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“jerry lembcke”

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  • The Cult of the Victim-Veteran

    MAGA Fantasies in Lost-war America

    by Jerry Lembcke ...
    Choice Editors' Picks for April 20242024 Choice Review Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award WinnerThe Cult of the Victim-Veteran explores the pool of American post- Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan’s 1984 proclamation of a new "Morning in America" encoded the war as the moment of the nation’s fall from grace; it was the meme plagiarized by Donald Trump ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • PTSD

    Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America

    by Jerry Lembcke ...
    Stories of soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder dominate news coverage of the return from wars in the Middle East. On the surface, the stories call our attention to psychic trauma and the need for mental health services for veterans; scratch that surface and we see that PTSD has morphed from a diagnostic category into a cultural trope with broad societal implications. In PTSD: ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Dissenting POWs

    From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today

    by Tom Wilber, Jerry Lembcke ...
    A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in VietnamEven if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization

    The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy

    by Marina A. Adler, Cyrus Bina, Chuck Davis, Julia D. Fox, David Gartman, John C. Leggett, Ife Modupe, Robert E. Parker, Harland Prechel, Jerome Scott, Behzad Yaghmaian, Walda Katz-Fishman, Jerry Lembcke ...
    This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies - from auto to steel to agriculture - as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. Many chapters analyze changing dynamics of gender, nationality, and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • On Killing

    The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

    by Dave Grossman ...
    A controversial psychological examination of how soldiers' willingness to kill has been encouraged and exploited to the detriment of civilian society."An illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experience of having killed." — Washington PostPsychologist and US Army Ranger Dave Grossman writes that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to pull the trigger in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A First-Rate Madness

    Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

    by Nassir Ghaemi ...
    The New York Times bestseller“A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . .” —The Boston Globe“A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s book deserves high marks for original thinking.” —The Washington Post“Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.comHistorians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great... ... Read more

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  • The Evil Hours

    A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

    by David J. Morris ...
    "An essential book" on PTSD, an all-too-common condition in both military veterans and civilians ( The New York Times Book Review).Post-traumatic stress disorder afflicts as many as 30 percent of those who have experienced twenty-first-century combat—but it is not confined to soldiers. Countless ordinary Americans also suffer from PTSD, following incidences of abuse, crime, natural disasters, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Nobody's Normal

    How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

    by Roy Richard Grinker ...
    A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Criminological Mind - Crime, Punishment and Legal Dilemmas

    by Eric Carlton ...
    How is crime to be defined? Can crime be medicalized? Can crime be explained or even excused in terms of biological or environmental conditions? Can punishment ever fit the crime? And should punishment be primarily reformative or retributive? This book is not an attempt at a kind of literary CSI and it is not directly concerned with the popular interest in forensic science. Nor is it a handbook ... Read more

    $1.35 CAD

  • Conspiracy

    Why the Rational Believe the Irrational

    by Michael Shermer ...
    "A well-written and essential tool for those navigating today's complicated geopolitical landscape."—Library Journal Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them.Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Torture and Democracy

    by Darius Rejali ...
    This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Fear

    A Cultural History

    by Professor Joanna Bourke ...
    Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific: flames searing patterns on the ceiling, a hydrogen bomb, a terrorist. More often, anxiety overwhelms us from some source within: there is an irrational panic about venturing outside, a dread of failure, a premonition of doom.In this astonishing book we encounter the fears and anxieties ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD