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A Matter Of Character - More than seventy-five
books attacking George W. Bush have been published so far. Now,
finally, there’s a book that sets the record straight against a
backdrop of media bias. And it’s not by a conservative idealogue
but by an award-winning independent reporter who set out to find
the real President Bush behind the two-dimensional public image.
Ronald Kessler was granted unique access to the West Wing and
interviewed the key players of the Bush administration—from
Condoleezza Rice to Karl Rove to the president himself. Kessler
also interviewed Bush’s close friends, college roommates, and
former aides. His surprising conclusion: George W. Bush isn’t the
most articulate or scholarly president in history, but he scores
very high on the factors that count most: character and
leadership. President Bush has a more clearly defined moral
instinct, management style, and self-awareness than any other
recent president.
The American Prophecies - How is America tied into ancient
biblical prophecies? According to author Michael Evans, a
fundamentalist Christian minister, biblical prophets already
predicted that America is doomed to collapse unless its government
stops accommodating the Arab world for the sake of oil and instead
offers full military and diplomatic support to Israel. He believes
that God wants Israel to have full control of the West Bank and
Gaza, and Americans are risking God's wrath by not fully
supporting this biblical mandate. Evans also theorizes that much
of America's problems--including the attack of 9-11--are
indications of God's fury over America's split allegiance between
the two famous descendents of Abraham: Ishmael and Isaac. "We are
caught in a tug of war between two brothers--between oil,
political expedience, and conscience in many ways--and it our
decisions and polices concerning these two brothers that will
determine whether the United States will survive or go the way of
the Roman Empire," he writes. Evans's prophetic foundation begins
with the parable of the fig tree (Matthew 24:32-44), in which he
interprets the various signs Jesus gave his disciples to mark "the
final age and his return." Obviously, the Bible can be interpreted
many ways, and Evans uses 17 chapters to weave in interpretations
of scripture that support his theory that America faces a mammoth
choice--ruin or salvation.
The Forensic Casebook - An intrepid investigator crawls
through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating
fibers of a suspect’s wool jacket . . . A forensic entomologist
discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug
dealer’s precise geographical path . . . A gluttonous criminal’s
fingerprints are lifted from a chocolate truffle. . . . Filled
with these and many other intriguing true stories, and packed with
black and white illustrations and photographs, The Forensic
Casebook draws on interviews with police personnel and forensic
scientists—including animal examiners, botanists, zoologists,
firearms specialists, and autoposists—to uncover the vast and
detailed underworkings of criminal investigation. Encyclopedic in
scope, this riveting, authoritative book leaves no aspect of
forensic science untouched, covering such fascinating topics as:
• Securing a crime scene
• Identifying blood splatter patterns
• Collecting fingerprints—and feet, lip, and ear prints
• Interpreting the stages of a body’s decay
• Examining hair and fiber evidence
• Trace evidence from firearms and explosives
• “Lifting” DNA prints
• Computer crime and forensic photography
• Career paths in criminal science
Lucidly written and spiked with real crime stories, The Forensic
Casebook exposes the nitty gritty that other books only touch
upon. Here is a reference book as addictive as a page-turning
novel of suspense.
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