The Reference Department in Meyer Library begins their Readers’ Advisory & Displays program for 2003 with a consideration of terrorism. Various books within the library's collections are identified, together addressing a diversity of aspects involved with this crucial subject of concern for the global community. The bibliography lists many of the books showcased in the display along with selected government publications, web sites, and book reviews from the periodical literature. 'Peace and Conflict: Perspectives on Terrorism' is displayed on the first floor of Meyer Library in the New Books area which is just past and to the left of the Government Documents service desk. Display case materials are presented and some of the cited publications have been pulled from the Meyer Library collections and placed with the display for browsing and checkout by interested readers. The library has excellent content to offer readers and researchers on this timely and important topic!

Terrorism

“Terrorism — motivated variously by religious, nationalist, or political beliefs — has claimed countless thousands of lives through history and caused recurrent public panic and political disruption. Despite its gruesome toll, terrorism has had relatively little lasting impact. It has been “little more than a nuisance,” according to Walter Laqueur, a leading historian on the subject….

Terrorism has become more potent in the 20th century, according to Laqueur, at the same that combating it has become more difficult. Ever more lethal firearms and explosives have supplanted the dagger and pistol of earlier eras. Meanwhile, the rise of mass media has increased exponentially the terrorists' ability to instill fear among officials and citizens. Counterterrorism has depended either on infiltration or repression — as in communist Russia or, to some extent, in Northern Ireland. But Laqueur notes that present-day law enforcement agencies in democratic nations have less freedom to maneuver than the police forces of late-19th-century Europe. “By and large,” he concludes, “counterefforts against terrorists by democratic states have been only partly effective in recent times.”

From “War on Terrorism: Can the U.S. Contain the Global Terrorist Threat?” CQ Researcher, 2001, pages 827-828.

The CQ Researcher is an excellent resource from SMSU Libraries digesting, reviewing, giving facts, history, and analysis every week on major political, economic, and cultural issues. Check it Out.

Books | Government Publications | Articles & Book Reviews | Web Sites

Adelman, Jonathan R., ed.

TERROR AND COMMUNIST POLITICS : THE ROLE OF THE SECRET POLICE IN COMMUNIST STATES. Boulder : Westview Press, 1984.

HV7961 .T47 1984.

Alexander, Yonah.

USAMA BIN LADEN'S AL-QAIDA : PROFILE OF A TERRORIST. Ardsley, NY : Transnational Publishers, 2001.

HV6431 .A43 2001.

Alexander, Yonah and Alan O'Day, Eds.

IRELAND'S TERRORIST TRAUMA : INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1989.

HV6433.G7 I75 1989.

Alexander, Yonah and Milton Hoenig, Eds.

SUPER TERRORISM : BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, AND NUCLEAR Ardsley, NY : Transnational Publishers, c2001.

HV6431 .S86 2001.

Alexander, Yonah & Robert A. Kilmarx, eds.

POLITICAL TERRORISM AND BUSINESS : THE THREAT AND RESPONSE. New York : Praeger, 1979.

HV6431 .P62.

APRIL 19, 1995, 9:02 A.M. : THE HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING / COMPILED BY OKLAHOMA TODAY MAGAZINE. Oklahoma City, Okla. : Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Dept., 1996.

HV6432 .A67x 1996.

Archer, John E.

BY A FLASH AND A SCARE : INCENDIARISM, ANIMAL MAIMING, AND POACHING IN EAST ANGLIA 1815-1870. Oxford : Clarendon, 1990.

HN398.E3 A73 1990b.

Bennett, William J. (William John), 1943-

WHY WE FIGHT : MORAL CLARITY AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM. New York : Doubleday, 2002.

HV6432 .B46 2002.

Biko, Steve, 1946-1977.

STEVE BIKO : BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA. New York : Random House, c1978.

KRM 1X .B55.

Bodansky, Yossef.

