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Inside Al Qaeda by Rohan Gunaratna
$39.95 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
The definitive work on Al Qaeda, Inside Al Qaeda examines the ideology, structure, strategies, and tactics of the politico-religious organisation that has changed history. The book is based on extensive interviews with Al Qaeda members; field research in Al Qaeda-supported conflict zones in Central, ...Show more
Countering the New Terrorism by Ian O. Lesser; John Arquilla; Bruce Hoffman; David Ronfeldt; Michele Zanini; Brian Michael Jenkins
$5.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
RAND's research on terrorism formally began in 1972. Two bloody terrorist incidents that year-the Japanese Red Army attack on passengers at the Lod Airport in Israel and the seizure of Israeli athletes by Black September terrorists at the Olympics in Munich-signaled dramatically to the world that a new ...Show more
Taliban["Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia"] by Ahmed Rashid
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban—the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization—into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. Rashid offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to English-language readers, explaining the Taliban's ri ...Show more
Al-Shabaab in Somalia["The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012"] by Stig Jarle Hansen
$80.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ centre' in Afghanistan. Itself an offshoot of the Isl ...Show more
No End to War["Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century"] by Walter Laqueur (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
While the destruction of the World Trade Center and the strike against the Pentagon shocked the world at large, experts on terrorism like Walter Laqueur couldn't feign complete surprise. In No End to War, Laqueur, who has devoted three decades to the study of political violence, answers the most-often r ...Show more
WAR WITHOUT END ISLAMIST TERRORISM by HIRO DILIP
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
This book provides the historical and political context to explain acts of terror, including the September 11th, and the bombing of American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar as Salaam and the West's responses. Providing a brief history of Islam as a religion and as socio-political ideology, Dilip Hiro goes ...Show more
The New Terrorism["Anatomy, Trends and Counter-Strategies"] by Andrew Tan (Editor); Kumar Ramakrishna (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror | Series: Regional Security Studies
The Long War for Freedom : The Arab struggle for democracy in the Middle east by B. Rubin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Presents to the Western world an in-depth portrait of those 'small voices' in the Arab world waging the most critical battle of the twenty-first century - the battle for the soul of the Middle East. This book lays bare both the importance and the great difficulty of helping the Arab world to transform i ...Show more
Unholy War - Terror in the Name of Islam by John L. Esposito
$49.95 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
A scholar of political Islam offers an explanation of the teachings of the Quran, discussing the rise of Muslim extremist groups, the reasons for Muslim anti-Americanism, and the outlook for peace.
Ahmadinejad["The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader"] by Kasra Naji
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Taliban["Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia"] by Ahmed Rashid
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
The American bombing of terrorist bases in Afghanistan under the protection of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement has brought the Taliban into focus as the most radical and extreme Islamic movement in the world. The movement, its leaders and its aims are surrounded by secrecy.