Looking for something to do? Want to be horrified?

Then Read This.

"Death by Government" by R. J. Rummel. Be sure to scroll down for the reader reviews.

It makes a nice companion piece to "Carnage and Culture". It also makes a nice counter balance to "War before Civilization".

Here's just a snippet of editorial for the latter:

For the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, and unimportant. According to this view, it was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization.

Building on much fascinating archeological and historical research and offering an astute comparison of warfare in civilized and prehistoric societies, from modern European states to the Plains Indians of North America, Keeley convincingly demonstrates that prehistoric warfare was in fact more deadly, more frequent, and more ruthless than modern war...

Can't get to sleep now? You can Night Owl away with "Sick Societies"

You will be amazed.