THE HIGH COST OF PEACE: HOW WASHINGTON’S MIDDLE EAST POLICY LEFT AMERICAN VULNERABLE TO TERRORISM. Roseville, Calif : Forum, 2002

DS63.2.U5 B6 2002 

Bok, Chip, 1952-

BOK! : THE 9.11 CRISIS IN POLITICAL CARTOONS Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, 2002.

HV6432 .B65 2002.

Bowman, Stephen.

WHEN THE EAGLE SCREAMS : AMERICA'S VULNERABILITY TO TERRORISM. Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1994.

HV6432 .B68 1994.

Bubriski, Kevin.

PILGRIMAGE : LOOKING AT GROUND ZERO / PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEVIN BUBRISKI ; AFTERWORD BY RICHARD B. WOODWARD. New York : PowerHouse Books, 2002.

HV6432 .B818 2002.

Bull, Chris and Sam Erman, Eds.

AT GROUND ZERO : YOUNG REPORTERS WHO WERE THERE TELL THEIR STORIES New York, N.Y. : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2002.

HV6432 .A8 2002.

Chasdi, Richard J., 1958-

TAPESTRY OF TERROR : A PORTRAIT OF MIDDLE EAST TERRORISM, 1994-1999. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2002.

HV6433.M5 C534 2002.

Chomsky, Noam.

9-11. New York : Seven Stories Press, c2001.

HV6432 .C46 2001.

Conquest, Robert.

THE GREAT TERROR : STALIN'S PURGE OF THE THIRTIES. New York : Collier Books, 1973.

DK267 .C65 1973b.

Cooley, John K., 1927-

UNHOLY WARS : AFGHANISTAN, AMERICA, AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM. London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

JZ1480.A57 A3 1999.

Corcoran, James.

BITTER HARVEST : GORDON KAHL AND THE POSSE COMITATUS-MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND. New York, N.Y., USA. : Viking, 1990.

HV6248.K25 C67 1990.

Cordesman, Anthony H

STRATEGIC THREATS AND NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSES : DEFENDING THE U.S. HOMELAND. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

UG743 .C67 2002

Cordesman, Anthony H.

TERRORISM, ASYMMETRIC WARFARE, AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

UA23 .C67 2002.

Dershowitz, Alan M.

WHY TERRORISM WORKS : UNDERSTANDING THE THREAT, RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

HV6431 .D473 2002.

Didion, Joan.

SALVADOR . New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982, c1983.

F1488.3 .D53 1983

Doggett, Martha.

DEATH FORETOLD : THE JESUIT MURDERS IN EL SALVADOR. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1993.

HV6535.S2 D64 1993.

Drake, Richard, 1942-

THE ALDO MORO MURDER CASE. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.

DG579.M63 D73 1995.

Emerson, Steven.

AMERICAN JIHAD : THE TERRORISTS LIVING AMONG US. New York : Free Press, c2002.

HV6432 .E447 2002.

Freedman, Lawrence, Ed.

SUPERTERRORISM : POLICY RESPONSES. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2002.

HV6431 .S863 2002.

Friedman, Thomas L.

LONGITUDES AND ATTITUDES : EXPLORING THE WORLD AFTER SEPTEMBER. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002.

HV6432 .F75 2002.

Gerson, Allan.

THE PRICE OF TERROR : ONE BOMB, ONE PLANE, 270 LIVES : THE HISTORY-MAKING STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AFTER PAN AM 103. New York : HarperCollins, c2001.

HV6431 .G47 2001.

Gertz, Bill.

BREAKDOWN : HOW AMERICA'S INTELLIGENCE FAILURES LED TO SEPTEMBER 11. Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub., Inc., c2002.

UB251.U6 G47 2002.

Gunaratna, Rohan, 1961-

INSIDE AL QAEDA : GLOBAL NETWORK OF TERROR. New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.

HV6431 .G853 2002.

Hoffman, David, 1953-

THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR. Venice, CA : Feral House, c1998.

HV6432 .H65 1998.

Hunt, Scott

THE FUTURE OF PEACE : ON THE FRONT LINES WITH THE WORLD’S GREAT PEACEMAKERS. San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, c2002.

