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This book provides a focus for future discussion in one of the most
important debates within historical theology within the protestant
tradition - the debate about the definition of a category of
analysis that operates over five centuries of religious faith and
practice and in a globalising religion. In March 2009, TIME
magazine listed 'the new Calvinism' as being among the 'ten ideas
shaping the world.' In response to this revitalisation of
reformation thought, R. Scott Clark and D. G. Hart have proposed a
definition of 'Reformed' that excludes many of the theologians who
have done most to promote this driver of global religious change.
In this book, the Clark-Hart proposal becomes the focus of a
debate. Matthew Bingham, Chris Caughey, and Crawford Gribben
suggest a broader and (they argue) more historically responsible
definition for 'Reformed,' as Hart and Scott respond to their
arguments.
Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid
money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West,
while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. It also
reveals the much larger deception: how every American
administration from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush has actively
condoned Pakistan's nuclear activity, destroying and falsifying
evidence provided by US and Western intelligence agencies, lying
about Pakistan's intentions and capability, and facilitating the
spread of the very weapons we so fear terrorists will obtain. This
definitive book is the essential account of our time.
Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA’s
enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American
torture. The Forever Prisoner, a primary source for the recent HBO
Max film directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, exposes the
full story behind the most divisive CIA operation in living memory.
Six months after 9/11, the CIA captured Abu Zubaydah and announced
he was number three in Al Qaeda. Frantic to thwart a
much-feared second wave of attacks, the U.S. rendered him to a
secret black site in Thailand, where he collided with retired Air
Force psychologist James Mitchell. Arguing that Abu Zubaydah had
been trained to resist interrogation and was withholding vital
clues, the CIA authorized Mitchell and others to use brutal
“enhanced interrogation techniques†that would have violated
U.S. and international laws had not government lawyers rewritten
the rulebook. In The Forever Prisoner, Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian
Levy recount dramatic scenes inside multiple black sites around the
world through the eyes of those who were there, trace the twisted
legal justifications, and chart how enhanced interrogation, a key
“weapon†in the global “War on Terror,†metastasized over
seven years, encompassing dozens of detainees in multiple
locations, some of whom died. Ultimately that war has cost 8
trillion dollars, 900,000 lives, and displaced 38 million
people—while the U.S. Senate judged enhanced interrogation was
torture and had produced zero high-value intelligence. Yet numerous
men, including Abu Zubaydah, remain imprisoned in Guantanamo, never
charged with any crimes, in contravention of America’s ideals of
justice and due process, because their trials would reveal the
extreme brutality they experienced. Based on four years of
intensive reporting, on interviews with key protagonists who speak
candidly for the first time, and on thousands of previously
classified documents, The Forever Prisoner is a powerful chronicle
of a shocking experiment that remains in the headlines twenty years
after its inception, even as US government officials continue to
thwart efforts to expose war crimes. Silenced by a CIA pledge to
keep him imprisoned and incommunicado forever, Abu Zubaydah speaks
loudly through these pages, prompting the question as to whether he
and others remain detained not because of what they did to us but
because of what we did to them.
Organic dusts are particles of vegetable, animal, and microbial
origin and are found in a wide range of occupational and general
environments. This comprehensive handbook discusses organic dusts
and their effects on man. Organic Dusts describes the different
environments in which organic dusts are present; it also explains
the major components of dusts and which diseases they can induce
after inhalation. The first book to completely cover this important
environmental exposure, this valuable reference presents a
systematic approach to disease pathology and offers revised
terminology for diagnosis based on the latest information on cell
reactions and the functioning of the immune system.
The extraordinary inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in
the years after 9/11. Following the attacks on the Twin Towers,
Osama bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, eluded
intelligence services and Special Forces units for almost a decade.
Using remarkable, first-person testimony from bin Laden's family
and closest aides, The Exile chronicles this astonishing tale of
evasion, collusion and isolation. In intimate detail, The Exile
reveals not only the frantic attack on Afghanistan by the United
States in their hunt for bin Laden but also how and why, when they
found his family soon after, the Bush administration rejected the
chance to seize them. It charts the formation of ISIS, and uncovers
the wasted opportunity to kill its Al Qaeda-sponsored founder; it
explores the development of the CIA's torture programme; it details
Iran's secret shelter for bin Laden's family and Al Qaeda's
military council; and it captures the power struggles, paranoia and
claustrophobia within the Abbottabad house prior to the raid. A
landmark work of investigation and reportage, The Exile is as
authoritative as it is compelling, and essential reading for anyone
concerned with history, security and future relations with the
Islamic world.
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