Here is a selected list of books in the Beebe Library about terrorism and related subjects. Click on the links below to find the books in our catalog and check their availability.

WHO’S WHO : BOOKS ABOUT THE PEOPLE

President George W. Bush
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Osama bin Laden
Attorney General John Ashcroft
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani

BOOKS ABOUT TERRORISM

Almanac of modern
terrorism , by Jay M. Shafritz, E.F. Gibbons, Jr., and Gregory E.J. Scott

America’s Achilles’ heel : nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorism and covert attack, by Richard A. Falkenrath

Anthrax : the investigation of a deadly outbreak , by Jeanne Guillemin

The coming anarchy : shattering the dreams of the post Cold War , by Robert D. Kaplan

Divided we stand : a biography of New York’s World Trade Center , by Eric Darton

Fighting terrorism : how democracies can defeat the international terrorist network , by Benjamin Netanyahu

Fire , by Sebastian Junger

The new jackals : Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the future of terrorism , by Simon Reeve

September 11, 2001 : a collection of newspaper front pages , selected by the Poynter Institute

6 nightmares : real threats in a dangerous world and how America can meet them, by Anthony Lake

Target U.S.A. : the inside story of the new terrorist war, by Louis R. Mizell, Jr.

Terror in the mind of god : the global rise of religious violence , by Mark Juergensmeyer

The terror network : the secret war of international terrorism, by Claire Sterling

Terrorism , edited by Steven Anzovin

Terrorism, by Harry Henderson

Terrorism and America : a commonsense strategy for a democratic society, by Philip B. Heymann

Terrorism and U.S. foreign policy, by Paul R. Pillar

Terrorism : how the West can win , edited by Benjamin Netanyahu

Terrorism : opposing viewpoints , edited by Laura K. Egendorf

The terrorism reader , edited by David J. Whittaker

Toxic terror : assessing terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons , edited by Jonathan Tucker

Twin towers : the life of New York City’s World Trade Center , by Angus Kress Gillespie

Two seconds under the world : terror comes to America : the conspiracy behind the World Trade Center bombing, by Jim Dwyer

The ultimate terrorists , by Jessica Stern

BOOKS ABOUT AFGHANISTAN AND THE TALIBAN

Afghanistan’s endless war : state failure, regional politics, and the rise of the Taliban, by Larry P. Goodson

The empire of the steppes; a history of central Asia, by René Grousset

A journey through Afghanistan : a memorial, by David Chaffetz

Reaping the whirlwind : the Taliban movement in Afghanistan , by Michael Griffin

Taliban : militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia , by Ahmed Rashid

An unexpected light : travels in Afghanistan, by Jason Elliot

Unholy wars : Afghanistan, America, and international terrorism , by John K. Cooley

War at the top of the world : the struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet , by Eric S. Margolis

BOOKS ABOUT ISLAM

Among the believers : an Islamic journey , by V.S. Naipaul

The Arab world : forty years of change, by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500 , by Francis Robinson

Beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples , by V.S. Naipaul

God has ninety-nine names : reporting from a militant Middle East , by Judith Miller

A history of God : the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam , by Karen Armstrong

The holy sword : the story of Islam from Muhammad to the present , by Robert Payne

Islam , by Fazlur Rahman

Islam , by Dominique Sourdel

Islam, a concise introduction , by Dennis Roberts

Islam : a short history , by Karen Armstrong

Islam and modernity : Muslim intellectuals respond, edited by John Cooper, et al.

Islam in focus , by Hammudah Abdalati

Islam: its meaning for modern man, by Muhammad Zafrulla Khan

Islamic politics and the modern world , edited by Andrew C. Kimmens

The Islamic space , by William Corlett and John Moore

Islam : the straight path , by John L. Esposito

The Koran

Muhammad : a biography of the prophet , by Karen Armstrong

Muhammad : the messenger of God , by Betty Kelen

The pillars of Islam : an introduction to the Islamic faith , by Frances Gumley & Brian Redhead

Shia & Sunni perspective on Islam , by Ahmad Abdullah Salamah

The spread of Islam , by Michael Rogers

Understanding Islam : an introduction to the Moslem world , by Thomas W. Lippman

What Muslims believe , by John Bowker

The world of Islam , by Ernst J. Grube

BOOKS ABOUT ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM AND POLITICS

The end of days : fundamentalism and the struggle for the Temple Mount , by Gershom Gorenberg

Holy terror : inside the world of Islamic terrorism , by Amir Taheri

Islamic fundamentalism : the new global threat, by Mohammad Mohaddessin

The Islamic threat : myth or reality?, by John L. Esposito

Jihad vs. McWorld , by Benjamin R. Barber

Sacred rage : the crusade of modern Islam , by Robin Wright

The struggle within Islam : the conflict between religion and politics , by Rafiq Zakaria

BOOKS ABOUT ISLAM AND WOMEN

Faith and freedom : women’s human rights in the Muslim world, edited by Mahnaz Afkhami

Nine parts of desire : the hidden world of Islamic women, by Geraldine Brooks

The veil and the male elite : a feminist interpretation of women’s rights in Islam, by Fatima Mernissi

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