Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War - Softcover

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805057870 ISBN 13: 9780805057874

Verlag: Henry Holt & Co, 1998

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A study of the human attraction to violence and war ranges from the human sacrifices of the ancient world to the Holocaust, tracing the impulse to slaughter to the blood rites enacted by the earliest human hunters. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed, Blood Rites, The Worst Years of Our Lives (a New York Times bestseller), Fear of Falling, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.

Barbara Ehrenreich is the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed,Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, and Dancing in the Streets, among others. A frequent contributor to Harper's andThe Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times andTime magazine. She is the winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize for Current Interest and ALA Notable Books for Nonfiction.

Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism. She lives and works in Florida.

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• Verlag: Henry Holt & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805057870
• ISBN 13: 9780805057874
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
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