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The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely cite depression. But this approach fails to recognize suicide’s social causes. People kill themselves because of breakups and divorces, because of lost jobs and ruined finances, because of public humiliations and the threat of arrest. While some psychological approaches address external stressors, this comprehensive study is the first to systematically examine suicide as a social behavior with social catalysts.Drawing on Donald Black’s theories of conflict management and pure sociology, Suicide presents a new theory of the social conditions that compel an aggrieved person to turn to self-destruction. Interpersonal conflict plays a central but underappreciated role in the incidence of suicide. Examining a wide range of cross-cultural cases, Jason Manning argues that suicide arises from increased inequality and decreasing intimacy, and that conflicts are more likely to become suicidal when they occur in a context of social inferiority. As suicide rates continue to rise around the world, this timely new theory can help clinicians, scholars, and members of the general public to explain and predict patterns of self-destructive behavior.

The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely cite depression. But this approach fails to recognize suicide’s social causes. People kill themselves because of breakups and divorces, because of lost jobs and ruined finances, because of public humiliations and the threat of arrest. While some psychological approaches address external stressors, this comprehensive study is the first to systematically examine suicide as a social behavior with social catalysts.Drawing on Donald Black’s theories of conflict management and pure sociology, Suicide presents a new theory of the social conditions that compel an aggrieved person to turn to self-destruction. Interpersonal conflict plays a central but underappreciated role in the incidence of suicide. Examining a wide range of cross-cultural cases, Jason Manning argues that suicide arises from increased inequality and decreasing intimacy, and that conflicts are more likely to become suicidal when they occur in a context of social inferiority. As suicide rates continue to rise around the world, this timely new theory can help clinicians, scholars, and members of the general public to explain and predict patterns of self-destructive behavior.

A BAND OF HEROES IS DESPERATELY NEEDED IN A SAVAGE STRUGGLE TO STEM A COMANCHE BLOOBATH IN TEXAS, AND THERE HAPPENS TO BE ONE-THE BLACK JACKS. It was the worst nightmare come true for the fledgling Republic of Texas. The scattered Comanche bands have united into a mighty fighting force under a single great warrior chief and are sweeping over the vast Texas plains, avenging a massacre at the hands of the whites with a campaign of pure carnage. Sam Houston led Texans in the fight for independence from Mexico. Now he needs the assistance of the one man who has a chance of turning back the Comanche tide of terror-John Henry McAllen. McAllen and his volunteers, known as the Black Jacks, had fought side by side with Houston against Santa Anna. Retired now, they mount up and ride out to face their ultimate test, the greatest Comanche threat of all. But Houston's political foes plot in the shadows, making the trail McAllen and his men are riding even deadlier. A ROUSING AND HISTORICALLY ACCURATE NOVEL OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER BY TEXAS-BORN JASON MANNING. BE SURE TO READ THE MARAUDERS, THE SEQUEL TO THE BLACK JACKS

A young man in a virgin land, a sweeping saga alive with the courage, challenge, danger and adventure that was the American frontier.In 1825 the distant Rockies offered all the adventure and wealth a young man could want. The mad demand for beaver pelts spawned a booming fur trade that sent men to battle against the fury of nature, hostile Indian tribes, and even each other in an ordeal that only the strongest could survive.Zach Hannah was a mere youth when he left the Tennessee hill country to seek his fortune in the West. He faced many challenges-to learn the way of the wild and those who lived in it, to discover that the white man's treachery could be as deadly as Blackfoot hostility. And to find passionate love with a beautiful Indian woman-and fight to the death to protect her.THE GRIPPING FIRST BOOK IN A BESTSELLING TRILOGY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER THAT INCLUDES GREEN RIVER RENDEZVOUS AND BATTLE OF THE TETON BASIN.

THE REMINGTONS #1: The Town KillersA big army payroll has been stolen, every soldier in the detail guarding it slaughtered by an army of killers whose lust for gold is exceeded only by their passion for bloodletting. The garrisons along the turbulent Texas frontier might mutiny if the next payroll shipment doesn't get through. With such a crisis looming, the U.S. Army requests the services of Cord and Emma Remington.This brother-and-sister team of talented private detectives not only have to keep the next payroll from being stolen from the railhead at Wolf Creek, Texas, but are charged with learning the identity of the cold-blooded leader of the robbers.When they uncover the truth, the Remingtons realize that it's not just the Army payroll that's at risk, but also the lives of every man, woman and child in Wolf Creek, as a horde of brutal cutthroats ride hell-for-leather through streets that will soon run red with blood.Cord Remington: cardsharp, pugilist, knife artist and scholar. Emma Remington: sharpshooter, tracker, trick rider and free-spirited beauty. Brother and sister - and the smartest, deadliest detectives in the Wild West

