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  • Working in a world of hurt

    Trauma and resilience in the narratives of medical personnel in warzones

    by Carol Acton, Jane Potter ...
    Series series Cultural History of Modern War
    Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war. It focuses not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps. The writings by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and other medical personnel reveal the spectrum of their responses that range from breakdown to ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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  • On Killing

    The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

    by Dave Grossman ...
    A controversial psychological examination of how soldiers' willingness to kill has been encouraged and exploited to the detriment of civilian society."An illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experience of having killed." — Washington PostPsychologist and US Army Ranger Dave Grossman writes that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to pull the trigger in ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit

    Why We Can't Live Without Deceit

    by Ian Leslie ...
    Lying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but it is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey that makes us question not only our own relationship to the truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have. On the way he dissects the history of the lie detector, how parents affect their children's attitude to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Would You Kill the Fat Man?

    The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong

    by David Edmonds ...
    From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, a fascinating tour through the history of moral philosophyA runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence

    by Norman F Dixon, M Dixon ...
    This unique and penetrating book surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disasterous campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of the Second. It examines the social psychology of military organizations, provides case studies of individual commanders and identifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster.Absorbing ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Evil Hours

    A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

    by David J. Morris ...
    "An essential book" on PTSD, an all-too-common condition in both military veterans and civilians ( The New York Times Book Review).Post-traumatic stress disorder afflicts as many as 30 percent of those who have experienced twenty-first-century combat—but it is not confined to soldiers. Countless ordinary Americans also suffer from PTSD, following incidences of abuse, crime, natural disasters, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

    Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

    by Paul Fussell ...
    Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode in The New York Times Book Review hailed it as "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • War Wounds: Medicine and the trauma of conflict

    by Ashley Ekins, Elizabeth Stewart ...
    The history of warfare and the history of medicine are closely intertwined. The major wars of the last hundred years - from the First World War to more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan - have driven advances in treatments for wounds and pain management, the use of antibacterial agents and more effective prevention and control of disease and infection, as well as the development of radical ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Fear

    A Cultural History

    by Professor Joanna Bourke ...
    Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific: flames searing patterns on the ceiling, a hydrogen bomb, a terrorist. More often, anxiety overwhelms us from some source within: there is an irrational panic about venturing outside, a dread of failure, a premonition of doom.In this astonishing book we encounter the fears and anxieties ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Am I Normal?

    The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)

    by Sarah Chaney ...
    *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour**A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022*'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph *****'Riveting' Mail on Sunday *****'Captivating' Guardian, Book of the Day'Compelling'... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Best of Military Sampler

    by Ekins, Ashley, Stewart, Elizabeth, Burness, Peter ...
    Internationally recognised for publishing a range of military books written by Australian, New Zealand and International authors who, as experts in their fields, provide an absorbing insight into great and modern wars and their after effects. Exisle is proud to present a selection of extracts from a few of our bestselling titles. Featured titles include: War Wounds: Medicine and the trauma of ... Read more

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  • Greatcoats and Glamour Boots

    Canadian Women at War, 1939-1945, Revised Edition

    by Carolyn Gossage ...
    Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the recruiting posters urged. By the war's end almost 50,000 of them were in the forces.Carolyn Gossage has compiled a fascinating collage of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus