ABOUT THE AUTHOR r. Moti Nissani holds degrees in philosophy, psychology, and
genetics. He taught at the Interdisciplinary Studies Program and the Department of Biology …

Encyclopedia of Assassinations is the most comprehensive handbook on over 400
assassinations, attempts, and plots against political figures. The narrative entries detail …

Representing a unique reference tool for readers interested in history, criminology, or
terrorism, this book provides the most complete and up-to-date coverage of assassinations …

Abstract The book Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths is a survey of a vast amount of human
wrongdoing. It lays bare the motivations of aggressors who wish to subjugate nations or …

Previous decades hold memories that many would like to forget. The 1960s had the Vietnam
war and a number of shocking political assassinations, the 1970s Watergate and the Iranian …

A NEW documentary,''The Act of Killing,''explores the human capacity for mass murder. It
addresses the Indonesian fratricide of the mid-1960s, in which a million people may have …

'Written with Burleigh's characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is
brilliant on the Americans in Vietnam, for example) and full of surprising vignettes'–The …

Abstract BEGINNING WITH THE DAYS OF THE CALIPHS, THE BOOK EXAMINES THE
IMPACT OF THE ASSASSIN ON HISTORY, SOCIETY AS THE ASSASSIN, ASSASSINS AS …

This book brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the
many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that …

And the Rest Is History takes readers on a traveling circus from Paris to Beirut, Baghdad,
and beyond, introducing them to spies and terrorists, arms dealers and crooks, and along …