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Combating Terrorism by Rohan Gunaratna (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Combating Terrorism brings together leading international experts from across the globe to assess the successes and failures of managing the terrorist threat. The post 9/11 trajectory of Al Qaeda has demonstrated that contemporary terrorist groups can only be defeated by adopting both military and non-m ...Show more
The Ultimate Terrorists by Jessica Stern
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Fighting Terrorism["How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists"] by Benjamin Netanyahu
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
In this book, the author offers an approach to understanding and fighting the increase in domestic and international terrorism throughout the world. Citing diverse examples from around the globe, he demonstrates that domestic terrorist groups are usually no match for an advanced technological society wh ...Show more
Bin Laden, Islam, and America's New "War on Terrorism" by As'ad Abukhalil
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$10.00 (50% off)
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror | Series: An\Open Media Book Ser.
Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed mi ...Show more
The Far Enemy["Why Jihad Went Global"] by Fawaz A. Gerges
$20.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Fawaz Gerges' book on al Qaeda and the jihadist movement has become a classic in the field since it was published in 2005. Here he argued that far from being an Islamist front united in armed struggle, or jihad against the Christian West, as many misguided political commentators and politicians opined, ...Show more
The Tribes Triumphant: Return Journey to the Middle East by Charles Glass
$29.99 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
A powerful and insightful narrative of a journey -- once violently interrupted and here resumed -- through one of the most compelling regions on earth. From Aqaba to Jerusalem and on into Palestine, veteran commentator on the Middle East, Charles Glass writes a thoughtful, inquisitive and dispassionate ...Show more
Dying to Win["The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism"] by Robert A. Pape
$20.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Suicide terrorism is rising around the world, but there is great confusion as to why. In this paradigm-shifting analysis, University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected groundbreaking evidence to explain the strategic, social, and individual factors responsible for this growing thre ...Show more
Masterminds of Terror["The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Terrorist Attack the World Has Ever Seen"] by Yosri Fouda; Nick Fielding
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
A One-of-a-Kind Expose of the September 11 Terrorist Plot That Changed Our Lives and Our World Irrevocably. When star Al-Jazeera TV reporter Yosri Fouda received an anonymous call summoning him to a secret interview in Pakistan with al-Qaeda, he knew he could be walking into a deadly trap, as Wall Stree ...Show more
The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis
$39.99 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
President Bush calls it war against terror. But for Usama bin Laden and his followers this is religious war, a war for Islam against infidels. This work shows us where the anger and frustration have come from, and the extent to which most of the Muslim world is affected by poverty and tyranny.
Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour by Nicky Hager; Jon Stephenson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
In August 2010, a New Zealand soldier died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan. In retaliation, the New Zealand SAS led a raid on two isolated villages in search of the fighters they suspected were responsible. They all knew the rules. Prior to firing weapons, their freshly issued orders said, `the ...Show more
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candour of key participants. The American military is a ...Show more
Terrorism in the Asia-Pacific["Threat and Response"] by Rohan Gunaratna (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror | Series: Regionalism and Regional Security Ser.
"This collection of essays provides readers with specialist knowledge of terrorist organizations, their modus operandi and the threat they pose." "It helps the reader to look at the multidimensional character of terrorism as well as the general and specific responses of regional states."--BOOK JACKET.Ti ...Show more