• The best books on Domestic Violence - No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
  • The best books on Domestic Violence - Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
  • The best books on Domestic Violence - Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life by Evan Stark
  • The best books on Domestic Violence - Nobody's Victim: Fighting Harassment Online and Off by Carrie Goldberg
  • The best books on Domestic Violence - The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker

The best books on Domestic Violence, recommended by Tanya Selvaratnam

Domestic violence has been declared a global crisis of pandemic proportions by the World Health Organisation. So why is it so often overlooked by law enforcement and under-reported by those who it affects? Tanya Selvaratnam, author of Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence, suggests a route forward as she highlights five of the best books on domestic abuse.

  • The best books on June 4th - Neither Gods nor Emperors by Craig Calhoun
  • The best books on June 4th - The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces by Jonathan Unger
  • The best books on June 4th - New Ghosts, Old Dreams by Geremie Barme and Linda Jaivin
  • The best books on June 4th - The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim
  • The best books on June 4th - The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Carma Hinton

The best books on June 4th, 1989, recommended by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

In contrast to Eastern Europe, the 1989 protests in China did not lead to the overthrow of the Communist Party. But if China’s leaders chose the right course on June 4th, 1989, why are they still frightened to come to terms with it? Sinologist and historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom picks the best books to understand events at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and around China on that hot summer night.

  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World by Oona Hathaway & Scott Shapiro
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - Homicide by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - Statistics of Deadly Quarrels by Lewis F Richardson
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - Violent Land by David Courtwright
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - The Remnants of War by John Mueller
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty by Roy Baumeister

The best books on The Decline of Violence, recommended by Steven Pinker

Our TV screens may be full of news about war and crime, but this masks a fall in historical terms in the number of violent deaths that’s nothing short of astonishing, says Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. He tells us how and why this happened. (This interview was updated 17 December, 2020, to include books that have come out since it was published in 2011)