Prehistoric Peoples: Discover the Long-ago World of the First Humans (Exploring History)

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Prehistoric Peoples: Discover the Long-ago World of the First Humans (Exploring History)
Philip Brooks
Manufacturer: Lorenz Books Childrens
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Imagine life in a distant age, a time when the first people hunted with sticks and spears made from wood and stone. Discover the prehistoric world, find out what it was like to live through the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.

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Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis examines for the first time the role and performance of all three intelligence communities centrally involved in this seminal event: American, Soviet and Cuban. The ways in which organizational and personality variables affect the political exploitation of intelligence is assessed followed by an analysis of the psychology of intelligence assessment, showing how common cognitive and motivational pathologies can explain crucial errors of inference and attribution made by all three intelligence communities. In closing, the lessons of the volume as a whole are reflected upon for the theory and practice of intelligence assessment, and for our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Macmillan, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Political, Military and Intelligence Aspects (Contemporary History in Context)

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Fine account of the crisis

Macmillan, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Political, Military and Intelligence Aspects (Contemporary History in Context)
L. V. Scott
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 0312219156

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In October 1962, the world went to the brink of Armageddon. This study provides an archive-based account of the Cuban missile crisis from the British perspective. The diplomatic, military and intelligence dimensions of British policy are scrutinized. New material is presented and existing interpretations of UK-US relations at that crucial moment are reassessed. The book contributes a new aspect to the literature on the Cuban missile crisis by exploring where the views of Washington and its closest ally converged and diverged.

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Fine account of the crisis.......2001-05-17

This very useful book examines the details of British diplomacy during one of the most dangerous episodes of the last fifty years, the Cuban missile crisis. The record shows that the British Government, despite private reservations, supported and encouraged President Kennedy's appallingly reckless behaviour before and during the crisis.

From the start of the Cuban Revolution, the British Government backed the US Government's attempts to interfere in Cuba's internal affairs and to overthrow its Government. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote to President Eisenhower in July 1960, "I feel sure Castro has to be got rid of, but it is a tricky operation for you to contrive, and I only hope you will succeed." After the US Embassy left Cuba, the British Embassy provided the Pentagon and the CIA with most of their information about Cuban affairs. Throughout the crisis, Kennedy treated the British Government as a satellite, not an ally. At every turn, he at best informed Macmillan of what he had already decided. In return, Macmillan supported every US move, putting a misplaced, and unreciprocated, loyalty to the US Government above every other consideration.

When Krushchev rashly sent the nuclear missiles to Cuba, Kennedy unilaterally decided to impose a blockade on Cuba. This was an undeclared act of war. Britain's Lord Chancellor, Lord Dilhorne, said bluntly, "the United States' conduct is not in conformity with international law." Then Kennedy imposed a world-wide nuclear alert on US forces without consulting his NATO allies, in breach of Article 4 of the NATO Treaty. When Krushchev weakly withdrew the missiles, without consulting Castro, Macmillan servilely applauded Kennedy.

Scott concludes, "The central diplomatic lesson of the crisis for Britain was that the price of access in Washington was loss of political independence. Such access did not of itself guarantee influence." Access without influence or independence is what a footman has! So much for the `special relationship'. Loss of sovereignty is never a price worth paying.

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The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Documents

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here are the documents of The Missiles of October

The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Documents
Central Intelligence Agency
Manufacturer: Potomac Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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here are the documents of The Missiles of October.......2001-07-25

This book is an adjunct to other histories of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is fascinating to be able to read all - or most - of documents referred to or excerpted in other accounts.

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A new view of the Cuban missile crisis which argues that JFK's actions faithfully reflected a dominant cold war consensus. Incisive.... Redefines the problems confronting President Kennedy at this most dangerous moment. --Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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Another cogent analysis of the Kennedy/Cuba crisis.......2002-01-08

Robert Weisbrot's Maximum Danger provides another cogent analysis of the Kennedy/Cuba crisis: this from the viewpoint of Kennedy's overall attitude toward the Soviet Union's growing missile strength. Weisbrot argues that John Kennedy attempted to minimize confrontations with the Soviets, pursuing different options to avert the crisis. Maximum Danger provides an engaging, thoughtful series of different viewpoints about the missile crisis.

Maximum Danger.......2002-01-07

"A powerful and provocative look at what the publics view was on the Cuban missile crisis. Maximum Danger reveals startling information from both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. Robert Weisbort tells the real story of what Kennedy and his administration endured through almost near nuclear holocaust."

