The Psychology of Strategic Terrorism: Public and Government Responses to Attack
ISBN: 9780415578103 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new volume explores terrorism and strategic terror, examining how the public responds to terrorist attacks, and what authorities can do in such situations. The book uses a unique interdisciplinary approach, which combines the behavioural sciences and international relations, in order to further the understanding of the 'terror' generated by strategic terror. The work examines five contemporary case studies of the psychological and behavioural effects of strategic terror, from either terrorist attacks or aerial bombardment. It also looks at how risk-communication and... This new volume explores terrorism and strategic terror, examining how the public responds to terrorist attacks, and what authorities can do in suc... |
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102,29 zł |
The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11
ISBN: 9780814795545 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did the events of September 11, 2001 come to be thought of as 9/11? The Shock of the News is an authoritative account of post-9/11 political and social processes, offering an in-depth analysis of the media coverage of this momentous event. Brian Monahan demonstrates how 9/11 has been transformed into a morality tale centered on patriotism, victimization, and heroes. Introducing the idea of -public drama- as a way of making sense of how media processed and packaged the 9/11 attacks for their audiences, Monahan not only illuminates how and why the coverage took shape as it... How did the events of September 11, 2001 come to be thought of as 9/11? The Shock of the News is an authoritative account of post-9/11 polit... |
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544,02 zł |
The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11
ISBN: 9780814795552 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did the events of September 11, 2001 come to be thought of as 9/11? The Shock of the News is an authoritative account of post-9/11 political and social processes, offering an in-depth analysis of the media coverage of this momentous event. Brian Monahan demonstrates how 9/11 has been transformed into a morality tale centered on patriotism, victimization, and heroes. Introducing the idea of -public drama- as a way of making sense of how media processed and packaged the 9/11 attacks for their audiences, Monahan not only illuminates how and why the coverage took... How did the events of September 11, 2001 come to be thought of as 9/11? The Shock of the News is an authoritative account of post-... |
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132,99 zł |
Islamism in the Shadow of Al-Qaeda
ISBN: 9780292717602 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A renowned authority on Islamic movements, Francois Burgat lived for eighteen years in the Arab world, including his time as director of the French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences at Yemen. He also dedicated many months to fieldwork in North Africa. Bringing Burgat's decades of expertise to the complex dialogues that have marked the post-9/11 world, Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda delivers much-needed clarity and historical perspective. In Burgat's eyes, most of the West's political and media rhetoric has only fueled al-Qaeda's case, revealing a woeful lack... A renowned authority on Islamic movements, Francois Burgat lived for eighteen years in the Arab world, including his time as director of the French... |
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86,94 zł |
Behind the Killing Fields: A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims
ISBN: 9780812242454 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's Killing Fields, where tens of thousands of victims were executed and hastily disposed of by Khmer Rouge cadres. Nearly thirty years after these bloody purges, two journalists entered the jungles of Cambodia to uncover secrets still buried there. Based on more than 1,000 hours of interviews with the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, "Behind the Killing Fields" follows the journey of a man who began as a dedicated freedom fighter and... In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's K... |
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276,33 zł |
Peacemaker's Guide to Warmongers: Exposing Robert Spencer, David Horowitz, and Other Enemies of Peace
ISBN: 9780979671531 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,42 zł |
Nuclear Jihad: A Clear and Present Danger?
ISBN: 9781597975285 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most visible face of terrorism--which is embedded in the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the border region between the two countries--could mask an even bigger danger. In the world of counterterrorism, which includes the quiet work of intelligence gathering at home, abroad, in prisons, in mosques, and in Internet chat rooms, Western analysts are working hard to understand one of the most frightening threats, that of nuclear terrorism.
In his appraisal of this menace, Todd M. Masse explores the likelihood of an attack by examining the two major schools of thought on the... The most visible face of terrorism--which is embedded in the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the border region between the two countries--coul...
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150,82 zł |
Endless Enemies: Inside FBI Counterterrorism
ISBN: 9781597973618 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FBI operative Raymond W. Holcomb's assignments took him across America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, and involved espionage, counter narcotics, Mafia takedowns, national security, Special Weapons and Tactics, and much more. He and his men captured the terrorists behind the 1993 assault on the World Trade Center, investigated the bombings of U.S. embassies, and pursued the killers of the seventeen American sailors who died in the 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole. After 9/11, he assisted in interrogating Yemeni prisoners who had information about the attack, which led to...
FBI operative Raymond W. Holcomb's assignments took him across America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, and involved espionage, counter narc...
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129,24 zł |
One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's Memoir
ISBN: 9780815609544 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University in Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an elevator on his way to work. At the time, the chaos of Lebanon s civil war made it was impossible to investigate who had carried out the killing and why. Seventeen years later, armed with the knowledge of who had been responsible for the assassination and supported by the Anti-Terrorism Act passed by Congress in 1996, his family came to a painful consensus that nonviolent justice through the rule of law... On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University in Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the ... |
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86,09 zł |
And Reality Be Damned... Undoing America: What Media Didn't Tell You about the End of the Cold War and the Fall of Communism in Europe.
