New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. Her first book was published by Dell, and since then she has written more than one hundred novels and novellas. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, Graham asserts that her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes that her career has been an incredible gift. Romance Writers of America presented Heather Graham with the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.
There are many books on the roots of terrorism but this one offers an analysis that is not only engaging and highly readable but well informed and profoundly insightful, based on the authors understanding of history, culture, politics and the social psychology of the would-be terrorist. Using the metaphor of a staircase, Fathali Moghaddam describes a step-by-step process that can lead people to identify themselves as terrorists. Drawing on his extensive research and travel, he demonstrates how terrorism arises from social and cultural contexts and can be rooted out by changing the contexts that support terrorism. -Daniel J. Christie Professor of Psychology Ohio State University