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Age of Terror
aggression:
and the brain
control of
forward panic (rampage)
heritability of
logic of
and pain
triggers of
agriculture:
and animals
emergence of
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Akey, Joshua
Albania
Albigensian Crusade;
see also
Cathars
see also
Cathars
alcohol
Alexander II, Czar
Alfonzo, Juan Pérez
Algeria
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Al-Jazeera
Allen, Woody
Allison, Graham
All Quiet on the Western Front
(film)
(film)
Alm, Steven
al-Odah, Salman
Al Qaeda
al-Sadr, Muqtada
Al Sharif, Sayyid Imam (Dr. Fadl)
Altamont Festival
Alter, Karen
altruism:
biological
empathy-altruism hypothesis
nepotistic
reciprocal
sympathy-altruism hypothesis
uses of term
al-Zawahiri, Ayman
Amazons
American Humane Association
Amin
Amnesty International
Amsterdam
Anabaptists
anarchy
and dominance
and feuding
and genocide
and realism
and self-help justice
and terrorism
Andaman Islanders
Andersen, Hans Christian
Andrew, Saint
Angell, Norman
anger;
see also
Rage circuit
see also
Rage circuit
Angier, Natalie
animals:
blood sports
domesticated
eating meat of
factory farms
fishing
hunting
in movies
in research
rights of
anocracy (semidemocracy)
“anthropologists of peace,”
antisocial personality disorder;
see also
psychopaths
see also
psychopaths
antiwar movements;
see also
pacifism
see also
pacifism
apartheid
Apollonian vs. Dionysian cultures
apologies
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Arafat, Yasir
archaeology
Archer, John
Archimedes
Ardipithecus ramidus
Arendt, Hannah
Argentina
aristocrats
deaths from violence
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata
Lysistrata
Aristotle
armed forces:
as band of brothers
conscription of
effectiveness of
Ethical Marine Warrior
file closers
mercenary
military revolution
reluctance to shoot
size of
willingness to die
Armenians, genocide of
Aronson, Elliot
Asal, Victor
Asch, Solomon
Ash-Sheikh, Abdulaziz
Asia:
abortion in
female infanticide in
historiography in
homicide rates in
hunter-gatherers in
legal discrimination in
massacres in
New Peace in
spanking in
violence against animals in
violence against women in
wars in
assassinations;
see also
regicide
see also
regicide
Astell, Mary
Athens, democracy in
Atlas, Charles
Atran, Scott
atrocities, twenty worst in history
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Atwood, Brian
Augustine, Saint
Australia
domestic violence in
homicide in
peace imposed in New Guinea
penal colony
warfare among aborigines
australopithecenes
Austria-Hungary
autarky;
see also
trade, international
see also
trade, international
Authority Ranking
autocracy
and Age of Nationalism
and democide
Islamic
punishment in
and the social dilemma
autonomic nervous system
Autonomy, ethic of
availability heuristic
Axelrod, Robert
Aztecs
baby boomers:
crime among
influence of television on
and 1960s counterculture
Bacon, Francis
balance of power
balance of terror
Bales, Kevin
Bandura, Albert
Bangladesh
Barbara, Saint
Barth, Karl
Batson, Daniel
Baumeister, Roy
Evil
and self-control
Bays, Paul
Beatles
Beccaria, Cesare
On Crimes and Punishments
Beirut, U.S. servicemen bombed in
Belarus
Belgium
Bell, David
Bell, Derrick
bell curve,
see
normal distribution
see
normal distribution
Belloc, Hillaire
Benedict, Ruth,
Patterns of Culture
Patterns of Culture
Bentham, Jeremy
Berlin, Isaiah
Berlin Wall
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von
Betzig, Laura
Bhagavad-Gita
Bhutto, Benazir
Bible:
capital punishment in
debt bondage in
historical analysis of
and homophobia
human sacrifice in
and legislation
New Testament
Old Testament
popularity of
slavery in
Big Parade, The
(film)
(film)
Bill of Rights, U.S.
bin Laden, Osama
bioethics
biological weapons
Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing
birthday paradox
Black, Donald
Black Death
Blackwell, Aaron
Blair, Tony
blank slate
blasphemy
blood and soil
blood feuds;
see also
revenge
see also
revenge
blood libel
blood money (wergild)
blood sports
Bloom, Paul
Bluebeard
bobbies
Bobo, Lawrence
Bokassa, Jean-Bédel
Boleyn, Anne
bonobos (pygmy chimps)
book production
Boone, Daniel
Borat
(film)
(film)
borderline personality disorder
border wars;
see also
territory
see also
territory
Bosnia
Boston
crime in
homicides in
police
Public Library
revolutionary
and social identity
TenPoint coalition
Boston Strangler
Bradford, William
brain
and aggression
amygdala
anterior cingulate cortex
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