The world itself won't end, of course. Only ours will: our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we're squarely at the tipping point. Longer droughts in the Middle East. Growing desertification in China and Africa. The monsoon season shrinking in India. Amped-up heat waves in Australia. More intense hurricanes reaching America. Water wars in the Horn of Africa. Rebellions, refugees and starving children across the globe. These are not disconnected events. These are the pieces of a larger puzzle that environmental expert Jeff Nesbit puts together. Unless we start addressing the causes of climate change and stop simply navigating its effects, we will be facing a series of unstoppable catastrophes by the time our preschoolers graduate from college. Our world is in trouble right now. But there's good news. Like every significant challenge we've faced - from creating civilisation in the shadow of the last ice age to the Industrial Revolution - we can get out of this box canyon by understanding the realities and changing the worn-out climate conversation to one that's relevant to every person. Nesbit provides a clear blueprint for real-time, workable solutions we can tackle together.

Jude Asher first called on outside forces to change his destiny as a child. Now a wealthy entrepreneur with his star soaring, he's prepared to make his most daring bet ever to reach the pinnacle of earthly power. Jude's twin brother, Thomas, has chosen a different path as a reporter for The New York Times. As much as he's tried to cut himself off from his brother's trajectory, he finds himself drawn back in ... and troubled by the secret that only he knows. Surrounded by principalities and powers, each brother must choose their own path-for good or for evil.

In hierdie eerste boek in die Owerhede en Magte reeks, het Israel pas Iran se kernfasiliteite aangeval, wat 'n reeks rampspoedige gebeure wêreldwyd tot gevolg kan hê. Sal leiers en die 'sout van die aarde', groot en klein, in staat wees om in te gryp voordat die gebeure heeltemal buite beheer raak? Nash Lee, 'n NRO entrepreneur is vasberade om ‘n verskil te maak deur sy wêreldwye ivillage netwerk.

Kim Grace, 'n kernwetenskaplike wat gevange gehou word in Noord-Korea se geheime Kamp 16, weet die waarheid oor die vernietigende tegnologie wat sy help ontwikkel het. Anshel Gould, die briljante stafhoof by die Withuis, het ‘n radikale vredesplan geskep, gebaseer op die lank vergete voorstel van die VN aan Palestina na die tweede wêreldoorlog. Maar is daar ‘n manier om die onkeerbare te keer? Wat Iran, Israel en Noord-Korea, en ander owerhede en magte volgende besluit kan lei tot die volgende globale konfrontasie...

Die Owerhede en Magte reeks is gebaseer op breedvoerige navorsing oor die komende globale konflik rondom Israel en die leiers wat binnekort belangrike rolle in hierdie stryd gaan vertolk. Hierdie reeks konfronteer ook die grootse uitdaging van die Christelike kerk van vandag: die kerk se historiese rol as 'sout van die aarde', om die planeet te bewaar van korrupsie tydens kritieke oomblikke in wêreldgeskiedenis.