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This collection of essays explores the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism.
Freedom from fear is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being. People often look to governments, humanitarian agencies, and other institutions to further this aim. However, this book shows that these organisations often use the same logic of fear to monitor, control, and contain human beings in zones of violence.
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This book controversially argues that Al Qaeda has clear aims, and that the only way to defeat it is to engage with its arguments in a serious way.
Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, Mohamedou has brought the text right up-to-date. Starting with Al Qaeda's creation almost twenty years ago, and sketching its global mutation, Mohamedou explains that there is a cogent strategy to Al Qaeda's actions. He shows that the 'war on terror'...
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This is a pioneering critical intervention into the study of terrorism, language and political thought. Challenging the commonly held idea that 'suicide-bombings' are motivated by a nihilistic hatred of life, this book argues that it is more helpful to examine such violent agency through the concept of 'sacrifice'.
Through a unique look at the way 'sacrifice' is used in the Arabic language, this book offers penetrating insights into jihadi thought....
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WAR. It will happen again. We must be ready.
Sober words from Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a man who has made the unvarnished truth his specialty. And there's one eternal truth that Americans are in danger of forgetting: the most important weapon in any geopolitical conflict is the will to win.
And we must win.
In this powerful manifesto, Dr. Gorka explains the basic principles that have guided strategists since Sun Tzu penned The Art of War in the sixth...
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Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's journalists were on the front lines of the earliest investigation into the identities of those who brought holy war to America.
The award-winning team from Spiegel was also at Ground Zero, talking...
7) Slater
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The son of the Governor becomes a hero when terrorists take over his college campus and he sets out to stop them.
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No Go Zones. That's what they're called. And while the politically correct try to deny their existence, the shocking reality of these "No Go Zones"-where Sharia law can prevail and local police stay away-can be attested to by its many victims.
Now Raheem Kassam, a courageous reporter and editor at Breitbart, takes us where few journalists have dared to tread-inside the No Go Zones, revealing areas that Western governments, including the United States,...
9) Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, And Other Foreign Menaces To Our Shores
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Malkin exposes how America continues to welcome terrorists, criminal aliens, foreign murderers, torturers, and the rest of the world's undesirables.
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"A Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, Kane journeys to the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, where violence is the only way to survive, to exfiltrate a man with vital information, but instead meets an adversary who will take the world to the brink of extinction"--
11) Flashbyte
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As if a terrifying nightmare wasn't bad enough, being woken from it with the news that she'd been strangled in a parking lot didn't make for a great start to the day for FBI Agent Ellie Conway. Extraordinary and bizarre packages delivered to her home, a sniper aiming for her – twice in one day – and a vehicle that looks like Swiss cheese, tends to make a girl lose her sense of humour. More mistaken-identity deaths, bank robberies, a hospital murderer,...
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Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today's Middle East
A thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch's life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing on the minibus he rides to work. When he lives through a second attack, and then a third, he becomes, reluctantly, a national media celebrity. Naturally, the Palestinian...
13) Maze of Traitors
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When a deadly virus threatens the world, only CIA Agent Brianna Dagger and her unmatched parkour skills can prevent the impending disaster-even as betrayal lurks around every corner.
MAZE OF TRAITORS (A Brianna Dagger CIA Thriller-Book 2) is the second novel in a new series by spy thriller author Vin Strong. The series begins with MAZE OF SPIES (book #1).
A captivating espionage thriller that will grip you from beginning to end, the Brianna...
14) Target Eight
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"Thriller writing at its best... A gripping story that's hard to put down."
--Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (re Any Means Necessary)
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From #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author Jack Mars, author of the critically acclaimed Luke Stone and Agent Zero series (with over 5,000 five-star reviews), comes an explosive new action-packed espionage series that takes readers on a wild ride across Europe, America, and the world-perfect...
15) Her Solemn Oath
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Allison Quinn has one mission-to find the person who killed her father.Her job as a senior agent for Homeland Security just might help her do that. A cyber terrorist named Worm has threatened to release an EMP over the Seattle area, collapsing the northwestern communication and transportation sector.Allison has a vendetta to keep and a job to do. She vows to stop the terror attack and, in the process, interrogate Worm about her father's murder. Allison...
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Agent Luke Barron is out-of-step with his bosses. The deputy director of the country's State Threats Division fears infiltration by Islamic jihadists. Luke says the real danger is from within – the dispossessed, the malcontents, desperate politicians. With those words he knows that his career is over. He's in a bad way – his wife has recently died, caught out in the last days of Covid lockdowns. Now it's just him and Jack, his pre-school son....
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Allison Quinn is willing to risk everything to prevent the nation's worst terrorist attack.Working undercover at Grand Canyon National Park, Allison Quinn is in position when the cyber terrorist Blitz makes his move. Apprehending him isn't enough though. She has to intercept the kill codes he has sold to a third party. If she can't stop that handoff, the devastating attack will collapse the power grid and throw the nation into a state of anarchy.Hiking...
18) Elephant Safari
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A documentary team hiking through East Africa collides with a gang of deadly poachers, in this gripping adventure by the author of Kidnapped on Safari.
Years of filming, extreme dangers, and daring rescues have taken their toll on documentary producer Pero Baltazar and his team. To relax and reconnect with the East African wildlife they love, Pero organizes a walking safari for him, his camerawoman Nancy Breiton, and their elite guide Mbuno Waliangulu....
19) Gadget
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From an Edgar award winner, this thriller about a physicist forced to make an A-bomb is "a splendid account of the excesses of science and bureaucracy" (The New York Times).
An American physicist working in Hamburg, Jim Hawkins is on his way home from his job at a German nuclear institute when he is rammed off the road and abducted by terrorists. Drugged and taken to a secret location, he wakes to find himself being held hostage alongside his...
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Michael Scott is not your average American teen trying to find his way through the school years. When a bomb explodes in Bogota, Colombia, the missionary kid unknowingly becomes a world player as his life becomes mysteriously interlaced with Hector Chavez, the bomber, and one who becomes the most feared terrorist of the 20th and 21st Century. Neither of them realizes the deadly conflict threatening to envelop global events of 9/11 when a demonic plot...
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