Pride, Progress, and Prospects: The Marine Corps' Efforts to Increase the Presence of African-American Officers (1970-1995) - NASA Astronaut Charles Bolden, President Truman    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 69280 words. Language: English. Published on January 11, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
In today's Marine Corps, African-Americans constitute almost 10 percent of the officer corps. The fact that this was not always the case deserves explanation, as do the Marine Corps' efforts to remedy this deficiency.

Solitary: The History and Current Reality of Torture as a Means of Social Control Within Prisons    by Joanne Pawlowski
Price: $0.99 USD. 46150 words. Language: English. Published on January 2, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Civil and human rights.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Why is solitary confinement, known to cause a mental state akin to psychosis, widely used in contemporary prisons? Solitary's powerful psychological effects make it a unique tool for exerting social control. This history argues that CIA "brainwashing" research of the 1950s may have influenced the design of isolation units in American prisons today.

Sunflower Diaries: Cryptology Applied to the Jedi Religion and Carbonated Yoda Pop, Volume 5    by Rod Island
Price: Free! 21990 words. Language: English. Published on December 28, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Civil and human rights.
Volume 5 shows how Harrison Ford's characters Han Solo and Indiana Jones have state dates woven into them. This is a FREE copy. I do not make any money off of this book. George Lucas and Lucasfilms do not endorse any of the content or statements within. I am using the Fair Use act of the copyright to use the material as a teaching tool. All copyrights belong to "Star Wars" and Lucasfilms.

Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Rise and Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, 2000-2008    by Marta Steele
Price: $9.99 USD. 103100 words. Language: English. Published by The Educational Publisher/Biblio Publishing  on November 26, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Civil and human rights.
What Steele does here is give you the where, when and how. A car is found at the bottom of a Florida swamp with 1500 ballots marked for Al Gore. In a hot race in North Dakota, Native americans (8-to-1 Democrats) couldn’t vote without showing ID, which few had. It doesn’t matter that the state doesn’t require photo ID. And so on ad nauseam.

Fraud on the Court: One Adoptee's Fight to Reclaim his Identity    by Mike Chalek
Price: $2.99 USD. 32730 words. Language: English. Published on November 25, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
In his startling new memoir, Mike Chalek reveals how the adoption practices of the "Baby Scoop Era" led to his fraudulent placement with an adoptive family that had purchased him for $200 from a well-known baby broker. He delves into the details of his highly charged quest to reunite with his family of origin, and we get a first-hand glimpse into the difficulties faced by many adult adoptees.

The Prometheus Post - February 2013    by Richard Pinder
Price: Free! 49710 words. Language: British English. Published on November 12, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Civil and human rights.
(4.25 from 4 reviews)
The Prometheus Post is a monthly libertarian-conservative electronic magazine. It offers in-depth analysis of important political issues. Specifically, the Post explores civil rights issues, offers analysis of law enforcement models, advocates free market economic principles, provides hands-on information for running a business, while also making the case for British independence.

Political Grace: The Gift of Resistance    by Wes Rehberg
Price: $5.99 USD. 67670 words. Language: English. Published on October 8, 2012. Nonfiction » Philosophy » Ethics & moral philosophy.
Philosophy and theology have increasingly turned to the problem of the rising numbers of people who live in severe conditions of oppression, people who are surplus to global economic and political orders which the oppressed define as "neoliberal" and "neocolonial." This work, Political Grace: The Gift of Resistance, is part of that turning.

How to Lead When No One Follows    by Jerry Maynard
Price: $5.99 USD. 37770 words. Language: English. Published by True Vine Publishing Inspire, Empower, Produce! on October 3, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Civil and human rights.
After electing the first African-American President of the United States, and after significant progress in the election of African-American leaders as mayors and state governors, why haven't our communities felt the benefits? Instead, the African-American community endures the highest prison incarceration, high school drop-out rates, unemployment, and healthcare disparities since the 1970's.

Julian Assange in Sweden    by Guy J Sims
Price: $2.95 USD. 97020 words. Language: English. Published on September 10, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Celebrity biography.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, was in Sweden for almost seven weeks during August and September 2010. What happened to him during those seven weeks is a story familiar to many people in Sweden, because it is in the Swedish language. Here, for the first time, is the story for English-speaking readers.

Reclaiming Socialism, or: Economic Democracy (Recovering a Stolen Word)    by Brian Rush
Price: Free! 258690 words. Language: English. Published on August 23, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Economic policy.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
An attempt to reclaim the word "socialism" from those that have re-defined it and rendered it taboo. Socialism does NOT mean a state-run economy or the end of private property, let alone Soviet-style tyranny. Socialism DOES mean economic democracy, worker-owned business, an economy for the 99%, and a humane alternative to capitalism. Capitalism is broken and it's time to discuss replacing it.