The Business of Martyrdom is the only comprehensive history of suicide bombing from its origins in Imperial Russia to the present day. It makes use of a framewo

Offers a complete history of the tactic of suicide bombing, from its origins in Imperial Russia to the Islamic radicals of today.

Adam Lankford looks at the motivation of suicide bombers and other rampage killers.

The war in Iraq was supposed to be easy. Instead it has delivered the message that Islamic resistance and martyrdom can defeat the only remaining superpower, ju

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept a journal his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. In these first journals the most important and formative years of the