On september 11, 2001, the United States of America suffered one of the most brutal acts of terrorism in history. Americans watched in horror as one of ets main financial centers and its central defence buildings were rammed by hijacked commercial jets. Terrorism: Almanac in nine chapters, provides a detailed description of the meaning of terrorism, what tactics terrorists use, and the efforts made in combating terrorism of all kinds around the world.The Almanac also examines differents kinds of terrorism, such as religious terrorism and statesponsored terrorism.

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Terrorism: Biographies profiles twenty-six people who figure prominently in the story and history of terrorism. Included are terrorists from the Middle East such as osama bin Laden, Ramzi Yousef, and Abu Nidal; individual actors such as Theodore " Ted" Kaczinski and Timothy McVeigh; those involved in terrorizing minority classes such as Robert M. " Bobby" Shelton; and people some view as freedom fighters, such as John Brown and Michael and Tom Ridge are profiled, reflecting the efforts of negotiators and protectors of peace in response to terrorism.Informative sidebar boxes as well as more than seventy photographs and maps augment the text.

Das Taschenbuch enthaelt Adressen- und Namensmaterial aller Bereiche des oeffentlichen Lebens Deutschlands nach dem Stand vom 2006

The book include: Resolutions of the General Assembly and of the Security Council; report of UN Secretaries-General and oth.

The book chronicles one of the most complex peace-keeping operations in the history of the United Nations - the United NAtions Transitional Authority in Cambodia - and brings together, for the first time, the texts of more than 100 key United Nations documents relating to what was, at the time, an unprecedented endeavour in both size and scope.