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A Beautiful Family
When Johannesburg socialite Brenda Silverman dies in mysterious circumstance in her palatial, well secured home, questions are inevitable.Did she commit suicide? Was it an accidental drug overdose? Or did her death have something to do with her husband, Alan?Alan Silverman is a handsome, charming businessman with impeccable credentials: a former political activist who fled South Africa in the 1980s and returned to help build the new democracy; a loving husband and devoted father; a pillar of Johannesburg’s Jewish community; and an intimate of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress elite. He is also a man hiding a terrible secret.Tracy Jacobs, a young journalist, is assigned to cover the story but as her investigations start to uncover cracks in the beautiful Silverman family facade, she finds herself in conflict with her own community.Will Brenda’s inquest finally reveal the truth? Spanning nearly forty years and three countries (South Africa, England and Israel), A Beautiful Family confirms a horrible reality: that “things like that” can and do happen to people just like us.
Alan and Naomi
In New York of the 1940's a boy tries to befriend a girl traumatized by Nazi brutality in France. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Carthaginian Hoard
Sir Alan Silverman, archaeologist and discoverer of the legendary Carthaginian Hoard in the Central Sahara in 1936, is buried in Westminster Abbey with full state pomp. But does he merit the international reputation he has won? Claudia Drake, his biographer, thinks so. But left-wing freelance journalist Michael Strode asserts otherwise. In an unlikely alliance the two go out to the independent state of Sahara, now a vicious dictatorship, to find the truth. Guy Wilson follows up The Art Thieves with another 'thinking person's thriller'.
Gender and the Academic Experience
"These memoirs provide new and thoughtful evidence that pioneers are necessarily diverse, illuminating two crucial decades of dawning self understanding for women, for America, for the discipline of sociology."—Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life It is difficult to imagine an intellectual world with only a few—if any—women scholars and sociologists. But that was the case, nor so long ago, for women such as Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Dorothy Smith, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Jacqueline Wiseman, and Lillian Rubin. These and many other now-eminent women in sociology began their careers as graduate students at Berkeley; they tell their stories in this volume, which spans two deca...
Insights on Tennis
In Insights on Tennis, Dr. Alan Roberts, a top ranked tennis player in his youth, provides insights competitors and their parents regarding the advantages of tennis and the importance of fundamentals. These insights are based on Dr. Roberts' experience as a competitive tennis player and as the father of two sons who played competitive tennis.
Ancient Epistemology
This book explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity.
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