books about: violent

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The Anatomy of Motive : The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent ...

John Douglas, Mark Olshaker

Pocket, 2000

The Best in the Series
Real info and facts on serial killers. The behind the scenes look at the killers that we don't get from the news. An excellent and well-written book. Also check out Robert Ressler's books.

The Gift of Fear

Gavin De Becker

Dell, 1999

The Gift of Fear Is the Gift of Awareness
Our intuition has been honed through a million years of awareness - from mastodons to murderers. As `sophisticated human beings', we have almost been trained to ignore those signals about danger - the hairs on the back of our neck, the tingling in our fingers, that ...

Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

Vintage, 1993

Road Lovers, Start Here
If you found the minimal, bleak, tone-poem style and sometimes-horrific subject matter of The Road to your liking, then you can do no better than to turn to this early McCarthy tale, written in 1973. Here the protagonist is some kind of freaky, Southern gothic ...

Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / ...

Flannery O'Connor

Library of America, 1988

Just Read It All
The complaints about the poor organization of the collection can be overcome by simply reading it from front to back. Surely it is that good. My foray into the works of Flannery O'Connor, a southern, gothic author of darkly humorous novels and short stories came ...

Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw ...

William Queen

Ballantine Books, 2007

Great Story
This is a great story, what surprised me was that it was not one sided at all. He even recalls a time when police were, lets just say, not acting as they should be. Great read, took only a few days, I recommend it for anyone, law enforcement or not.

Puppy Whisperer: A Compassionate, Non Violent Guide to Early Training and Care

Paul Owens, Terence Cranendonk, ...

Adams Media, 2007

Best Training Book EVER!
I recently got a new puppy after not having one for many years. I thought I'd brush up on new training techniques and "non-violent" sounded good. I read the book before I brought her home and everything has worked beautifully! All the advice, techniques and training ...

Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

Michael P. Ghiglieri, Thomas M. Myers

Puma Press, 2001

Grand Read about the Grand Canyon
I admit it. I cannot put down a good book about stupid people making bad decisions in a spectacular, and spectacularly dangerous, place. There are a lot of short stories in here about how things went really, really bad for people who were unprepared, stupid, didn't ...

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library)

Cormac McCarthy

Modern Library, 2001

literary landmark
It seems that most of the negative reviews this book receives are holding it to the standards of commercial fiction. This is not commercial fiction, it is not supposed to be a Clint Eastwood western, and it certainly isn't meant for those who ignore the beauty of ...

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Jon Krakauer

Anchor, 2004

Meticulously researched and well presented
There are far better and longer reviews than mine posted here, so I hesitated to even attempt one. However, I've traveled to many of the places described in Jon's book, including Separation Canyon (within the Grand Canyon) and Colorado City, long before the ...

The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)

Joe Abercrombie

Pyr, 2007

The best I've read in a looooong time
Mature, fantasy readers must read this. If you haven't read The First Law trilogy, go buy it. Now. Abercrombie has an amazing style, characters and plot development, and more importantly...the entire series doesn't have a single character or word more than it needs. ...

Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

Miles J. Unger

Simon & Schuster, 2008

Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
Miles J. Unger's "Magnifico" is a fascinating narrative about one of the most powerful and influental figures in renaissance Italy and in the history of Europe. Although there are several books on the subject, I found "Magnifico", with it's detailed focus on the ...

Attack Proof: The Ultimate Guide to Personal Protection

John Perkins, Al Ridenhour, ...

Human Kinetics Publishers, 2000

The Definitive Self Defense Guide
Hands down the best self defense book on the market. There is nothing out there that can match the detail and strategic principles that are presented in this book. You can go to countless martial art schools and you'd still miss the essence of fighting that you can ...

Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System

Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss

Picador, 2008

What happens in Naples happens everywhere...
I was stationed in Naples from '91-'94. I roamed all over as military police. I saw corners of Naples that many Americans living there never even dream of visiting. My knowledge was based in hear-say though and I have now many years later begun to study the city and ...

Still Life (Three Pines Mysteries)

Louise Penny

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006

I want to move to Three Pines!
Louise Penny has written a wonderful "cozy murder mystery." The mystery is intriguing and well laid out. It is the characters, though, that you will fall in love with. They make the story! In this book that is the first in a series, Penny does a great job "hooking" ...

Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

Lee Whittlesey

Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1995

If you ever plan on visiting YNP read this book!!!
I've lived in Yellowstone Park for about 6 years now, and every summer I'm appalled how easily the tourists leave thier common sense at the gate. This should be required reading before anyone is allowed to enter. This book is as entertaining as the Darwin Awards, ...