Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: road, qaeda, tower, looming
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 037541486X
ISBN-13: 9780375414862
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda,
Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: vintage, road, qaeda, tower, looming
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-08-21
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1400030846
ISBN-13: 9781400030842
National Book Award FinalistA Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the YearA gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follo
Author: John F. Copper
Publisher: Praeger Security International General Interest-Cl
Keywords: over, taiwan, china, war, fire, looming, playing
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0275988880
ISBN-13: 9780275988883
Daily headlines and news stories remark upon the growing economic might of China. Analysts note that this increasing economic influence will undoubtedly lead to increasing political engagement on a global level. It is clear that the United States can no longer ignore what Napoleon called "the sleeping giant." One of the most pressing issues for China--and the world at large--is the continuing presence of an independence-minded Taiwan off China’s southern coast. Recent modernization efforts within the Chinese military and tough remarks by Chinese officials have alarmed many in Washington,
Author: Binayak Ray
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: asia, world, india, crisis, looming, water
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2008-07-25
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0739126016
ISBN-13: 9780739126011
Water: The Looming Crisis in India examines the key issues in developing national freshwater policies for the mainland countries of the South Asian sub-continent. Ray addresses the religious diversity, ethnic fragmentation, and complicated international, politically sensitive issues that reflect differently on each of the riparian countries’ freshwater policies.
Author: Carolyn Weaver
Publisher: AEI Press
Keywords: aei, studies, surpluses, looming, security, social
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 1991-09-25
List price: $40.50
ISBN-10: 0844737291
ISBN-13: 9780844737294
This study examines the economic consequences of the Social Security Trust Fund surpluses.
Author: I. A. Mallone
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co
Keywords: war, reason, final, crisis, looming, identity, satan
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2010-01-07
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1434904555
ISBN-13: 9781434904553
Satan’s Looming Identity Crisis! The Final War in the Age of Reason examines the principle of Life and the universe using modern language. The reasoning shows the principle to be a practical, logical, scientific system where sickness, limitations, trouble, and death are understood to be hypnotic, dream-like illusions that can be wakened from and thereby destroyed. Like mathematics, music, and physics, metaphysics is a subject where no one is asked to blindly believe what is presented but rather to engage their intelligent reasoning ability to understand and apply what is learned. Health,
Author: Jasper Becker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: threat, north, korea, looming, jong, regime, kim, rogue
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2006-10-09
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0195308913
ISBN-13: 9780195308914
What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness and come to life, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million of his subjects starved to death, Kim Jong Il roamed between palaces staffed by beautiful girls and stocked with expensive international delicacies. Outside, the steel mills shut down, the trains stopped running, the power went out, and the hospitals ran out of medicine. When the population t
