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1 online resource (374 pages) |
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 No mercy here; 2 Not everyone's cup of tea; 3 The kill floor; 4 Humane and practical; 5 The right leg; 6 Close to the fire; 7 The executioner's paradox; 8 A tremendous secret; 9 Just so many of them; 10 A button, not a switch; 11 Technology; 12 Sad celebrations; 13 Known as killers; 14 The anatomy of a kill; 15 Wolves and sheep; 16 Into cleanness leaping; 17 Remove the thought; 18 A dink for Jo-Jo; 19 We ourselves are the war; Notes; Bibliography; Copyright. |
| Summary |
How hard is it to kill, as a hunter on a Kangaroo cull, as a worker in an abattoir, as an executioner in a prison, as a soldier at war?Ninety years after World War I, police in a Victorian country town uncover the mummified head of a Turkish soldier, a bullet-ridden souvenir brought home from Gallipoli by a returning ANZAC. The macabre discovery sets Jeff Sparrow on a quest to understand the nature of deadly violence. How do ordinary people - whether in today's wars or in 1915 - learn to take a human life? How do they live with the aftermath?These questions lead Sparrow through history and a. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Homicide -- Psychological aspects.
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Homicide -- Psychological aspects. |
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Homicide -- Social aspects.
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Homicide -- Social aspects. |
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Homicide. |
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Violent deaths -- Psychological aspects.
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Violent deaths -- Psychological aspects. |
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Violent deaths. |
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Violent deaths -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sparrow, Jeff. Killing : Misadventures In Violence. Carlton : Melbourne University Press, ©2009 9780522856347 |
| ISBN |
0522859348 |
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9780522859348 (electronic book) |
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9780522856347 |
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