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1) Terrorism
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether terrorism is a serious threat, how serious a threat is nuclear terrorism, and how governments should respond to terrorism.
Author
Series
Killing volume 11
Language
English
Description
In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
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English
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"One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls," politicians, activists, and celebrities from all around the world--among them First Lady Michelle Obama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai--protested. Some of the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In [this book], the journalist Asne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child from...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States. Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents?...
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English
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"On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on the crowded train. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons and prepared to launch his attack. But when he emerged, he encountered something he hadn't anticipated: three Americans who refused to give in to fear. Anthony...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A Navy SEAL commander explores the practical and philosophical questions of heroic service that have emerged about America's past decade at war, from the qualities of heroes and the reasons we fight to how war impacts families and whether or not soldiers can be held accountable for wartime actions,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Provides historical background about terrorism in the United States and elsewhere and discusses how to spot it, how to deal with it if it strikes, and how people can heal in the aftermath.
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Language
English
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Description
"Longlisted for the Airey Neave Book Prize, Airey Neave Trust" Amy Zegart is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her books include Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (Princeton) and (with Condoleezza Rice) Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity. She lives in...
Author
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed novelist Helon Habila, who grew up in northern Nigeria, returned to Chibok and gained intimate access to the families of the kidnapped to offer a devastating account of a tragedy that stunned the world. With compassion and a deep understanding of the historical context, Habila tells the stories of the girls and the anguish of their parents; chronicles the rise of Boko Haram and the Nigerian government's inept response; and captures the...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. ...The riveting story of Walder's tenure in the CIA and, later, the FBI. In high-security, steel-walled rooms in Virginia, Walder watched al-Qaeda members with drones as President Bush looked over her shoulder...
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