national liberation movements

Examines the economic and political issues facing Lebanon today. It provides up-to-date information about the country’s geography and climate, history, government, politics, society, important cities and communities, and relations with other countries.

Examines the economic and political issues facing Jordan today. It provides up-to-date information about the country’s geography and climate, history, government, politics, society, important cities and communities, and relations with other countries.

Photographs and text explore the reasons for and the way in which wars have been fought over the last half of the twentieth century.

Contains thirty-two essays in which various authors discuss issues related to the Nuclear Age, from 1945 through the 1980s, discussing the atom bomb, the Iron Curtain, Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance, communism, the space race, segregation, Vietnam, apartheid, and other topics.

Recounts the historical origins, philosophy, and most notorious attacks of the Hezbollah terrorist group, including information on their present activities, possible future course of action, and counter-terrorism efforts directed against them.

Profiles well-known terrorist leaders, including Osama Binladen, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and others, with an analysis of the different types of individual, religious, state-sponsored and ideological terrorism.

Examines the Declaration of Independence as a political, legal, and intellectual document from the perspective of the rest of the world, placing the Declaration within the context of a broad international framework and exploring how it influenced other countries and governments.

Relates the author's four and a half year journey through southern Africa and his interviews with many people of all colors and backgrounds.