Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups

Dr Stephen E. Atkins, librarian at Texas A&M University, has published half a dozen supremely competent works of reference since 1989. His Dictionary of Atomic Energy (Atkins, 2000) received the Booklist Editor's Choice Award for 2000. His Terrorism: A Handbook (Atkins, 1992) and Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups (Atkins, 2002) are deservedly acclaimed for their meticulous scholarship, balance and sobriety. Sobriety is a virtue much desired – and too rarely encountered – in topics fraught by fear, prejudice, hatred, and contaminated by misinformation, propaganda, lies and brainwashing. Over the past century...