Search results for “[Subject: terrorism]”

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Solomon Hughes • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Conspiracy TheoriesWar has always made people rich: from high-tech weaponry to construction and catering, war is a commercial bonanza. But as Solomon Hughes shows ...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Claudia Verhoeven • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Murder - Serial KillersA MAJOR NEW STUDY OF THE MANSON MURDERS, SITUATING THE INFAMOUS CRIMINAL CASE AT A FULCRUM MOMENT IN HISTORY In August 1969, members of c...

• Author(s): Matt Kennard • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicySince the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars--now the longest wars in American history--the US military has struggled to recruit tr...

• Author(s): New Left Review • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: EssaysSince the turn of the century, New Left Review has published a score of editorials on contemporary world politics, each departing from conventional position...