books Book cover of Dark Stranger The Dream Book cover of Dirty Angels Book cover of Monster in His Eyes Book cover of Carter Reed Book cover of Crow's Row
  • Kimberly Mair The best scholarly books that show how care isn’t always a good thing Book cover of Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic Book cover of Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care Book cover of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present Book cover of Invested Indifference: How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society Book cover of As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
  • Nicholas Coghlan The best books on South Sudan: how it all went wrong for the world’s newest country Book cover of Acts of Faith Book cover of Emma's War: A True Story Book cover of The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa Book cover of The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age Book cover of The Child Soldiers of Africa's Red Army: The Role of Social Process and Routinised Violence in South Sudan's Military
  • Brianna Malotke The best horror poetry books to devour in a single autumn afternoon Book cover of Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection, Volume II Book cover of A Collection of Nightmares Book cover of I Am Not Your Final Girl Book cover of How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend Book cover of Dangerous Waters: Deadly Women of the Sea
  • Kevin Kenny The best books about US immigration in the nineteenth century Book cover of Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy Book cover of Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America Book cover of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America Book cover of Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum Book cover of Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II
  • Rebecca McKanna The best true crime books that still honor the victims Book cover of Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Book cover of Know My Name: A Memoir Book cover of We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence Book cover of I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her Book cover of Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
  • Jonathan R. Rose The best books for showing uncomfortable truths Book cover of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Book cover of One Day in Bethlehem Book cover of In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition Book cover of The Sorrows of Mexico Book cover of Max Havelaar
  • Alex Pavesi The best thriller books that will make you question reality Book cover of Foucault's Pendulum Book cover of Endless Night Book cover of The Music of Chance Book cover of Death and the Seaside Book cover of American Tabloid
  • Guido Alfani The best books about the rich, the super-rich, and wealth inequality in general Book cover of Capital in the Twenty-First Century Book cover of The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality Book cover of The Rich: From Slaves to Super-Yachts: A 2,000-Year History Book cover of The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century Book cover of Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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