When the Empire Strikes Out: Are We Repeating the Pattern of past Civilizations Book

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Part 1	Here an Empire, There an Empire, Everywhere an Empire
1	Empires in "Galaxies Far, Far Away," Times Long, Long Ago--and Today	1
Part 2	Sir John Finds a Pattern
2	Meet Sir John Glubb	9
3	The Fate of Empires	13
4	A Valid View?	25
5	When in Rome...	39
Part 3	Will History Repeat Itself? (Maybe)
6	Take, for Example, the United States	61
7	Women--Equal or Superior?	81
8	Our Star-Studded Heroes	93
9	In Addition to Which...	113
10	Twenty-First Century Barbarians	137
Part 4	Is the Empire of Man Striking Out?
11	The Futurists: Gloomy and Otherwise	153
12	The Biblical Prophecies	167
Part 5	How Then Shall We Live?
13	Lifestyles of the Wise and the Unwise	187
14	The Normal Christian Life	201
	Epilogue: And He Shall Reign	209
	Proclamation of President Bush's National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving	213
	Selected Bibliography	215
	Scripture Index	221
	Subject Index	227