JZ5540 .H86 2002

Hutchinson, Bill, 1947-

WHEN THE DOGS ATE CANDLES : A TIME IN EL SALVADOR. Niwot, Colo : University Press of Colorado, c1998.

HV6322.3 .S2 H87 1998.

IT’S A FREE COUNTRY: PERSONAL FREEDOM IN AMERICAN AFTER  SEPTEMBER 11/ Edited by Danny Goldberg, Victor Goldberg, and Robert Greenwald. New York : RDV Books, c2002.

JC599.U5 I82 2002 

Khushwant Singh, 1915-

I SHALL NOT HEAR THE NIGHTINGALE. New York, Greenwood Press, 1968 [c1959].

PR6037.I75 I27 1968.

THE KILLING FIELDS / Edited by Chris Riley and Douglas Niven. Santa Fe, N.M. : Twin Palms Publishers, 1996.

DS554.8 .K586x 1996.

Kim, Hyon-hui.

THE TEARS OF MY SOUL. New York : William Morrow and Co., c1993.

HV6248.K516 A3 1993.

Levitas, Daniel.

THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR : THE MILITIA MOVEMENT AND THE RADICAL RIGHT. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2002

HN90.R3 L47 2002

Michel, Lou, 1955-

AMERICAN TERRORIST : TIMOTHY MCVEIGH & THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING. New York : Regan Books, c2001.

HV6430.M28 M53 2001.

Miller, Judith, 1948-

GERMS : BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AND AMERICA'S SECRET. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.

UG447.8 .M54 2001.

Mueller, Lavonne.

VOICES FROM SEPTEMBER 11^TH. New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books ; Milwaukee, WI., c2002.

PS3563.U346 V64 2002.

Nacos, Brigitte Lebens.

MASS-MEDIATED TERRORISM : THE CENTRAL ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN TERRORISM AND COUNTERTERRORISM. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2002.

PN4784.T45 N35 2002.

Nash, Jay Robert.

TERRORISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY : A NARRATIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA FROM THE ANARCHISTS, THROUGH THE WEATHERMEN, TO THE UNABOMBER. New York : M. Evans and Co., c1998.

HV6431 .N366 1998.

Parenti, Michael, 1933-

THE TERRORISM TRAP : SEPTEMBER 11 AND BEYOND / MICHAEL PARENTI. San Francisco : City Lights Books, c2002.

E840 .P268 2002.

Preston, Richard, 1954-

THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER : A TRUE STORY. New York : Random House, 2002.

RA644.S6 P74 2002.

Rashid, Ahmed.

JIHAD : THE RISE OF MILITANT ISLAM IN CENTRAL ASIA. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2002.

DS329.4 .R38 2002 

Rashid, Ahmed.

TALIBAN : MILITANT ISLAM, OIL, AND FUNDAMENTALISM IN CENTRAL ASIA. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.

DS371.2 .R367 2000 

Rogers, Will (Will C.).

STORM CENTER : THE USS VINCENNES AND IRAN AIR FLIGHT 655 : A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF TRAGEDY AND TERRORISM. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1992.

DS318.85 .R64 1992.

RUNNING TOWARD DANGER : STORIES BEHIND THE BREAKING NEWS OF 9/11 / BY THE NEWSEUM ; WITH CATHY TROST AND ALICIA C. SHEPARD ; with Foreword By Tom Brokaw. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield : Distributed by National Book Network,

c2002.

HV6432 .T76 2002.

Sargent, William.

CRAB WARS : A TALE OF HORSESHOE CRABS, BIOTERRORISM, AND HUMAN HEALTH. Hanover : University Press of New England, c2002.

QL447.7 .S27 2002 

Schilling, William R.

NONTRADITIONAL WARFARE : TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY THREATS AND RESPONSES. Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, Inc., c2002.

UA23 .N66 2002.

SEPTEMBER 11 : AN ORAL HISTORY / [COMPILED BY] DEAN E. MURPHY. New York : Doubleday, c2002.

HV6432 .S454 2002.