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wonderful content and excellently written

an anecdotal smorgasbord

Confirming everyone's idea of the crazy scientist

Not even an encyclopedia

Humor, spite, joy, jealousy and other human reactions

Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
Walter Gratzer
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The march of science has never proceeded smoothly. It has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. It has seen deep intellectual friendships, as well as ferocious animosities, and once in a while acts of theft and malice, deceit, and even a hoax or two. Scientists come in all shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of an irritated Roman soldier to the concoction of a superconducting witches' brew at the very close of the twentieth century, the stories in Eurekas and Euphorias pour out, told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer. Open this book at random and you may chance on the clumsy chemist who breaks a thermometer in a reaction vat and finds mercury to be the catalyst that starts the modern dyestuff industry; or a famous physicist dissolving his gold Nobel Prize medal in acid to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Nazis, recovering it when the war ends; mathematicians and physicists diverting themselves in prison cells, and even in a madhouse, by creating startling advances in their subject. We witness the careers, sometimes tragic, sometimes carefree, of the great women mathematicians, from Hypatia of Alexandria to Sophie Germain in France and Sonia Kovalevskaya in Russia and Sweden, and then Marie Curie's relentless battle with the French Academy. Here, then, a glorious parade unfolds to delight the reader, with stories to astonish, to instruct, and most especially, to entertain.

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wonderful content and excellently written.......2005-09-04

some anecdotes in this books, especially those deals with mathematicians, medicines and biologists, are very impressive.But to be honest,some are somewhat boring.
After all , it deserve to be recommendly highly for those who are interested for the history of science.

an anecdotal smorgasbord.......2005-09-02

This is the best and funniest collection of scientific anecdotes I've read and one of the best anecdotal collections generally. Many of the stories are hilarious, most are warm and intimate, and they revived my admiration for some of these great historical figures. It's a wonderful collection for just dipping in and out of over a week or so.

The funniest story? Maybe Niels Bohr's university exam. Or what the German mathematician David Hilbert said at a funeral.

Confirming everyone's idea of the crazy scientist.......2005-05-09

Walter Gratzer is one of the most brilliantly entertaining of writers in modern science, and every one of his book reviews is a pleasure to read. In Eurekas and Euphorias he collects anecdotes about scientists, mostly famous ones of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so most of the expected names are here: Crick, Darwin, Einstein, Feynman, Haldane, Kelvin, Pasteur, Pauling and many others, including, from earlier centuries, Aristotle, Newton and Pythagoras. Although many of the anecdotes are included for their entertainment value, one is conscious that behind it all there is the authoritative voice of a real scientist, not a journalist. In discussing the relative contributions of the different participants in the story that led to the discovery of the double helix, Gratzer writes very clearly as someone who has studied the evidence and knows what he is talking about.

Practising scientists will greatly enjoy this book, as they will know most of the names already because of their discoveries, but may know little of the real people behind the discoveries. Whether non-scientists should be allowed to read it, however, is another matter, because Eurekas and Euphorias will confirm all they thought they knew about crazy scientists with their heads in the clouds. The mathematician Norbert Wiener illustrates the idea. He "was noted for his coruscating intellect, his childlike vanity and legendary unworldliness, and absence of mind". Once he was lost after moving house, and, "accosting a small girl who was approaching in the opposite direction, he inquired whether she might not be able to direct towards Brattle Street. The child giggled: 'Yes daddy', she said, 'I'll take you home.'"

Not even an encyclopedia.......2004-12-01

I was going to call this book an encyclopedia of pedantic lectures, but it doesn't qualify: encyclopedias are organized.

For the 181 anecdotes in the book, there is no organization at all, that I can tell. If you prefer the stories about physicists, or from the 1900s, or about Newton, you're out of luck. The brief indexes are inadequate, and the shuffled nature of the stories makes searching for the type that you are looking for impossible.

Maybe I was under the wrong impression, but I thought that anecdotes were supposed to be funny and revealing stories. Tragically, Mr. Gratzer instead uses the Oxford English Dictionary definition as: "Secret, private, or hitherto unpublished narratives or details of history." His anecdotes, instead of being funny, well-timed, and enjoyable, end up as thorough, thick, and plodding details of scientific history.

Some sections of the book are actually funny, but they tend to be the blockquotes that the author has lifted from other sources. Mr. Gratzer even stoops so low as to include, verbatim, the common [...] Neils Bohr barometer spam that a brief trip to the urban legends site snopes.com can debunk. I was hoping for little-known, insightful and inside stories, and was disappointed to find things like this annoying forwarded spam included in the book.

