This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region’s Palestinians become a majority.The book charts Israel’s increasingly desperate responses to its predicament including military repression of Palestinian dissent on both sides of the Green Line; accusations that Israel's Palestinian citizens and the Palestinian Authority are secretly conspiring to subvert...

Journalist Jonathan Cook explores Israel's key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel's own.This concise and clearly argued book makes the case that Israel's desire to be the sole regional power in the Middle East neatly chimed with Bush's objectives in the 'war on terror'.Examining a host of rel...

Jerry O'Shaughnessy is a heavy drinking, wise cracking restaurant owner when into his bar walks a private investigator looking for a missing girl. Jerry, who'd previously had a career as a journalist, gets involved in the search. Set over the course of a summer season in Vacationland, this wild tale is steeped in both realism and fantasy. Shark attacks, an abduction by a neo-nazi gang, espionage at the Naval Shipyard, human and drug trafficking by international mafiosos, drones, boats, sur...

Palestine is fast disappearing. Over many decades Israel has developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinian people in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation. It has industrialized Palestinian despair through ever more sophisticated systems of curfews, checkpoints, walls, permits and land grabs. It has transformed the West Bank and Gaza into laboratories for testing the infrastructure of confinement, creating a lucrative 'defence' industry by pi...

Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and political commentators, including former US president Jimmy Carter and UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, have argued that Israel's treatment of its Arab-Israeli citizens and the people of the occupied territories amounts to a system of oppression no less brutal or inhumane than that of South Afric...

Seventeen writers provide a wealth of practical information and experience of the world of bursars. Topics include: bursars and Heads; the all-embracing nature of the job; the bursar and the bursarial team; introductory guide to child protection; policy statements and the rolling review; strategic planning, presenting accounts, finance and budgeting issues; building and maintenance; strategic planning and project management; clerk to the governors; legal issues; recruiting a bursar; the bu...

Commercials tell us what to buy. Songs tell us what to feel. News channels tell us what to think. Television shows us what we should see.What do you do when a small group of people control all of these outlets?Up is down. Danger is safe. Wrong is right.Jake Muller has been dropped into a world that has been engineered to destroy him… good luck with that.

Join the exciting, faith-based adventure series!When paranormal investigator Jason Baxter and his twin children visit the eerie Ravensbeak Manor, they expect to debunk a few ghost stories. Instead, they stumble upon a decades-old secret that hits shockingly close to home.Twelve-year-old twins Abbie and Eric Baxter are used to helping their dad investigate spooky places, but something about this crumbling Victorian mansion feels different. Between m...

Join the exciting, faith-based adventure series!When paranormal investigator Jason Baxter and his twin children return to Lake Serenity for a much-needed family vacation, they expect healing—not haunting. Instead, they discover a ghostly local legend might be all too real.Twelve-year-old twins Abbie and Eric Baxter are looking forward to revisiting their favorite childhood vacation spot, but Eric begins experiencing disturbing phenomena: strange mu...

This work presents an ongoing international dialogue about the theory and Practice Of Curriculum Negotiating In The Classroom At Elementary, primary, secondary and university levels.

Join the exciting, faith-based adventure series!Strange events at a Gold Rush-era mine... two inquisitive kids... what could go wrong?When professional skeptic and YouTuber Jason Baxter and his 12-year-old twins, Eric and Abbie, travel to Skagway, Alaska to investigate reports of paranormal activity at the legendary Death Trap Mine, they quickly find themselves caught in the middle of a local conflict.Their search for the truth leads them to eviden...

First published in 1981.The primary purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In addition to major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly – the authors discuss writers such as Austen, Hazlitt and Burke, who are usually studied in a different context, and genres such as fiction and political writing, which are often cut off from the central body of poetry.An original and highly stimulated s...