The controversial president whose time in office was defined by the September 11 attacks and the war on terror.George W. Bush stirred powerful feelings on both sides of the aisle. Republicans viewed him as a resolute leader who guided America through the September 11 attacks and retaliated in Afghanistan and Iraq, while Democrats saw him as an overmatched president who led America into two inconclusive wars that sapped the nation's resources and diminished its stat...

A detailed, incisive thirty-five-year history of the top six members of an inner circle of government advisors—Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice—and the era of American dominance they represent.When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll ba...

**The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to resist pressures to change . . . Mann’s prediction turned out to be true." -New York Review of Books, October 2017...

Revelation is about the Lord Jesus Christ of the past, present, and future events. Jesus is called “the Beginning” and “the Last” of all history. On page 6, I have provided a puzzle as an outline to all of Revelation. Study guides after commentaries for each chapter provide answers to difficult verses.All attempts for practice applications are made for believers and warnings to those in doubt of God’s stated future.

From the preface: THERE is perhaps no doctrine of Scripture regarding which Christian teachers of to-day are more at sea than the doctrine of the Atonement. In the following pages an attempt has been made to present that doctrine in a popular and practical form, in its relation to modem thought, and with due regard to its historical perspective. Special attention has been given to the recent literature on the subject. Theological questions are considered as questions of the soul and ...

Celebrate 75 years of Formula 1 racing, from 1950 through the modern era, with this riveting pictorial history.There is Formula 1, and then there are all other forms of motorsport. F1 is what every competition driver aspires to, whether they admit it or not. Top drivers, top teams, top racing cars, top tracks. It is the pinnacle of motor racing.Formula 1 marks its 75th anniversary in 2025. Established as the top motorsport category in Europe in 1950, its gr...

From the preface: In the Lives Of Paul which have appeared, --and their name is legion,--scant justice has been done to the mystical element in his religious experience and in his teaching. And yet nothing is more characteristic of Paul than his mysticism. Although not liking him any the better for it, Professor A. B. Bruce frankly admits that "he was a man of profoundly mystical religious temperament." He was the kind of man who could not be content to dwell on the outside...

A controversial look at Reagan's role in ending the Cold War- from the author of The New York Times bestseller Rise of the VulcansIn his surprising new book, critically lauded author James Mann trains his keen analytical eye on Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union, shedding new light on the hidden aspects of American foreign policy. Drawing on recent interviews and previously unavailable documents, Mann offers a new history assessing what Reagan did...

The definitive analysis of the events, ideas, personalities, and conflicts that have defined Obama’s foreign policyWhen Barack Obama took office, he brought with him a new group of foreign policy advisers intent on carving out a new global role for America in the wake of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq. Now the acclaimed author of Rise of the Vulcans offers a definitive, even-handed account of the messier realities they’ve faced in implementing their policies.

From the preface: The aim of this book is to present the doctrine of the Divine Immanence from a Christological standpoint. The doctrine of the Divine Immanence requires to be rescued from pantheistic tendencies by changing the commonly accepted idea of the divine in nature, in man, and in the world, from an impersonal presence that pervades, to a personal presence that indwells. It requires also to be baptised into the name of Christ that it may be converted from a sterile field of ...

'A fireball of terse information.'Oliver Stone'A remarkable collection. Blum concentrates on matters of great current significance, and does not pull his punches. They land, backed with evidence and acute analysis.'Noam ChomskyFor over sixty-five years, the United States war machine has been on automatic pilot. Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe that America's motives in 'exporting' democracy are honorable, even noble.In this startl...

Through the last three presidential administrations and two wars with Iraq, no one has personally witnessed, influenced, or fueled news over more history-making events than Joseph Wilson. The last American diplomat to sit face-to-face with Saddam Hussein, he is a consummate insider who has the intelligence, principles, and independence to examine current American foreign policy and the inner workings of government and to form a candid assessment of the United States' involvement in the wor...