Terrorism, väpnad kamp

NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDouglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the Palestinian cause is ultimately playing into ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR. An intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision: to leave their ordinary lives behind...

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'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short tim...

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Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense: Practical Considerations, Neuroethical Concerns is the second volume in the Advances in Neurotechnology series. It specifically addresses the neuroethical, legal, and social issues arising from the...

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"Lars Vilks bor på hemlig ort med livvakter dygnet runt. 2015 överlevde han den terrorattack i Köpenhamn som krävde två liv. Han drömmer om att ställa ut sina verk på nytt. Men Vilks är radioaktiv. Det handlar om terrorskräck - men också om politi...

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"Smärtsam, upplysande och avgörande läsning." - Malin Ullgren, Dagens Nyheter "Orden flyger över sidorna, med en skenbar lätthet som ger skönhet åt något så outhärdligt som berättelsen om hur en terrorist mejar ner ungdomar på en idyllisk ö. " ¿- ...

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

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"Tveklöst en av årets viktigaste böcker" DN "Tillhör höstens viktigaste läsning" Expressen Höstens kanske viktigaste bok Aftonbladet Sveriges främsta forskare på radikalnationalistisk terrorism, Mattias Gardell och Heléne Lööw, har skrivit en ny b...

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Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster. In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and ma...

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Mozambique's civil war was inevitable given the tradition of conflict that has always characterized Frelimo, first as an independence movement, and then as a ruling party. Without disregarding the role played by both Rhodesia and South Africa in t...

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"Incredibly evocative and compelling." - The Washington Post "The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." - The Times "Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real time by those who were there. I read i...

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Den 21 december 1988. Samtliga flyg mellan London och New York är fullsatta, förutom flight Pam Am 103, där nästan hälften av platserna är lediga. Oklart varför. 38 minuter efter start, när planet befinner sig över den skotska byn Lockerbie, explo...

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'A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant' Simon Schama Amos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Judas, grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequenc...

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New York var insvept i ett gigantiskt moln av aska, sot och rök när den amerikanske presidenten George W. Bush på kvällen den 11 september 2001 förklarade krig mot terrorismen. Tusentals amerikaner låg döda och skadade efter den värsta attacken i ...

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Sommaren 2014 utropar Islamiska staten ett nytt kalifat i delar av Syrien och Irak. Inför en förfärad omvärld erövrar den islamistiska rörelsen enorma landområden och skapar ett brutalt styre med offentliga avrättningar och systematiska våldtäkter...

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Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and significant terrorist and insurgent groups around the world. The purpose is to create a descriptive mosaic of what i...

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An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder-told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle ¿ As seen on 60 Minutes ¿ "A comprehensive, meticulously constructed and eye-opening look at bin Laden as husband, father a...

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Här ges en bred introduktion till terrorbrott och vägleder läsaren vidare in i terrorismstudiernas mångfacetterade och bitvis splittrade värld. Syftet med boken är att tillhandahålla en introduktion till terrorism, på svenska och med ett delvis sv...

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The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. A group of young people, most of them from solid, middle-class backgrounds, took the law into their own hands, and by means of arson...

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I december 1972 blir den 38-åriga änkan Jean McConville kidnappad i sitt hem i Belfast av ett maskerat gäng, med hennes barn som vittnen. De tio barnen återser henne aldrig och det ouppklarade mordet på Jean McConville blir snart ett av de mest om...

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'The strongest opening sentence of any memoir of the 21st century, and the following 300 pages do not disappoint' Daily Telegraph When Maiwand Banayee was 16, he wanted to become a suicide bomber for the Taliban. In this inspiring tale of survival...

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Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS milita...

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The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. In Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA Mark Urban meticulously ex...

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