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...

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...

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...

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...

Shedding new light on both classic and lesser-known works in the Melville canon with particular attention to the author's literary use of the Bible, Neither Believer Nor Infidel examines the debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith that infused Herman Melville's writings following Moby-Dick. Jonathan A. Cook's study is the first to focus on the decisive role of faith and doubt in Melville's writings following his mi...

Theodora's Locket is a full-cast, faith-based, family-friendly audio drama inspired by the 1909 story "Christmas at Red Butte" by L.M. Montgomery. In this adaptation, an 11-person international cast brings you a rendition of this tale in a way it hasn't been told before. Fresh new dialogue, scenes that will pull at your heart strings, amazing soundscapes, and beautiful music bring you inside the story. Our production remains true to the original story and demonstrates how a selfless act, i...

A kingdom burdened by war, taxes, and a tyrannical monarch...As England struggles to carry on in the absence of the good King Richard, other forces begin gathering to grab power. Meanwhile, those who suffer most are the common folk, crushed under the weight of excessive taxation and lawlessness.Rich soundscapes, original music, and compelling voice acting bring the medieval world of Robin Hood to life in this faith-based tale, immersing listeners in an epic tale of bravery ...

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...

In Inscrutable Malice**, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel.** Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville's creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work.

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...

Southern Louisiana. 1954. Three men lie dead in a diner. What’s behind it? Lies. Power. Corruption. Who is behind it? That’s for Sheriff Noble Vincent to find out. But he’s got secrets of his own. The kind that doesn’t just cost a man his job — it may cost his life.Full Cast • Cinema Sound • Original Music Score