* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2012*Since its release in 2009 Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide has become an essential primer for undergraduate students and activists getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction.This new updated and expanded edition includes information on the Israeli blockade and attacks on the G...

Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official 'peace process' and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.What the Israeli right-wing calls 'the demographic problem' Ben White identifies as 'the democratic problem' which goes to the heart of the conflict. Israel defines itself not as a state of its citizens, but as a Jewish state, despite the substantial and increasing Palestinian population. White ...

Texas Ranger Ira Pearson is trailing a herd of rustled cattle when he is ambushed and left for dead. Angry and sore, he enlists the help of retired Ranger Bert Weston in the pursuit.But whoever is driving this herd of stolen cattle, and apparently using outlaws to drive them, is not worried about being caught. In fact, it almost seems as if they are leading Ira into a trap.A West Texas mystery as Ira Pearson is drawn further and further into a black widow's web.

John Overstreet was a cowboy for a west Texas ranch when he killed a man in self-defense. Forced to leave the country or fight the man's whole family, he follows his fortune to Como, Colorado, and the ULC Ranch. As the years go by and he tries to build both the 'You'll See' and himself into something, he must face blizzards, fires and gold-hunters. He pursues love and fortune as he sees the turn of the century bring changes to transportation and every aspect of life. But he must keep looki...

Morgan James rode onto the lonely T-Bell ranch just north of McKeon, TX, ahead of a necktie party. There, he found that the spread was owned and run by a strange and quiet woman, whom the local children said was a witch. Morgan didn't believe that story, but he came to think that death stalked the T-Bell range.

He guessed he was about nine years old when he woke up by that dusty road in far west Texas, beaten, bruised and bloodied. He didn't remember where he came from or even what his name was.He found his way to a saloon in the New Mexico territory and there he learned how to swamp out a bar and watch for a bottom deal. On a cattle drive to Wyoming in his fourteenth year, he was finally given a name, and the world discovered that he was lightning-fast with a six-gun.Still, he ha...

John kills a man in a gunfight in a Breckenridge Cafe. He went to the mining town to learn about gold, and came back with something much more a wife!Meanwhile, someone is buying up the land all around the 'You'll See', at the point of a gun when necessary. But no offers have been made on the 'You'll See'. John is wondering why until he learns the name of the family behind the C Bar Bellows.

Six men ride into the little town of Rook, in the Texas panhandle, and stopped in front of the bank. Six men known to be members of the vicious Lawrence gang. Moments later, all six lie dead in the street, the air filled with the smell of gunpowder and their blood oozing from multiple gunshot wounds apiece to mingle in the dirt.Into town a few days later rides Texas Ranger Ira 'Doc' Pearson. No one in the government or the rangers denies that the Lawrence Gang got what they deserved...

When Portly Ben Rousterman tried to hold up the Third National Bank, he paid for the mistake with his life, and roiled the far west Texas town of Gunfighter's Gulch.Into the story with a fierce indifference ride the principals:· Raccoon Jack Carter, big game hunter with an oversized personality and a powerful thirst for avenging his fallen brother.· Sheriff Darren, the overweight, poor-on-the shoot sheriff with the massive wife must contain the trouble before it get...

Texas Ranger Ira 'Doc' Pearson rides again to bring peace and justice to the Old West!Texas Ranger Ira Pearson is sent to Van Bent, a town in far west Texas, to try and avert a range war. Under cover as the town doctor, Ira finds that the whole area is simmering, seemingly just waiting to boil over. Still, as he investigates, Ira becomes convinced there is someone else egging on the fight. Ira is determined to find out who it is and stop them before a full-fledged war breaks out.

In this unique gallery book, historical shots of people, cars, events, tracks, shops, and other NASCAR landmarks are paired with comparable modern shots to present a fascinating review of America's top motorsport. See what Darlington looked like when it was built in 1950 compared to what it looks like now. Get a real sense of how pit stops have changed between 1949 and today. Compare a Ford stock car from 1962 with one from 2009. Nowhere else can NASCAR fans so graphically trace the evolut...

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet the Palestinian minimum, or the standards of international law.But while the situation on the ground is bleak, Ben White argues that there are widening cracks in Israel's traditional pillars of support. Opposition to Israeli policie...