My Life is a Weapon : A Modern History of Suicide Bombing (Record no. 1078)
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| fixed length control field | 02208nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 8170492327 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.625 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Reuter, Christoph |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | My Life is a Weapon : A Modern History of Suicide Bombing |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi, India |
| Name of publisher | Manas Publications |
| Year of publication | 2005 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | viii,200 Pges |
| Other physical details | 16x24 cm |
| -- | HB |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include Notes and Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | What kind of people are suicide bombers? How do they justify their actions? In this meticulously researched and sensitively written book, journalist Christoph Reuter argues that popular views of these young men and women--as crazed fanatics or brainwashed automatons--fall short of the mark. In many cases these modern-day martyrs are well-educated young adults who turn themselves into human bombs willingly and eagerly--to exact revenge on a more powerful enemy, perceived as both unjust and oppressive. Suicide assassins are determined to make a difference, for once in their lives, no matter what the cost. As Reuter's many interviews with would-be martyrs, their trainers, friends, and relatives reveal, the bombers are motivated more by how they expect to be remembered--as heroic figures--than by religion-infused visions of a blissful life to come. Reuter, who spent eight years researching the book, moves from the broken survivors of the childrens' suicide brigades in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, to the war-torn Lebanon of Hezbollah, to Israeli-occupied Palestinian land, and to regions as disparate as Sri Lanka, Chechnya, and Kurdistan. He tells a disturbing story of the modern globalization of suicide bombing--orchestrated, as his own investigations have helped to establish, by the shadowy Al Qaeda network and unintentionally enabled by wrong-headed policies of Western governments. In a final, hopeful chapter, Reuter points to today's postrevolutionary, post-Khomeini Iran, where a new social environment renounces the horrific practice in the very place where it was enthusiastically embraced just decades ago. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Martyrdom--Islam |
| -- | Suicide bombers |
| -- | Violence--Religious aspects--Islam |
| -- | Arab-Israeli conflict |
| -- | Islam and politics |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Translated by Helena Ragg-Kirkby |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2016-11-22 | MSL | 1006.00 | 303.625 R442M 2005 | 15163 | Books |