radicalism

"Social media has powerful potential to connect people and ideas. But the dark side of social media--pushing users toward extreme content and the medium's link to surging mass extremist attacks--has prompted calls for regulation. This book examines social media's role in the spread of extremism and whether government or business might have a role in the industry's regulation"--Provided by publisher.

". . . [looks] into two decades of movies and television--from superhero franchises including the "Dark Knight," "X-Men," and "The Avengers" and series like "The Walking Dead" and "Game of Thrones" to thrillers like "Homeland" and "24"--and emerges to argue that these shows are saturated with the values that have incited and enhnaced our extreme politics"--Adapted from dust jacket.

"A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"--.

"The 2016 presidential election brought to light the increasingly polarized nature of American politics. What brought about this political extremism, and can anything be done to curb it? This volume helps to define political extremism, explores the ways in which extremism manifests itself, including hate speech and domestic terrorism, and explains theories about how it can be counteracted"--Amazon.

Contains speeches, essays, and articles that show Helen Keller as a political activist and thinker, offering her sometimes radical opinions on disability and class, socialism, war, and women.

"In the six years since Bin Laden's death, Al-Qaeda's affiliates metastasized, and the Islamic State, its most brutal spinoff, proclaimed itself the reborn caliphate bin Laden had foreseen. Anatomy of Terror is told through the stories of the flagbearers of today's Islamic radicalism, including a Jordanian drug dealer, an air force colonel who served Saddam Hussein, a reclusive Iraqi bookworm, and one of Bin Laden's own sons"--Provided by publisher.

"In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and 'High Priest of LSD' Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, culminating in one of the trippiest journeys through the American counterculture."--OCLC.

"Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent's worst nightmare. His teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend, fell into the clutches of a radical mosque. Dimitri watched helplessly as his son, Jay, transformed from a gentle boy to a soldier in training, wearing traditional robes and following a strict diet. Completely brainwashed, Jay snuck out of the house and traveled to Syria, all but vanishing. Too late, Dimitri learned that their country, Belgium, was the leading hotbed of Islamic radicalization"--Jacket flap.

The typical terrorist follows four steps: alienation from the dominant culture, sometimes due to joblessness and discrimination; a turn to petty crime; religious awakening and radicalization; and an initiatory journey to a Muslim country to train for jihad. Why do these people choose terrorism? This question has pressing relevance in today's world. The author is a widely respected international scholar of radical Islam and has spent years studying the path towards radicalism. In this book he offers a framework for both understanding contemporary terrorism and for taking steps to combat it.