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  • Cinematic Terror

    A Global History of Terrorism on Film

    by PhD Tony Shaw ...
    Cinematic Terror takes a uniquely long view of filmmakers' depiction of terrorism, examining how cinema has been a site of intense conflict between paramilitaries, state authorities and censors for well over a century. In the process, it takes us on a journey from the first Age of Terror that helped trigger World War One to the Global War on Terror that divides countries and families today.Tony ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Killing Game

    Martyrdom, Murder, and the Lure of ISIS

    by Mark Bourrie ...
    On January 21, 2015, a pro-ISIS Twitter account reported that John Maguire, a 23-year-old university drop-out from the Ottawa Valley town of Kemptville, had been killed fighting Kurds in the Syrian city of Kobani. A few weeks before, Maguire had starred in a YouTube video threatening Canada for bombing ISIS forces in Iraq.He is one of the dozens of young Canadians who have chosen to fight in a ... Read more

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  • Confessions of an Islamophobe

    While the United States, and indeed most of the Western world, fights an active war against Islamic terrorism, we remain in deep denial about who truly is the enemy. Elites across North America and Europe fight to silence those who argue, compellingly, that the roots of terrorism are within Islam itself which has evolved into far more than a religion—it is a radical and dangerous political ... Read more

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  • Power and the Idealists

    Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath

    by Paul Berman ...
    The author of the best-selling Terror and Liberalism on the rise to power of the generation of 1968.The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, decades later, many in that radical generation had come into ... Read more

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  • Finks

    How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers

    by Joel Whitney ...
    •A "biography of an idea," in the author's words, that won't go away: that the CIA was as committed to steering our culture as it was to masterminding coups and assassinations for which it is better known.•Among the key players in this ongoing story are some beloved writers: on the one hand, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, William Styron, Boris Pasternak and Irwin Shaw; on the other, Richard ... Read more

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  • The Demon Lover

    The Roots of Terrorism

    by Robin Morgan ...
    A riveting exploration of terrorism's relationship to sex, with a new preface by the authorTerrorism is the international crime that has captured the attention of the entire world, forcing governments to make radical changes in security and civil liberties. Meanwhile, everyone tries to comprehend the real reasons that inspire such violence.This is where political philosopher Robin Morgan begins ... Read more

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  • Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can be done about it. It unravels complex central questions such as whether terrorists are criminals, whether terrorism is a kind of war, what kind of threat terrorism ... Read more

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  • Europe's Angry Muslims

    The Revolt of The Second Generation

    by Robert Leiken ...
    Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe. It guides readers through Islamic nomenclature, chronicles the motive force of the Islamist narrative, offers them lively portraits of jihadists, and takes ... Read more

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  • Blood & Rage

    A Cultural History of Terrorism

    In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to the current global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian Nihilists, and the London-based anarchists of Black International to the various terrorist campaigns ... Read more

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  • The Art of Controversy

    Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power

    A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse.As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and incendiary—cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the greatest cartoons ever created, ... Read more

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  • Terrorism

    A Very Short Introduction

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    Is one person's terrorist another's freedom fighter? Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'War on Terror'? For many, the terrorist attacks of September 2001 changed the face of the world, pushing terrorism to the top of political agendas, and leading to a series of world events including the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan. The recent terror attacks in various European cities have ... Read more

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