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1. Why We Kill

   Understanding Violence Across Cultures and Disciplines

   Edited by Nancy Loucks, Sally Smith Holt, Joanna Adler

   Infanticide, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings and genocide; all involve taking of life. Put most simply, all involve killing one or more other people. Yet cultural context influences heavily how one perceives all of these, and indeed, some...

   Published November 30th 2009 by Willan