1846. The territory of New Mexico has fallen to United States forces. Hugh Falconer-tracker, trapper, explorer, mountain man-rides to Taos to rendezvous with old friends at the wilderness outpost of Turley's Mill. On the way he picks up a job shepherding Delgado McKinn, a young man with more courage than common sense, back to his wealthy father. Falconer doesn't know it but he's heading into a deadly trap. Mexicans and Indians have united against the new American lords of the land. The Taos Revolt throws the capital of Santa Fe into turmoil. Governor Charley Bent and others are murdered. And Turley's Mill is slated to become a tomb for the mountain men gathered there.Falconer finds himself among the handful of trappers and traders, his friend Delgado among them, surrounded by an angry mob bent on spilling their blood. Nine men standing against hundreds.Maybe they would die, but not like rats in a trap. They would die like men-mountain men.THE THIRD EPIC ADVENTURE IN THE HUGH FALCONER SERIES, FOLLOWING FALCONER'S LAW AND PROMISED LAND, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED HIGH COUNTRY FRONTIER NOVELS.

Sometimes a man has to risk all he cherishes for God and country. He had fought and bled for his country. He had been a war hero and a congressman. He had battled the southern Nullifiers to keep the young United States from splintering. He was the right-hand man of President Andrew Jackson. But now Timothy Barlow has put aside his uniform to lead an easier life on a sprawling Georgia plantation, married to a beautiful Southern belle. With his public service behind him, Barlow intends to spoil the woman he loves, raise a family, and live in peace and prosperity. But yet another war is brewing. Mexico, Britain and France have eyes on the fledgling Republic of Texas and U.S. President Polk will have none of that. The country needs its heroes once again, and Barlow reluctantly dusts off his uniform for one last hurrah. A ROUSING HISTORICAL NOVEL, THE FINAL ENTRY IN THE POPULAR BARLOW TRILOGY WHICH INCLUDES THE LONG HUNTERS AND WAR LOVERS.

With the Civil War raging in the East, the Confederacy is in desperate need for Union gold coming overland from California through Fort Yuma in the Arizona Territory. With the help of Southern spies and sympathizers, Alkali Jim Sullivan and his gang of bushwhackers are robbing the Wells Fargo gold shipments. Only one man has the gumption to stand against the killers. His name is John Clayton Lonaker, a man known for raw courage and a fast gun. Lonaker signs on to ride shotgun with the newest gold shipment along the Oxbow Route to Yuma, being transported in a iron-plated war wagon. Of course, Sullivan and his cutthroats want that gold, and the attempted robbery becomes a running battle across the worst stretch of desert in the territory. Lonaker is facing impossible odds. But that's never stopped him. He's dead-set on ending the Rebel threat in a epic showdown at Seven Springs. YET ANOTHER CLASSIC WESTERN PENNED BY THE AUTHOR OF TRAIL TOWN, GUN JUSTICE AND REVENGE IN LITTLE TEXAS

For one American hero, war brings the ends of innocence... In 1814 the U.S. Army is not much more than a ragtag collection of brave men and boys bound by blood, duty, and more than a little luck. The army's commander, Andrew Jackson, has turned his attention from the waning British threat to a conflict closer to home. "Old Hickory" hopes to capture and punish the Red Stick Creek Indians responsible for murdering American long hunters caught on their home soil. Lieutenant Timothy Barlow has just graduated from West Point, full of fine ideals, long on knowledge, but woefully short of experience. In Indian country, this combination could prove fatal. Barlow performs heroically at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, but when he is ordered to pillage a peaceful Indian camp, his conscience gets the better of him. Then his troops take matters into their own hands and Barlow has to find a way to preserve his honor, justify Andy Jackson's faith in him, and survive what will be known as the First Seminole War. THE FIRST IN A THRILLING NEW TRILOGY OF THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER THAT INCLUDES THE FIRE-EATERS AND THE WAR LOVERS, BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FLINTLOCK AND HIGH COUNTRY.

