fanaticism

Traces the history of terrorism around the world, and argues that the ready availability of weapons of mass destruction is changing the character of terrorism, making the threat to human life must greater than it was in the past.

Based on the experience of a high-school history class in April, 1967, in Palo Alto, Calif. Explores what happened when a teacher started a Nazi-like movement called The Wave in his history class to show the students the effects of such a movement.

A deeply spiritual seventeen-year-old takes a radical step to save himself from the fanaticism of his found-again Christian parents.

After joining her new friends in the religious group called Fishers of Men, Dorry finds herself immersed in a cult from which she must struggle to extricate herself.

Thirteen-year-old Cassina Dixon narrates her existence after being killed in a terrorist bombing, when, as a "para-spirit," she passes through a series of hosts, including the bomber and the religious zealot who would force him to kill again.

When voices only he can hear tells Lucas Darby to run, he runs, telling his sister Rayne not to look for him. Searching for him anyway, Rayne meets Gabriel Stewart, a runaway with mysterious powers, and they discover that Lucas is running a church group called the Believers that hunts "Indigo," or psychic teens, fearing them to be man's next stage of evolution. Now, Rayne must depend on Gabe, who has a terrifying new power awakening inside him.

Contains 290 alphabetically arranged entries that describe the history, activities, and beliefs of active and influential extremists and extremist groups since 1980, including the Irish Republican Army, Osama Bin Laden, and the Skinhead Movement, and includes a chronology of terrorist events from 1858 to 2004.

After joining her new friends in the religious group called Fishers of Men, Dorry finds herself immersed in a cult from which she must struggle to extricate herself.