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Bullies & Victims: Helping Your Child Through the Schoolyard Battlefield

8 reviews
SuEllen Fried

M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1996

Buy this for your school
This is a must-read for today's parents and educators. Buy one for yourself, and one as a donation to your school's resource library--that's what I did. This book helps us empower our children, awaken ourselves to the ongoing crisis on the playground, and break the cycle of abuse. Many victims become bullies...and many more children are silent witnesses to a secret code of intimidation that ...

Birth Without Violence

20 reviews
Frederick Leboyer

Knopf, 1975

Extraordinary book- a must to read! From A. de Salverte not by Joy
This is the best book I have read on all the 20 or more pregnancy books I have read recently ! It is a masterpiece! This French man brought to the world an amazing, most touching, revolutionary way to honor the sacredness of childbirth. This book has brought to me reverence for the baby's needs, and has hlep me understand the importance to create a sacred space for the baby and the mother. ...

EXCELLENT CADAVERS: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic

13 reviews
Alexander Stille

Pantheon, 1995

The Best Mob Story You've Never Heard
"Excellent Cadavers" is probably the best mob story you've never heard. Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, two heroic Italian prosecutors, mounted an extraordinary legal campaign against the Sicilian mafia during the 1980s. They ultimately paid for their efforts with their lives. But their untimely murders shook Italy so hard they toppled its government. Theirs is a compelling story, full ...

Brother Against Brother: Violence and Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination

3 reviews
Ehud Sprinzak

Free Press, 1999

Sprinzak the Extra-parliement Expert of Israeli Politics
I have this book. Ehud was one of my Proffessers at the Hebrew University Political Science Dept. in the 70's and this is an excelent book about Israeli Violent Politics. It is a unique study. It covers a long period. Although the book is New, it reflects the situation before Ehud Barak got elected. But the first Chapters about the Altalena are also very interesting. Ehud told us then that ...

Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America

11 reviews
Tina Rosenberg

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992

Outstanding effort
This is the second book by Tina Rosenberg I have read. The first one was Haunted Land about Eastern Europe after the fall of communism, which I also highly recommend. I'm so pleased with Rosenberg's style that I'm after her book on South Africa as well. For almost a decade Rosenberg traveled through Latin America not shying away from really messy situations trying to make sense of a history of ...

Bullies, Targets, and Witnesses: Helping Children Break the Pain Chain

5 reviews
SuEllen Fried

M. Evans and Company, Inc., 2004

Break the Pain Chain
For parents desperate to protect their child from being bullied or stop him from being a bully, this book has tactics to improve the situation. I discovered the book from a review in Ladies Home Journal. The author also founded a nationwide educational program BullySafeUSA. Your child may not tell you about all that happens to him, but if you see problems with mental health, self-esteem, ...

Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse

6 reviews

W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

This booked helped me to leave Alcoholics Anonymous
This is a wonderful book with plenty of information to help the person leaving a high-control group or cult. The stages of recovery are discussed so the exiting member knows what kind of "head trips" to expect during the mental detox of cult involvement. I highly recommend it.

Preparing and Presenting Expert Testimony (Trauma Therapy)

4 reviews
Paul Stern

Sage Publications, Inc, 2000

An essential guide
This book is a must-read for anyone who employs or cross-examines expert witnesses. And, frankly, anyone who might be called upon to give expert witness testimony would be well-advised to read it as well. Stern's book is thorough, covering every aspect of expert witness testimony, and is full of specific ideas that can be applied in court. Best of all, it's far from the tedious read of the ...

Chorus of Stones, A

5 reviews
Susan Griffin

Doubleday, 1992

A consciousness-altering reading experience
I came across this book by chance - an obscure reference in a popular psychology book.Susan Griffin has captured the interconnectedness of life, war, relationships and evolution in a scope so vast, so all encompassing that it left me breathless. An amazingly successful synthesis of conveying the macrocosm by studying the microcosm. It had me scribbling down 'quotable quotes', until I soon ...

It Stops with Me: Memoir of a Canuck Girl

15 reviews
Charleen Touchette

TouchArt Books, 2004

PEN Opposes Public Library Considering Book Ban of It Stops with Me in Author's Hometown
December 14, 2005 Woonsocket Harris Public Library Board of Trustees Diane Rivers, Chair Dorian Parker, Vice-Chair Lisa Sparks, Secretary John Pellizzari Ernest "Buddy" DiSpirito 303 Clinton Street Woonsocket, RI 02895-3214 Fax: 401-767-4140 Dear Members of the Woonsocket Harris Public Library Board of Trustees, On behalf of the 2,900 members of PEN American Center, an ...

