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One man pursued by three women. It's the 80's, London, the Thatcher years. The rebellious Ambrose is kicked out of drama school and begins the rocky road of becoming an actor. We follow him and the three actresses that fall in love with him - Melissa, Shirley and Stella as they weather the storm of a brutal industry. Behind the sex and desperation, lurks the unrest of Thatcher's England. Set over 8 years, three women's obsession with the one man - the talented yet flawed, Ambrose Palmer. A novel about actors.
Annotation Set in South Africa in the early 1990s, against a backdrop of de Klerk's rise to power, Steve Jacobs tells the story of Jeremy Spielman, a Jewish junior barrister, and his defense of a Xhosa man accused of murder.
Witnesses: Katherine Seelman, Director, Nat. Inst. of Rehabilitation and Research, U.S. Dept. of Education; C. Dan Brand, Chairman, Fed. Lab. Consortium for Technology Transfer, Associate Director for Technology Advancement, U.S. Food and Drug Admin./National Center for Toxicological Research; Bruce Webbon, Chief, Commercial Technology, Ames Research Center, NASA, Moffet Field, CA; Steve Jacobs, Executive Assistant to the President, NCR Corp., Dayton, OH; David H. Hershberger, V.P. of Product Development, Prentke Romich Co., Wooster, OH: and Joe Lahoud, Pres., LC Technologies, Fairfax, VA.
Originally published in 1984, Stephen Harrigan's passionate, emotionally intense second novel takes readers deep into the mysterious passageways of a Central Texas aquifer—and of the human heart. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Chuck "Hoopman" Hayes is a retired Army Officer getting a chance to play college basketball. It doesn't take Hoopman long to figure out his team is hiding a dark secret. As Chuck digs deeper, he finds the purity of the game that he loves is being subjected to corruption. But Chuck Hayes has the courage to take on the criminals that threaten his teammates and his dreams. To save the game he loves and what may be his only chance to be a champion, Chuck Hayes will do whatever it takes. Even if it costs him his life.
Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term "genocide" and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. The materials collected here give readers further insight into this singularly courageous man and the issue which consumed him in the aftermath of the Second World War. It is a welcome addition to the library of genocide and Holocaust Studies scholars and students alike.
THE SEALED TRUTH is based on a heinous crime that occurred in Rhode Island in 1975 when five-year-old freckle faced Justin Doherty (real names and places have been changed) was kidnapped and murdered. After a week long search by Hopeville police and volunteers, Justin’s mother Jane and Detective Rick Thurston began a gut-wrenching, futile crusade to find Justin. In 1982, Norman Stedman, a twenty-three-year old loner and neighbor, was arrested when he tried to strangle the local paperboy, and while interrogated, confessed that he had killed Justin. During the search of Norman’s house, the police found Justin’s skull and bones and a journal that described in grim detail what he had done ...
Explores the richness and meaning of Jewish life through history, introducing the basics of Jewish history, the tradition of texts, key philosophical and theological issues and thinkers, the Judaic calendar, contemporary global concerns and what the future may portend for Judaism. Original.