Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
10 best books like Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill (Jessica Stern): Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything, Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature, The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today, Why Fish Fart and Other Useless Or Gross Information About the World
| Author | Rob D. Walker |
| ISBN | 0439932084 |
Two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon bring to life these words of wisdom about living life with compassion and courage. Written in rhyming text, this is a "must have" for every family.
Gentle, but powerful life lessons spoken to a child, delivered with a mother's immutable love....
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
| Author | Norman Solomon |
| ISBN | 0471694797 |
War Made Easy cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key "perception management" techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades. This guide to disinformation analyzes American military adventures past and present to reveal striking...
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 1423340868 |
I think Dave Barry retired at the right time. I grew up loving his humor, but it's become more and more formulaic as time goes on, and there's only so many times that the letters in someone's name rearranged, or a goofy suggested band name, or even, dare I say it, a fart joke, can be funny. This book is mostly...
| Author | Robert A. Pape |
| ISBN | 0812973380 |
Includes a new Afterword
Finalist for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award
One of the world's foremost authorities on the subject of suicide terrorism, the esteemed political scientist Robert Pape has created the first comprehensive database of every suicide...
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0670011142 |
Always cast in a supporting role in the many books about Marco Polo, the great Kubla Khan now takes center stage in a splendid picture-book biography. He is a wonderful subject-a man who liked to live large, building the imperial city of Beijing from scratch, siring a hundred children, throwing birthday...
| Author | Andy Warner |
| ISBN | 1250078652 |
Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skates
In the tradition of A Cartoon History of the Universe and, most recent, Randall Munroe's What If?...
| Author | Jacob Lentz |
| ISBN | 1608190250 |
Ever since our ancestors first set eyes on a woolly mammoth and agreed that it needed hunting, human beings have been making judgments about animals. The king cobra: That's an A-plus animal. The garden snail? D-minus. On a good day.
In Animal Review, Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash give authoritative...
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1426311087 |
Growing up in South Dakota, Adrienne Mayor was the quiet girl who never raised her hand in class. Instead, she loved to wander the prairie seeking wonders and filling her mind with stories.
When she found herself in Athens, Greece, she plunged into reading the original versions of ancient myths--especially...
| Author | Cynthia Levinson |
| ISBN | 1561459453 |
Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution.
Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced--then they offer possible...
| Author | Francesca Gould |
| ISBN | 1585427578 |
Weird and gross facts about history, the human body, and the natural world are presented in short entries. As is typical with these sorts of books, I think some of the info was a little exaggerated.
I do like that the author educates readers about the gross (and cruel) origin of the hormone replacement...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 1426304617 |
One World, One Day uses exquisite, moving photographs and Barbara Kerley’s poetic text to convey a simple yet profound concept: we are one global family. This is a sophisticated concept book, presented as an elegant picture book with contributions from top international photographers.
This...
| Author | David J. Smith |
| ISBN | 1550747797 |
The 2nd Edition of the best-selling book which has sold over 400 000 copies in 17 languages -- updated with new content and insights about the world's people. First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting "world-mindedness" by imagining the world's...
Many people say Marco Polo was the greatest explorer that ever lived, traveling 33, miles by land and sea from Venice, Italy, to modern-day Beijing, China. His famous book, The Travels of Marco Polo, indicates that he was a man of extraordinary bravery, brilliance, and strength. With his uncle and father,...
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0544630904 |
A red-lipped batfish waddles across the sea floor on its fins, searching for small sea creatures to eat. Other animals may fly or glide, or jet-propel themselves to get around. These creatures come equipped with legs, wings, or tentacles, and they often move from place to place in surprising ways. In...
The New Dealers' War: F.D.R. and the War Within World War II
| Author | Thomas Fleming |
| ISBN | 0465024653 |
Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming brings to life a flawed and troubled FDR struggling to manage World War II. Starting with the leak to the press of Roosevelt's famous Rainbow Plan, then spiraling back to FDR's inept prewar diplomacy with Japan and his various attempts to lure Japan into an attack...
Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror
| Author | Rohan Gunaratna |
| ISBN | 0425191141 |
I made the executive decision late last night to give up on this book. ::GASP::
This is huge. Big-time. No joking around. I don’t quit on books. EVER. I could count on one hand the number of books I’ve given up on and not use all five fingers. And two of the times I gave up on a book I ended up going...
| Author | Mark Juergensmeyer |
| ISBN | 0520240111 |
Completely revised and updated, this new edition of Terror in the Mind of God incorporates the events of September 11, 2001 into Mark Juergensmeyer's landmark study of religious terrorism. Juergensmeyer explores the 1993 World Trade Center explosion, Hamas suicide bombings, the Tokyo subway nerve...
Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America
| Author | Michael Scheuer |
| ISBN | 1574885537 |
All Americans must read this book in order to truly understand the reasons why radical Muslims like Osama bin Laden and his followers have declared war on America and the West. Furthermore, only this book accurately describes the severity of the threat they will continue to pose, with or without bin...
A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined...
| Author | Jonathan Kwitny |
| ISBN | 0312921780 |
A very well-written and readable book. Written in the early-mid 80s, it has held up well, and is occasionally prescient. Mr. Kwitny has clearly "been there," unlike so many armchair pundits.
While some will see him as a "blame America" liberal, if you read carefully, and stick around to the...
| Author | Bruce Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0231126999 |
Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained a seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mindset. In this revised edition of the classic text, Hoffman analyzes the new adversaries, motivations, and tactics of global terrorism that have emerged in...
A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
This book is a gripping account of the murky world of the international oil industry and its role in world politics. Scandals about oil are familiar to most of us. From George W. Bush's election victory to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, US politics and oil enjoy a controversially close relationship....
