The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) write by Apuleius of Madauros. This book was released on 2015-08-24. The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Preliminary material /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- INTRODUCTION /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- SIGLA /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- TEXT AND TRANSLATION /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- COMMENTARY /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- ADDENDA /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CONSULTED /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- GENERAL INDEX /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS.
The ISIS Reader
The ISIS Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The ISIS Reader write by Haroro J. Ingram. This book was released on 2020-01-01. The ISIS Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of its "Caliphate" declaration in 2014, the self-described Islamic State has been the focus of countless academic papers, government studies, media commentaries and documentaries. Despite all this attention, persistent myths continue to shape--and misdirect--public understanding and strategic policy decisions. A significant factor in this trend has been a strong disinclination to engage critically with Islamic State's speeches and writings--as if doing so reflects empathy with the movement's goals or, even more absurdly, may itself lead to radicalisation. Going beyond the descriptive and the sensationalist, this volume presents and analyses a series of milestone Islamic State primary source materials. Scholar-practitioners with field experience in confronting the movement explore and contextualise its approach to warfare, propaganda and governance, examining the factors behind its dramatic evolution from failed proto-state in 2010 to standard-bearer of global jihadism in 2014, to besieged insurgency in 2018. The ISIS Reader will help anyone--students and journalists, military personnel, civil servants and inquisitive observers--to better understand not only the evolution of Islamic State and the dynamics of asymmetric warfare, but the importance of primary sources in doing so.
ISIS
ISIS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ISIS write by Michael Weiss. This book was released on 2015-01-29. ISIS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revelatory look inside the world's most dangerous terrorist group. Initially dismissed by US President Barack Obama, along with other fledgling terrorist groups, as a “jayvee squad” compared to al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world by conquering massive territories in both countries and promising to create a vast new Muslim caliphate that observes the strict dictates of Sharia law. In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who behead Western hostages in slickly produced videos and have conquered territory equal to the size of Great Britain. Beginning with the early days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS’s first incarnation as “al-Qaeda in Iraq,” Weiss and Hassan explain who the key players are—from their elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the former Saddam Baathists in their ranks—where they come from, how the movement has attracted both local and global support, and where their financing comes from. Political and military maneuvering by the United States, Iraq, Iran, and Syria have all fueled ISIS’s astonishing and explosive expansion. Drawing on original interviews with former US military officials and current ISIS fighters, the authors also reveal the internecine struggles within the movement itself, as well as ISIS’s bloody hatred of Shiite Muslims, which is generating another sectarian war in the region. Just like the one the US thought it had stopped in 2011 in Iraq. Past is prologue and America’s legacy in the Middle East is sowing a new generation of terror.
Black Flags
Black Flags - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Flags write by Joby Warrick. This book was released on 2016-09-06. Black Flags available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. With a new Afterword Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today’s most dangerous extremist threat.
The Rise of Islamic State
The Rise of Islamic State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Islamic State write by Patrick Cockburn. This book was released on 2020. The Rise of Islamic State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first became notorious in the shape of al-Qa'ida at the turn of century. //Today, that's changed. Exploiting the missteps of the West's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, as well as its misjudgments in relation to Syria and the uprisings of the Arab Spring, jihadist organizations, of which ISIS is the most important, are swiftly expanding. They now control a geographical territory greater in size than Britain or Michigan, stretching from the Sunni heartlands in the north and west of Iraq through a broad swath of north-east Syria. On the back of their capture of Mosul and much of northern Iraq in June 2014, the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been declared the head of a new caliphate that demands the allegiance of all Muslims. The secular, democratic politics that were supposedly at the fore of the Arab Spring have been buried by the return of the jihadis writing with customary calmness and clarity, and drawing on unrivaled experience as a reporter in the region, Cockburn analyzes the unfolding of one of the West's greatest foreign policy debacles and the rise of the new jihadis.//Patrick Cockburn is currently a Middle East correspondent for the Independent. His book on Iraq's recent history, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Awards. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009. He was named Foreign Commentator of the Year by the Comment Awards in 2013.
