Terrorism, Al Qaeda and NBC Books

• General Terrorism
• Osama Bin Ladin and Al Qaeda
• Biochemical, Nuclear and Chemical Threats
• Survival and Self-Sufficiency

General Terrorism

• Inside Terrorism ; by Bruce Hoffman, $12.56; Provides a historical perspective on terrorism with predictions for the future.
  
  
• Terrorism: An Introduction by Jonathan R. White, Todd R. Clear, $36.95. A textbook for antiterrorist tactics, focusing on domestic and international terrorism.
  
  
• The Terrorism Reader by David J. Whitaker,: $27.95. Explores multiple aspects of terrorism and counter-terrorism.

Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda

• American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us; by Steven Emerson, one of the nation's leading expert on Islamic terrorism, hardback, $18.20. The inside story of Al Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic terrorism form a man who knows so much, Islamic death squads are after him.
  
  
• Holy War, Inc.: Inside The Secret World of Osama Bin Laden;by Peter L. Bergen, CNN's terrorism export, $18.20. This comprehensive book is the result of a four-year investigative report into the Islamic Holy War. Details on Bin Laden and his mission from his family, associates, and CIA officials.

• Sacred Rage : The Wrath of Militant Islam; by Robin Wright, $12.00. For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. This dramatic book explains why.

• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia; by Ahmed Rashid, hardback, $29.95. All about the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden by a Pakistani journalist who has spent much of his career in the shadowy world of Afghanistan in the days before September 11.
  

• Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network by Yonah Alexander,Michael S. Swetnam; $14.00.

Biological, Nuclear and Chemical weapons

• Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox by Jonathan B. Tucker, hardcover, $18.20. I think the title says it all...a complete review of small pox through the ages and possibly into the future as a bioweapon.
  
  
• Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook by Frederick R. Sidell, $29.25. The professional standard since 1998. Written by the top experts in the field and used by more Federal, state and local law enforcement, fire, and emergency responders than any other book of its kind.
  
  
• Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Ken Alibek, $11.16. Written by a scientist in the former Soviet Union's Bioweapons program who has since defected to the United States, he tells of loading anthrax spores into the nose cone of an SS-18 missile. Biohazard shows not only how disease can become a deliberate tool of war, but that it almost did.
  
  
• Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda by Khidr Abd Al-Abbas Hamzah, Jeff Stein (Collaborator), Khidhir Hamza, $18.20. If you have any doubts that Saddam is pursuing a nuclear option, this book will shatter them. Written by the man who helped design Saddam's nuclear bomb.
  
  
• Plague Wars : A True Story of Biological Warfare by Tom Mangold, Jeff Goldberg, Goldberg Mangold List Price, $19.56. Covers the historichal and present efforts by countries like Russia, South Africa, Iraq and North Korea to develop biological weapons. Also covers what various civilian and military organizations to combat the threat. Very thorough.
  
  
• Nuclear War Survival Skills : Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition by Cresson H. Kearny List Price: $19.50. One of the most authoritative works on how to prepare for and survive a nuclear war. This was one of the first books on survival Captain Dave ever read. It includes extensive details on constructing fallout shelters and blast shelters, as well as plans for a radiation detection device. Also provides information on radiation poisoning and exposure. Reading this book will convince you that you can survive nuclear war!
  
  
• Life After Doomsday : A Survivalist Guide to Nuclear War and Other Major Disasters by Bruce D. Clayton, $20.96. A classic guide on how to prepare for and survive nuclear war and other disasters. Includes some information from the above "Nuclear War Survival Skills."
  

Survival, Retreat and Self-sufficiency

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• Carla Emory's Encyclopedia of Country Living, $19.56. A definitive classic on food, gardening, and self-sufficient living and a complete resource for living off the land. More than 800 pages of collected wisdom from country maven, Carla Emery--how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, catch a pig, make soap, work with bees, etc., etc.

• Where There is No Doctor. By Werner. Hesperian Foundation 1992 $17. If you buy no other medical book, you must have this one. This is the must-have of survival medicine; it WILL save lives.

• Where There is No Dentist. By Dickson. Hesperian Foundation 1983, $12. The only book of its kind. Very good. Dental care is a very underestimated survival problem.
  
  
• Back to Basics : How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills; $21.00: The title says it all, conveyed as only Reader's Digest can. Read the reviews at Amazon.com for more information on this excellent guide to recovering the skills and simple pleasures of our forefathers, from buying land and building on it to traditional crafts and homesteading skills.
  

• The Survival Retreat; by Ragnar Benson; $9.60; The original work, written when we were preparing to survive nuclear attack or government intervention. Hmm. Not much has changed, has it?

• The Modern Survival Retreat : A New and Vital Approach to Retreat Theory and Practice; by Ragnar Benson; $16.00; An updated version of the old favorite.

• Living Without Electricity; by Stephen Scott, Kenneth Pelican; $7.95.

• How to Live Without Electricity -- And Like It; by Alit Evangelista; $13.95; Designed to help you get off the grid and become independent on outside electricity providers.

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