Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it's a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2021
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People, Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.
From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider...
Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People, Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.
From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Publication Date
2015
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A collection of articles on how ISIS took over a region the size of the UK, sparked a humanitarian crisis, and developed into a global threat. With coordinated attacks in Paris and the downing of a Russian passenger plane, the Islamic State (ISIS) declared war on the wider world, galvanizing new calls for an intensified global response. The Washington Post spent a year tracking the political and military spread of ISIS—investigating its roots and...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
They have taken over a region the size of the United Kingdom, and sparked one of the great humanitarian crises of our time. Now, with coordinated attacks in Paris and the downing of a Russian passenger plane, the Islamic State (ISIS) has declared war on the wider world, galvanizing new calls for an intensified global response.
The Pope, the King of Jordan, and other international leaders say that ISIS has triggered a "Third World War."
The Washington...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In 2001 there were approximately 400 members of Al Qaeda who swore loyalty to Osama Bin Laden. Years after the "War on Terror" was declared, jihad seems to have spread everywhere. What went wrong? Part 1 looks at the origins of a "war" whose enemy has never been defined.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Years after the "War on Terror" was declared, jihad seems to have spread everywhere. What went wrong? Part 2 examines how America's decision to disregard the Geneva Conventions doomed its counter-offensive to failure even before the invasion of Iraq - by fueling the insurrections to come and spreading further violence.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"Two of America's leading experts on violent extremism and terrorism explain the genesis, evolution, and implications of today's most barbaric jihadist army, Islamic State--and how we can fight it"-- from publisher.
Though terrorist groups are a fixture of contemporary politics and warfare, the world has never witnessed the degree of sheer brutality demonstrated by the group known as ISIS-- the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Its sadistic disregard...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Assadollah Assadi, became the first-ever serving Iranian diplomat to be detained, investigated, tried, convicted, and imprisoned, after he plotted to blow up thousands of participants in the Iranian Resistance's annual Free Iran World Summit in Villepinte, France, where Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran was speaking, along with hundreds of political dignitaries from across the globe.
In late...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept's long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology-from Plato to NATO.
Introducing the concept of the "fear-terror cluster," Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms that we have used to express extreme emotional states...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
An alarming and enlightening first-hand account of what's really going on behind the borders of the Islamic State. ISIS, IS, the Islamic State. The name is chilling. The images are horrific. This is a group that beheads journalists and yet one, the German Jürgen Todenhöfer, went out of his way to get an invitation to visit ISIS fighters in Mosul in 2014 to ask them to explain their beliefs. This book is the result of his conversation. My Journey...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Honorable Mention, 2019 Distinguished Book Award, given by the Sex & Gender Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention, 2019 Marysa Navarro Book Prize, given by the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS)
A profound reflection on state violence and women's survival
In the 1970s and early 80s, military and security forces in Argentina hunted down, tortured, imprisoned, and in many cases, murdered political...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
This book simultaneously tells a story-or rather, stories-and a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of Greek dissidents were detained and tortured in prisons, places of exile, and concentration camps. They were sometimes held for decades, in subhuman conditions of toil and deprivation. The history is that of how the Greek Left was constituted by the...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In June 2015, two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's North Country, launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Aided by prison employee Joyce Mitchell, double murderer Richard Matt and cop-killer David Sweat slipped out of their cells, followed a network of tunnels and pipes under the thirty-foot prison wall, and climbed out of a manhole to freedom. For three weeks, the...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power-and their heads-were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they chose to fight back against every threat and insurgency, whether real or merely perceived, repressing their populaces through surveillance networks and...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.
More than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form in late twentieth-century...
16) Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
On September 21, 1976, a car bomb killed Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean ambassador to the United States, along with his colleague Ronni Moffitt. The murder shocked the world, especially because of its setting--Sheridan Circle, in the heart of Washington, D.C. Letelier's widow and her allies immediately suspected the secret police of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eliminated opponents around the world. Because U.S. political leaders saw...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
2015.
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"The conventional narrative concerning religious terrorism inside the United States says that the first salvo occurred in 1993, with the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. This narrative has motivated more than a decade of wars, and re-prioritized America's domestic security and law enforcement agenda. But the conventional narrative is wrong. A different group of jihadists exists within US borders. This group has a long but hidden...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The term 'terrorism' is often applied exclusively to non-state groups or specific 'rogue states'. Far less attention is given to state terrorism carried out or sponsored by democracies, most notably the United States. History shows that this state terrorism has been responsible for the deaths of millions of people.
Weapon of the Strong analyses the forms of US state terrorism through exclusive, never before published interviews with leading...
19) Terrorism, State Terrorism, Assassination And Violent Protest: Deadly Strategies Of Tyranny? Differe
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Publication Date
Not Supplied
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
What are terrorism and state terrorism?How different are terrorism, state terrorism, state assassinations, and violent protests?Why is the modern world so beset by terrorism and violent protests?What are the root causes of the many terrorist attacks around the world?The future of the world is in serious jeopardy if terrorism, state terrorism, assassinations, and violent protests become the norm.All nations and all peoples everywhere should be aware...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request

(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)