THE SEPTEMBER 11 PHOTO PROJECT / EDITED BY MICHAEL FELDSCHUH. New York : ReganBooks, c2002.

HV6432 .S47 2002.

Smith, Dennis, 1940-

REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO : [THE STORY OF THE RESCUE EFFORTS AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER] New York : Viking, 2002.

HV6432 .S64 2002.

Talbott, Strobe and Nayan Chanda, Eds.

THE AGE OF TERROR: AMERICA AND THE WORLD AFTER SEPTEMBER 11. New York : Basic Books : Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, c2001.

HV6432 .A43 2001

Taylor, Eric R., Ph.D.

LETHAL MISTS : AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NATURAL AND MILITARY SCIENCES OF CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AND TERRORISM. Commack, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c1999.

UG447 .T393 1999.

UNDERSTANDING SEPTEMBER 11 / CRAIG CALHOUN, PAUL PRICE, AND ASHLEY TIMMER, EDITORS. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2002.

HV6432 .U5 2002.

Walter, E. V. (Eugene Victor), 1925-

TERROR AND RESISTANCE; A STUDY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE, WITH CASE STUDIES OF SOME PRIMITIVE AFRICAN COMMUNITIES. New York, Oxford University Press, 1969.

JC330 .W3.

Weaver, Mary Anne.

PAKISTAN : IN THE SHADOW OF JIHAD AND AFGHANISTAN. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

DS384 .W43 2002 

Williams, Paul L., 1944-

AL QAEDA : BROTHERHOOD OF TERROR / PAUL L. WILLIAMS. Parsippany, NJ? : Alpha, c2002.

HV6431 .W57 2002.

Woodward, Bob.

BUSH AT WAR / BOB WOODWARD. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.

E903.3 .W66 2002.

Patterns of global terrorism. U.S Department of State.

SMS Meyer Gov Docs US S 1.138. 1987-2001

Terrorism. Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"What's next in the War on Terrorism?" : a compilation of statements before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate.

The network of terrorism. U.S. Dept. of State

Our mission and our moment : speeches since the attacks of September 11. President George W. Bush

SMS Meyer Gov Docs US PREX1.2: M69

National strategy for homeland security. Office of Homeland Security

SMS Meyer Gov Docs US   PR 43.14:H 75

Homeland Security Act of 2002 : report together with minority and dissenting views. United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security.

SMS Meyer Gov Docs MICRO  Y 1.1/8:107-609/PT.1

International instruments related to the prevention and suppression of international terrorism. United Nations.

SMS Meyer Gov Docs Ref UN   ST/ESA/269

Terrorism and disarmament. United Nations, Dept. for Disarmament Affairs.

SMS Meyer Gov Docs UN ST/DDA/OP/NO.5:10/01

Department of Homeland Security

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

America’s Responds to Terrorism from FirstGov

http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Usgresponse.shtml

Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism & the Attacks of September 11, 2001. U.S. Government Information Division, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.

And do not forget...Other books. (new books on terrorism-bibliography). The Economist (US), Sept 7, 2002.

Be Prepared - Four very different books examine the threat of terrorism and the need for flexibility in meeting unpredictable attacks and weapons. (book review) Alan J. Levine. World and I, June 2002 v17 i6 p234

Books for Understanding. A Resource to help understand the events of September 11, 2001 from the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). http://www.aaupnet.org/news/bfu/september11.html

Chronicle of Higher Education – various articles (Citations & Abstracts – not full text)

Easy to lose; Civil liberties. ('It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in American After September 11;' 'Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security'-book reviews). The Economist (US), Sept 7, 2002.

Faith, Hope, and Clarity. (9-11-01 terrorist attacks: eight books). Louis Menand. The New Yorker, Sept 16, 2002 v78 i27.

The FBI can find out what you read. (Op-Ed). Nat Hentoff. Free Inquiry, Summer 2002 v22 i3 p13.

Notes on the darkest day: book after book offers new guidance to the terrain so violently altered on Sept. 11, 2001. Walter Kirn. The New York Times Book Review, Sept 8, 2002 v107 i36 p7.

