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 ...

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...

This is a book about educational fads, why they arise, and how we might learn to live with them.Those working in schools are subject to perpetual waves of novelty in the name of school improvement. And yet, in the long term very little actually changes. Big ideas come and go, leaving only faint clues as to their existence. The trouble is that the appealing stories that take hold will never solve the fundamental problems of modern schooling. The school system is too complex, too dive...

Gabriel's trumpet has sounded.In a flash, the wicked have been swept away and only the saved are left. All aches and pains and worries are gone, but this isn't what those left were expecting. It's not what they had been taught.One by one, the saved are finding themselves drawn together; in praise, in worship, in Scripture. The children aren't children and the elderly are no longer old. There is no more sorrow and no more death.What comes next?And where is th...

John Overstreet Is a father and a husband as he watches the west fade away.They're even pulling up the tracks that brought him to the Rockies.All is going well, but there is still one more battle to fight. *

When cowboy Mars Peters rode into Gunfighter's Gulch on his spotless appaloosa, he had no idea he would be the spark that would ignite the waiting powder keg.The keg was placed, inadvertently, by the old prospector Cactus Percival. He used to come into Gunfighter's Gulch now and again from the New Mexico Territory, spending silver like it was gold, and always wearing new boots. But then, one day he didn't come back and in the years since then tales of Cactus Percival's silver stash...

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.

Explore how imagination and creative thinking have shaped some of history's most important scientific breakthroughs in chemistryScience Needs Imagination: Chemistry shows young readers that science is powered by imagination! Packed with laugh-out-loud illustrations by Ben White, comic strips, true stories of scientific discoveries, hands-on activities and funny infomercials, this entertaining book explores how imagination and creativity ha...

The contributions to this collection focus on the intersecting dynamics of gender, generation and class in Southeast Asian rural communities engaging with expanding capitalist relations, whether in the form of large-scale corporate land acquisition or other forms of penetration of commodity economy. Gender, and especially generation, are relatively neglected dimensions in the literature on agrarian and environmental transformations in Southeast Asia. Drawing on key concepts in gender studi...

Much has been written about whether end-of-life law should change and what that law should be. However, the barriers and facilitators of such changes – law reform perspectives – have been virtually ignored. Why do so many attempts to change the law fail but others are successful? International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform aims to address this question by drawing on ten case studies of end-of-life law reform from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Belg...

This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance.Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governanceOffers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of global land acquisitionsIlluminates both the micro-proce...

Rocket Phonics reading books are fully decodable phonics books allowing children to practise their phonic skills in context, developing emerging reading skills.Nell leaves a party with a balloon and party bag. When she accidentally lets go of the balloon it floats away and gets stuck in a tree. Can the friendly gull help to get the balloon and party bag back?Reading age: 4-5 years