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Author: Ervin Staub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-07-31
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1107717205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, Erwin Staub explores the psychology of group aggression. He sketches a conceptual framework for the many influences on one group's desire to harm another and within this framework, considers four historical examples of genocide.
Author: Roberto Costantini
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 1623658829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1960s, post-colonial Libya fell prey to the sprawling industrial greed of the West, driven by the discovery of oil. While the modern quarter of Tripoli, built by the Italians, was small and affluent, the rest of the city--like the rest of the nation--was left to fend for itself amid the arid, sandy stretches of North Africa. As tensions mounted between eastern and western ideals, terror began to supplant justice, and acts of religiously motivated violence began to fill some of Tripoli's darkest corners. Against this backdrop, the teenaged Michele Balistreri--a smart young man plagued by thuggish tendencies and a youthful attraction to Fascism--suffered a succession of personal blows that would scar him for life: the death of his mother; a terrible tragedy that befell his best friend's family; and the consequences of his father's role in Gaddafi's rise to power. Worst of all, an innocent blood pact he made as a teenager would come to haunt him as an adult. Four decades later, journalist Linda Nardi is hard at work investigating the shadowy history of the Vatican Bank's involvement in Libya when she suddenly finds her attention diverted to an irresistible story assignment: covering the collapse of Colonel Gaddafi's forty-two year dictatorship. It is only a matter of time before Nardi's research and Balistreri's investigative work as a police commissario bring them into contact. Together they unearth a deadly conspiracy that goes to the top of Rome's power structure that neither of them will ever be able to forget.
Author: John Kekes
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014-02-15
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0801471303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally important because they are obstacles to countering the threat of evil. The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these ways and what can be done about it."—John Kekes The first part of this book is a detailed discussion of six horrible cases of evil: the Albigensian Crusade of about 1210; Robespierre's Terror of 1793–94; Franz Stangl, who commanded a Nazi death camp in 1943–44; the 1969 murders committed by Charles Manson and his "family"; the "dirty war" conducted by the Argentinean military dictatorship of the late 1970s; and the activities of a psychopath named John Allen, who recorded reminiscences in 1975. John Kekes includes these examples not out of sensationalism, but rather to underline the need to hold vividly in our minds just what evil is. The second part shows why, in Kekes's view, explanations of evil inspired by Christianity and the Enlightenment fail to account for these cases and then provides an original explanation of evil in general and of these instances of it in particular.
Author: Håkan Nesser
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 1509809406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Håkan Nesser, 'the Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil. *Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger* July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti’s doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his quiet Swedish town. By the time the police track down the subject of the letter, he is already dead. So when a second letter arrives, then a third, and a fourth, it’s a game of cat and mouse to stop the killer before he can make good on all of his promises. Meanwhile, an anonymous diary is unearthed depicting the incidents of a two week holiday in France five years earlier, and it doesn’t take Barbarotti long to realize the people populating the diary are the ones whose lives are now in the balance . . . Continue the thrilling investigative series with The Secret Life of Mr Roos. 'One of the best of the Nordic Noir writers' - Guardian
Author: Joylynn M. Jossel
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1429976535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joylynn M. Jossel's The Root of All Evil is a sexy, drama-filled, roller coaster of a ride about a woman's pursuit of the perfect man to provide all her needs. THE ALMIGHTY $. SOME PEOPLE PRAY FOR IT. SOME PEOPLE PRAY TO IT. Thirty-four-year-old Klarke Taylor has two children, a pile of bills and creditors who won't leave her alone. And she's had just about enough. So Klarke and her confidants, Breezy and Jeva, resort to devising a shady plan to snag her a man who will make all her monetary dreams come true. Reo Laroque, is a bestselling author and is right where he always dreamed of being in life. He has it all, including women who come out in droves for this high-ticketed bachelor. But all Reo wants is a virtuous woman to claim as his own. Now Klarke has him in her sights and he soon becomes entangled in a twisted pursuit or love, lust and the almighty dollar.
Author: Sharon Grace Mijares
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors of this book are a Muslim from Egypt, a Christian mystic from America, a Jew from the US, and a Jew from Israel (living in the US). They write about gender imbalances in different world religions and cultures, about the politics of governments, global and local conflicts and fundamentalist movements. They search for common ground and the possibilities to improve women's rights.
Author: David Ashby Farrow
Publisher: Wyrick
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780941711364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Charleston, North Carolina, black police officer Harry Holmes investigates the voodoo murders of tourists. The suspect--white--is a writer possessed by the devil and he enters the bodies of his victims.
Author: Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1996-09-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780613913812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Patiently and lucidly, this Los Angeles Times Book Award and Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize winner identifies the aspects of the theory of evolution that people find hard to believe and removes the barriers to credibility one by one. As readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been published since 1859.--The Economist.
Author: Bill McBride
Publisher: Booktrail Publishing
Published: 2021-08-29
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9781637673218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ROOT of all E V I L. - is a nonfiction A to Z book about the awfulness of Evil as we experience it in our world today. This is not a Self-Help or a Do It Yourself book. Nope, this is an informative entertaining book designed for readers who enjoy a thought-provoking fast read. I call it a Bathroom.Reader book. Going from Abortion Rights to Democrats to Homosexuality to Witchcraft to Zeno-phobia, this is an A to Z book which lists over 250 different types of evil here in the second decade of the 21st Century. You'll be able to find The Root of All Evil on Amazon, at your local library, at the airport and at the hospital gift shop.