NOT ALL WARS ARE CIVIL...In a desert outpost north of Tucson, an encampment of peaceful Apaches is slaughtered by a bloodthirsty band of white vigilantes. Now the brilliant and ruthless war chief Cochise gathers his renegades and prepares for payback. Savage war is about to break out. But there are some on both sides who strive to keep the peace.One of these is Cochise's son-in-law, Lieutenant Joshua Barlow. Until, that is, his Apache bride is taken by Kiannatah, the renegade who has waged a one-man vendetta against Americans, Mexicans, and even his own kind, vengeance for the loss of all he held dear.Now Barlow has his own a score to settle. He rides through a land torn by savagery and drenched with blood to meet his fate in the Sierra Madre, a stretch of hell that no lone white man has ever survived.ANOTHER EPIC ADVENTURE IN THE APACHE TRILOGY, WHICH INCLUDES APACHE STORM AND APACHE STRIKE.

Clay Colbry has been a lot of things, some good, some bad. But now he's just a drifter who stumbles into the middle of a bloody Apache uprising. Not only had he been a scout for the U.S. Army, he had also been raised by Apaches, so he knows just how bad the situation is going to get. But things go from bad to worse when he finds out an outlaw gang led by the ruthless Bass Giles is stealing Sierra Stage Company stock and selling the horses to the outlaws. Giles and his cutthroats have taken over the town of Furnace Creek as a base of operations and are bleeding it dry. Colbry's job is to root them out. It's pretty much a suicide mission, but Colbry takes it on. He has an old score to settle with Giles and nothing-not the desert, not the Apache raiders, and not the small army of hardcases who follow Giles-is going to stop him from wreaking a terrible vengeance. THE CLASSIC WESTERN THAT LAUNCHED THE CAREER OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND PROLIFIC WRITERS IN THE GENRE, THE AUTHOR OF LOBO RILER, LAST CHANCE AND THE OUTLAW TRAIL.

The epic clash that brought the mountain man era to a close All Zach Hannah wants is to be left alone, high in the mountains with his Indian bride, Morning Sky. But as long as Sean Devlin is alive, Zach will find no peace. Now Zach has to track down this man, the former friend who stole his wife and left him to die at the hands of his mortal enemies, the Blackfoot Indians.It's an odyssey of vengeance that will lead him from the Yellowstone to St. Louis, along the Santa Fe Trail and back to the high country, where the mountains echo with the gunfire of a cataclysmic war.As mountain men and Blackfoot braves clash in a final epic struggle that will change the course of history in the American West, Zach and Devlin square off in a final reckoning that only one of them will survive.THE THRILLING CONCLUSION OF THE ACCLAIMED HIGH COUNTRY TRILOGY OF MOUNTAIN MAN NOVELS BY THE AUTHOR OF CLASSICS LIKE MOUNTAIN HONOR, FALCONER'S LAW AND FLINTLOCK.

It may be the twilight of the Old West but the sun's not about to set on Ethan Payne. The tough-as-nails gunslinger is still holding strong to the traditions that made him notorious. A new trade is giving him the chance to prove it-as a regulator for a Wyoming cattleman's association. But when an innocent man is killed, Payne's spirit dies along with him. Now it's the fearless outlaw who needs to be rescued. And Buffalo Bill Cody is the man to do it. A U.S. scout who rode out the Civil War in glory, Cody has become the Wild West's greatest showman. Now that he's got Payne in the act, it's only going to get wilder. The biggest draw Cody ever bankrolled, Payne is riding high once again. Especially when the tour takes him back to Chicago, and back to his first true love. But the past-like vengeance-never dies. An enemy has a score to settle. And to keep his last chance at happiness alive, Payne has to face the greatest threat of all. THE FINAL EXCITING BOOK IN THE ETHAN PAYNE TRILOGY, FOLLOWING FRONTIER ROAD AND TRAIL TOWN, WRITTEN BY THE BESTSELLING WESTERN AUTHOR OF CLASSICS LIKE TEXAS HELLTOWN AND THE OUTLAW TRAIL.

The price of peace is sometimes paid in blood...In his years living in the wild frontier, Gordon Hawkes has become a legend among mountain men. He has raised his family in seclusion, emerging only to visit trading posts and his adoptive tribe, the Crow. But his hard-won peace and happiness are about to be threatened by the dark clouds of war...While Hawkes is escorting the Crow tribe's yearly annuity from the United States government, their cunning enemies, the Sioux, stage an ambush. Captured and enslaved, Hawkes must decide whether to live as a slave, die as a prisoner, or renounce his past life and join the Sioux tribe.His only hope rests in the hands of his son Cameron, who must find the courage to face his father's captors and bring Gordon Hawkes back alive.THE THIRD BOOK IN THE GREATEST OF MOUNTAIN MAN SAGAS WHICH CONSISTS OF SIX VOLUMES AND OVER TWO THOUSAND PAGES OF COMPELLING FRONTIER DRAMA BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HIGH COUNTRY TRILOGY.

