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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of...
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Series
Marcus Ryker novel volume 5
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Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"The world's most wanted terrorist is dead. Marcus Ryker recommended the strike himself. The intelligence was rock-solid. But what if it was wrong? Abu Nakba -- the man responsible for lethal attacks in Washington, D.C., London, and Jerusalem -- is finally dead. Marcus Ryker has been tasked with hunting down and destroying what's left of the terror group Kairos. But before Ryker can mobilize his team of CIA operatives with their new assignment, a...
6) American girls: one woman's journey into the Islamic state and her sister's fight to bring her home
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Sally sisters, raised in a rural Jehovah's Witness community in Arkansas, spent their teens and twenties moving between cities and towns in the South and Midwest, working difficult and poorly-paid jobs and falling in and out of relationships. Caught in an eternal sibling rivalry -- where Lori, younger by a year, protected bold, outgoing, reckless Sam -- the two women eventually married a pair of brothers and settled down in Elkhart, Indiana,...
Publisher
FX
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
When a terrorist cabal looked to fund its heinous activities by plundering priceless artifacts the world over, ex-FBI agent/antiquities expert Danny McNamara (Matt Barr) had to ally with old flame/art thief Lexi Vaziri (Sofia Pernas) as they crisscrossed the globe looking to foil the thefts--and unmask the scheme's mastermind. Old-school adventure opus from CBS also stars James Callis, Katia Winter, Michael James Shaw, Oded Fehr, Alicia Coppola, and...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband -- these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren't too far out of reach. But the girl's dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she...