Offers a historical perspective to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by tracing the political and organizational roots of global jihad. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles, the focus of this study is on the workings of an organization involved in armed struggle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For centuries international order has been troubled by small wars, insurrections, and revolts--low intensity conflicts. With the implosion of the Soviet empire many thought such violence could be eradicated through the growth of democracy, open societies, and increased productivity and education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This is an analysis of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. The author has been shot at, kidnapped, expelled and questioned in wars from Central America to Northern Ireland. The book reflects his access to the cultures of political violence.

Product Description: Book by J. Bowyer Bell (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Traces the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past twenty-five years, explains why attempts at resolving the crisis have failed, and discusses how the media has helped to promote a superficial image of the situation

Irish history sounds a long litany of grievance and vengeance—lost battles, escaped earls, and institutionalized injustice. The gun, certainly in this century, has played a prominent part. In The Gun in Politics, J. Bowyer Bell presents the story of one Ireland—the Ireland of the Troubles—and about an approach to understanding political violence. In particular, he examines the Irish Republic Army, the longest-enduring unsuccessful revolutionary organization. He de­scribes the covert world of gunmen and the great game they play in the street. His is a lively, telling account of sophisticated weapons transfer, of the impact of civil war on society, and of appropriate democratic responses to terrorism. Bell's association with active Republicans, his endless tea seminars at the United Irishman, drinks at Hennessy's, and constant conversation throughout Ireland on political matters over a period of twenty years has provided the author with unique background for this guide to a fascinating, though brutal, undercurrent of Irish history.

Product Description: Book by Bell, J. Bowyer

Product Description: Cheating and deception are terms often used but rarely defined. They summon up unpleasant connotations; even those deeply involved with cheating and deception rationalize why they have been driven to it. Particularly for Americans and much of Western civilization, official cheating, government duplicity, cheating as policy, and conscious, contrived deception, are all unacceptable except as a last resort in response to threat of extinction...read more

The Secret Army traces the history of the IRA from its roots in the eighteenth-century republicanism of Wolfe Tone to the glorious years of 1916-1921, and on through the thirties and World War II, to the fifties campaign, the quieter sixties, and the eruption of violence since then.

Product Description: In this fascinating analysis of the development, structure, and strategies of sports, Bell argues that games are an institution that not only reflect society but also mold society. He develops a typology of seven game levels from the primitive to the decadent and examines the history of game development in Western civilization, through the relation of the various game levels to national ambitions and strategies...read more

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Product Description: Basic Books, 1978, Fine., Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. 292 pages. [Revolution, Political Science, Sociology] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

Product Description: Book by Bell, J. Bowyer

Product Description: Book by J. Bowyer Bell