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Al Qaeda in Its Own Words: Edited by Gilles Kepel; Edited by Jean-Pierre Milelli; Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh; Introduction and notes by Thomas Hegghammer; Introduction and notes by Stephane Lacroix; Introduction and notes by Jean-Pierre Milelli; Introduction and notes by Omar Saghi; 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.; Hardcover 2008

The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: Irene Quenzler Brown; Richard D. Brown; In 1806 an anxious crowd of thousands descended upon Lenox, Massachusetts, for the public hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Betsy. Using the trial report to reconstruct the tragic crime and drawing on Wheeler's jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

In a Dark Time: Robert Jay Lifton, Editor; Nicholas Humphrey, Editor; This is an anthology for the nuclear age, created by two psychologists who have ordered their material so that the successive selections reflect and comment on one another, compelling the reader to think about the insanity of war. This book draws on thoughts and writings from more than two millennia: poets from Sappho to Robert Lowell, dreamers from Saint John the Divine to Martin Luther King, Jr., statesmen from Seneca to Winston Churchill, soldiers, churchmen, writers, leaders.; Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

Political Murder: Franklin L. Ford; Ford's exploration of calculated, personalized assassination draws on history, literature, law, philosophy, sociology, and religion. Addressing the vast array of cases and combing thousands of years of history, he asks most of all whether assassination works. Does it, in even a minority of cases, produce results consistent with the aims of those who attempt it? Can it forestall evil acts or prevent irreparable damage inflicted by misguided leaders? Or is it "bad politics" in every sense of the term? The questions are large ones, and this book offers a sophisticated basis for seeking answers.; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution: Hue-Tam Ho Tai; Hue-Tam Ho Tai does justice to the influence of radicalism on a crucial point in Vietnamese history. She reveals a vibrant and explosive era of student strikes, debates on women's emancipation, revolt against the patriarchal family, and intellectual explorations of French and Chinese politics and thought.; Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1996

Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: Edited by David Little; Edited by Donald K. Swearer; Susan Lloyd McGarry, Editorial Assistance from; Because the situation in Iraq exhibits standard symptoms of religious nationalism, it seems appropriate to relate it to other cases where the impulses of religion and nationalism have collided in a lethal way. This volume provides a comparative consideration of attempts to manage and resolve nationalist conflicts in Bosnia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan--with two prominent thinkers examining each case--and examines how lessons from those situations might inform similar efforts in Iraq.; Paperback 2007

The Village of Cannibals: Alain Corbin; Arthur Goldhammer, Translator; In August 1870 in the French village of Hautefaye, a young nobleman, falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was savagely tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who later burned him alive. The Village of Cannibals is a fascinating inquiry into the social and political ingredients of an alchemy that transformed ordinary people into brutal executioners in nineteenth-century France.; Hardcover 1992 / Paperback