Moving beyond perpetrator-centred questions, this open access book explores how everyday objects such as kitchen knives and vans become lethal weapons, and how a new materialist approach can further our understanding of terror events and could be used to prevent future violence. Despite varied restrictions, explosives, guns, knives, and vehicles are readily available and kill thousands of people every year, yet thus far have played a marginal role in publications in security and terrorism studies. Katharina Karcher approaches terrorism as a 'material-discursive' phenomenon that comes into being through repeated boundary-drawing practices involving both human and non-human agencies. Case studies from across Europe, the US and the Middle East offer critical insights into the material and cultural evolution of the objects involved in mass shootings, suicide bombings, stabbings, and vehicle rammings. Drawing on data from court files, press coverage and interviews, this study offers the first in depth analysis of the material and discursive practices that create terrorist weapons, and that exclude other objects from this category. Karcher also shows how educational campaigns and policy measures that consider the agency of objects and promote a more-than-human ethic of care can be used to save lives beyond the contentious area of counter-terrorism.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

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Dead Ends is the next soaring YA verse-novel by Carnegie-nominated author and poet Ashley Hickson-Lovence.Something is going down at Singer Court.Something big.It's Saturday morning and fourteen-year-old Toby "Mastermind" McKenzie and his younger brother Tré are forced to evacuate their block by armed officers.Set over the course of a single day, this is the nail-bitingly thrilling and poetic tale of a bright young Black boy using the power of courage, friendship and community to save the day.

This little lion has a soft swishy tail. And this little lion hasa big fluffy mane. But can you find your little lion?This new touch and feel series features friendly characters withsoft and textured patches to explore that are perfect for babiesand toddlers. Each book ends with a bright felt flap and transformative peekaboomirror!

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMasters turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the hyper partisanship of American politics. With the candor of a soldier and the perspective of a historian, McMaster rises above the fray to lay bare the good, the bad, and the ugly of Trumps presidency and give readers insight into what a second Trump term would look like.While all administrations are subject to backstabbing and infighting, some of Trumps more unscrupulous political advisors were determined to undermine McMaster and others to advance their narrow agendas. McMaster writes candidly about Cabinet officials who, deeply disturbed by Trumps language and behavior, prioritized controlling the President over collaborating to provide the President with options.McMaster offers a frank and fresh assessment of the achievements and failures of his tenure as National Security Advisor and the challenging task of maintaining ones bearings and focus on the mission in a hectic and malicious environment.Determined to transcend the war within the administration and focus on national security priorities, McMaster forged coalitions in Washington and internationally to help Trump advance U.S. interests. Trumps character and personality helped him make tough decisions, but sometimes prevented him from sticking to them. McMaster adroitly assesses the record of Trumps presidency in comparison to the Obama and Biden administrations.With the 2024 election on the horizon, At War with Ourselves highlights the crucial importance of competence in foreign policy, and makes plain the need for leaders who possess the character and intellect to guide the United States in a tumultuous world.

"Roberta Leem a lovely Berkeley student of unusual promise, went running one November Sunday in 1984 with her lover, Bradley Page. He came back alone. Roberta, sometimes volatile and moody, had run off on her own, he said. When she failed to return, one of the largest missing-person searches in California history was launched. Five weeks later, her battered body was found on a bed of branches in a shallow grave. Within hours, Page had confessed to the murder of Roberta Lee- and then recanted. The story of the dead girl had begun. Melanie Thernstrom, a brilliant young writer and poet, was Roberta's closest friend. IN this stunning debut, she has written a heartbreaking tribute, both elegy and celebration, to her lost friend. IN a haunting, many-layered work of striking originality, we experience the horrifying crime at its center, the agonizing search for the body, the trial and its wrenching, explosive climax, the sinister and deceptively bland defendant. Through the filter of memory, Roberta herself- gifted, fiercly intelligent, yearning for love- is intensely alive. Even in a time of numbing violence, every reader will mourn the loss of this one spirited young girl"--

A life in pictures of a New York City performance artist, musician, and icon.New York City icon Kembra Pfahler has terrorized and tantalized audiences since her arrival in the Lower East Side in the early 1980s. Originally associated with the Cinema of Transgression, Pfahler supported her early films with work at an independent porn studio. In the 1990s, she launched The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, a rock band compared to Kiss, Alice Cooper, and White Zombie.Nude and covered in paint, with blackened teeth and bouffant hair, Pfahler’s reputation for wild performances reached far beyond the Lower East Side. Elements of kabuki theater, surfing, and enormous ad-hoc props appeared in her legendary shows and performance art. Pfahler titillated gallery-goers with openings featuring dozens of painted women, butt-prints, and performances involving endurance and strength. Her extended visual lexicon incorporates occult imagery, bondage, and pin-ups; experimental sets featuring eight-foot vinyl records and miniature Statues of Liberty that transform as they reappear in her work.Through teaching, activism, and performance art, Pfahler serves as a mentor to students and, in recent years, muse to designers including Rick Owens, Casey Cadwallader, and Alessandro Michele. Collecting memories from collaborators and five decades of ephemera, performance documentation, and more, this book celebrates Kembra Pfahler as counter-cultural star.

A picture book plus CD set from Sandra Boynton, featuring original songs performed by classic rock-and-roll talent.

Writer/Artist Sean Gordon Murphy returns to the White Knight universe with a new take on Neo-Gotham and Terry McGinnis in a deluxe hardcover from DC Black Label.

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Instant New York Times BestsellerA searing, vital investigation of the Republican Partys dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winningRachel Maddow Showproducer and bestselling author ofThe Impostors.There is nobody who is writing in an episodic way who has more influence on the way I think about politics than Steve Benen.Rachel MaddowFor as long as historical records have existed, authoritarian regimes have tried to rewrite history to suit their purposes, using their dictatorial powers to create myths, spread propaganda, justify decisions, erase opponents, and even dispose of crimes.As the Republican Party becomes increasingly radicalized, the GOP is putting their own twist on a similarly despotic script. Indeed, the party is taking dangerous, aggressive steps to rewrite historyand not just from generations past.Unable to put a positive spin on Trump-era scandals and fiascos, GOP voices and their allies have grown determined to rewrite the stories of the last few yearsfrom the 2020 election results and the horror of January 6thto their own legislative recordtreating the recent past as an enemy to be overpowered, crushed, and conquered. The consequences for our future, in turn, are dramatic.Extraordinarily timely and undeniably important, Steve Benens new book tells the staggering chronicle of the Republican partys unsettling attempts at historical revisionism. It reveals not only how dependent they have grown on the tactic, but also how dangerous the consequences are if we allow the party to continue. The stakes, Benen argues, couldnt be higher: the future of democracy hinges on both our accurate understanding of events and the end of alternative narratives that challenge reality.