From one of America's leading experts on Israel and the Middle East, this riveting book is the true story of what is happening in the cabinet rooms and war rooms across the world-Jerusalem's final betrayal brokered in the name of the Middle East.

Assessment practices in schools often stem from outdated traditions that don’t serve today’s learners. Assessment Literacy for Educators is the culmination of Robert J. Marzano’s decades of work, coauthored with Michael D. Evans and Julia A. Simms. Presenting 43 tenets for assessment literacy, the book equips teachers and leaders to replace outdated grading practices with equitable, accurate approaches that truly advance student learning.K–12 educators and preservice teache...

Is the world ready for nuclear Jihad?Showdown with Nuclear Iran is a gripping and detailed exposé of Iran's relentless pursuit of atomic weapons and its apocalyptic goal of wiping Israel off the face of the earth. Michael D. Evans, who has been working in the Middle East for the last three decades, cuts through the official lies an ddeceptions of the Iranian government and reveals in terrifying detail:how close the radical Islamic republic is to fulfilling it...

Now is the time to evolve from the existing model of schooling into one that is more innovative, relevant, effective, and successful. Leading the Evolution introduces a three-pronged approach to driving substantive change (called the evolutionary triad) that connects transformative educational leadership, student engagement, and teacher optimism around personalized competency-based education. Each chapter includes supporting research and theory, as well as clear direction and stra...

SIX DAYS IN JUNEHow Israel Won the 1967 Arab-Israeli WarEric HammelMilitary historian Eric Hammel becomes the first chronicler of the 1967 Six Day War to unite the story of development of Israels bold brand of military training and planning with a detailed narrative account of her breathtaking victories in Sinai, Jerusalem, The West Bank, and the Golan Heights. Unlike earlier accounts of the 1967 war, Hammels sweeping narrative describes how, from the early 1950s, the Israel De¬fense ForceZah...

Is the crisis in the Middle East hurtling toward the point of no return?Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, tells the U.N. that Iran could have nukes by spring.Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has called for the end of the United States and Israel.Chaos is erupting throughout the region.Rumors abound of an impending Israeli first strike against Iran's nuclear program.Is war imminent?New York Times be...

The question "Can Israel survive?" has echoed loud for Israelis -- and Jews, their supporters and adversaries worldwide -- since the Holocaust. The recent upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and beyond have raised it anew. Israeli journalist and security analyst Hirsh Goodman set out to answer it, through rigorous factual assessment of each of the challenges his country faces, and by consulting experts and participants on all sides of every complex issue. But what he learned was that this once 'es...

The amazing prophecies in Ezekiel 38 & 39, written 2,600 years ago, have received a lot of attention recently because of current events in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, & Russia. Ezekiel has over 800 predictive verses. This remarkable prophecy by one of the greatest of ancient Hebrew prophets–never before literally fulfilled in history–predicts that a great power to the far north of Israel & a coalition of nations–a massive horde of people, will attack Israel & be destroyed supern...

THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISISJay Sekulow, one of America’s most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions.Recently, the world has been shaken by gruesome photos and videos that have introduced us to the now infamous terrorist group known as ISIS. The world’s wealthiest and most p...

This revised edition of the number-one bestseller and winner of the 1989 National Book Award includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's new, updated epilogue.One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman drew upon his ten years of experience reporting from Lebanon a...

George Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover — the startling truth behind America’s foreign policy and war effort in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond**.**Friedman, founder of Stratfor, one of the world’s most respected private global intelligence firms, and Geopolitical Futures, has an unmatched ability to provide clear perspective on the current geopolitical map. In America's Secret War, George Friedman identifies the United Sta...

"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale."-Tom BrokawThough Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of me...