Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War

Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages. On August 19, 2014, the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled "Message to America," the clip depicted the final moments of American journalist James Foley's life--and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executioner. Foley's murder--and the choreographed killings that would follow--captured the world's attention, and the Islamic State's kidnapping campaign exploded into war. Hunting Season is a riveting account of how the world's newest and most powerful terror franchise came to target Western hostages, who was behind it, and why almost no one knew about it until it was too late.

Biographies & Memoirs

Harkin, James

True Crime

Grand Central Publishing

Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages. On August 19, 2014, the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled "Message to America," the clip depicted the final moments of American journalist James Foley's life--and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executioner. Foley's murder--and the choreographed killings that would follow--captured the world's attention, and the Islamic State's kidnapping campaign exploded into war. Hunting Season is a riveting account of how the world's newest and most powerful terror franchise came to target Western hostages, who was behind it, and why almost no one knew about it until it was too late.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Hachette Books

A New York Times Bestseller From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI and the best-selling Book of General Ignorance: 1,227 mind-bending facts. Did you know? • Cows moo in regional accents.
• The international dialing code for Russia is 007.
• The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body.
• Pants are responsible for twice as many accidents as chain saws.
• Saddam Hussein's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker.
• Heroin was originally sold as cough medicine.
1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off is a trove of the strangest, funniest, and most improbable tidbits of knowledge―all painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity.

1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

LLoyd, John

Mitchinson, John

Reference

W.W.Norton&Company

From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI, a brilliant sequel to their New York Times–best-selling 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia―informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining. Did you know?
• Wagner only ever wore pink silk underwear.
• There are 34,000 statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea.
• There is a cult in Malaysia that worships a giant teapot.
• Earthworms have five hearts.
• Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days.
• Charles Darwin's tortoise Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176.
Every fact in this magnificent little volume has been researched with punctilious care in order to bring you the truth in its purest form.

1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

A dazzling third installment of astounding new facts from the New York Times best-selling authors of 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off and 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop.
1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways is a gold mine of wide-ranging, eye-opening, brain-bursting nuggets of trivia that's impossible to put down, another "treasure trove of factoids" (National Public Radio, Weekend Edition).
Did you know?
<ul>
<li>Orchids can get jet lag</li>
<li>Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time</li>
<li>Frank Sinatra took a shower 12 times a day</li>
<li>Ladybug orgasms last for 30 minutes</li>
<li>There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie</li>
<li>Traffic lights existed before cars</li>
<li>The soil in your garden is 2 million years old</li>
</ul> ---

1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways

The New York Times best-selling authors of the QI series return with a fourth collection of mind-bending trivia.
The New York Times best-selling authors of the Quite Interesting series have made you see sideways, knocked your socks off, and left your jaw on the floor. Now John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin are back to offer even more―1,234, to be exact―shocking, enlightening, downright-fun facts that will leave you speechless…and pantomiming for more.
Did you know? 
<ul>
<li>The Big Bang was not as loud as a Motörhead concert.</li>
<li>Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.</li>
<li>According to the company that created her, Hello Kitty isn’t a cat.</li>
<li>Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are in a safety deposit box in New York.</li>
<li>McDonald’s once created bubble-gum-flavored broccoli.</li>
<li>It is impossible to hum and whisper at the same time.</li>
</ul>
Convinced it’s all hogwash? Visit QI.com/US1234 for proof of the veracity of every fact. Want more? Check out 1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways, 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop, and 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.

1,234 Quite Interesting Facts to Leave You Speechless

“Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place.”―New York Times “The Book of General Ignorance won’t make you feel dumb. It’s really a call to be more curious.”―The Associated Press From the brains behind The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and unbelievable facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first and second book in the internationally bestselling series. In this collection the great minds behind the Quite Interesting series, address even more outrageous mistakes and misunderstandings. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still totally wrong. In this most recent volume readers will be treated to questions such as: <li>Who invented the sandwich? </li>
<li>What was the best thing before sliced bread? </li>
<li>Who first ate frogs' legs?</li>
<li>Which cat never changes its spots? </li>
<li>What did Lady Godiva do? The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all.</li>

The Third Book of General Ignorance: QI: Quite Interesting

Lloyd CBE, John

Faber&Faber

Everything to Play For: The QI Book of Sports

Ptaszynski, Anna

Sports & Outdoors

The most improbable, fascinating and endlessly entertaining sporting facts and stories, from prehistory to the present day.

A Load of Old Balls: The QI History of Sport

Cyburbia : The Dangerous Idea That's Changing How We Live and Who We Are

Little,Brown

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Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War

Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War

1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop

1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways

1,234 Quite Interesting Facts to Leave You Speechless

The Third Book of General Ignorance: QI: Quite Interesting

Everything to Play For: The QI Book of Sports

A Load of Old Balls: The QI History of Sport

Cyburbia : The Dangerous Idea That's Changing How We Live and Who We Are