Search results for “[Subject: terrorism]”

• Author(s): Carola Dietze • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: TerrorismTerrorism's roots in Western Europe and the USA This book examines key cases of terrorist violence to show that the invention of terrorism was linked to th...

• Author(s): Jean Baudrillard • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: PoliticalBaudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter--not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges...

• Author(s): Arun Kundnani • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Civil RightsPowerful critique of UK and US surveillance and repression of Muslims and prosecution of homegrown terrorism The new front in the War on Terror is the ...

• Author(s): Susan Buck-Morss • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralRenowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of ter...

• Author(s): Phyllis Bennis • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: TerrorismOn October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair's "War on Terror." Six years on, where have the po...

• Author(s): Leon Trotsky • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralTrotsky and Slavoj Žižek defend revolutionary violenceWritten in the white heat of revolutionary Russia's Civil War, Trotsky's Terroris...

• Author(s): Sophie Wahnich • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Europe - FranceFor two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terro...

• Author(s): Mike Davis • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: TerrorismThe brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs--the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September day in 1920, ...

• Author(s): Tariq Ali • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismThe aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous vo...

• Author(s): Maximilien Robespierre • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismRobespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political...

• Author(s): Tariq Ali • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsThe secret life of the man who reshaped Russia Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most mis...

• Author(s): Patrick Cockburn • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: TerrorismAn essential chronicle of the major conflict of our age from the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, charting the fault lines of the Midd...

• Author(s): Simon Critchley • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionIn Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethi...