New Releases by Bob Woodward

Is spiritual healing a reality? Does it work? -- What are the different methods of healing? -- Includes moving individual stories of healing Through the work of renowned healers such as Harry Edwards, many more people now turn to spiritual healing for help with a wide variety of physical ailments. Individual healers often attract interest in the media and, on the level of sustained research and practice, a number of centres are now established in the UK, Europe and the USA. Bob Woodward has many years of experience of therapeutic work using approaches based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, and has both studied and practised spiritual healing. In this clear and revealing account, he examines the nature of different forms of healing, and the role of the healer. The book includes many individual stories of healing which movingly illustrate the principles being discussed.

With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council -- and firsthand revelations of the private thoughts, concerns and fears of the president and his war cabinet -- make Bush at War an unprecedented chronicle of a modern presidency in time of grave crisis. Based on interviews with more than a hundred sources and four hours of exclusive interviews with the president, Bush at War reveals Bush''s sweeping, almost grandiose, vision for remaking the world. "I''m not a textbook player, I''m a gut player," the president said. Woodward''s virtual wiretap into the White House Situation Room reveals a stunning group portrait of an untested president and his advisers, three of whom might themselves have made it to the presidency. Vice President Dick Cheney, taciturn but hard-line, always pressing for more urgency in Afghanistan and toward Iraq. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the cautious diplomat and loyal soldier, tasked with building an international coalition in an administration prone to unilateralism. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the brainy agitator and media star who led the military through Afghanistan and, he hopes, through Iraq. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, the ever-present troubleshooter who surprisingly emerges as perhaps the president''s most important adviser. Bush at War includes a vivid portrait of CIA director George Tenet, ready and eager for covert action against terrorists in Afghanistan and worldwide. It follows a CIA paramilitary team leader on a covert mission inside Afghanistan to pay off assets and buy friends with millions in U.S. currency carried in giant suitcases. In Bush at War, Bob Woodward once again delivers a reporting tour de force.

Many Fortran programmers do not know where to start with Fortran 90. What is new about the language? How can it help them? How does a programmer with old habits learn new strategies?This book is a practical guide to Fortran 90 for the current Fortran programmer. It provides a complete overview of the new features that Fortran 90 has brought to the Fortran standard, with examples and suggestions for use. The book discusses older ways of solving problems--both in FORTRAN 77 and in common tricks or extensions-- and contrasts them with the new ways provided by Fortran 90.The book has a practical focus, with the goal of getting the current Fortran programmer up to speed quickly. Two dozen examples of full programs are interspersed within the text, which includes over 4,000 lines of working code.Chapters cover the following topics: Aggregate array operations and array sections.Derived types (structures).Subroutines and functions revisited.Overloaded operators and assignment statements.Modules.Allocatable arrays and pointers.Improvements in file handling.Numeric precision (KIND and numeric intrinsics).Bit manipulation.New intrinsic functions.

Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered. With special emphasis on the human toll, Woodward shows the consequences of the new ethics laws, and the emboldened Congress and media. Powerful investigations increasingly stripped away the privacy and protections once expected by the nation''s chief executive. Using presidential documents, diaries, prosecutorial records and hundreds of interviews with firsthand witnesses, Woodward chronicles how all five men failed first to understand and then to manage the inquisitorial environment. "The mood was mean," Gerald Ford says. Woodward explains how Ford believed he had been offered a deal to pardon Nixon, then clumsily rejected it and later withheld all the details from Congress and the public, leaving lasting suspicions that compromised his years in the White House. Jimmy Carter used Watergate to win an election, and then watched in bewilderment as the rules of strict accountability engulfed his budget director, Bert Lance, and challenged his own credibility. From his public pronouncements to the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter never found the decisive, healing style of leadership the first elected post-Watergate president had promised. Woodward also provides the first behind-the-scenes account of how President Reagan and a special team of more than 60 attorneys and archivists beat Iran-contra. They turned the Reagan White House and United States intelligence agencies upside down investigating the president with orders to disclose any incriminating information they found. A fresh portrait of an engaged Reagan emerges as he realizes his presidency is in peril and attempts to prove his innocence. In Shadow, a bitter and disoriented President Bush routinely pours out his anger at the permanent scandal culture to his personal diary as a dozen investigations touch some of those closest to him. At one point, Bush pounds a plastic mallet on his Oval Office desk because of the continuing investigation of Iran-contra Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. "Take that, Walsh!" he shouts. "I''d like to get rid of this guy." Woodward also reveals why Bush avoided telling one of the remaining secrets of the Gulf War. The second half of Shadow focuses on President Clinton''s scandals. Woodward shows how and why Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr''s investigation became a state of permanent war with the Clintons. He reveals who Clinton really feared in the Paula Jones case, and the behind-the-scenes maneuvering and ruthless, cynical legal strategies to protect the Clintons. Shadow also describes how impeachment affected Clinton''s war decisions and scarred his life, his marriage and his presidency. "How can I go on?" First Lady Hillary Clinton asked in 1996, when she was under scrutiny by Starr and the media, two years before the Lewinsky scandal broke. "How can I?" Shadow is an authoritative, unsettling narrative of the modern, beleaguered presidency.

From the New York Times bestselling author of All the President''s Men comes an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the Clinton administration.C., and New York City.

Biography of Vice President Dan Quayle drawn from 200 interviews including 20 with Dan Quayle himself and 4 with his wife.

书名原文:Veil:the seeret wars of the CLA 1981~1987

Iran-kontra affæren; El Salvador; Regan, Ronald;

Reconstructie - door twee verslaggevers van de Washington post - van de gebeurtenissen tijdens de honderd dagen onmiddelijk voorafgaand aan het aftreden van Richard Nixon als president van de Verenigde Staten op 9 aug. 1974.

»I en tid av alternativa fakta och frätande twitterinlägg om fake news är Bob Woodward en sanningens guldstandard. Hans bok är explosiv, förödande, häpnadsväckande.« The Washington Post Den miljonsäljande insiderskildringen av Donald Trumps första ämbetstid, av den legendariske Watergate-journalisten. Författaren och journalisten Bob Woodward har rapporterat med sällsynt auktoritet om åtta presidentskap, från Nixon till Obama. Nu avslöjar han med en aldrig tidigare skådad detaljrikedom det uppslitande arbetet i Vita huset under Donald Trump och hur presidenten fattar beslut i stora politiska in- och utrikesfrågor. Boken bygger på hundratals timmar av intervjuer med förstahandskällor, anteckningar från politiska möten, personliga dagböcker, centrala filer och dokument. Fokus ligger på de explosiva debatterna och beslutsfattandet i Ovala rummet, situationsrummet, på Air Force One och i residenset i Vita huset. Fruktan: Donald Trump i Vita huset är det mest ingående porträtt av en sittande president som någonsin publicerats under presidentens första ämbetstid. BOB WOODWARD är redaktör på Washington Post, där han nu har arbetat i 47 år. Han har delat två Pulitzer-pris, ett med Carl Bernstein för avslöjandet av Watergate-skandalen 1973, och nästa 2003 som huvudreporter för täckningen av 11 september-attackerna. Tolv av Bob Woodwards tidigare böcker har legat etta på New York Times bestsellerlista och Fruktan: Donald Trump i Vita huset sålde otroliga 1,2 miljoner exemplar i USA redan under första månaden. »Saknar motstycke.« CNN »Förödande.« The New Yorker