Finally, the author's understanding of the underlying science that he is writing about is shoddy. The author tries to relate an understanding of some complex topics in physics, chemistry, and biology, but I don't trust any of it because he doesn't understand Archimedes' principle. From page 44: "Archimedes's Principle, as it is still called, states, of course, that the upthrust of an immersed object is equal to the weight of water displaced." Despite the use of the phrase 'of course', this definition is wrong. Gratzer digs his hole deeper: "So when the crown was lowered into a vessel full of water the amount of water displaced, or the apparent weight of the immersed crown, would give a measure of the volume of the metal; this, with the weight of the crown in air, would deliver the density of the metal and thus its composition." This is the most opaque, convoluted, and confusing wrong explanation I have ever heard. The whole point of Archimedes' Principle is that although measuring the weight of the crown is easy, directly measuring its volume is difficult. Since both are needed to determine the object's density, from which you can infer composition, the genius in Archimedes' idea is that you can *indirectly* measure the crown's precise volume by lowering it into water, and then measuring the volume of water that it displaces instead of trying to measure the dimensions of the crown itself. What this has to do with Gratzer's "amount of water displaced, or the apparent weight of the immersed crown" I have no idea.

Although the idea behind this book is great, I was greatly disappointed by its execution. Perhaps had the author tried to tell a few stories well, rather than every story he could find and in as concise a manner as possible, I would have been able to read past story #88 without growing so bored as to be unwilling to finish the rest.

Humor, spite, joy, jealousy and other human reactions.......2004-11-06

The popular perception of scientists is that they are different, with those differences ranging from mild eccentricities to being kooks. Yet, they really are human and it is those qualities that are emphasized in the anecdotes in this book. My favorites are about Albert Einstein. Forbidden by his doctor to buy tobacco, he would sneak into other people's offices and steal some. After all, the admonishment said nothing about stealing being disallowed. The best is a recollection by Otto Stern, that he and Einstein would "visit the local brothels together, for these were quiet, relaxing places in which to discuss physics." I roared with laughter at that one. The spectacle of Einstein discussing the most sophisticated of intellectual pursuits in a place devoted to satisfying one of the most animal of urges was something I found hysterical.
Many of these stories are existence proofs of the old adage that chance favors the prepared mind. While neither the German or Allied side used chemical weapons in World War II, they were often available for use in case the other side did. The U. S. Liberty was one of the ships transporting supplies in support of the Allied invasion of Italy. It carried 100 tons of deadly mustard gas, which was released when German planes bombed it. The gas caused many casualties, and Dr. Cornelius Rhoads noticed that the exposure led to a reduction in the production of white blood cells. After further research, nitrogen mustard was being used to treat diseases characterized by an overproduction of white blood cells. Therefore, it is accurate to state that this event was the beginning of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer.
The endings of some of the other stories are not so happy. All kinds of people are attracted to science, some of which are mean and vindictive. Furthermore, given the harsh political environments of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, there were many opportunities for them to exercise their baser natures. Nevertheless, it is appropriate for these stories to be included. Science is a self-correcting discipline, but in order for corrections to occur, the errors must be common knowledge.
I found this book to be a refreshing excursion into the minds and actions of some of the greatest people who lived in the last few centuries. They were responsible for most of our greatest discoveries, so they deserve to be remembered, even when those memories are not positive.

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The Book of Scientific Anecdotes

Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0879758066

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Harrap's Book of Scientific Anecdotes
Adrian Berry
Manufacturer: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd
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HARRAP'S BOOK OF SCIENTIFIC ANECDOTES
Adrian Berry
Manufacturer: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPXJLI

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Glen Heggstad is an adventure motorcyclist who seeks out and rides the most rugged places on the planet. He has been a Hell's Angel and a martial arts competitor, but no amount of training or experience was able to prepare him for what he became while riding to the southern tip of South America: a prisoner. This book is the shocking travelogue of Heggstad's journey through Central and South America, including his capture by Colombia's rebel ELN army, and the eventual realization of a dream. Follow along on his exciting, round-trip to the tip of the world, made all the more amazing by its intermission at the hands of terrorists. Heggstad was ripped from his motorcycle, robbed of everything, and forced to march through strange jungles with assault rifles in his back. He was fed only small amounts of rice and water and forced to carry heavy equipment, heavy packs, and heavy doubts about his future. Even with all the hand-to-hand and sophisticated combat training Heggstad possessed, it was his shrewd thinking, precise planning, and a "do-or-die" last act of desperation that eventually secured his freedom.

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A rider's book for riders.......2007-09-18

Glen captures a common feeling for riders - that life is good while you're moving on a motorcycle.

This urge pulls him to the road often, even when he would like to spend more time 'smelling the roses'. Many riders feel the same way. If you're one of those riders, this book will speak to you about pushing your limits and those of your motorcycle to reach adventure and feel experience the world through ones' senses.

While the capture is an important part of the book, border crossings, the observations of different cultures and how they relate to riding alone on a motorcycle are the most meaningful elements of Two Wheels Through Terror.

Okay, not Garcia-Marquez, but a fun book to read.......2007-07-13

I accidently logged onto the "STRIKINGVIKING" website one day and followed his ride. One day when he reached Colombia, it just stopped. Years later, I found the book and what happened to him. The book is rather simplistic but a real page turner, and I re-lived the times I have been in the same places he visited.

The chapter where he was kidnapped was riveting. I am not a judo expert; I can barely flip an egg, but have wondered how I would cope with a kidnapping down there.
He made me hate those SOB rebels even more.

I think he just finished a ride around Asia. Is there another book coming?

Good insights and interesting content.......2007-05-29

Enjoyed this book. Well organised, easily read and always interesting. Common sense commentaries from a balanced writer. Practical and honest with a good mix of riding, geography, personal thoughts and socio-political views. I finished it in 2 sessions. One of the better motorcycle touring books I've read. I recommend it.

Unexpected Twist.......2007-04-27

As you can imagine, things didn't exactly turn out as he'd expected. Heggstad's first day into Columbia, he's kidnapped by rebels and held captive for several weeks before being released. If that sounds like an interesting read, it really is!

The first part of the book appears to have been written from a collection of daily postings on his website and reveals nothing of what is to come. As a result, the writing through the first part of the book is rather clunky and a little hard to read with mixed tenses all over the place. By the time he gets kidnapped, the writing changes dramatically, as I assume he's retelling the events at a much later date. And as the book progresses the writing continues to get better and more eloquent.

Heggstad is brutally honest, even to the point where he opens himself up to criticism when telling of his trepidation and unease just before he gets captured. He also tends to be a bit of a hot head and reacts in ways that may have made his situation worse.

Overall, the book is worth every effort to read. I managed to read mine, cover to cover, in less than a week, but by the end I was as ready to be back home as I imagine the author was. Few motorcycle books exist, and even fewer of them are worth much attention.

good book.......2007-03-19

I liked it. Glen is a pretty good storyteller, and the dude is crazy. It's definitely about more than just him getting kidnapped by Colombians too. It made me want to go to South America...

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Every citizen of the United States and every Chinese-American, indeed everyone who is not familiar with the atomic bomb and the Pacific and Asian War must read this book about an extremely distorted and hidden history period, before and during WWII and the dropping of the Atomic Bombs.

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THE SUPER HOLOCAUST IN CHINA Remember: 9/18 and the Rape of Nanking.......2007-03-10

In reviewing the Davis and Winn account of the horrific violence committed by the Japanese military against mostly Chinese civilians, I am thoroughly appalled by the lack of proper documentation this book has to offer. No bibliography is given to triangulate facts. Quotations made throughout this book are without reference as to who said what and when it was said. All interviews should be properly documented.

The horrific pictures presented by the authors give inadequate indication of authenticity. Where did the authors get the pictures? The majority of the pictures offered can be located on the Internet; did the authors simply rely upon Internet photographs to justify the words in this book? How does the reader know the legitimacy of the description of each picture?

The grammatical and formatting errors in this book are outrageous. I do not understand how this book got through editing.

This book is not recomended as a legitimate historical reference because of the lack of proper documentation.

Clear Conscience: The Atom Bomb Vs. the Super Holocaust

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Wrong justification.
Clear Conscience: the atom bomb vs the super holocaust
Slanted viewpoint
absolute necessity for the bomb
A MUST READ for anyone concerned by use of The Bomb in WWII

Clear Conscience: The Atom Bomb Vs. the Super Holocaust
Raymond Davis , and Dan Winn
Manufacturer: Turner Publishing Company (KY)
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ASIN: 1563114453

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Wrong justification........2006-07-21

Book wrongly supports the idea of killing hundreds of thousands innocent people to save (supposedley) millions. If this be true then we should hang a killer in our social system to save other innocent citizen too. The book wrongly justifies killings because they were not-americans.

Clear Conscience: the atom bomb vs the super holocaust.......2006-07-05

Very disturbing when you get to read about the other side of the war. one word = barbarians. Good thing that we had the atom bomb. i cannot imagine this happening to us.

Slanted viewpoint.......2001-12-07

Should the bomb have been dropped? I think so. But this man is mad if he thinks America should have a clear conscience about it. For example if a man breaks into my house and is going to kill my son and I am forced to defend my son by pulling out a gun and shooting him to death I am not going to have a clear conscience about the ordeal. I did what I had to, but only a mad man is going to feel good about having to kill someone. And of course Japan is not going to write their own history regarding the events, the US is no different. Have Native Americans ever been given a fair assessment in US history books? Nope. Torture, rape and killing is still murder whether committed on a mass scale or smaller scale. And being a US Marine Corp does make him a biased party in regards to this issue. In fact it speaks volumes in his writing. And I think he is a hyprocrite when he says people that want to die for their country are mad, as I have heard the US toot their own horn in regards to that issue.

absolute necessity for the bomb.......2000-01-21

was the atom bomb really necessary to end world war II ? this book proves that the bomb was not only right,but mandated; as it saved millions of UNITED STATES lives,and saved many more millions 0f Japanese lives. Every veteran [army,navy, air force or marine]and every Americanwho has ever questioned or felt guilty about the Bomb, must read this book. Read this book and forever have a CLEAR CONSCIENCE about America and President Truman using the Bomb.

A MUST READ for anyone concerned by use of The Bomb in WWII.......2000-01-19

This is a great book for anyone who has ever questioned America's use of the atomic bomb to end World War II. It not only includes an introduction from Paul Tibbets, Pilot of the Enola Gay, but material from one of this country's surviving recipients of the Medal of Honor. The coverage on Japanese attrocities in Nan King was horrifying...the death stats from battles in the Pacific were also startling...this book proves that the Atomic bomb saved more lives than it took.

The game of brinkmanship : holocaust or compromise ;: A simulation of the struggle bedtween two super powers over several Cold War crises

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The game of brinkmanship : holocaust or compromise ;: A simulation of the struggle bedtween two super powers over several Cold War crises
David N Dal Porto
Manufacturer: History Simulations
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The game of brinkmanship, holocaust or compromise: A simulation of the struggle between two super powers over several Cold War crises

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The game of brinkmanship, holocaust or compromise: A simulation of the struggle between two super powers over several Cold War crises
David N DalPorto
Manufacturer: History Simulations
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What are the main factors and circumstances that give rise to terrorism? This is a question commonly addressed in political discourse on terrorism and is considered an alternative to dealing with terrorism through military force. However, there have been surprisingly few attempts to analyze the causes of terrorism in a book format.

Root Causes of Terrorism is one of the first to provide a detailed account of the motivations behind terrorism. The questions raised include:

· What are the main factors and circumstances that give rise to various forms of terrorism?
· What factors provide the preconditions for the emergence of various types of terrorism?
· What are the typical precipitants for terrorist acts?
· To what extent is it possible to reduce the problem of terrorism by influencing these root causes?
· Is it possible to identify root causes in advance of an attack?
· Should we address those factors that sustain terrorist campaigns rather than root causes?

Written by a team of leading international experts, this book provides a sophisticated analysis of one of the most pressing issues facing the world today and is essential reading for those with a research and professional interest in Terrorism and Security Studies.

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Very good collection.......2007-10-17

Bjorgo's collection is an excellent one. It covers most of the major topics that are important for terrorism today. The contributors to the volume are generally experts in the field. To its credit the book does not focus overly much on either the Middle East or Islam; it considers other types of terrorism in other geographical regions. The book is nicely balanced in this regard.

General Review of Root Causes of Terrorism: Myths, reality and ways forward.......2007-01-09

What this well written academic book does, is that it gives the reader insight into the broad spectrum of the phenomena of terrorism and the theories behind its roots causes--utilizing several international academics whom incorporate, overall, sound methodologies that support and challenge various terrorism theories that have emerged over the last several decades. The only negative critique I propose is that its contributing scholars are predominantly liberal in orientation (which is not necessarily inaccurate in and of itself)--but the contributions of such leading American experts, the likes of Brian Jenkins and Bruce Hoffman, are missing.

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Enjoying Indiana birds
Alfred Starling
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Enjoying Indiana Birds
Alfred Starling
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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ASIN: B000OQGGW6

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Enjoying Indiana Birds

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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