Product Description: You are hopelessly in love with a girl, but you're also hopelessly out of her league. You are weak, you are poor, your parents are dead. And the last person who understands you is dying. And your worst secret: you murdered another boy...read more

Product Description: The September 11, 2002 terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon brought terror to America's front door and caused U.S. President George Bush to declare war on terrorism. The speeches in this anthology illustrate the use of terror throughout history, from a range of perspectives...read more

These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic: Crime and Punishment Environmental Issues Family in Society Gender Issues and Sexuality Government, Politics, and Protest Human and Civil Rights Immigration and Multiculturalism Medicine, Bioethics, and Health Social Policy Terrorism Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. The following standard subheads are included in each entry: Date Source About the Author Introduction Primary Source Significance Further ResourcesAll titles contain an introduction to its topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index. A comprehensive subject index is included with print set purchases only.

In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate unlike any other, in which jihadists, journalists, liberal Muslims, and German pacifists engaged one another on the most pressing issues of our time: terrorism, U.S. policy, and Islam-West relations. A valuable resource for specialist and non-specialist alike, this volume chronicles that debate and includes contributions from both sides of the political spectrum in America and the Middle East-and even from al-Qa'ida.

Product Description: This book brings together in one location the treaties and agreements that the international community has adopted to meet the threat of terrorism. This text includes documentation of twelve international conventions and protocols that cover terrorist acts involving aircraft, the maritime world, nuclear and plastic explosives, bombings, and the financing of terrorist activities...read more

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Product Description: "Terrorism: A Documentary History" is a ready-reference that provides definitive documents which demonstrate what terrorism is, how it has been used, why groups engage in it, and the methods used to defeat it. This important volume includes 100 entries on the topic of terrorism from 1972 through 2002...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Seeks to provide readers with an informed perspective of the history of the September 11 attacks, citing conflicts in both the current Middle East and events that occurred in the last thousand years, and offering an analysis of the terrorist mind and what is intended by terrorist acts. Original. (view table of contents)

Offers documents from various sources that describe the growing awareness of the threat of terrorism, terrorist views and methods, attacks on American interests abroad in the 1990s, and the response of the United States. (view table of contents)