false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg 174885 4 <B>This brief history of the car bomb traces the political development of this most influential weapon of terror and resistance.</B><BR><BR>On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype the car bomb has evolved into a "poor man's air force," a generic weapon of mass destruction that now craters cities from Bombay to Oklahoma City. In this gripping and disturbing history, Mike Davis traces its worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies&#151;particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan&#151;in globalizing urban terrorist techniques. Davis argues that it is the incessant impact of car bombs, rather than the more apocalyptic threats of nuclear or bio-terrorism, that is changing cities and urban lifestyles, as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with "rings of steel" against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat. 168939 1 4 2007 Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb total:92|5:19|4:47|3:20|2:5|1:1| 92 354 147 33 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 4 1 false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 19:08:35 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 20:55:52 -0800 2009
At his worst, Davis has the favorite vice of American pundits (left or right) of simply channel-surf...more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 5 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 27 14:38:52 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 14:39:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 4 1 false Fri Apr 11 00:39:50 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 00:52:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 4 0 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 10:18:06 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 14:19:10 -0800 2009
The book is a short history of the car bomb from its humble beginnings on Wall Street to its evolution in scope and methodology as a globalized means of leveling the battlefield in just about eve...more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 4 0 false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 20:57:14 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 14:47:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 3 0 false Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 17 23:21:07 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 17 23:21:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4942723 9781844672943 6 3 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223383973m/4942723.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4942723.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 4 0 false Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 06:41:46 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 09:52:19 -0800 2009
It didn't have the rhetorical or intellectual flourishes that I wanted it to, like Sven Lindqvist or Rebecca Solnit would have done. But it's a sobering, worthwhile read. ]]> 4942723 9781844672943 6 3 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223383973m/4942723.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4942723.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 4 0 false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 11:21:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 16:26:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 4 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 23 19:01:24 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 21:47:03 -0700 2009 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 2 0 false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 30 18:02:34 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 18 12:40:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 5 0 false Wed Sep 12 05:50:06 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 07:13:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 3 0 false Mon Nov 03 18:24:42 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 18:24:42 -0800 2008 From here, Davis travels the world wherever car bombs have been employed: Algeria, Lebanon, Vietnam, and on. A weapon of the oppressed, supposed...more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 3 0 false Mon May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 10:35:17 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 08:53:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 3 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu May 08 17:32:43 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 17:41:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 3 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 08:13:06 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 08:20:42 -0700 2007 Here's why you should read it anyway: every time I hear more news about vehicle bombs a...more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 4 0 false Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 15:24:43 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 15:27:12 -0700 2008 1 2) don't read this if you're afraid of dying from car bombs
3) read this anyway

mike davis, per a recent discussion i had with a person, is mike davis. i don't mean that in the sense that you should already know who he is -- he's a bit to...more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 3 0 false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 08:40:12 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 06:35:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 11:55:52 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 11:58:47 -0800 2008 basically it describes emotion and talks about thoughts o the terrorists.
we get to learn what the think before they do it and what are their motives to commit their crimes.
although the book opened my eyes to a lot of aspect i never thought of bef...more...]]> 174885 1844671321 9781844671328 84 30 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431148m/174885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174885.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 2 0 false Thu Dec 27 14:46:51 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 15:21:27 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4942723 9781844672943 6 3 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223383973m/4942723.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4942723.Buda_s_Wagon_A_Brief_History_of_the_Car_Bomb 3 0 false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 04:42:23 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 00:06:27 -0700 2008
It does get...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=174885