Books & Publications
Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Drawing Honey from the Rock
Berger, Alan L. and David Patterson
Paragon House, October 2008. Available through the publisher or Amazon. $19.95.
After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond
Clark, Phil and Zachary D. Kaufman
Columbia University Press, January 2009. Site, Facebook, order. Profits from the book will be donated to the Kigali Public Library, Rwanda’s first public library.
“State of Denial: Turkey Spends Millions to Cover Up Armenian Genocide.”
Holthouse, David
Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report, Summer 2008. Article in PDF.
Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation
MacDonald, David
Routledge, UK, October 2007. In an era of globalization and identity politics, this book explores how Holocaust imagery and vocabulary have been appropriated and applied to other genocides.
The Language of Nazi Genocide: Linguistic Violence and the Struggle of Germans of Jewish Ancestry
Pegelow Kaplan, Thomas
Cambridge University Press, 2009. This study seeks to comprehend how the perpetrators constructed difference, race, and their perceived enemies; how Nazi agencies communicated to the public through the nation’s press; and how Germans of Jewish ancestry received, contested, and struggled for survival and self against remarkable odds. By addressing the architecture of conceptual separation between groups and the means by which social aggression is disseminated, this study offers a model for comparative studies of linguistic violence, hate speech, and genocide in the modern world.”
Nonviolent Struggle – 50 Crucial Points A Strategic Approach to Everyday Tactics
Popovic, Srdja, Andrej Milivojevic, and Slobodan Djinovic
This book is a field guide for waging a strategic nonviolent struggle. Written by those who successfully fought against repressive regimes, the book is designed as a ready-to-use tool for front-line practitioners who work in nondemocratic and sometimes violent environments, as well as those who work in established democracies. Details
The Genocidal Mind: Sociological and Sexual Perspectives
Porter, Jack Nusan
University Press of American/Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. This book explores, using sociological, structural, psychoanalytic, post-modern, gender and sexual approaches, the Holocaust and comparative genocide.
Is Sociology Dead? Social Theory and Social Praxis in a Postmodern Era. University Press of America, December 2008. This book covers three areas of Dr. Jack Nusan Porter’s work: the role of sociological theory in society; the image of sociology in the media; and what he calls the “creative praxis” (the application of social theory to real life problems).
