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In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

17 reviews
Amin Maalouf

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

extremely important
Maalouf's point on globalization is that it can be (should be?) seen mainly as an extension of modernity. Modernity, in turn, can be (should be?) seen as a project, originating in Europe, that is as yet incomplete and in many cases self-serving for those who have taken "the white man's burden" upon themselves. Modernity brought with it -- through colonialism, conceptions of nature and culture, ...

Why Not Kill Them All?: The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder

2 reviews
Daniel Chirot, Clark McCauley

Princeton University Press, 2006

I fear my own species
I only had to so much as glance on the title of this book, Why Not Kill Them All?, to decide that I had to read it, no matter what. The art of warfare and mankind's quite unbelievable skill and capacity to stubbornly refuse killing and slaughtering his fellow man has fascinated, as well as frightened me, as far back as I can remember. And even though I've tried, in so many different ways and for ...

The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Stathis N. Kalyvas

Cambridge University Press, 2006

By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of selective violence: it is jointly produced by political ...

One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict
Russell Hardin

Princeton University Press, 1997

In a book that challenges the most widely held ideas of why individuals engage in collective conflict, Russell Hardin offers a timely, crucial explanation of group action in its most destructive forms. Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, Hardin uncovers a systematic exploitation of self-interest in the underpinnings of group identification and collective violence. ...

History: Fiction or Science? Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs. ...

43 reviews
Anatoly Fomenko

Delamere Resources, 2007

Pants on fire?
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is ...

American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination

2 reviews
Kristian Williams

South End Press, 2006

Brilliant study of the US state's use of methods of barbarism
In this important book American journalist Kristian Williams shows how the US state has institutionalised torture. President Bush asserted in February 2002, "None of the provisions of Geneva apply to our conflict with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan or elsewhere throughout the world." As the Schlesinger Report concluded, this Presidential ruling allowed US forces to increase their use of illegal ...

Why War?: The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez
Philip Smith

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

Why did America invade Iraq? Why do nations choose to fight certain wars and not others? How do we bring ourselves to believe that the sacrifice of our troops is acceptable? For most, the answers to these questions are tied to struggles for power or resources and the machinations of particular interest groups. Philip Smith argues that this realist answer to the age-old "why war?" question is insufficient. Instead, Smith suggests that every war ...

The Logic of Political Violence: Lessons in Reform and Revolution
Craig Rosebraugh

Arissa Media Group, 2004

Within Westernized societies, particularly the United States, there has been a near universal acceptance that nonviolent action has been the foundation on which the progress and/or success of political and social justice movements has been built. Contrary to popular beliefs held by many in the United States, political violence has played a crucial role in advancing historical justice struggles. In this breakthrough study, Rosebraugh examines the ...

Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

Sexual harassment in the workplace, date rape, and domestic violence dominate the headlines and have recently sparked scholarly debates about the nature of the sexes. Concurrently, the scientific community is conducting research in topics of sex and gender issues. Indeed, more research is being done on the topics of sexual conflict and coercion than at any other time in the history of the social sciences. Despite this attention, it is clear ...

Logic of Steel: A Fighter's View of Blade and Shank Encounters

9 reviews
James Lafond

Paladin Press, 2001

Knife fighting
If you read what's told in this book, and compares with your own experience (if any), and then go and browse several books on the subject, you'll probably get to the same conclusion I did: many writers have no idea of what's a real confrontation involving a knife, neither have any understanding of the dynamics in such situations. This, obviously, is not the case with "Logic of Steel". Each ...

Longing for logic.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article): An article from: The New American
Kurt Williamsen

American Opinion Publishing, Inc., 2008

This digital document is an article from The New American, published by American Opinion Publishing, Inc. on September 15, 2008. The length of the article is 452 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Longing for logic.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article) ...

The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror: Living, Dying, Surviving

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

The contributors explores the intellectual, cultural, and political logics of the US-led war on terror and its consequences on lived lives in a range of contexts. The book interrogates the ways in which biopolitical practices hinge on political imaginaries and materialities of violence and death.

Short Stories and Metaphors

2 reviews
John Smale

Exposure Publishing, 2007

This book uses the real art of the storyteller to bring about positive change
The stories are based on the adverse effects that behaviours, attitudes and actions have had on the lives of others. Therefore, if the readers can benefit from recognising symptoms of their own issues that have caused problems, then there is the possibility that they can take corrective action before suffering strikes them. John Smale has created analogies, examples and metaphors for the world ...

The final logic of sacrifice? Violence in German prisoner of war labor companies in 1918.: An article from: ...
Heather Jones

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2006. The length of the article is 9885 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The final logic of sacrifice? Violence in German ...

Oppression and Responsibility: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory
Peg O'Connor

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002

Combating homophobia, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination and violence in our society requires more than just focusing on the overt acts of prejudiced and abusive individuals. The very intelligibility of such acts, in fact, depends upon a background of shared beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that together form the context of social practices in which these acts come to have the meaning they do. This book, inspired by Wittgenstein ...

The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force
Richard A. Lee

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force investigates the concept of force through various "episodes" in the history of philosophy. The author argues that force arises on the basis of the distinction of reality and mere appearance. The book looks at figures who reduce force to something other than itself as well as figures who develop a "logic of force" that allows them to trace the operation of force without such a reduction.

The Logic of Conflict: Making War and Peace in the Middle East
Steven Greffenius

M E Sharpe Inc, 1993

The Stalin era has been less accessible to researchers than either the preceding decade or the postwar era. The basic problem is that during the Stalin years censorship restricted the collection and dissemination of information (and introduced bias and distortion into the statistics that were published), while in the post-Stalin years access to archives and libraries remained tightly controlled. Thus it is not surprising that one of the main ...

The Failure of Foucauldian Urban Schooling

Boles Books Writing and Publishing, 2007

This paper was originally 25 double-spaced pages with 43 unique references. The great French philosopher and self-aggrieved sociologist Michel Foucault echoes and haunts the idea of urban schooling via anecdotal analysis and desperate discourse in his classic work Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977). That book has been used as a template by some scholars for creating effective schooling systems in urban centers but the ...

Violence.: An article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Arthur Asa Berger

International Society for General Semantics, 1994

This digital document is an article from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, published by International Society for General Semantics on December 22, 1994. The length of the article is 647 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: The actual ...

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