In 1979, a secret unit was established by the US Army. Defying all known military practices and the laws of physics, they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion.

Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, CBE, QPM, was in overall command of the UK's national counter-terrorism offensive, at the centre of every major terrorist investigation - overt and covert - of the past five years. In this book, he describes how he led a dedicated team of men and women, committed to protecting the UK from dangerous enemies.

In March 2004 a group led by Nick Du Toit and former SAS member Simon Mann tried to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea. They were working for investors who wanted to seize control of Africa's 3rd largest oil producer. This book tells how the coup was set up and abandoned at the last minute, and how the plotters were seized and tortured.

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution - bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. This book refutes this traditional view.

When the author was sixteen, he became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, he rejected fundamentalist teachings and returned to normal life and his family. He tried to put his experiences behind him, but as the events of 7/7 unfolded, it became clear to him that Islamist groups pose a threat to this country.

In the midst of a severe economic downturn, the US is whipsawed by news of stock market drops, layoffs, foreclosures, and bailouts. This book makes a case that revolution is possible here, triggered by some kind of unexpected shock.

Looking at domestic politics, transnational diffusion, the state's relationship with civil society and societal actors, this book demonstrates how and why NGOs active in global issues have become more visible in Japan. It is suitable for postgraduate students and academics working in political science, international relations, and sociology.

An introduction to one of the most important periods in European history. It presents the implacable Robespierre, the frightened Marie Antoinette and the iconic image of the guillotine. It also demonstrates the key role the Revolution played in the development of European politics.

Applying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign.

This book shows how the leaders of the USA, Soviet Union, Europe (East and West), and China viewed the world in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Newly available records reveal what political leaders thought of the shattering, and largely unforeseen, events as they unfolded. Four leading scholars: Melvyn P. Leffler (US); Chen Jian (China); James J. Sheehan (Europe); and William ...

In Peaceful Islamist Mobilization in the Muslim World: What Went Right, Julie Chernov Hwang presents a compelling and innovative new theory and framework for examining the variation in Islamist mobilization strategies in Muslim Asia and the Middle East.

Analyses UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world.

On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the Imperial family. Thirteen days later, at Yurovsky's command, the family was gunned down in a blaze of bullets. This title presents the story of those murders.

Written by the author who knows important parts of the Muslim world (including Saudi Arabia) at first hand, and understands the motors of Islamist militancy.

Deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), explaining the different causes, factors that contributed to its growth, strategies employed by the rebels and the state, and the consequences of the insurgency.

With an introduction by Fidel Castro Che Guevara's famous last diary, found in his backpack after he was captured by the Bolivian Army in 1967, and which played a pivotal role in catapulting him to iconic status after his death.

Che Guevara's dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. This work tells the tale of revolution, international intrigue and covert operations.

In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. This new book provides an inside look into the populist wave sweeping South America - and what it means for the rest of the world.

A comprehensive study of one of the most feared - but least understood - international Islamist organizations in post-Soviet Central Asia: Hizb ut-Tahrir. Using primary sources and first-hand accounts, it analyses organizations' leadership, ideology, political methodology and party structure, and its relationship to violence in this key region.

Explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. This title argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent awesome Father, God.