Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She works at a women's self-defense nonprofit and lives alone. When her bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee -- the selfish, cruel blond bombshell -- who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly leads her to the love of a lifetime....

A moving look at four individuals who've shot someone. They describe how the pull of a trigger changed them emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually offering a powerful new perspective on gun violence.

Describes how the people most crucial to the success of the civil rights movement were nonviolent activists who carried firearms and discusses the role guns played in the Southern Freedom Movement.

"Based on the author's decades of experience teaching everyday people how to defend themselves and on a rational approach to the scientific data, The Gift of Violence provides the average person with the knowledge they need to reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of violence -- and to survive a violent encounter"--

"On Black Friday 2012, four African-American teenagers stopped at a gas station to buy gum and cigarettes. One of them, Jordan Davis, argued with Michael Dunn, a white man parked beside them, over the volume of music playing in their car. The altercation turned to tragedy when Dunn fired 10 bullets at the unarmed boys, killing Davis almost instantly. 3 1/2 minutes, ten bullets explores the danger and subjectivity of Florida's Stand Your Ground self-defense...