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Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir

By Robert Jay Lifton

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Hardcover:

9781416590767 | 1 edition (Free Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9781416590781 | Free Pr, April 19, 2014, cover price $26.99

Miscellaneous:

9781416597186 | Free Pr, May 3, 2011, cover price $18.99

Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients

By Robert Jay Lifton (editor) and Jacob D. Lindy (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781583913185 | Routledge, December 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

Paperback:

9781138011953 | Routledge, March 19, 2014, cover price $54.95

Crimes of War: Iraq

An independent commission looking into American war crimes committed during the war in Iraq contends that the war is not being fought in accordance with international standards of law, in an account that draws on documentation by scholars, journalists, Iraqis, and soldiers to reveal both illegal actions and address the legality of the war itself. Original.

By Richard A. Falk (editor), Irene Gendzier (editor) and Robert Jay Lifton (editor)

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9781560258032 | Nation Books, April 17, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An independent commission looking into American war crimes committed during the war in Iraq contends that the war is not being fought in accordance with international standards of law, in an account that draws on documentation by scholars, journalists, Iraqis, and soldiers.

Home From The War: Learning From Vietnam Veterans, with a new preface by the author on the war in Iraq

A critique of American militarism during the Vietnam War, nominated for the National Book Award and originally written to inform counselors, identifies similarities between Vietnam and Iraqi war veterans and explains how Iraqi war soldiers can benefit from the healing practices offered to Vietnam veterans. By the author of The Nazi Doctors. Reprint.

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9781590511688 | Reprint edition (Other Pr Llc, April 30, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A critique of American militarism during the Vietnam War, nominated for the National Book Award and originally written to inform counselors, identifies similarities between Vietnam and Iraqi war veterans and explains how Iraqi war soldiers can benefit from the healing practices offered to Vietnam veterans.

Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation With the World

A leading scholar of the Holocaust and other acts of human cruelty in our century turns his attention to the Bush administration and the new politics of the security state that is emerging in the age of the American empire. Original.

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9781560255123 | Nation Books, October 21, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A scholar of the Holocaust and other acts of human cruelty in our century turns his attention to the Bush administration and the new politics of the security state that is emerging in the age of the American empire.

Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace

By Robert Jay Lifton (foreword by) and Margaret Thaler Singer

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9780787967413 | Rev upd su edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, April 11, 2003), cover price $27.00

Who Owns Death?: Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions

Two authors explore American attitudes about the death penalty, studying the people who carry out and suffer from capital punishment and identifying the psychological reasons why most Americans support it. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell

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9780380974986 | William Morrow & Co, November 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A look into America's death penalty argues how psychological conflicts, the search for humane methods of execution, and the nation's attitude towards violence suggests the end of state-mandated killing.

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9780380792467 | Reprint edition (Perennial, February 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Two authors explore American attitudes about the death penalty, studying the people who carry out and suffer from capital punishment and identifying the psychological reasons why most Americans support it.

Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism

Looks at Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways, and examines the mind of the man behind the religion. By the author of Death in Life. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780805065114 | Picador USA, October 1, 2000, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Looks at Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways, and examines the mind of the man behind the religion.

Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the the New Global Terrorism

Looks at Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways, and examines the mind of the man behind the religion (view table of contents)

By Robert Jay Lifton

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Hardcover:

9780805052909 | 1 edition (Metropolitan Books, October 1, 1999), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Looks at Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways, and examines the mind of the man behind the religion

The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation

Describes a psychological trend that sees the self as becoming fluid and many-sided as a resilient answer to confusion and changing moorings of modern living. (view table of contents)

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780465064205 | Basic Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Uses interviews with people ranging from civic leaders to members of the 'underclass,' as well as examples from literature, to show readers how to take advantage of the boundless possibilities that global communication offers to transform the self.

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9780226480985 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 1999), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Describes a psychological trend that sees the self as becoming fluid and many-sided as a resilient answer to confusion and changing moorings of modern living.

9780465064212 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, January 3, 1995), cover price $15.00

Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism

Examining the premises of the arguments in favor of maintaining nuclear weapons capability, the authors argue that recovery after nuclear warfare is unlikely

By Richard Falk and Robert Jay Lifton

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9780887941085 | House of Anansi Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $8.95

9780465032358 | 2 updated edition (Basic Books, November 1, 1991), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Examining the premises of the arguments in favor of maintaining nuclear weapons capability, the authors argue that recovery after nuclear warfare is unlikely

The Atomic Bomb: Voices From Hiroshima And Nagasaki Japan In The Modern World

By Robert Jay Lifton (editor)

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9789990042375 | M E Sharpe Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $0.02

The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Uses factual accounts, short stories, photographs, poems and drawings to present the experiences of the atom bomb survivors (view table of contents)

By Robert Jay Lifton (editor), Kyoko Selden (editor) and Mark Selden (editor)

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9780873325561 | M E Sharpe Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $158.00 | About this edition: Uses factual accounts, short stories, photographs, poems and drawings to present the experiences of the atom bomb survivors

Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial

A study of the events surrounding the Hiroshima bombing focuses on its affects in America, considering the cover-up efforts by the government and linking the bombing to current insensitivities toward violence. Reprint. NYT.

By Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell

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9780380727643 | Avon Books, August 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Argues that information and debate about President Truman's decision to drop the bomb on Japan have been suppressed

The Broken Connection: On Death and the Continuity of Life

The eminent, award-winning psychologist examines the phenomenon of death and the flow of life, emphasizing the vital importance to the individual's life of a sense of continuity and of an awareness and acceptance of death

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780671225612 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1979, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The eminent, award-winning psychologist examines the phenomenon of death and the flow of life, emphasizing the vital importance to the individual's life of a sense of continuity and of an awareness and acceptance of death

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9780880488747 | Reprint edition (Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, March 1, 1996), cover price $92.00

9780465007769 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, September 1, 1983), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The eminent, award-winning psychologist examines the phenomenon of death and the flow of life, emphasizing the vital importance to the individual's life of a sense of continuity and of an awareness and acceptance of death

Hiroshima in America: 50 Years of Denial

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780615007090 | Putnam Pub Group, July 1, 1995, cover price $27.50

Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial

In a study of the impact of the use of the atomic bomb, two historians argue that information and debate about President Harry Truman's decision, in August 1945, to drop the bomb on Japan have been suppressed in order to prevent criticism of America.

By Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell

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9780399140723 | Putnam Pub Group, July 1, 1995, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Argues that information and debate about President Truman's decision to drop the bomb on Japan have been suppressed in order to prevent criticism of America

9780788199929 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1995, cover price $27.00

Home from the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780807055052 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $18.00

The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat

Examines the psychological problems arising from dependence on nuclear weapons

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780465026623 | Basic Books, May 1, 1992, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Examines the psychological problems arising from dependence on nuclear weapons

Paperback:

9780465026630 | Basic Books, October 1, 1991, cover price $13.00

Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima

By Robert Jay Lifton

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Hardcover:

9780465015818 | Basic Books, September 1, 1982, cover price $19.95

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9780807843444 | Reprint edition (Univ of North Carolina Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $58.00

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780807842539 | Reprint edition (Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 1989), cover price $52.50

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

This book explores the psychological conditions that promote the human potential for evil, relating medical killing to broader principles of doubling and genocide (view table of contents)

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780465049042 | Basic Books, August 1, 1986, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This book explores the psychological conditions that promote the human potential for evil, relating medical killing to broader principles of doubling and genocide

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9780465049059 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, April 11, 1988), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: This book explores the psychological conditions that promote the human potential for evil, relating medical killing to broader principles of doubling and genocide

The Future of Immortality and Other Essays for a Nuclear Age

Essays discuss the psychological aspects of Hiroshima, Vietnam, the Jewish Holocaust, and the threat of nuclear war

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780465025978 | Basic Books, January 1, 1987, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the psychological aspects of Hiroshima, Vietnam, the Jewish Holocaust, and the threat of nuclear war

In a Dark Time

An anthology whose theme is the insanity of war, this volume draws on the literature of the past twenty-five hundred years--poets from Sappho to Robert Lowell, historians from Thucydides to Edward Thompson, and dreamers from St. John the Divine to Bob Dylan

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780674445383 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: An anthology whose theme is the insanity of war, this volume draws on the literature of the past twenty-five hundred years--poets from Sappho to Robert Lowell, historians from Thucydides to Edward Thompson, and dreamers from St.

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9780674445390 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An anthology whose theme is the insanity of war, this volume draws on the literature of the past twenty-five hundred years--poets from Sappho to Robert Lowell, historians from Thucydides to Edward Thompson, and dreamers from St.

Life of the Self: Toward a New Psychology

Articulates concepts and principles developed by Lifton through various studies and writings, integrating Freudian and post-Freudian assumptions into a view of life's continuity and the self's powers of assimilation and renewal

By Robert Jay Lifton

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9780465040889 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, September 1, 1983), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Articulates concepts and principles developed by Lifton through various studies and writings, integrating Freudian and post-Freudian assumptions into a view of life's continuity and the self's powers of assimilation and renewal

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