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SOCIAL SCIENCE:

Violence in Society

Al Qaeda in Its Own Words
Edited by Gilles Kepel
Edited by Jean-Pierre Milelli
Introduction and notes by Omar Saghi
Introduction and notes by Thomas Hegghammer
Introduction and notes by Stephane Lacroix
Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh
To reveal Al Qaeda’s inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assumptions of the salafist jihadists who have reshaped political life at the beginning of the third millennium.
Paperback October 2009
No Place to Hide
Spring Miller
James L. Cavallaro

Seventeen years after the civil war in El Salvador came to an end, violence and insecurity continue to shape the daily lives of many Salvadorans. This book examines the phenomenon of youth gangs, as well as related police abuse, clandestine violence, and their collective impact on the rule of law. The book’s findings are based on primary research conducted in El Salvador between 2006 and 2008.

Paperback July 2009
Democracy Denied, 1905-1915
Charles Kurzman
Kurzman proposes that the collective agent most directly responsible for democratization was the emerging class of modern intellectuals, a group that had gained a global identity and a near-messianic sense of mission following the Dreyfus Affair of 1898. Each chapter of this book focuses on a single angle of this story, covering all six cases by examining newspaper accounts, memoirs, and government reports.
Hardcover December 2008