Bradley Campbell

Jason Manning

The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture—victimhood culture—and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and “safe spaces,” many young people are quick to police the words and deeds of others, who in turn claim that political correctness has run amok. Interestingly, members of both camps often consider themselves victims of the other. In tracking the rise of victimhood culture, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning help to decode an often dizzying cultural milieu, from campus riots over conservative speakers and debates around free speech to the election of Donald Trump.

Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars

The Rise of Victimhood Culture

When the woman he loves, a beautiful half Apache, is murdered by the bluecoats, Kiannatah creates a bloody swath of vengeance across the Sierra Nevada that results in a final confrontation with the army's best Apache hunter.

Apache Strike

A young man in a virgin land, a sweeping saga alive with the courage, challenge, danger and adventure that was the American frontier. In 1825 the distant Rockies offered all the adventure and wealth a young man could want. The mad demand for beaver pelts spawned a booming fur trade that sent men to battle against the fury of nature, hostile Indian tribes, and even each other in an ordeal that only the strongest could survive. Zach Hannah was a mere youth when he left the Tennessee hill country to seek his fortune in the West. He faced many challenges-to learn the way of the wild and those who lived in it, to discover that the white man's treachery could be as deadly as Blackfoot hostility. And to find passionate love with a beautiful Indian woman-and fight to the death to protect her. THE GRIPPING FIRST BOOK IN A BESTSELLING TRILOGY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER THAT INCLUDES GREEN RIVER RENDEZVOUS AND BATTLE OF THE TETON BASIN.

High Country

The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely cite depression. But this approach fails to recognize suicide’s social causes. People kill themselves because of breakups and divorces, because of lost jobs and ruined finances, because of public humiliations and the threat of arrest. While some psychological approaches address external stressors, this comprehensive study is the first to systematically examine suicide as a social behavior with social catalysts. Drawing on Donald Black’s theories of conflict management and pure sociology, Suicide presents a new theory of the social conditions that compel an aggrieved person to turn to self-destruction. Interpersonal conflict plays a central but underappreciated role in the incidence of suicide. Examining a wide range of cross-cultural cases, Jason Manning argues that suicide arises from increased inequality and decreasing intimacy, and that conflicts are more likely to become suicidal when they occur in a context of social inferiority. As suicide rates continue to rise around the world, this timely new theory can help clinicians, scholars, and members of the general public to explain and predict patterns of self-destructive behavior.

The Social Causes of Self-Destruction

Suicide

It may be the twilight of the Old West but the sun's not about to set on Ethan Payne. The tough-as-nails gunslinger is still holding strong to the traditions that made him notorious. A new trade is giving him the chance to prove it--as regulator for a Wyoming cattleman's association. But when an innocent man is killed, Payne's spirit dies long with him. Now it's the fearless outlaw who needs to be rescued. And Buffalo Bill Cody's the one to do it. A U.S. scout who rode out the civil War in glory, Cody's become the Wild West's greatest showman. Now that he's got Payne in the act, it's only going to get wilder. The biggest draw Cody ever bankrolled, Payne is riding high once again. Especially when the tour takes him back to Chicago, and back to beautiful Lilah. But the past--like vengeance--never dies. An enemy's got a score to settle. And in Last Chance by Jason Manning, Payne had better watch his shadow if he doesn't want his new dream to go up in smoke.

Last Chance

The year is 1862, and Lt. Timothy Barlow has taken a post in President Jackson's War Department. Raising a civilian army, Barlow manages to quell a rebellion in South Carolina...but the war has not yet begun.

The Fire-Eaters

The year is 1837. The decision has been made to cross the Great Divide. One man can meet the brutal challenge. Only Hugh Falconer can organize a brigade of mountain men. Only he can keep these fiercely independent trappers and fighters in line. And only he can lead them on the trail of danger, treachery, and terror ahead--and overcome the even greater menace that awaits them.

Falconer's Law

"Texas" John Slaughter was a legendary figure of the Old West, indelibly etched into its history as one of the era's greatest heros-a lawman and cattle rancher with bravery to burn and the smarts to come out on top, even when the odds were stacked against him. As lethal as he was with a gun, Texas John never asked for any trouble-but somehow, trouble always had a way of finding him... Grazing cattle is where the money is, and Slaughter is determined to carve out his own piece of paradise on a San Bernardino ranch. But along the way, Slaughter will have to fight for what's rightfully his, from his run-ins with clans of greedy rustlers to his time as Tombstone's tin star and his deadly showdown with the notorious Apache Kid. And in the end, when the dust has settled, they will all learn the same deadly lesson: no one walks away from a shootout with Texas John Slaughter.

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