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  • Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety

    Edited by SEAN HIER ...
    Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety is a collection of original essays written by some of the world’s leading social scientists. It seeks to provide unique insight into the importance of moral panic as a routine feature of everyday life, whilst also developing an integrated framework for moral panic research by widening the scope of scholarship in the area.Many of the key twenty-first century ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

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  • Lethal Passage

    The Story of a Gun

    by Erik Larson ...
    **This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm."Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --San Diego Union-Tribune"One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Guilty by Reason of Insanity

    A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers

    by Dorothy Otnow Lewis Ph.D. ...
    A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them.From a juvenile ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Shadow Catcher

    A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico's Deadly Crime Cartels

    by Hipolito Acosta ...
    Living under an assumed identity and risking his life were all in a day’s work for U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta. He worked regularly in high-stakes undercover operations infiltrating Mexico’s murderous immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels.Acosta’s investigations are legendary, both inside law enforcement and the crime cartels he helped neutralize. He had himself smuggled from Mexico ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Close to the Knives

    A Memoir of Disintegration

    by David Wojnarowicz ...
    The "fierce, erotic, haunting, truthful" memoirs of an extraordinary artist, activist, and iconoclast who lit up late-twentieth-century New York (Dennis Cooper).One of the New York Times ' "50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"David Wojnarowicz's brief but eventful life was not easy. From a suburban adolescence marked by neglect, drugs, prostitution, and abuse to a squalid life on the streets of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Climate of Fear

    The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World

    by Wole Soyinka ...
    In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize—winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme in world politics.Decades ago, the idea of collective fear had a tangible face: the atom bomb. Today our shared anxiety has become far more complex and insidious, arising from tyranny, terrorism, and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • How Not to Get Hit

    The Art of Fighting Without Fighting

    by Nathaniel Cooke ...
    The average person isn't looking to be in a situation where fists are going to fly, but many of us have found ourselves there anyway. At that moment, it's probably too late to do anything about it. But how do we change circumstances, so those situations don't happen?How Not to Get Hit is a book on personal safety for people who don't want to learn to fight, but do want to learn how to avoid those ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Citizen-Protectors

    The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline

    by Jennifer Carlson ...
    From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time, a different kind of headline has captured public attention: a steady surge in pro-gun sentiment among Americans. In Citizen-Protectors, Jennifer Carlson offers a compelling portrait of gun ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Con

    How Scams Work, Why You're Vulnerable, and How to Protect Yourself

    by James Munton, Jelita McLeod ...
    "[A] fascinating, informative, and highly entertaining primer on the various ways the uninitiated may find themselves ripped off by a con artist." — Publishers WeeklyNo one thinks it can happen to them, but Americans are forty times more likely to be defrauded than to have their cars stolen or their homes burgled. Con artists ruin people financially and emotionally, leaving in their wake a trail ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • See Jane Hit

    Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It

    by James Garbarino ...
    From one of Americas leading authorities on juvenile violence comes a groundbreaking investigation of the explosion of violent behavior in girlsWith Lost Boys, James Garbarino became our foremost explicator of violent behavior in boys. Now he turns his attention to its increasing incidence in girls. Twenty-five years ago, ten boys were arrested for assault for every one girl. Now that ratio is ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The “Culture of Silence” Contributes to Perpetuating Domestic Violence

    A Case Study of Family Life in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana

    by Gabriel Amoateng-Boahen ...
    This is a unique must-read book. It has a revelation of hidden treasures with bifocal elements of universal need in this generation. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD