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41) Terrorism
Author
Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to explore the historical, political, and religious origins of political violence, its effects on individuals, and what governments can do to stop it.
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Force and Freedom, Kellie Carter Jackson provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Through rousing public speeches, the bourgeoning black press, and the formation of militia groups, black abolitionist leaders mobilized their communities, compelled national action, and drew international attention. Drawing on the precedent and pathos of the American and Haitian Revolutions,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
"A pathbreaking account of the continuing ethnic and state violence after the end of WWI-- conflicts that more than anything else set the stage for WWII"--
"An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I-- conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date-- the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ambitious debut novel by an original young writer, We Eat Our Own blurs the lines between life and art with the story of a film director's unthinkable experiment in the Amazon. When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film set in the Amazon, he doesn't hesitate: he flies to South America, no questions asked. He quickly realizes he's made a mistake. He's replacing another...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1973 Belfast, a British Army bomb-disposal expert agrees to go undercover to identify the source of bombs being used by the Provisional IRA only to confront events that shatter his beliefs.
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Young Manuel lives with his hard-working farmer parents in the remote, mountainous region of the Colombian countryside. While the adults in their lives try to avoid both the armed military and the guerrilla rebels fighting each other in the area, Manuel and his friend Julián are obsessed with playing soccer any chance they get. Shortly after his birthday, the new ball Manuel received as a gift gets kicked off to a minefield, and he and his friends...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Columbian museum sets of a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, xxii, 724 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Presents the full text of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol's report, which addresses the origins of the insurrection, how it was organized and funded and the role of Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"'The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a "liberation." In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.' So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong's ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party called New People. Following the defeat...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 246 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Karachi. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother's birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. Shackle paints a vivid portrait of one of the most complex and compelling cities in the world, a city where the borders blur between politicians and gangsters...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Sam Thomas has created one of the most unique sleuths in modern mystery fiction."--The Plain Dealer. In this thrilling new mystery from the critically acclaimed author of The Witch Hunter's Tale, midwife Bridget Hodgson travels to London where she's forced into a new profession-as a spy. It's 1649. Three years have passed since midwife Bridget Hodgson and her deputy Martha Hawkins fled York for the safety of the English countryside. But when a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This program is read by the author.
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings,...
58) They want to kill Americans: the militias, terrorists, and deranged ideology of the Trump insurgency
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author, Malcolm Nance, offers a chilling warning on a clear, present and existential threat to our democracy... our fellow Americans "Malcolm Nance is one of the great unsung national security geniuses of the modern era." -Rachel Maddow To varying degrees, as many as 74 million Americans have expressed hostility towards American democracy. Their radicalization is increasingly visible in our day to day life: in neighbor's...
59) Bloody Sunday
Series
Language
English
Description
Recreation of the events of "Bloody Sunday", Jan. 30, 1972, when British troops fired on unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the day, 13 civilians were dead and 14 more wounded in the tumult and tragedy of Norther Ireland's darkest day.
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