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No commentator is better qualified to tell the tragic tale of the cruel disappointments of the Arab Spring than Robert Fisk. He is the unflinching critic of the Mubarak regime and acclaimed chronicler of Middle-Eastern affairs for The Independent for 25 years. This powerful anthology of his journalism describes the full cycle of Egypt's awakening and relapse, episode by episode, as it happened - from the first stirrings of unrest to the glorio...

No journalist has chronicled the tragedies of the Israelis and the Palestinians so exhaustively, so authoritatively ­- or so controversially - as Robert Fisk, the Independent's correspondent in the region for 25 years. No US president has entered the White House carrying so much hope of peace and progress in the region as Barack Obama. Yet how much has the Nobel prize-winning icon of reconciliation actually delivered? And how much objectivity ...

This remarkable anthology chronicles more than three years of spiralling violence and despair in Syria: atrocity heaped upon atrocity, misery upon misery, and all - so far - to no avail. No faction is without blood on its hands, no crime, from torture to poison gas, has been deemed taboo. The dead are too numerous to count. As for the living, close to 3 million refugees have fled Syria, with millions more internally displaced. How did we come ...

The deserts of North Africa are a new front in the global "war on terror". Islamic extremists, loosely affiliated to al-Qa'ida, are attacking Western interests. The legacy of years of horrifying sectarian bloodletting in Algeria has led to an "arc of insecurity" stretching from Senegal to Somalia, with some of the fiercest action in Algeria and Mali. Rarely has a nation's suffering been so under-reported. More than 150, 000 people have been ki...

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Middle East conflict and the Arab Spring: Gain insight and learn from two of the most acclaimed experts on the Middle East In December 2010, the "Tunisian Revolution" touched off a wave of protests, riots, revolutions and civil wars throughout the Middle East. Initially the world hoped for positive change - democracy, free elections, and human rights. But, by 2012 the Arab Spring had morphed into "Arab Winter" bringing death, destruction, ...

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An examination of youth Internet safety as a technology of governance, seen in panics over online pornography, predators, bullying, and reputation management.

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With the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Fisks explosive book recounts Sharon and Arafats first deadly encounter in Lebanon in the early 1980s and explains why the Israel/Palestine relationship seems so intractable. A remarkable combination of war reporting and analysis by an author who has witnessed the carnage of Beirut for 25 years.

Excerpt from Travels in Europe: Viz, , In England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the NetherlandsMany of the letters that are incorporated-in therfollowing work were written at different times during my tour to the persons to whom they are addressed, but these covered but a smaller portion of the topics which I wished to introduce. A question, therefore, came up, in preparing the materials for the press, Whether th...

It began on a surge of international consensus, following the 9/11 terrorist atrocities. Thirteen years later, the US-led coalition's war in Afghanistan came to a quiet close. Britain and America are still counting the cost. Throughout that time, one journalist above all others has reported on the con?flict with unfailing insight, perspective and courage. This is Robert Fisk at his best.

The Pirate Train tells the story of the Yo-Ho-Matey family whose youngest son upsets their pirating plans (he gets seasick), and they have to re-imagine their life as a result. In the first book, the Yo-Ho-Matey family buys their train and travels to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas to dig for treasure, but each book features a new adventure that further develops the characters and highlights fun destinations for treasure-seekers.

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Excerpt from Memoir of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, A. M., Late Missionary to PalestineSome of the documents, transmitted to this country by Mr. Fisk, have in part been published in religious periodi cals, particularly the Missionary Herald. From these it has been necessary to make copious selections, as well as from his private journal and correspondence. The constant aim of the Compiler has been, to make such a selection from the copious and valuabl...

Portraits of families and children against the dunes or with a crashing waves in the background are beautiful—but they are also one of the more difficult genres of photography. Wind, shifting sand, unpredictable sun mixing with clouds, and sudden storms all add to the normal challenges of a portrait session when you transport it to a beach setting. In this book, Mary Fisk-Taylor and Jamie Hayes explain how they create beautiful images amidst t...

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Professional writers may earn a tidy living for their work, but they seldom own their writing. Catherine Fisk traces the history of labor relations that defined authorship in film, TV, and advertising in the mid-twentieth century, showing why strikingly different norms of attribution emerged in these overlapping industries.

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