New York: Hawthorn Books, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at how interrelated attitudes, artifacts and manners have crystallized into an ugly fascination with violence - a trend which has only become more significant, in the almost 50 years since this was first published, as school shootings, and mass shootings in the US have grown to a previously unimaginable level and violence has increased in much of the world. Index. xvi, 206 pp. ISBN: 0-801575346.