One year later: a look at a few of the books that have been published in response to September 11th. Wendy Lukehart. School Library Journal, Sept 2002 v48 i9 p44.

Pride and Prejudice: the false choice between patriotism and skepticism. (Culture & Reviews). (Book Review) Jacob Sullum. Reason, Nov 2002 v34 i6 p53(7)

Righteous anger. (Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism-book review) David Pryce-Jones. Commentary, June 2002 v113 i6 p53.

The roots of terror. (8 books Islamic militarism-book review). Publishers Weekly, August 12, 2002 v249 i32 p286.

Seeing Evil but Blinking - A former CIA case officer outlines the forces that undermined the Agency and contributed to American vulnerability to terrorism. (book review) Ewa Wasilewska. World and I, July 2002 v17 i7 p236

September 11: before and after (book reviews of various titles). Publishers Weekly, August 26, 2002 v249 i34 p53.

Shelf Life. (The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win; An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism; Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election; How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive Ideas-book reviews) Michael Potemra. National Review Sept 30, 2002 v54 i18 p52

Thinking the unthinkable: Alan Dershowitz condemns what he sees as the international community's reluctance to oppose terrorism. (Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge-book review) Barry Gewen. The New York Times Book Review, Sept 15, 2002 v107 i37 p12(1)

From Facts.com @ SMSU Libraries

September 11, 2001 Remembered. Facts.com - World News Digest, Sept. 2002. Accessed January 31, 2003. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/FACTS

Key Event:Terrorists Atack United States; U.S. Leads War in Afghanistan. Facts.com - World News Digest, 2002. Accessed Jan. 31 2003. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/FACTS

Hijacked Jets Destroy World Trade Center, Hit Pentagon; 5,000 People Missing, Presumed Dead; U.S. Congress Approves Military Action in Retaliation for 'Acts of War'; Other Developments. Facts.com - World News Digest, Sept. 13, 2001. Accessed Jan. 31 2003. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/FACTS

From the CQ Researcher @ SMSU Libraries

Weapons of Mass Destruction: Can the U.S. Protect Itself? CQ Researcher, 2002. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/CQRESEARCHER

Combating Terrorism: Will Proposed Legislation Be Effective? CQ Researcher, 1995. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/CQRESEARCHER

New Defense Priorities: Should the U.S. Launch Pre-Emptive Strikes? CQ Researcher, 2002. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/CQRESEARCHER

Foreign Aid after Sept. 11: Will New Policies Shortchange the Neediest Recipients? 2002. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/CQRESEARCHER

Intelligence Reforms: Will They Prevent Future Terrorist Attacks? CQ Researcher, 2002. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/CQRESEARCHER

Rebuilding Afghanistan: How Much Will the U.S. Help after the War Ends? CQ Researcher, 2001. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/CQRESEARCHER.

War on Terrorism: Can the U.S. Contain the Global Terrorist Threat? CQ Researcher, 2001. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/CQRESEARCHER

Prospects for Mideast Peace: Are Arafat and Sharon Stumbling Blocks to Peace? CQ Researcher, 2002. Available from http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/CQRESEARCHER

“Attack on America” from SMSU Libraries Selected Internet Resources. By Edward Proctor, Assistant Professor of Library Science. http://library.missouristate.edu/Resources/attack.shtml

‘Terrorism Project” from the Center for Defense Information. http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/

“War on Terrorism Resource Guides” from Governmnet Documents Department, Joyner Library at East Carolina University. http://www.lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/waronterror.html

Meyer Reference Department Reader’s Advisory Program

Project Group: Charlotte Dugan, Reference Collection Resources Librarian, Betty Evans, Reference Services Librarian. Lynn Cline, Head of Collections. Bryon Stewart, Head of Government Documents and Tammy Steward, Government Documents Librarian. Douglas Stehle, Head of Reference. Hanging display art & design by Teresa Hollimon, Reference Student Assistant. Signs done by Jeanne Stephens, Graphic Designer, Instructional Technology & Media Services.

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