ISBN: 9781609111663 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The real danger of Soviet deception during the fall of communism is exposed in this startling account that takes a firsthand look behind the Iron Curtain. Learn how the KGB sought world domination, starting with the USSR. Read the shocking facts about the true origin of international terrorism in the 1960s. Author Robert Buchar presents years of research and interviews with major players. His first-hand experience as a political refugee makes this an authentic and eye-opening account of Western Civilization's main enemy. "Robert Buchar's book fills a vacuum, shedding light on the KGB's secret...
The real danger of Soviet deception during the fall of communism is exposed in this startling account that takes a firsthand look behind the Iron Curt...
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68,83 zł |
NATO and the Middle East: The Geopolitical Context Post-9/11
ISBN: 9780415592345 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite having been active in the region since the mid-1990s, the role of NATO in the Middle East has attracted particular attention since the events of 11th September 2001. This book analyses the limits of NATO's role in the Middle East region and examines whether or not the Alliance is able to help in improving the fragile regional security environment through cooperative links with select Middle Eastern partners. The author reviews the strategic importance of the region from a Western perspective and why it has become a source of instability in world politics, looks at US and... Despite having been active in the region since the mid-1990s, the role of NATO in the Middle East has attracted particular attention since the even... |
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716,40 zł |
Irish Republican Terrorism and Politics: A Comparative Study of the Official and the Provisional IRA
ISBN: 9780415588010 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the post-ceasefire evolutions and histories of the main Irish republican terrorist factions, and the interconnected character of politics and militarism within these.
This book examines the post-ceasefire evolutions and histories of the main Irish republican terrorist factions, and the interconnected character of po...
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741,99 zł |
Jihad and Its Challenges to International and Domestic Law
ISBN: 9789067043120 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hague Academic Press, a T.M.C. Asser Press imprint Since the attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, Jihad has become the symbol of the confrontation between Muslims and the West. The concept of Jihad has been central to many modern conflicts, including that of resistance to US occupation of Iraq and the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. According to the most popular view, Jihad ideology represents a religiously sanctioned aggressive war to propagate or defend faith. However, the meaning of Jihad is not as straightforward as proponents of the clash of... Hague Academic Press, a T.M.C. Asser Press imprint Since the attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, Jihad has become the symbol... |
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390,87 zł |
Surviving the International War Zone: Security Lessons Learned and Stories from Police and Military Peacekeeping Forces
ISBN: 9781439827949 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few people are better able to describe how to survive in a war zone than those who have seen, experienced, and lived it first-hand. Comprised of a collection of original stories from international contributors, Surviving the International War Zone: Security Lessons Learned and Stories from Police and Military Peacekeeping Forces contains true accounts of unimaginable scenarios that could only occur in war-torn and conflict-ridden areas. Presenting accounts written by military and police officers who lived in different dangerous regions across the world, the... Few people are better able to describe how to survive in a war zone than those who have seen, experienced, and lived it first-hand. Comprised of a ... |
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665,24 zł |
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror
ISBN: 9780199759286 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded, making the Wall Street explosion the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history until the Oklahoma City bombing.
In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of that once infamous but now largely forgotten event. Based on thousands of pages of Bureau of Investigation... Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynami...
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78,97 zł |
Innocent Victims in the Global War on Terror
ISBN: 9781449085261 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book presents a very important and prominent case that Caused abundant arguments between the West & Islam after 11/09/2001. They are the allegations against a lot of the Charity and Humanitarian Organizations which had been accused for supporting Terrorism. Never the less the book replies scientifically to the big question, Does the Islam and it's organizations are new enemies? Strugglers and wrestler? or competitors. 09/11 had put on the track a new enemy, which led to designation of administrative arrangements, legal measures and political view points that are hardly changeable or can...
The book presents a very important and prominent case that Caused abundant arguments between the West & Islam after 11/09/2001. They are the allegatio...
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87,26 zł |
No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780801448898 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states exert formidable control over the technologies of globalization, and difficult terrain poses many of the same problems today as it has throughout human history. In No Man's Land, Justin V. Hastings examines the complex relationship that illicit groups have with modern technology and how and when geography still matters. Based on... The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequence... |
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593,60 zł |
No Man's Land
ISBN: 9780801476792 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states exert formidable control over the technologies of globalization, and difficult terrain poses many of the same problems today as it has throughout human history. In No Man's Land, Justin V. Hastings examines the complex relationship that illicit groups have with modern technology and how and when geography still matters. Based on... The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequence... |
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143,23 zł |
War and Ideas : Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780415781763 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title collects the key essays of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions. Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) are, in essence, merely ideas, and that war has waned as the notion that 'peace' is a decidedly good idea has gained currency.
This title collects the key essays of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions. Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) ar...
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716,40 zł |
War and Ideas: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780415781770 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book collects the key essays, together with updating notes and commentary, of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions. Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) are, in essence, merely ideas, and that war has waned as the notion that 'peace' is a decidedly good idea has gained currency. The first part of the book extends this argument, noting that as ideas have spread, war is losing out not only in the developed world, but now in the developing one, and that even civil war is in marked decline. It also assesses and critiques theories arguing that this... This book collects the key essays, together with updating notes and commentary, of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions... |
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204,63 zł |