Dave Grossman: 8 books
On Killing
The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A controversial psychological examination of how soldiers’ willingness to kill has been encouraged and exploited to the detriment of contemporary civilian society.
Psychologist and US Army Ranger Dave Grossman writes that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to pull the trigger in battle....
Assassination Generation
Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it.
Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high...
Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill
A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
There is perhaps no bigger or more important issue in America at present than youth violence. Columbine, Sandy Hook, Aurora: We know them all too well, and for all the wrong reasons: kids, some as young as eleven years old, taking up arms and, with deadly, frightening accuracy, murdering anyone in...
Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill, Revised and Updated Edition
A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Completely revised and updated, a much-needed call to action for every parent, teacher, and citizen to help our children and stop the wave of killing and violence gripping America's youth
Newtown, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Columbine. Thereis no bigger or more important issue in America than youth...
On Combat
The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle the impact on the nervous system, heart, breathing, visual and auditory perception, memory - then discusses new research findings as to what measures warriors can take to prevent such debilitations so they can stay...
Warrior Mindset
Mental Toughness Skills for a Nation's Peacekeepers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Mental toughness is esssential for elite human performance and especially in high stress situations. While mental toughness is a singular value in both military and law enforcement training and missions, too often, there is a disconnect between tallking about and actually training it. Warrior MindSet...
by Leo Frankowski, Dave Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
A General in Virtual Reality Warfare,Now He Was in Danger of Becoming aLow-Ranking Corpse in Realtime!
New Kashubia was a planet rich in heavy metals, but utterly lacking in carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Even dirt had to be imported at great expense. The colonists, moved there from Earth against...
by Leo Frankowski, Dave Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The Virtual-Reality Mercenaries of A Boy and His Tank Face a New Menace—and There's Nothing Virtual About It!First, the involuntary colonists of New Kashubia rescued their planet from crushing debt by becoming virtual-reality mercenaries, then they successfully revolted against the oppressive government...