Not everyone is lucky when it comes to Love. Stephen was one such unlucky guy. He had always been rejected by every girl that came in his life. But fortune favours the bold.As if contrived by destiny, one evening Stephen met the beautiful and charming Clara. He knew her from his childhood but she was forgotten with the passage of time. Though much older to him, Clara was the person who saw right through his soul. She comforted him and always stood by his side. Stephen wanted to mar...

In Gaza, survival is measured not in years, but in breaths, in moments between explosions, in the warmth of bread passed from hand to hand.The Bread Is Still Warm follows Mariam as she navigates streets reshaped by destruction, where childhood is a skill, memory is resistance, and every act of care—sharing food, lighting a candle, whispering a name—is defiance against erasure. Here, children lead where adults cannot, families endure when hope seems lost, and the city itself becomes a livin...

In the golden light of Ottoman Gaza, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian neighbors lived side by side in harmony. Young Fatima and Ishmael walked the bustling bazaar together, surrounded by the scent of fresh bread, olive oil, and jasmine. Justice flowed naturally from the teachings of the Qur'an, and peace felt as enduring as the ancient olive trees.Generations later, their descendant Mariam lives in a very different Gaza. Under occupation, the same streets carry tension and fear. Olive...

In the final installment of The Olive Tree Remembers series, Mariam leaves Gaza carrying little more than her faith, her convictions, and a determination to bear witness.When she joins an international humanitarian flotilla attempting to deliver medical aid across a heavily monitored sea, she finds herself among activists, clergy, students, lawyers, and ordinary people from different nations united by a single purpose. What begins as a peaceful voyage soon becomes a confrontation w...

Awakening from Defeat: The Language of the Truth is a sweeping examination of the historical, political, and spiritual forces that shaped the modern Middle East and the Palestinian struggle.Tracing a path from the heights of Islamic civilization in Andalusia and the Ottoman Empire to the collapse of Muslim political unity, the book explores the rise of colonialism, the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, the creation of Israel, the Nakba, and the continuing crisis in Ga...

This is a comprehensive manual for anybody reaching the end of life, and for their caring friends, relatives, advocates, and caretakers. The author, an Episcopal priest, describes in detail the formidable challenges faced by those who wish to avoid months or years of painful treatment after they no longer have any hope of recovering any reasonable quality of life. Specific subjects include:the nature of physical death;legal documents to clarify one's wishes;

How do drugs get to the market? What controls are there and what procedures for monitoring their effects? And how adequate are the regulators in protecting public health when new drugs have serious side effects? The Therapeutic Nightmare tells the story of the sleeping pill Halcion - a story which is far from over. First marketed in the 1970s, Halcion has been taken by millions of patients around the world. For many years it has been associated with serious adverse effects such as...

Drug disasters from Thalidomide to Opren, and other less dramatic cases of drug injury, raise questions about whether the testing and control of medicines provides satisfactory protection for the public. In this revealing study, John Abrahan develops a theoretically challenging realist approach, in order to probe deeply into the work of scientists in the pharmaceutical industry and governmental drug regulatory authorities on both sides of the Atlantic. Through the examination of contempora...

Living in THE SUPERNATURAL DIMENSIONA captivating and mind-stretching journey!Living in the Supernatural Dimension takes you on a journey with God. You will learn about his voice alerts, His Global Positioning System, and His forks in the road. He will take the willing traveler to His highest and richest plateau.YOU will be moved from where you are to where He would like you to be, as you listen and let God speak to you. YOU will learn about powerGods power...

Before walls, before checkpoints, before fear learned the language of law, Gaza was a place where life moved slowly—under olive trees, beside bread ovens, beneath a single sky shared by many faiths.The Olive Trees Remember is a sweeping literary novel that traces the long arc from Ottoman-era coexistence to modern Gaza's fracture, told through memory, loss, and moral awakening. At its heart stands Mariam—a young woman shaped by inherited stories of dignity and shaken by th...

First published in 1995. This book is concerned with how comprehensive schooling can act as a social system of class and gender differentiation. Based on a critical synthesis of feminist and sociological literature on secondary education, Abraham develops a theoretical and methodological framework for ethnographic research into the central gender and class dynamic of a comprehensive school.

This book recounts the sometimes humorous, sometimes instructive, life story of a disillusioned Episcopal Priest, containing his critiques of churches and religions, and some life lessons learned from his experiences. It may ruffle the feathers of the very pious.Holy Sh*t: Life Lessons Learned by The Reverend John L. Abraham certainly does not come from a conventional point of view. Reverend Abraham served congregations for nearly twenty-two years, taught World Religions at a unive...