Pre-Sept 11 books on terrorism prescient list
A preface to post 9/11 interest, this note highlights several preexisting works on terrorism and its leaders. It covers Bodansky on Bin Laden, Cooley on Afghan wars and CIA activity, CQ’s Middle East guide, Reeve’s New Jackals, Miller Engelberg and Broad’s Germs, and Day of Terror as early WTC and Pentagon imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
bin Laden
America
Yossef Bodansky
Congressional Task Force On
U.S. Departments of State and Defense
Bodansky
United States
Osama
Afghanistan
South Asia
Middle East
John Cooley
U.S
CIA
Congressional Quarterly
Ramzi Yousef
Osama bin Laden
Simon Reeve
Reeve
Yousef
World Trade Center
New York Times
Judith Miller
Stephen Engelberg
William Broad
Saddam Hussein
Pentagon
Kansas State scholar: Harry Potter success no magic
Philip Nel of Kansas State University, assistant professor of English, wrote J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: A Reader's Guide. The book analyzes language, marketing, and literary depth, noting initial publisher secrecy and the series' rapid rise. Nel continues with a lecture on language transformation and plans a course titled Harry Potter's Library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas State
Manhattan
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
Philip Nel
Kansas State University
Nel
Continuum International Publishing Group Inc
New York
Continuum
Rowling
Jaanne Rowling
Palestinian writer Edward Said wins $200000 lifetime award
New York AP Columbia University professor Edward Said, a vocal advocate for the Palestinian cause, receives the Lannan Foundation’s lifetime achievement prize worth $200,000 for non fiction work. The Santa Fe foundation will also present a cultural freedom award to Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in spring.
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New York
Columbia University
Edward Said
Lannan Foundation
Ida
Ida Yohmee Aner
Yasser Arafat
Santa Fe
N.M
Hamilton statue guards fate of a monument to a founder
A solitary Hamilton statue on a narrow Manhattan street confronts the aging Hamilton Grange mansion, relocated and squeezed between a high rise and a church. The piece traces Hamiltons life from Federalist architect to political lightning rod, noting evolving stature as authors, historians, and biographers reassess his legacy.
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New York
Alexander Hamilton
Manhattan
Hamilton Grange
Hamilton
Aaron Burr
America
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Joanne Freeman
Yale University
Library of America
Adams
David McCullough
National Park Service
Harlem
Joseph Ellis
Founding Brothers
Ron Chernow
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Franklin
Washington
Madison
Chernow
British West Indies
King’s College
Columbia University
Elizabeth Schuyler
Britain
U.S
James Madison
John Jay
Hamilton Treasury
Wall Street
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Cooley
Barbara
Ksu.edu
Ottawa Vision
Ottawa
Ottawa Vision Steering Committee
Vision Steering Committee
John Merrell
City of
Desi
Civic Image
Lawrence
Baker University
Kansas Speedway
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