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"A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition--a logical starting point in a search for understanding-tells us only that extremism is 'the quality or state of being extreme.' In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, J. M. Berger offers a nuanced introduction to extremist movements, explaining...

After Marxism calls for a new radical coalition centered around morality and utopian sensibility. The book explores the kinds of commitments, values, and approaches to social realities that may still be described as radical today. These include the determination to end every form of oppression a freedom to combine many different theories and kinds of analysis an open and experimental attitude an appreciation of modernity's great promise of being on...

From the Publisher: Fundamentalism is seen as the major threat to world peace today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11, 2001. But what does "fundamentalism" really mean? Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the use of the term "fundamentalist" has expanded to include a diverse range of radical conservatives and ideological purists, not all religious. Fundamentalism could...

Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. In Terrorism as Crime, Mark S. Hamm presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods. Whether in Oklahoma City or London, Terrorism as Crime demonstrates that criminal activity...

Follows the members of two families whose lives are impacted by alcohol addiction and Prohibition.

Traces the movement's origins to the 1970s, and discusses the rise of Deep Ecology which challenges the ethics of modern industrial society.

"This is the first book to document the extent of political cults on both the right and the left and to explain their significance for mainstream political organizations. The authors begin by outlining the defining characteristics of cults in general, and in ten chapters, they analyze the extent to which a variety of well-known movements fall within the spectrum of what could be defined as cultic organizations, covering such groups and individuals...

Contains profiles of 150 extremist groups, most of which are active in some form in the twenty-first century, providing insights into their history, philosophy, and motivations; arranged alphabetically with glossaries and indexes.

Author is believed lesbian & 1st woman playwright in this century to achieve any notice.