Terrorism Reference Library: Biographies

by Gale Cengage Learning (Editor), James L. Outman

This 3-vol. set provides students with an understanding of the complex issue of global terrorism. Terrorism Reference Biographies includes 26 biographical sketches of terrorists and counter-terrorists, giving students insight into the people associated with the issue, both historical and contemporary.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published December 2, 2002

About the author

Gale is an educational publishing company based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the United States, in the western suburbs of Detroit. It was part of the Thomson Learning division of the Thomson Corporation, a Canadian company, but became part of Cengage Learning in 2007.

The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group, is active in research and educational publishing for public and academic libraries, schools and businesses. The company may be best known for its full-text magazine and newspaper database, InfoTrac, and other online databases accessible from schools and libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion, history and social science.

Founded in Detroit in 1954 by Frederick Gale Ruffner, it was acquired by Thomson in 1985.