The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Israel takes on the greatest threats faced by Israel today In addition to Hamas which provoked the recent war & Gaza with its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians Alan Dershowtiz argues that Israels most dangerous enemies include Jimmy Carter & other western leaders who would delegitimize Israel as an apartheid regime subject to the same fate as white South Africans; Israels academic enemies led by professors Stephen Walt & John Mearsheimer who would accuse supporters of Israel of dual loyalty & indeed disloyalty to America; & Iran led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which threatens Israel by its development of nuclear weapons which it has publicly threatened to use against the Jewish state. Persuasively argues that Jimmy Carter & other enemies of Israel are also enemies of peace imperiling not only Israel but the rest of the world Sparks controversy & lively discussion across the entire spectrum of opinion on the Middle East Passionate & outspoken: As always when Israel needs to be defended.. . Alan Dershowitz speaks with great passion & personal courage." -Elie Wiesel Alan Dershowitz is at his outspoken thought-provoking best in The Case Against Israels Enemies changing both the tone & the focus of the debate about Israels adversaries at a time when the future existence of Israel is increasingly imperiled." ...

There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first time in history a significantly large number of people want nothing to do with God. Militant atheists preach a gospel of godlessness with the zeal of missionaries & find an eager audience. What has happened? Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present Karen Armstrong shows that meaning of words such as belief faith & mystery has been entirely altered so that atheists & theists alike now think & speak about God
- & indeed reason itself
- in a way that our ancestors would have found astonishing. Does God have a future? Karen Armstrong examines how we can build a faith that speaks to the needs of our troubled & dangerously polarised world.

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The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israela s rights supported by indisputable evidence. * Presents a passionate look at what Israela s accusers & detractors are saying about this war--torn country.* Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry & backs up his argument with hard facts.* Widely respected as a civil libertarian legal educator & defense attorney extraordinaire Alan Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. ...

On 4 CDs. In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to life with Crawford Logan & Gerda Stevenson as Paul & Steve. Using the original scripts & incidental music & recorded using vintage microphones & sound effects the production of Paul Temple & the Sullivan Mystery aimed to sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so popular with the audience that it was soon followed with equal success by two more revivals Paul Temple & the Madison Mystery & Paul Temple & Steve. ...

Cambridge is sweltering during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie former police inspector turned private investigator the world consists of one accounting sheet
- Lost on the left Found on the right
- & the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge & has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death intrigue & misfortune his own life haunted by a family tragedy he attempts to unravel three disparate case histories & begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity everything is connected...

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Virginia City in 1862 is a mining camp sitting above a rich vein of silver in Americas Wild West. Its a dangerous place full of gamblers hurdy girls & gunmen
- all of them on the make! When twelve year-old P.K. Pinkerton arrives there homeless penniless & hunted things dont look good. But P.K. soon finds allies in Sam Clemens a newspaper reporter Poker Face Jace a gambler who can tell when someone is bluffing & Ping a Chinese photographers apprentice. With the help of these friends
- & armed with a Smith & Wesson seven-shooter & a knack for disguises
- P.K. takes on the tricksters & desperados & tries to become a detective. Fast furious & funny
- an utterly entertaining mystery adventure from an author who knows exactly how to grip & thrill her readers.



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There are two stories/TV episodes in each book so they are flipper books with a front cover for each story. THE CASE OF THE FUDGIE FRY PIRATES: Theres more to Shelter Island than a puffin refuge! THE CASE OF THE PLANT THAT COULD EAT YOUR HOUSE: A dangerous plant is on the loose! ...

Yseut Haskell a pretty but spiteful young actress with a talent for destroying mens lives is found dead in a college room just metres from unconventional Oxford don Gervase Fens office. The victim is found wearing an unusual ring a reproduction of a piece in the British Museum featuring a gold gilded fly but does this shed any light on her murder? As they delve deeper into Yseuts unhappy life the police soon realise that anyone who knew her would have shot her but can Fen discover who could have shot her? The Case of the Gilded Fly" is the first Gervase Fen mystery & is the perfect introduction to this most idiosyncratic eccentric & entertaining detective." ...

Early one morning on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when a 20-foot apparition of the Goddess Kali appears & strikes one of their number dead. The goddess disappears without trace & soon news of the crime has all India agog. For the victim is celebrated sceptic & rationalist Dr Suresh Jha enemy of all gurus & mystics & he has been silenced in a manner calculated to unnerve even his most loyal supporters. As the media go into a frenzy it becomes clear that the case goes to the heart of the battle between superstition & rationality in modern India. But the fact remains that a murder has been committed. & as it becomes clear that powerful forces are at play one man is perfectly placed to investigate: the portly detective Vish Puri. In fact the idea that he could resist getting involved in such a tantalizing murder is preposterous. There is as much chance of him going without his lunch. ...

Meet Vish Puri Indias most private investigator. Portly persistent & unmistakably Punjabi he cuts a determined swathe through modern Indias swindlers cheats & murderers. In hot & dusty Delhi where call centres & malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life Puris main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners a job once the preserve of aunties & family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant it takes all of Puris resources to investigate. How will he trace the fate of the girl known only as Mary in a population of more than one billion? Who is taking pot shots at him & his prize chilli plants? & why is his widowed Mummy-ji attempting to play sleuth when everyone knows Mummies are not detectives? With his team of undercover operatives
- Tubelight Flush & Facecream
- Puri ingeniously combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago
- long before that Johnny-come-lately Sherlock Holmes donned his Deerstalker. The search for Mary takes him to the desert oasis of Jaipur & the remote mines of Jharkh&. From his well-heeled Gymkhana Club to the slums where the servant classes live Puris adventures reveal modern India in all its seething complexity.


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