The evil of banality : on the life and death importance of thinking / Elizabeth K. Minnich.

Asking, How could they do it? about the many ordinary people who have been perpetrators and those who resist extensive evils-genocide, human trafficking, endemic sexualized violations of females, economic exploitation-the book delves into historic, contemporary, national, and international examples....

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishering Group, Inc., [2017]
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