TITLES SELECTED FOR REVIEW

BEST BOOKS ON
COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE

Thanks to those publishers and authors who suggested titles for Library of Social Science Book Reviews. For our first round of review essays, we chose titles that are among the best recent publications on collective forms of violence—including genocide, Fascism, Nazism, communism, terrorism, war, and sacrifice. Please be on the lookout for review essays of the titles that appear to the right and below. By publishing thoughtful commentary on significant books, we hope to develop a forum—leading to new understandings and insights.

PLEASE SUGGEST TITLES ON
THE BODY, EMBODIMENT AND
SOCIAL THEORY

Freud stated that "the ego is first and foremost a body ego." Whatever our theoretical orientation, we cannot escape our body, which is with us right now—and each moment until the day we die. For our next round of review essays, we seek titles focusing on the body, embodiment and social theory.

AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
PLEASE RECOMMEND BOOKS FOR REVIEW COVERING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

  • Buddhism and the body
  • The running revolution
  • Body building
  • Embodied cognition
  • Metaphors of the body
  • Boundaries
  • Border studies
  • Sexuality
  • The body politic
  • Psychogeography

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Review essays for the important, exciting titles below for will be published by Library of Social Science Book Reviews and distributed to 60,000 scholars around the world by the Library of Social Science Newsletter. Clicking on the name or cover of the book will bring you to Amazon.com—providing detailed information on the title, as well as how to order at a special, discounted price.
Japan's Holy War A Century of Genocide
Weitz, Eric D.

Princeton (2005)
Japan's Holy War Abraham's Curse
Chilton, Bruce

Doubleday (2008)
Japan's Holy War An Intellectual History of Terror
Thorup, Mikkel

Routledge (2012)
Japan's Holy War Beyond Totalitarianism
Geyer, Michael & Sheila Fitzpatrick

Cambridge (2008)
Japan's Holy War Culture, Trauma, and Conflict
Carpentier, Nico

Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2007)
Japan's Holy War Empire of Sacrifice
Pahl, Jon

NYU Press (2010)
Japan's Holy War Fighting Identity
Vlahos, Michael

Praeger (2008)
Japan's Holy War Genocide and Fascism
Kallis, Aristotle

Routledge (2011)
Japan's Holy War Governing Subjects
Balbus, Isaac

Routledge (2009)

 

Japan's Holy War Hell on Earth
Kowalski, Ludwik

Wasteland Press (2008)
Japan's Holy War Hitler's Millennial Reich
Redles, David

NYU Press (2008)
Japan's Holy War Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalism
Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko

Chicago (2002)
Japan's Holy War Out of Eden
Kahn, Paul

Princeton (2010)
Japan's Holy War Political Theology
Kahn, Paul

Columbia (2012)

 

Japan's Holy War Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity
Mock, Steven

Cambridge (2011)
Japan's Holy War The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body
Wittman, Laura

Toronto (2011)

Japan's Holy War Upon the Altar of the Nation
Stout, Harry S.

Penguin (2007)
Japan's Holy War

US War-culture, Sacrifice and Salvation
Denton-Borhaug, Kelly

Equinox (2011)

Japan's Holy War War and the American Difference
Hauerwas, Stanley

Baker Academic (2011)