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  • Debating Immigration in the Age of Terrorism, Polarization, and Trump
    C. Damien Arthur / CDamien Arthur / Joshua Woods
    This book offers a broad interdisciplinary approach to the changes in the U.S. immigration debate before and after 9/11. A nation’s reaction to foreigners has as much to do with sociology as it does with political science, economics and psychology. Without drawing on this knowledge, our understanding of the immigration debate remains mundane, partial, and imperfect. Therefore, ...
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    54,49 €

  • Fatal Flaws
    Richard Meo
    This book and the others in this series are a compilation of hundreds of sources over the past 15 years. In these pages are stories of battles and wars and of hundreds of political decisions made and unmade that form the tangled web of history, most of which few have ever heard. The topic of all this research is the long trail of events which culminated in the terror attacks of...
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    27,04 €

  • Muslim Identity Politics
    Khadijah Elshayyal
    The surge in divisive and far-right politics and growing Islamophobia in Britain pose new challenges for Muslim advocacy organisations. British Muslim activism has taken centre stage in the public sphere as a result. Yet for over fifty years Muslim advocacy groups have worked to preserve religious identity, lobby the state and provide concerted responses to the political establ...
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    57,14 €

  • My Turn - South Africa
    Alice VL
    On February 12th, I received an email from the Author Academy Awards, signed by 'The Author Academy Awards Committee' saying that submissions for my books were received and that they were being reviewed.Later that day, I received another email stating, 'Hello Alice. First the best news. You’re IN! The Author Academy Awards selection committee has approved your submission. Your ...
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    18,18 €

  • Political Decision-Making and Security Intelligence
    Irene M. Gironacci / Irene MGironacci / Luisa dall'Acqua / Luisa dall’Acqua
    The enormous spread of devices gives access to virtual networks and to cyberspace areas where continuous flows of data and information are exchanged, increasing the risk of information warfare, cyber-espionage, cybercrime, and identity hacking. The number of individuals and companies that suffer data breaches has increased vertically with serious reputational and economic damag...
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    281,51 €

  • The Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics
    Larry J. Schweiger / Larry JSchweiger
    There is only one earth and our world is undergoing dramatic changes brought on by the climate crisis and other human-induced ecological disruptions. The world's top scientists studying these threats and the forces behind them have been warning us for decades to end the use of fossil fuels or face catastrophic consequences. Countering the still small voices of science, our ...
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    37,47 €

  • Kakuma Refugee Camp
    Bram J Jansen
    Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world’s largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally still a ‘temporary’ camp, it has become a permanent urban space in all but name with businesses, schools, a hospital and its own court system. Such places, Bram J. Jansen argues, should be recognised as ‘accidental cities’, a unique...
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    39,49 €

  • Food Aid in Sudan
    Susanne Jaspars
    In 2004, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon followed, at the time the largest in the world. Yet by 2014, while the crisis continued, international agencies found they had limited access to much of the population, with the Sudanese regime effectively controlling who received aid...
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    39,41 €

  • Terrorist Recruitment of U.S. Gangs
    D. Darell Dones / DDarell Dones
    Since the September 11, 2001 US-Terrorist Attacks there has been an overwhelming increase in documented cases of violent acts of extremism made possible by radical terrorist recruitment of domestic gangs. These new, global criminal alliances combine tech-savvy radical extremists and the local knowledge and manpower of U.S.-based gangs creating a greater potential for biological...
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    122,51 €

  • ISIS
    Brian Steed
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    140,99 €

  • The Ultimate Guide to the 2020 Election
    Margaret White / No Labels / Ryan Clancy
    From the NO LABELS political organization, this book presents an unbiased education for voters on all the key issues America faces and how we can overcome them. ...
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    16,45 €

  • Social Justice Advocacy 101
    HowExpert / Selys Rivera
    People have been advocating and standing up for social justice issues throughout history. From one social movement to the next, from one influential person to another, we as an American society are constantly attempting to progress towards a better tomorrow.If you’ve ever found yourself passionate or upset about any or all of the issues and causes going on in the United States,...
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    36,89 €

  • National Security Mom
    Gina M. Bennett / Gina MBennett
    Bennett has been featured in PBS' MAKERS, in Showtime's "Spymasters," in HBO's "Manhunt" as well as The New York Times "A Sisterhood Against Terror," Maureen Dowd's OpEd "Good Riddance, Carrie Mathison," Washington Post "In Zero Dark Thirty She's The Hero; in Real Life CIA Agent's Career is More Complicated," Newsweek "The CIA's Secret Weapon," Salon...
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    22,25 €

  • Triple Cross
    Peter Lance
    'A chilling account of a killer who slipped through the hands of a daft justice system....Triple Cross chronicles one of the most vicious spies of our time.'--Toronto SunIn the years prior to 2001, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. For almost two decades the former Egyptian army commando succeeded i...
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    21,22 €

  • The impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland, 1968-79
    Brian Hanley
    This book tells the story of how the war in Northern Ireland threatened to engulf the Republic. It explains how popular opinion responded to the crisis from marching in solidarity with nationalists to increasing disengagement and fear. ...
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    36,82 €

