Extraordinary Evil: A Short Wallk to Genocide

by Barbara Coloroso

Book Overview

From best-selling author Barbara Coloroso comes a timely and essential book about genocide. Through an examination of three clearly defined genocides -- the Armenian and Rwandan genocides, and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014305158X
• ISBN13: 9780143051589
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent parallel between the schoolyard and the global community

Wow. I read this book under it's Canadian release name, "Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide", which appears more fitting to the subject material. Under either name, this book takes the difficult issue of genocide and parallels it with the serious problem of bullying. Through its use of the "bully circle", it demonstrates the way governments and news media outside the conflict, as well as individuals within the conflict, can make choices to protect the defenseless or perpetuate the abuse. From my perspective as a reformed bully, this book shows the impact these choices make on millions of lives in both arenas. I would recommend this as a great text for high school sociology courses and a must-read for high school counselors, but it also serves as an excellent primer for foreign policy where claims of "conflict" serve as a smokescreen for "extraordinary evil".

Chilling information everyone needs to consider

This book should be a must read. The ideas presented in this book relate directly to the happenings in our world today in the school yard and on the world scene. Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it and I hope the concepts in the this small book can help us to be more aware and less apt to repeat some of the horrors of our world.