Violence... The story so far

Book Reviews

In this area we bring you contemporary book reviews of books dealing with terror or counter terror.

Selected current books that record history in the making are reviewed. See the right navigation bar.

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For researching the roots of violence, we highly recommend the following

• Abraham's Legacy: Karen Armstrong - A History of God; The 4,000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
• Anatomy of and Eliminating Hate: Rush Dozier - Why We Hate.
• Authoritarian Personality, Politics of: Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson, and Sanford - The Authoritarian Personality.
• Basis For a Holocaust: Adolph Hitler - Mein Kampf.
• Buddha's Quest For Peace: Karen Armstrong - Buddha.
• Dealing with Fear: Gavin De Becker - The Gift of Fear; Survival Signals That Protect us From Violence.
• Ethnic Issues: Ashutosh Varshney - Ethnic Conflicts and Civic Life; Hindus and Muslims in India.
• Genocide in Rwanda: Mahmood Mamdani - When Victims Become Killers:
• History of Fundamentalism: Karen Armstrong - The Battle For God.
• Human / Inhuman Sides of Terror: Philip Meadows Taylor - Confessions of a Thug.
• Inept Leadership: Barbara Tuchman - The March of Folly,
• Profiling Human Behavior: Mike Douglas - Mind Hunter.
• Reform in Islam: Irshad Manji - The Trouble With Islam.
• Religious Critique: Bertrand Russell - Why I am Not a Christian.
• Religious Militants: Jessica Stern - Terror in the Name of God; Why Religious Militants Kill.
• Witchcraft in America: Boyer & Nissenbaum Eds - Salem-Village Witchcraft.
• Zionism: Ralph Schoenman - The Hidden History of Zionism.