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Pathfinder: Terrorism
Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Videos |Websites
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SCOPE: Terrorism may be defined as the use of violence, or threats of violence, for coercion. There are two types of terrorists: domestic and international. Individuals are usually part of a terrorist organization that have financial resources, leaders, and weapons of destruction that aid them in executing their plans. Terrorists goals include trying to gain independence from a government whose control they reject; undermining or demoralizing a regime or enemy; creating chaos and generating fear among the public; gaining sympathy by raising public awareness of the group and its grievances, and demonstrating their strength and vengeance. ( Gottesman, Violence in America)
The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available in the library.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with womens studies are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under the following subject headings:
Terrorism
Prevention
Airports
Security measures
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF HV 6431.C65 2002 Encyclopedia of Terrorism
REF HV 6431.A537 2002 Historical Dictionary of Terrorism
REF HN 90.V5V5474 Violence in America
CQ Researcher (online, hardcopy also available in the Reference Section):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Berko, Anat.
The Path to
Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and Their Dispatchers.
Westport, Conn: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Brill, Steven.
After: How
America Confronted the September 12 Era. New York: Simon& Schuster, 2003.
Chomsky, Noam. 9-11. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002.
Cooley, John K. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, American, and International Terrorism. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2000.
Friedman, Thomas L. Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2002.
Hamm, Mark S. In Bad Company: Americas Terrorist Underground. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.
Hoge, James F. and Gideon Rose. How Did This Happen?: Terrorism and the New War. New York: Public Affairs, 2001.
Janczewski, Lech J. & Andrew M. Colarik.
Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism. Hershey:
Information Science Reference, 2008.
Kean, Thomas H.
The 9/11 report/The National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks upon the United States. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 2004.
Kressel, Neil Jeffrey. Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2002.
Miniter, Richard.
Shadow War: The Untold Story of How America is Winning
the War on Terror. Lanham, MD: National Book
Network, 2004.
Moghaddam, Fathali M.
Understanding Terrorism: Psychological Roots,
Consequences, and Interventions. Washington, DC:
American Psychological Associations, 2004.
Naftali, Timothy J.
Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterrorism.
New York: Basic Books, 2005.
Perrow, Charles.
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing our Vulnerabilities to
Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters.
Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Prados, John, ed. America Confronts Terrorism: Understanding the Danger and How to Think About It: A Documentary Record. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002.
Pyszczynski, Thomas A. In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2003.
Richardson, Jacques. War, Science, and Terrorism: From Laboratory to Open Conflict. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002.
Sidel, Mark.
More Secure, Less Free?: Antiterrorism Policy & Civil
Liberties After
September 11. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 2004.
Talbott, Strobe. The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Wilkinson, Paul and Brian M. Jenkins. Aviation Terrorism and Security. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of terrorism are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
American Heritage
Current History
Newsweek
Time
U.S. News & World Report
World Politics
VIDEOS
604 Air Force One VHS DVD
WEBSITES
America's War Against Terrorism
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html
APA Help Center.
Articles & Information: Disasters & Terrorism
http://helping.apa.org/articles/topic.php?id=4
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Documents on Terrorism
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/terrorism/terror.htm
Country Reports on Terrorism
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/
FIRST: facts on international relations and security
trends
http://first.sipri.org/
Developed by the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute and the International Relations and Security
Network. Provides information on all aspects of
conflict, military expenditures, equipment, traffic,
nuclear capability.
Government Information: Terrorism: Attacks and Responses
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/terrorism.html
September 11, 2001 Resources Academic Info
http://www.academicinfo.net/usa911.html
Terrorism
http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/terrorism.htm
Updated
10/28/2008
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