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Freddi Fish the Big Froople MatchISBN 1570649472 (1-57064-947-2)
Softcover, Lyrick Publishing
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Kren of the Mitchegaiby Leo Frankowski, Dave GrossmanISBN 141650902X (1-4165-0902-X)
Softcover, Baen Books
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Societyby Dave GrossmanISBN 0316191442 (0-316-19144-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society'Book summary:The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are incredibly vicious predators and that killing is as natural as eating. But Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a psychologist and U.S. Army Ranger, demonstrates this is not the case. The good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the eighteenth century through Vietnam - is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. The provocative news is that modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have learned how to overcome this reluctance. In Korea about 50 percent of combat infantry were willing to shoot, and in Vietnam the figure rose to over 90 percent. The bad news is that by conditioning soldiers to overcome their instinctive loathing of killing, we have drastically increased post-combat stress - witness the devastated psychological state of our Vietnam vets as compared with those from earlier wars. And the truly terrible news is that contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques and - according to Grossman's controversial thesis - is responsible for our rising rates of murder and violence, particularly among the young. In the explosive last section of the book, he argues that high-body-count movies, television violence (both news and entertainment), and interactive point-and-shoot video games are dangerously similar to thetraining programs that dehumanize the enemy, desensitize soldiers to the psychological ramifications of killing, and make pulling the trigger an automatic response. [via]
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- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society: ISBN 0316330116 (0-316-33011-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co - On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society: ISBN 0316330000 (0-316-33000-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society: ISBN 0316191442 (0-316-19144-2)
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- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society: ISBN 0316330116 (0-316-33011-6)
Pajama Sam Mission to the Moonby Dave GrossmanISBN 1570649502 (1-57064-950-2)
Softcover, Lyrick Publishing
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Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against Tv, Movie & Video Game Violenceby Dave Grossman , Gloria DegaetanoISBN 0609606131 (0-609-60613-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against Tv, Movie & Video Game Violence'Book summary:There is perhaps no bigger or more important issue in America at present than youth violence. Columbine, Sandy Hook, Auroroa: We know them all too well, and for all the wrong reasons: kids, some as young as eleven years old, taking up arms and, with deadly, frightening accuracy, murdering anyone in their paths. What is going on? According to the authors of Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill, there is blame to be laid right at the feet of the makers of violent video games (called "murder trainers" by one expert), the TV networks, and the Hollywood movie studios--the people responsible for the fact that children witness literally thousands of violent images a day.
Authors Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano offer incontrovertible evidence, much of it based on recent major scientific studies and empirical research, that movies, TV, and video games are not just conditioning children to be violent--and unaware of the consequences of that violence--but are teaching the very mechanics of killing. Their book is a much-needed call to action for every parent, teacher, and citizen to help our children and stop the wave of killing and violence gripping America's youth. And, most important, it is a blueprint for us all on how that can be achieved.
In Paducah, Kentucky, Michael Carneal, a fourteen-year-old boy who stole a gun from a neighbor's house, brought it to school and fired eight shots at a student prayer group as they were breaking up. Prior to this event, he had never shot a real gun before. Of the eight shots he fired, he had eight hits on eight different kids. Five were head shots, the other three upper torso. The result was three dead, one paralyzed for life. The FBI says that the average, experienced, qualified law enforcement officer, in the average shootout, at an average range of seven yards, hits with less than one bullet in five. How does a child acquire such killing ability? What would lead him to go out and commit such a horrific act? [via]More editions of Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against Tv, Movie & Video Game Violence:
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The Two-Space Warby Dave Grossman , Leo A. FrankowskiISBN 0743471881 (0-7434-7188-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Two-space Warby Dave Grossman , Leo A. FrankowskiISBN 1416509283 (1-4165-0928-3)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two-space War'Book summary:It is six hundred years in the future and mankind has learned to move between the stars...by going into Two-Space, the vast realm where sentient wooden ships travel beneath canvas sails in a universe that is corrosive to technology. As they charged headlong into the galaxy, humans discovered others who were already there: The Elvin Sylvans who live in the vast forests of low-gravity worlds, the dwarven Dwarrowdelf who thrive deep in the mines of high-gravity worlds, and other, far more alien races. The ancient Sylvan race is enchanted by the human culture, embracing Tolkien as prophecy and taking "classic" human science fiction as a guide. Against this stellar backdrop, Lt. Thomas Melville's ship is mortally wounded in a cowardly surprise attack. With his captain killed, Melville must capture a feral, sentient enemy ship, then must fight his way across the galaxy to warn of the vast invading armada. In an odyssey of turmoil and battle he forges his ship and crew into a mighty weapon of war and earns the love of an alien princess. Now, if he can only survive the attacks of two very angry alien empires, and avoid being court marshalled by his own nation of Westerness for getting them involved in a vast intergalactic war, he might live to enjoy the fruits of his labour. [via]
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The War With Earthby Dave Grossman , Leo A. FrankowskiISBN 0743498771 (0-7434-9877-1)
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Wer hat unseren Kindern das Töten beigebracht?by Dave GrossmanISBN 3772522254 (3-7725-2225-4)
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