Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues
The updatedSecond Editionof Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues is an excellent purchase for both college-level reference holdings and for assigned reading for college-level courses on social issues. Added here is a new chapter on religious terrorism, reviews of new material on gender terrorism and criminal businesses, updates on pedagogy, and a format which includes test questions, amps from the book, and more on both a CD-ROM and an accompanying web site. Plenty of examples from events around the world pepper surveys which cover the politics, economics, and social foundations of international terrorist experiences.(CALIFORNIA BOOKWATCH 2006-05-09)"The best stand-alone text for university courses." (Maryann Batsakis 2006-10-12)"Gus Martin's Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues is the best stand alone comprehensive textbook for university courses. Its 696 pages cover the spectrum of all issues involved in studying terrorism . . . Each chapter is organized pedagogically, with opposing viewpoints and issues for classroom discussion."(Dr. Joshua Sinai 2007-04-12)"Understanding Terrorism sets the standard as a textbook and baseline for anyone who desires to increase their real world knowledge of terrorism. It is an enlightening piece to a most difficult puzzle."(Major General Jack A. Davis 2007-04-16)"Let me say that this book is one of the most comprehensive works on the matter that I have ever had the pleasure of reading." (Timothy N. Cash 2007-04-19)"Gus Martin's Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues (Second Edition)is one of the finest stand-alone, comprehensive textbooks for university courses.  Each chapter is organized pedagogically, with opposing viewpoints and issues for classroom discussion."(Joshua SinaiForeWord2008-10-06)--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.