David Smith
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Language
English
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Nelson Mandela is well known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman, the gray haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa. But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. And, in this book, the author takes us deep into the heart of racist South Africa to paint a portrait...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight. The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of why all human beings have the potential to be hideously cruel and destructive to one another. Why are we our own worst enemy? The book shows us that war has...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and isn't. To dehumanize an enemy is to hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: the enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. Calling someone a monster is not merely metaphor-actual dehumanization happens in our minds. The process is deeply seated in our psychology, and it is precisely because we are all human that we are vulnerable to it"--
8) Fighting fascism in Europe: the World War II letters of an American veteran of the Spanish Civil War
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Series
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
10) XX
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Watch four deadly tales directed by four killer women in this horror anthology.
The Box: After peering into a shiny red gift box on a commuter train, seven-year-old Danny Jacobs inexplicably stops eating. When his father and sister also begin to waste away, Danny's mother Susan struggles to make the connection between herself, her dying family, and the mysterious box before it's too late.
The Birthday Party: A harried housewife tries to keep her...
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