Our popular Religion and Ethics student book has been completely revised and updated to provide a single book for AS and A-level.Written by a team of experienced teachers and authors with an in-depth understanding of teaching, learning and assessment at AS and A-level, this accessible and engaging student book will support your students throughout the course and help them prepare for the exams.- Submitted for endorsement to WJEC/Eduqas to ensure high quality...

Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class. A brilliant union organiser and a humorous orator, Benjamin Fletcher (1890 - 1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW's Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, unquestionably the most powerful interracial union of its era, taking a principled stand a...

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organising methods including direct-action and direct-democracy, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labeled as ‘revolutionary industrial unionism’ and the members called, affectionately, ‘Wobblies’.This book is the first to look at the history of the IWW ...

Throughout this book individuals will learn how to be vigilant, how not to get hurt, how not to be betrayed or defied.For it is said, that the ones that hurt you are those that are close to you, perhaps they are envious of you for some reason or another. It is frustrating and disappointing to find that those individuals are acting in this etiquette.Remember too that there are so many people out there who love and cherish us. I believe that everyone is responsible for optimi...

Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warriorFrom the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite his outcast status, loyally defended his people.'Antarah capture...

Our popular Christianity s****tudent book has been completely revised and updated to provide a single book for AS and A-level.Written by a team of experienced teachers and authors with an in-depth understanding of teaching, learning and assessment at AS and A-level, this accessible and engaging student book will support your students throughout the course and help them prepare for the exams.┒Submitted for endorsement to WJEC/Eduqas to ensur...

Part kaddish, part lament, and a powerful call for peace, Requiem and Other Poems cries out for an end to unspeakable violenceWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYPart kaddish, part lament, and a powerful call for stocktaking and peace, Requiem cries out for an end to carnage and slaughter: "The horror / the calamity / the disgrace, / the rubble of folly / and religion's stupidities, / the dimness of...

**The first comprehensive English translation of a Russian-Jewish master's poetry, from the fiery poems he wrote in the wake of the pogroms of the early 20th century to his sublime lyrics about longing and self-reflection.On the Slaughter, named for Bialik's most famous poem, also includes a sample of the poet's work for children and an impassioned introduction by the collection's translator, MacArthur winner Peter Cole.**Few poets in the history of Hebrew have pos...

The eighth edition of this highly readable book continues to cover the technical principles underlying the control of radiation hazards, radiation detection and measurement and the biological effects of radiation, followed by a consideration of radiation protection issues in the nuclear, non-nuclear and medical fields. Further specialized topics include safety and risk assessment, waste management and decommissioning of nuclear and radiation facilities, radiological emergencies and relevan...

**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALISTPart of the Jewish Encounter series**One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove a remarkable, continent-hopping, century-crossing saga, and one that in many ways has revolutionized ou...

This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry that emerges directly from the sublime and often startling world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the “tremendous poetic potential” concealed in the Kabbalistic tradition, Peter Cole provides dazzling renderings of work composed on three continents over a period of some fifteen hundred years.In addition to the translations and the texts in their original l...

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2019A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2018Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today's globalizing economy, workers in the world's ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in...