Alex Alvarez

Ronet Bachman

A part of the Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series, this text is one of a few to exclusively address the core issues that relate to criminal homicide in the United States. MURDER AMERICAN STYLE provides an interdisciplinary theoretical approach to understanding the patterns and trends of lethal violence in America.

Murder American Style

Ronet D. Bachman

The Enduring Problem

Violence

""This guide provides an excellent overview of the state research on interpersonal violence.""

Forests Techniques,part Four

Creating Trees in Maya

This is a story of existential crises. Nick Stanton is a contemporary gay man who is searching for answers to questions he is unable to articulate. Part One: While having drinks with his boyfriend in a New York bar, Nick is confronted with a sharp awareness of time. In this section, we follow Nicks fragmenting consciousness as he begins to assess his life with his boyfriend, Giovanni. There are several breaks into the past. Part Two: This section follows Nick through a linear twenty-four period before he drives to home to Florida alone. It is a chapter of sexual abysses. He lunches with his best friend, April, and tries to express what hes going through. April suggests therapy. They extend their late lunch to happy hour. They meet a group of Wall Street twenty-something and Nick feels out of place. He breaks from the group and grudgingly befriends two college students from Michigan. During his drive to Florida, he has a self-abasing sexual encounter at a rest stop. Part Three: We are introduced to his family and old friends. Nick experiences them all under a new awareness. The unexpected appearance of his first love produces a fresh possibility, but hes crushed again. Hes involved in a fatal car accident on the drive back to New York. Part Four: Nicks recovery and culpability. In hospital he meets a young man from the accident. Is terrified over the intense human turn of guilt and responsibility. Nick returns to New York, to the former routine of life but with numbing expectation. Boyfriend leaves for Europe for two weeks and he is left to brood. Meets an idealistic young man on the subway train; suggests he could be the one but Nick gives him up. Part Five: The young man from the accident appears at his doorstep. They are together for several days and, in the end, Nick is forced to make a choice.

A Novel

The End of It All

Vincent Miles sat on the low stone seawall feeling wholly restored. To what exactly he had been restored, he couldn't say. He only sensed that he had felt like this before-light and content and nothing more. If he tried to picture something more, then he would surely see a world of sorrow and doubt. There was none of that here, not now. The view was everything and everything was the view. From here he could only move on, to some kind of summit, a climax coming his way. . . .

A Gay Fable

The One

The Third Edition of Violence: The Enduring Problem offers an interdisciplinary and reader-friendly exploration of the patterns and correlations of individual and collective violent acts using the most contemporary research, theories, and cases. Responding to the fear of pervasive violence in the world, authors Alex Alvarez and Ronet Bachman address the various legislative, social, and political efforts to curb violent behavior. They expertly incorporate a wide range of the most current cases to help readers interpret the nature and dynamics of a variety of different, yet connected, forms of violence. While most texts of this type simply cover individual acts of violence, this book offers readers a broader perspective, covering more collective violence activities such as terrorism, mob violence, and genocide.

Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity—ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies and heighten the risk of mass violence. Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including Darfur, Syria, and the current migration crisis, this book illustrates the thorny intersections of climate change and violence. The author doesn’t claim causation but makes a compelling case that changing environmental circumstances can be a critical factor in facilitating violent conflict. As research suggests climate change will continue and accelerate, understanding how it might contribute to violence is essential in understanding how to prevent it.

Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide

Unstable Ground

Did Native Americans suffer genocide? This controversial question lies at the heart of Native America and the Question of Genocide. After reviewing the various meanings of the word “genocide,” author Alex Alvarez examines a range of well-known examples, such as the Sand Creek Massacre and the Long Walk of the Navajo, to determine where genocide occurred and where it did not. The book explores the destructive beliefs of the European settlers and then looks at topics including disease, war, and education through the lens of genocide. Native America and the Question of Genocide shows the diversity of Native American experiences postcontact and illustrates how tribes relied on ever-evolving and changing strategies of confrontation and accommodation, depending on their location, the time period, and individuals involved, and how these often resulted in very different experiences. Alvarez treats this difficult subject with sensitivity and uncovers the complex realities of this troubling period in American history.

Alex Alvarez

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