Social Violence

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    • How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
    • By: Evan Stark
    • Narrated by: William Sarris
    • Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters, shows how "domestic violence" is neither primarily domestic nor necessarily violent, but a pattern of controlling behaviors more akin to terrorism and hostage-taking....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Training and Preparation for Extreme Violence
    • By: Varg Freeborn
    • Narrated by: Varg Freeborn
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • A book covering the topic of self-defense from a shocking, firsthand perspective. The subjects of criminal violence, self-defense, lethal force, mindset, firearms training, and concealment have never been introduced so comprehensively in one place....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
    • By: Gavin de Becker
    • Narrated by: Gavin de Becker
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,962 ratings
    • In this extraordinary, groundbreaking book, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior unlocks the puzzle of human violence and shows that, like every creature on earth, we have within us the ability to predict the harm others might do us and get out of its way....

    Regular price: $33.90

    • How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
    • By: Edward Glaeser
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 427 ratings
    • America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....

    Regular price: $11.87

    • Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
    • By: Ken Jennings
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Biological Roots of Crime
    • By: Adrian Raine
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • Provocative and timely: A pioneering neurocriminologist introduces the latest biological research into the causes of - and potential cures for - criminal behavior....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
    • By: Monica Muñoz Martinez
    • Narrated by: Kyla García
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Between 1910 and 1920, vigilantes and law enforcement-including the renowned Texas Rangers - killed Mexican residents with impunity. The full extent of the violence was known only to the relatives of the victims....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

    Regular price: $19.77

    • The Strange Relationship Between Peace and Violence in Human Evolution
    • By: Richard Wrangham
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • The Goodness Paradox gives a new and powerful argument for how and why the uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired language in Africa a quarter of a million years ago....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,475 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World
    • By: Matt Thornton, Peter Boghossian
    • Narrated by: Matt Thornton, Salome Thornton, Peter Boghossian
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • In today's modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it has become foreign to most of us....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
    • By: Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen - Foreward
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides....

    Regular price: $17.76

    • What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 767 ratings
    • A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century's looming cataclysms....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,214 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

    Regular price: $18.03

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Javier Zamora
    • Narrated by: Javier Zamora
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,304 ratings
    • Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border.

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    • By: René Girard
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth.

    Regular price: $24.49

    • An Archaeology of Early American Life
    • By: James Deetz
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten....

    Regular price: $17.19