Smoke and Mirrors : The Hidden Context of Violence in Schools and Society

2 reviews
Stephanie Urso Spina

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000

A POWERFUL, PROVOCATIVE, BOOK YOU MUST READ!
Spina et.al. have written an important, comprehensive and highly readable book that fearlessly and intelligently addresses the issues and mechanisms underlying and contributing to local and global violence. The authors of the ten chapters here take us on an eye-opening journey that raises serious questions about present violence prevention and intervention practices in schools. They argue ...

Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism

3 reviews
Robert Jay Lifton

Metropolitan Books, 1999

Fanatacism is Seductive Poison
Dr. Lifton's work gives us an excellent academic look into cult thinking. However, if you want to see how innocently these groups can start, if you want to understand the mind-frame of a believer, if you want to experience how it is that potent beliefs can skew one's morals then also include in your reading Seductive Poison. Anyone who has ever wondered how the unbelievable comes to pass Layton's ...

Bad Stuff in the News

2 reviews
Rabbi Marc Gellman, Monsignor Thomas Harman

SeaStar Books, 2002

excellent
Once again the Rabbi and the Priest do an excellent job with a most difficult subject. This book is a must read for any young person who sees the world as a disturbing, evil place. The authors put things in the right perspective and provide their uncanny insights as to how to overcome the fears of living in todays society.

Beyond the Pale of Pity

2 reviews
R.S. Rose

Austin & Winfield, 2002

Excellent
An excellent work by someone who knows what they are talking about. I'm going to use Rose's book in my classes.

BETWEEN VENGEANCE+FORGIVENESS CL

2 reviews
Martha Minow

Beacon Press, 1998

Here is a lady who is not afraid to tackle the big issues.
For anyone interested in international law or human rights, this is a must-read. I am assigning this book to my undergraduates this semester because, although the subject matter is complex, Minow's prose is clean and spare. Minow does a terrific job of summarizing the episodes of mass violence of the 20th century AND the literature in legal and political studies on war crimes, human rights ...

Divided We Stand: The Rejection of American Culture since the 1960's

2 reviews
John Harmon McElroy

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006

Simply, one of the most important books I have read.
This is the most scintilating analysis of our cultural dilemmas I have come across. In short, the book blew me away by its depth and comprehensive grasp of the changes to American culture brought on by the 60's. Others have written many volumes on the crucial issues of our time which Dr. McElroy outdoes in slightly over 200 pages. If you care for the well being of our nation, buy and study this ...

Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths: Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in the Real World

2 reviews

Shepard Publications, 2007

Insightful and Enlightening
This is a short but powerful story that clears the air of many common misconceptions surrounding Mahatma Gandhi and Satyagraha. Even if you have done some prior study as I have about Gandhi, this book will still clarify many major areas of his work and give some insight into his own actions and works which seemingly run counter to his own professions of ideology. The mysteries are revealed in ...

Jainism: A Pictorial Guide to the Religion of Non-Violence

2 reviews
Kurt Titze

Motilal Banarsidass,, 2001

EXCELLENT BOOK
I agree with the author that Mahavira is the eldest son of not only India but of the Universe. Ahimsa - Dyanamic Non-Violence is the only answer for universal brotherhood. the Ahimsa the anekantwad & the aparigrah - the Jain trinity will save the planet & protect it from pollution.

Living with War: A Belfast Diary

2 reviews
Sally Belfrage

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988

A non-fiction of the Northern Ireland conflict
Sally Belfrage is an American who lives in London and attempts to unscramble the obvious, intricate dissenion that exists in Northern Ireland. An almost impossible task for anybody. I was therefore sceptical at first when picking up this book and wondering how anyone, who has spent a fragmented year in Belfast (which is a short time) to write a book on this very complex problem. I was pleasantly ...

In Their Name

2 reviews
Clive Irving

Random House, Inc., 1995

A touching tribute to the 168 victims and others.
I was in Oklahoma City the day of this incident, arriving within hours after the bombing and am more intimately familiar with many of the events connected with it than those who were not there. The plane I arrived on was full of people from many Federal agencies who were going down to investigate the event, as well as press on their way down to cover the story. It's a day I will never ...

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