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9781597977029 | Potomac Books Inc, August 31, 2012, cover price $29.95
Product Description: What separates constructive religious impulses from destructive ones? How does someone who begins by contemplating his relationship with God end by committing an act of murder? Some argue that religiously motivated evil always represents a corruption of true religion...read more
Hardcover:
9781591025030 | Prometheus Books, July 17, 2007, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: What separates constructive religious impulses from destructive ones?
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9780813397726 | Westview Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $27.50
Paperback:
9780813342412 | Basic Books, March 25, 2004, cover price $16.95
Rarely does a book emerge that is a wake-up call to the world. Mass Hate is such a masterpiece. It explores why the brutality of humankind has erupted and flowed more expansively in the twentieth century than ever before. More importantly, this monumental work offers specific recommendations on how to stem this bloody global tide of slaughter, terror, and genocideÂso that the twenty-first century does not bring more of the same, or worse.Neil KresselÂa respected authority on the psychology of international affairs, genocide, and terrorismÂmeticulously investigates why in the past eight decades mass hatred has reached genocidal proportions throughout the world. Genocide has occurred so often and blood has gushed so freely that one might consider the urge to kill oneâs neighbor an inborn characteristic of our species. Furthermore, the power to wreak bloody havoc on innocent civilians has become not only the sport of âsoldiers,â but of terrorists as well. In light of this, Kressel examines the motives for terrorist acts, specifically those of ultraextremist Muslims. Given the possibility of nuclear devices falling into the hands of terrorists in the next century, we must now come to grips with the epidemic spread of hatred and violence. Our only hope lies in understanding the human impulse to hate and the forces that transform that impulse into brutish action. In his quest for a thorough understanding of what ignites mass slaughter, Kressel probes beyond the facile, stock answers that traditionally explain such horrors. He plumbs the depths of history, psychology, and political science to derive his own theories of what propels an average citizen to raise the machete to groups of innocent women and children and slash them to death, or to pull the lever to release pernicious gases upon defenseless people, and to do it again and again.The time has come for us all to join Dr. Kressel in investigating the mind of the hater and to learn to identify the circumstances that foment genocide and terrorism. By recognizing their antecedents, Dr. Kressel proposes ways to control, if not defeat, these twin forces of evil. The breathtaking sweep and depth of this trenchant work promises to make it a classic.In his investigation, he focuses on: (view table of contents)
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9780306452710 | Plenum Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Rarely does a book emerge that is a wake-up call to the world.
Paperback:
9780813339511 | Upd sub edition (Basic Books, January 23, 2002), cover price $19.00
9780813364513 | Westview Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $30.00
Product Description: Political Psychology: Classic and Contemporary Readings
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9781569248942 | Marlowe & Co, March 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Political Psychology: Classic and Contemporary Readings
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