There was just one law in Shelby County, Texas: Draw first, shoot straight or eat lead Hanging was too good for Ma Foley and her outlaw sons. Cold-blooded killers and proud of it, this homicidal family would gun a man down as soon as look at him. Folks in Shelby County knew they were under Ma Foley's heel, and there was nothing they could do about it and expect to live. But then a federal marshal by the name of Jim Gantry rode into town with one of the Foley boys as his prisoner. Luke Foley had murdered an innocent man in cold blood, and Gantry aimed to see him swing, not just for justice but to show Ma that he was the law here, not her. Of course that meant an all-out bloody war, in which the fate of law and order in the Texas Redlands would be determined. AN OLD WEST CLASSIC BY THE POPULAR AUTHOR OF SUCH NOVELS AS REVENGE IN LITTLE TEXAS, FRONTIER ROAD AND THE GUNMASTER

The compelling story of a man's courage tested to the limit in a merciless little war where sudden death hides behind every rock.As the Civil War begins to brew in the East, a smaller but equally vicious conflict flares up in the West. Bands of Apache warriors, their way of life threatened, have decided to die fighting and to take with them as many of their enemies as they can.It's a conflict that brings two brave and determined men together. Kiannatah, a member of Geronimo's band, once saw his entire family slaughtered by invaders. Without fear he trods the path of vengeance. Meanwhile, Lt. Joshua Barlow turns the conflict into a personal battle, willing to defy the U.S. Army to fight Apaches his own way.THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE EPIC APACHE TRILOGY, WHICH INCLUDES APACHE STRIKE AND APACHE SHADOW, BY THE AUTHOR OF HIGH COUNTRY AND MOUNTAIN PASSAGE.

Legendary mountain man Hugh Falconer loved the high country, where he lived in splendid isolation. But when he has to save a wagon train of pioneers from slaughter at the hands of a half-breed killer and a marauding Pawnee war party, everything changes. The first blizzards of winter are sweeping down from the north as Falconer leads the people he has promised to protect-and a woman he can't help but want-into a secluded mountain valley to survive until spring. He thought it would be a safe haven. But he was wrong. A man had come before them, a man who ruled the valley as his own private kingdom-a mountain man whose prowess matches Falconer's own. Falconer has a choice to make: strike a devil's bargain or engage in a no-holds-barred fight with a man who is every bit his equal-if not better. ANOTHER EPIC ADVENTURE IN THE TRILOGY OF HUGH FALCONER NOVELS THAT INCLUDES FALCONER'S LAW AND AMERICAN BLOOD.

Trail Town JusticeAnyone would have trouble keeping the peace in the Nebraska cowtown known as "Little Texas"-even Marshal Clem Brackett. With whiskey-drunk drovers shooting up saloons, roughing up whorehouse girls, and generally raising hell every night, the lawman keeps his guns loaded and his cells full. But that was nothing compared to the trouble riding in with Texas cattle baron Tyler Kane. Two years ago Kane's brother got himself killed in a fight with a local cardsharp named Stanhouse. Now Kane is back with a passel of tough wranglers to even the score, Texas-style. Kane finds the man he wants to kill locked up in the marshal's jail for pumping a greenhorn full of lead. Waiting on circuit justice is not what Tyler had in mind, and suddenly Brackett is facing off against Kane's crew, who are hell-bent on either lynching the gambler or turning Little Texas into ashes. ONE OF THE EARLY WESTERN CLASSICS BY JASON MANNING, AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING FRONTIER NOVEL HIGH COUNTRY AND THE GORDON HAWKES MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES.

The year is 1837. The fur trade that bred a generation of daring mountain men is in decline. A trapper by the name of Hugh Falconer knows it's time to look for new horizons, and he looks westward.Organizing a brigade of fiercely independent mountain men is no easy task but Falconer pulls it off, and he keeps them together as he leads them on a trail of constant danger, across the worst desert in the West, over savage mountains, through hostile Indian territory, and into a California of wealth, women, and wine-and Mexicans who aren't fond of interlopers.The journey was an ordeal. Now Falconer and his brigade of hardcases have to survive in a hostile new land. Among them is the callow youth named Eben Nall, who was seeking adventure and found much more-a courage he didn't know he had, and a beautiful young Mexican woman he needed more than breath itself.THE FIRST NOVEL IN A NEW TRILOGY OF EPIC MOUNTAIN MAN TALES BY THE AUTHOR OF HIGH COUNTRY AND BATTLE OF THE TETON BASIN.