Product Description: Examines the origins, effects, weapons, and prevention of terrorism.

Product Description: Cornerstones of Freedom, Third Series―Bringing History to Life Even before the first glorious ring of the Liberty Bell, America was a land of freedom and promise. Read about what makes our country and form of government so great that it has inspired people from all over the world to start life anew here, endure the economic and social upheavals, and defend the land and rights that are unique to the United States of America...read more

Product Description: This book is a detailed description of the history and practice of assassinations worldwide. Gerhard Falk chronicles the assassinations of political leaders and other prominent people and includes the names of the assassins and their motives...read more

Product Description: This book presents general automotive principles and maintenance in a basic, step-by-step, hands-on approach for readers with little or no understanding of automobiles. Chapter topics cover basic automotive maintenance safety, tools, and service; engine lubrication system maintenance; battery system maintenance; charging system maintenance; starting system maintenance; ignition system maintenance; engine cooling system maintenance; fuel, fuel injection, and emission control systems maintenance; exhaust system maintenance; manual transmission, clutch, and automatic transmission system maintenance; drive shaft, universal joint, and differential system maintenance; steering and suspension system maintenance; tire, wheel, and hub system maintenance; standard, power, antilock, and parking brake system maintenance; electrical circuits and light system maintenance; and air conditioning and heating system maintenance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The elimination of Osama Bin Laden was a remarkable success for American intelligence and Special Forces. To track down a rebel leader who had cut himself off from communications with the World and operated from an isolated compound in an affluent locality where none would really suspect his presence requires diligence, patience and perseverance of the highest order...read more

Product Description: Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era. This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme forms of gruesome violence that have no concern for the preservation of life, a crucial biopolitical theme...read more

Product Description: From an early age, growing up during the Vietnam era in the Washington, D.C., metro area, the author was affected by the terrorism of the day. Friends, associates, and neighbors were impacted in one way or another. One neighbor was taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon, years prior to the Iran hostage crisis and 9/11/01...read more

Product Description: The 2nd Edition of Common Sense in Uncommon Times has changed, along with our country and the environment. Since the first edition in 2002, storms, droughts and fires are increasing, solar flares shoot at us from the sun, meteors explode over Russia, sea levels are rising, we've experienced a near economic collapse, and most countries are experiencing high debt...read more

Product Description: Contemporary Debates on Terrorism is an innovative new textbook, addressing a number of key issues in contemporary terrorism studies from both 'traditional' and 'critical' perspectives. In recent years the terrorism studies field has grown significantly, with an increasing number of scholars beginning to debate the complex dynamics underlying this category of violence...read more

Product Description: Contemporary Debates on Terrorism is an innovative new textbook, addressing a number of key issues in contemporary terrorism studies from both 'traditional' and 'critical' perspectives. In recent years the terrorism studies field has grown significantly, with an increasing number of scholars beginning to debate the complex dynamics underlying this category of violence...read more

Product Description: Appropriate for courses in Transportation or Transportation Management. This accessible, comprehensive introduction to transportation and transportation management has been both updated and improved to reflect recent trends in the field...read more

Product Description: Cosmopolitanism and the Arab Spring: Foundations for the Decline of Terrorism analyzes the role of social media in the Arab Spring within a specific philosophical framework. Kantian cosmopolitanism, enhanced by social media and Internet communications technologies, offers a solid explanation of the political evolution of the Arab Spring...read more

Product Description: The CRC Press Terrorism Reader assembles the insight of an unrivaled pool of author experts to provide the ultimate comprehensive resource on terrorism. With information drawn from premier titles in the CRC Press collection, the book begins by discussing the origins and definitions of terrorism as well as its motivations and psychology...read more