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by C. (Clarence) Augustus (Gus) Martin (Author) "Terrorism has been a dark feature of human behavior since the dawn of recorded history ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 696 pages
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; Second Edition edition (4 April 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1412927226
  • ISBN-13: 978-1412927222
  • Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 17.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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The updated Second Edition of Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues is an excellent purchase for both college-level reference holdings and for assigned reading for college-level courses on social issues. Added here is a new chapter on religious terrorism, reviews of new material on gender terrorism and criminal businesses, updates on pedagogy, and a format which includes test questions, amps from the book, and more on both a CD-ROM and an accompanying web site. Plenty of examples from events around the world pepper surveys which cover the politics, economics, and social foundations of international terrorist experiences.

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"The best stand-alone text for university courses." (Maryann Batsakis 20070412)

"Gus Martin's Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues is the best stand alone comprehensive textbook for university courses. Its 696 pages cover the spectrum of all issues involved in studying terrorism . . . Each chapter is organized pedagogically, with opposing viewpoints and issues for classroom discussion." (Dr. Joshua Sinai 20070416)

"Understanding Terrorism sets the standard as a textbook and baseline for anyone who desires to increase their real world knowledge of terrorism. It is an enlightening piece to a most difficult puzzle." (Major General Jack A. Davis 20070419)

"Let me say that this book is one of the most comprehensive works on the matter that I have ever had the pleasure of reading." (Timothy N. Cash 20081006)

"Gus Martin's Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues (Second Edition) is one of the finest stand-alone, comprehensive textbooks for university courses.  Each chapter is organized pedagogically, with opposing viewpoints and issues for classroom discussion." (Joshua Sinai ForeWord )

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`I am very favorably impressed with this book. The author is well informed and an excellent writer. The recommended readings, Web sites, boxes, tables and the like provide very attractive features. There is an abundance of very good historical and current examples. I would adopt this book for my courses and look forward to its publication' - Frank Hagan, Mercyhurst College

Understanding Terrorism, Second Edition, is a uniquely comprehensive exploration of contemporary terrorism, suitable for professional as well as for academic courses of instruction. It incorporates key topics as well as discussion boxes and Web exercises intended to stimulate critical thinking in readers - a true "one-stop shop" for gaining an understanding of the field.

New to the Second Edition:

- new chapters on religious terrorism, a consolidated chapter on ideological terrorism, and a new chapter on two cutting-edge topics: gender-focused political violence and the nexus between criminal enterprises and terrorist violence;

- a resource Website devoted to the book to enhance learning;

- introductory `opening viewpoints in each chapter to give an overview of the concepts explored within.

Understanding Terrorism is one of the first core studies on the subject of terrorism, offering a comprehensive review of the events, ideas, motivations and histories that result in terrorist activity, as well as an examination of the theories helping to explain such activity. (20060509)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A thorough, comprehensive, well organised textbook, 7 Mar 2004
This review is from: Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues: Challenges, Perspectives and Issues (Paperback)
This is an exceptionally well-constructed textbook, effectively combining surveys of both concepts and empirical trends, with numerous well-chosen case studies. It delves beneath the surface by an extensive section early on, highlighting the problems of, and debates around, definition. The various explanations that have been sought for the phenomenon are surveyed fairly briefly but well. Different types of 'terrorism' are then surveyed - including (contrary to many other volumes) state terrorism: this, after all, is what the term terrorism was originally reserved for (even if in more recent times it is states that have appropriated the use of the term to label any of their opponents that are prepared to use violence); the historical examples are well chosen. There are chapters also on 'the tools of the trade', on the role of the media, on terrorism in the US, and on the options for responding to terror. All this is set out in such a way as to be immediately useable in an introductory university course on the subject, with sections at the end of each chapter on 'key terms and concepts', recommended websites, further reading, a 'Discussion Box', and a web exercise. This may not be an original work of scholarship, but it does what it is intended for admirably, and in the process will probably also fill a few gaps here and there in the knowledge of many who thought they knew the subject. Its clear language and organisation mean it is also useful for the general reader, who will get a far more balanced understanding here than in the vast majority of 'terror' books on the market.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A decent - if entirely unacademic - overview of the subject, 18 Jan 2004
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To be honest, I was expecting much more out of this book. Rather than an in-depth analysis of the terrorist psyche, counterterrorist and anti-terrorist options, or the underlying problems behind the 'us against them' mentality that pervades, this book is simply a collection of case studies.
Martin gives us page after page of examples of terrorist acts throughout the 2nd half of the 20th century, and repeats basic facts ad nauseum.

The glossary, for example, includes entries for 'Adolf Hitler', 'Mass Communications' and 'Labelling'.

A good introductory book for those who know absolutely nothing about the subject matter, but somewhat useless for those interested in more than a mere scratching of the surface.

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