This book exposes the sex-for-crack barter system as a long-term social exclusion and systemic racism that has destroyed the self-image of poor black American women.

The author discusses how addiction works and how it can be combated.

This book explores the liquor trade's impact on the Indian communities of colonial America.

This book describes the author's battle with alcoholism.

This book challenges assumptions and expands awareness of the role alcohol plays in women's lives.

"Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Taken as a whole, these derelict homes symbolize the city's plight in the wake of industrial decline. But a closer look reveals a remarkable new phenomenon—street-level entrepreneurs repurposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. How It Works is a compelling study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform."

The author, an anthropologist, manages to gain the trust of street-level drug dealers in East Harlem.

The author shows the reader the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the United States.

"Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs?"

This is the author's memoir about his depression and recovery.

This book tells the story of the author and his brother brother who suffered a mental breakdown many years ago, and how they have since supported each other throughout.

This book follows an intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.

The author challenges the stigmas associated with the subject of suicide and provides an understanding of the suicidal mind with a chance to recognize a person at risk.

The author brings the private experience of depression into a new light, drawing on a series of interviews with depressed men and women.

The author tells the story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overly applied to African American protesters at Ionia for both political reasons and clinical ones.

"The true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who becomes schizophrenic and homeless, and his friendship with Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles columnist who discovers and writes about him in the newspaper."

The author supports the biological foundations of this disease and applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of some of the world's infamous artists.

The author examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

This book offers access to the experience of a rape survivor and critiques a society where women fear and suffer sexual violence.

"In September 2005, Liz Seccuro received an apology letter from the man who had raped her twenty-two years earlier. The rape, which occurred when she was a freshman at the University of Virginia, was reported to the campus police, but their inquiry led nowhere. The man accused of raping her left the university soon after, and Seccuro tried to put the incident behind her, but like all survivors of trauma, the memory was never far from the surface. The letter brought it all back. Seccuro began an e-mail correspondence with her rapist to try to understand what happened, and why. Then she found the courage to do what should have been done all those years earlier--prosecute him. But once proceedings began, she found that what she thought occurred at that frat party was only the tip of the iceberg."

The true story of a father's experiences from the shock of the loss of his son to forgiving the murderer who was responsible.

"This text studies the applications of psychotherapeutic principles and techniques beyond consulting and into the larger world of political and social reality."

The author uses the Odyssey to examine the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.

This is an autobiography by the former pornographic actress Linda Lovelace, who recounts that she was raped during her career in the porn industry. In turn, she becomes influential within the feminist anti-pornography movement.

"The exiled Argentine newspaper publisher details his advocacy of human rights, his 1977 arrest, his thirtymonths of imprisonment, interrogation, and torture, the revocation of his citizenship, and his expulsion from Argentina."

This book is one man's account of ten months in a German death camp.

This is the story of one girl's experiences from a war victim to a Special Representative for UNICEF.

"One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed."

This is a collection of short stories about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War.

"Unchained Memories is a 2003 documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project."

In this book, the author interviews torturers from several nations, coming to an understanding of their motivations.

The author's work is an anatomy of the war in Rwanda, a history of the tragedy's background, and an account of its aftermath.

In this story, the author recounts a Cambodia where labor camps are the norm and technology no longer exists.