  • Love Anyway
    Jeremy Courtney
    With wars, injustice, and tragedy, this world can be scary as hell. Founder of Preemptive Love Coalition Jeremy Courtney shares his story of moving his young family across the globe to serve those in war-torn Iraq, looking fear and heartbreak in the face and discovering what it means to love anyway. ...
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    20,99 €

  • 9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness
    Paul Cantz / Tim Gauthier
    9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness analyzes recent works of fiction whose principal subject is the attacks of September 11, 2001. The readings of the novels question and assess the validity and potential effectiveness of both the subsequent calls for a cosmopolitan outlook and the related, but no less significant, emphasis placed on empathy, and exhibited in such recent studi...
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    52,84 €

  • Solving 9-11
    Christopher Lee Bollyn
    This second volume of Solving 9-11:  The Original Articles contains Christopher Bollyn's research articles about 9-11 and the cover-up written after the publication of the first volume of articles in 2012.  These articles focus on various aspects of the crime, including the foreign origin of the 9-11 and War on Terror plots, what explosive super-thermite is and how it works...
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    29,26 €

  • Autocracias del siglo XXI
    Paola Bautista De Alemán
    Autocracias del siglo XXI, plantea el peligro que se cierne sobre asuntos trascendentales: el alma, la psique, los valores, la cultura de los  hombres y mujeres de Venezuela después de veinte años de revolución bolivariana.Es un libro necesario. Parte de un diagnóstico devastador, pero también dibuja señas y caminos para salir del laberinto. Hay una idea de Samuel Huntington qu...
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    26,00 €

  • Impact of Risk Perception Theory and Terrorism on Tourism Security
    Maximiliano E. Korstanje / Maximiliano EKorstanje
    Over recent years, unforeseen global risks have placed the future of a growing tourism industry in jeopardy. From lethal virus outbreaks to multiple accounts of international violence, policymakers and specialists have acknowledged the importance of working on an agenda that balances the stability of international tourist destinations. Impact of Risk Perception Theory and Terro...
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    255,31 €

  • Life Chances, Education and Social Movements
    Lyle Munro
    ’Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in the book. ...
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    180,15 €

  • Evidence-Based Work with Violent Extremists
    Using France as a case study, contributors from around the world explore the factors that create violent extremists, including criminogenic needs, violence-supportive cognition, religious beliefs, identity uncertainty or fusion, the quest for significance, and social and political influences. They present a multidisciplinary and evidenced-based analysis of how and why violent e...
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    176,49 €

  • The Ayatollahs and the MEK
    Lincoln P. Bloomfield
    In the 1960s, a group of student intellectuals formed to oppose the Shah of Iran and became an enemy of the clerical regime of Ayatollah Khomeini following the 1979 Revolution. U.S. officials twisted the students' story in a misguided attempt to appease the Iranian government. In 'The Ayatollahs and the MEK: Iran’s Crumbling Influence Operation,' Ambassador, Lincoln P. Bloo...
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    7,73 €

  • Crime and Behaviour
    Majeed Khader
    Crime and Behaviour: An Introduction to Criminal and Forensic Psychology is the first textbook to provide a detailed overview of criminal psychology in Singapore. The textbook puts together ideas relating to crime, crime prevention, and criminal psychology, as it occurs in the Singaporean context. While leveraging on psychology as an anchor, the book adopts a multidisciplinary ...
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    138,13 €

  • Impact of Risk Perception Theory and Terrorism on Tourism Security
    Maximiliano E. Korstanje / Maximiliano EKorstanje
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    195,99 €

  • Utilization of New Technologies in Global Terror
    Emily B. Stacey / Emily BStacey
    As the internet and its applications grow more sophisticated and widespread, so too do the strategies of modern terrorist groups. The existence of the dark web adds to the online arsenal of groups using digital networks and sites to promulgate ideology or recruit supporters. It is necessary to understand how terrorist cells are using and adapting online tools in order to counte...
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    176,88 €

  • Avoiding the Terrorist Trap
    Tom Parker
     For more than 150 years, Nationalist, Populist, Marxist and Islamist terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims: Provoke the State into over-reacting to the threat they pose, then take advantage of the divisions in society that result.Faced with a major terrorist threat, States seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools in their a...
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    403,79 €

  • Violent Extremists
    Thomas Mockaitis
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    108,85 €

  • Applying Methods of Scientific Inquiry Into Intelligence, Security, and Counterterrorism
    Arif Sari
    Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research is slowly yet steadily revolutionizing traditional education. However, multidisciplinary research can and will also improve the extent to which a country can protect its critical and vital assets. Applying Methods of Scientific Inquiry Into Intelligence, Security, and Counterterrorism is an essential scholarly publication that pr...
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    256,15 €

  • ISIS and the Pornography of Violence
    Simon Cottee
    ’ISIS and the Pornography of Violence’ is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 2014 to its demise in early 2018. ...
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    180,46 €


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