Terrorism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310369Author Howard BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the...

'Writing the war on terrorism' examines the public language of the war on terrorism, and the way that rhetoric has been used to justify the global counter-terrorism offensive as a response to 9/11. It discusses how language has been used to deliberately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294024Author Richard KeightleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Omar Ashour analyses the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. He shows how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies...

The media has told us for over twenty five years that the conflict in Northern Ireland is irrational and has 'no objective social basis'. The role of the British Army in Northern Ireland is still described as a peacekeeping one: the cause of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615776887Author Richard CottrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 758g

A New York Times Best Seller!Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they're going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination. For decades, government pundits...

How do threats of terrorism affect the opinions of citizens? Speculation abounds, but until now no one had marshaled hard evidence to explain the complexities of this relationship. Drawing on data from surveys and original experiments they conducted in...

Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250112644Author Fellow William McCantsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Before Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. troops in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, the shadowy leader of al-Qaeda had all but disappeared from public consciousness. Largely depicted as a historical figure, he was viewed by the media, government, and public as...

With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982161500Author Marcela GradFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Webster University PressPublisher Webster University PressWeight(grams)...

What really happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963? Was the assassination of John F. Kennedy simply the work of a warped, solitary young man, or was something more nefarious afoot? Pulling together a wealth of evidence, including rare photos, documents,...

Never before have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass...

Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent Into Chaos and Taliban, charts the latest developments in the dangerous trajectory of one of the world's most strategically important, and volatile, countries - and the effects on its neighbours and us all'An expert's...

What is it like to be in the I.R.A. - or at their mercy? This fascinating study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the County Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923 - the most powerful and deadly branch of the I.R.A. during one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060564100Author Billy WaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388161695Author Noor DahriFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Vij Books IndiaPublisher Vij Books IndiaWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400097821Author Robert Young PeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983237020Author Benjamin J LuftFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Greenpoint PressPublisher Greenpoint PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

These are the intense combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030347Author James BamfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 365gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act (February 2015) makes it compulsory for schools to implement anti-radicalisation measures to help prevent young people from being drawn into terrorism. As the increasingly frequent press stories of school children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805065114Author Robert Jay LiftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 340g

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...

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On 7 July 2005, Julie Nicholson's life was changed forever. Her daughter, Jenny, was killed on her way to work in the London bombings, shaking Julie's beliefs. With heartbreaking honesty and integrity, Julie tells her story of love, tragedy and heartache...

This book examines intelligence analysis in the digital age and demonstrates how intelligence has entered a new era.While intelligence is an ancient activity, the digital age is a relatively new phenomenon. This volume uses the concept of the "digital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982176532Author Chris WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Throughout her intense career, Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy's most notorious recorders of history, has ignited passionate debate amongst politicians, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens both European and American. The genesis for "The Force of Reason"...

On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled 'Message to America', the clip depicted the final moments of the life of kidnapped American journalist James Foley - and the gruesome aftermath of...

On 21 December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 departed London Heathrow for New York. Shortly after take-off, a bomb detonated, killing all aboard and devastating the small Scottish town of Lockerbie below. Only one man has ever been convicted of the crime:...

In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantanamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington...

Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services-including France's DGSE (Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in...

Why do hard-line terrorists decide to leave their organizations and quit the world of terror and destruction? This is the question for which Julie Chernov Hwang seeks answers in Why Terrorists Quit. Over the course of six years Chernov Hwang conducted...

In Killing the Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began more than twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648859369Author Josh NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 23mm