A philosophical inquiry into the origins and motivation of war. Ehrenreich, a biologist at Rockefeller University, considers the urge to war to be rooted in primitive drives toward blood sacrifice and hunting.
Acclaimed author Perez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller with his international bestsellers "The Club Dumas" and "The Queen of the South." Now, in this haunting new work, he has written a captivating tale of love, war, and revenge.
Fear, and man's attempt to master it, is of eternal interest and just as significant today as when Moran, as a young medical officer, went to the trenches in 1914 to research the subject scientifically. He asked why a man can appear to be as brave as a lion one day and break the next and, crucially, "what can be done to delay or prevent the using ...
A fascinating study of modern war using postmodern critical tools to their best advantage by turning over the rhetoric surrounding warfare and revealing what crawls beneath. Hables (cultural studies of science, U. of Great Falls) investigates technological advances from Hiroshima to Operation Deser
A photographer deftly weaves psychology and military, political, oral, and cultural history to trace the experience of post traumatic stress disorder in the military up through the Vietnam War.
This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston's healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. "Vetrans of War, Vetrans of Peace" includes accounts from people that grew up in military families, served as ...
This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the American combat soldier's experience in Vietnam. It integrates such topics as the political culture, the experiences of training, the actual Vietnam experience, and the 'homecoming', and offers a remarkable overview of the 870,000 'grunts' who bore the brunt of the fighting in the jungles ...
The Psychology of War is a stunning anatomy of a problem that the greatest thinkers have failed to solve. Our wars have become more lethal, yet our affinity for war hasn't changed. In The Psychology of War, Lawrence LeShan talks about the roots of human war lust and the practical implications for society and political leadership. Today, as the ...
On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. The same day, a spy case breaks in the news. Anna's brother begins to construct a theory that their mother was a spy, in this beautifully wrought story about history and memory.
Opponents rarely go to war without thinking they can win--and clearly, one side must be wrong. This conundrum lies at the heart of the so-called "war puzzle": rational states should agree on their differences in power and thus not fight. But as Dominic Johnson argues in "Overconfidence and War," states are no more rational than people, who are ...
How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? Why, for instance, was the Mayaguez Incident in May 1975 - where 41 U.S. soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in a botched hostage rescue mission - perceived as a triumph and the 1992-94 U.S. humanitarian intervention in Somalia, which saved thousands of lives, viewed ...
Reveals the psychological intricacies of war, conflict resolution, and peace. A team of top experts from around the world presents issues of war, conflict resolution, and stable peace. Considering these elements together allows readers to understand more clearly the violent world that surrounds them. Experts explain how neighbours become sworn ...
"Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict" is a culmination of 15 years spent photographing and interviewing men, women and children who have been on the frontlines of every major conflict of the past century. It is a portrait documenting the deep physical and psychological effects on the veterans whose bodies and minds are changed forever. It ...
Addressing the psychological trauma of children exposed to violence, this volume seeks to summarize research on the subject with particular emphasis on the Gulf War; to formulate reasonable approaches to public mental health intervention; and to develop an agenda for necessary future research.
In 18 original essays, experts analyse the personal psychologies and public belief systems of the individuals and nations involved in the Gulf War - from George Bush and Saddam Hussein to the peoples of the United States, Israel and the Arab countries. Approaching the events of 1990-1991 from the perspectives of psychology, history, mass ...
This is a comprehensive study of the post-deployment health-related needs associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression, and traumatic brain injury among servicemembers returning from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, the health care system in place to meet those needs, gaps in the care system, and the costs ...
The glow of 1945 persists as a kind of beacon for American society, symbolic of an era when good and evil were easily defined. This image is at the centre of Philip D. Beidler's entertaining look at the way World War II reshaped American popular culture. The legend of the "Good War" was fostered by wartime propaganda and reinforced in the ...
In two decades of clinical work with Vietnam veterans, psychiatrist Theodore Nadelson sought to understand a seeming paradox about his patients: even veterans being treated for post traumatic stress disorder often still felt attracted to the danger and violence of combat and killing. How this could be possible became a central focus of Nadelson's ...
The consequences of war are well known, yet the long-term psychological impact on children of these traumatic experiences has been a neglected topic in therapeutic literature. Designed to help counsellors and therapists working with adults who have suffered war trauma in childhood, this book makes practical suggestions for mental health ...
To be useful to both practitioners and policy makers, the book identifies model programs that can be implemented at every level. These programs vary in target and intensity to include social policy, safety programs, public education, coordination, capacity building, training, self-help, counseling, and clinical intervention. A core group of ...
Hundreds of thousands of children are forced or legally recruited combatants in no fewer than 70 warring parties across the world. In addition to these child soldiers, thousands of youth voluntarily participate in politically related conflict. Why, how, and in what capacities are such large numbers of teenagers involved in war and how are they ...
The need to help children understand war and develop peacemaking skills continues. Communication technology brings distant hostilities into our living-rooms on a daily basis. Research has demonstrated that children are frightened by the threat of war and that they discuss these concerns only minimally at home or school. Dr. Goldberg has been ...
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