War on Terror

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks - Gibbins David

From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration of the Arctic, the tragic story of HMS Terror and tales of brave...

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

From the Sunday Time s top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test , a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.§§'It's about the terror, isn't it?'§'The terror of what?' I said.§'The terror of being found out.'§§For the past three years, ...

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason ParginOutside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to ...

A Young Peoples History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror (Zinn Howard)

A Young Peoples History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young Peoples History of the United States is also a companion volume...

Trauma and Fictions of the War on Terror: Disrupting Memory (OBrien Sarah)

This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the war on terror to advocate for marginalised perspectives. Trauma and Fictions of the War on Terror conceptualises global political discourse about the war on terror as incongruou...

The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims (Beydoun Khaled A.)

The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe.--Kimberl Crenshaw, from the foreword The first book to examine global Islamophobia from a legal and ground-u...

War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror (Al-Bulushi Samar)

War and Peace: Tie-In Edition to Major New BBC Dramatisation (Tolstoy Leo)

Tolstoys beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russias war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. Following the rise and fall of some of societys most influential families, this truthful and poignant epic is as relevant today as

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism (Horton Scott)

If you only read one book this year on Americas unending War on Terror, it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United States created the original al Qaeda terrorism threat by its own actions and then increased that threat by orders of magnitude by its wanton killin...

Entangled in Fear: Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944-1947 (Zaremba Marcin)

Fear is always experienced individually, and few experiences are as personal. There can be no collective fear without individual fear preceding it. A societys fear is born out of the convergence of individual experiences, when dozens, hundreds, thousands, and millions of people are afraid of the sam...