Product Description: Each volume in The Greenhaven Encyclopedia Of series provides an abundance of information on a particular historical era or topic. Compelling entries present definitions of important terms, biographies of central figures, and brief narratives of pivotal events that transformed civilizations and nations...read more

An encyclopedic reference to the events of September 11, 2001, written for a lay audience, shares background information that offers insight into what led to the attacks, documents the subsequent war on terror, and features terrorist biographies and more than one hundred articles. 25,000 first printing.

Offers more than three hundred alphabetically arranged entries covering the people, organizations, events, and places associated with international terrorism and terrorist activities.

'The author, a renowned terrorism expert and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Long Island University in New York City, is a frequent commentator on CNN. He has produced an engaging single-volume encyclopedia, with over 300 entries, on the subject of terrorism worldwide. Appendixes include a chronology of terrorism from 1865 to the present, a list of web resources, an extensive bibliography, and maps noting the locations of terrorist activities around the world.'--'The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year,' American Libraries, May 2004.Provides entries that cover the history of terrorism. (view table of contents)