The Haqqani Nexus and the Evolution of al-Qa'ida - Afghan Insurgents, Taliban, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Mullah Omar, Waziristan, U.S.-Pakistan Relations    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 31850 words. Language: English. Published on February 15, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Islamic militancy.
The targeted killing of Usama bin Ladin at a compound in the garrison city of Abbottabad, Pakistan has raised a number of important questions about the infamous global jihadist's local connections.

The Promise and Pitfalls of Grand Strategy - Lessons from Key Inflection Points During the Cold War, Foreign Policy Challenges    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 29360 words. Language: English. Published on February 18, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
This monograph offers a thorough analysis of what grand strategy actually is, why it is so important, and why we often find it so challenging to design and implement.

The Threat from Iran: Reassessing the Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran and the Iranian Puzzle Piece - Understanding Iran in the Global Context    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 114960 words. Language: English. Published on January 8, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Islamic militancy.
Can the United States live with a nuclear-armed Iran? Despite strong policy preferences to the contrary, Washington may have little choice. Evidence suggests, and most scholars agree, that Iran is working toward self-sufficiency in a complete nuclear fuel cycle that would enable it to produce nuclear weapons.

The Future of Command and Control - Complexity, Networking, and Effects-Based Approaches to Operations - Terrorism, the Post 9-11 World, von Moltke, Clausewitz, Decisionmaking during Apollo 13    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 137660 words. Language: English. Published on February 8, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
Effects-based approaches to operations are simple, even elegant concepts in theory. Yet this idea has, like network-centric approaches to operations, been misunderstood in a variety of ways. The resulting confusion is responsible for a great deal of unnecessary argument and has hindered progress.

Beyond Plutocracy - True Democracy for America    by Roger Rothenberger
Price: $2.99 USD. 113820 words. Language: English. Published on November 27, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Democracy.
Plutocracy is governance by the wealthy. America is not really a democracy but a plutocracy dominated by a powerful wealthy minority that serves itself first and best. This book offers a partial redesign of our government that really fixes in just the right way what’s really wrong with it, moving our nation beyond plutocracy to true democracy, honest government and a just society.

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.
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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.

The God Component    by Rox Freeman
Price: $3.33 USD. 44290 words. Language: English. Published on November 27, 2012. Nonfiction » Religion and Spirituality » Spiritual awakening.
The God Component cleverly reveals the systematic control engulfing our freedom while fearlessly promoting our "karmatic acceptance." Freeman controversially exposes the faults in modern theism, skeptical science, social normality, and more. From Libertarianism to particle physics to the art of pick-up, Dr. Freeman finds plenty of ways to promote love's truth while dismissing control's hate.

Matel a Fidel!. La apasionante trama de los atentados contra el lider cubano    by Jose Andres Lopez
Price: $6.99 USD. 39460 words. Language: Spanish. Published by LD Books - Lectorum  on January 4, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World leaders.
Este libro traza un breve pero apasionante panorama de este medio siglo de tentativas de asesinato contra Fidel Castro, gobernante cubano, en total mas de 600.

Outlaw Visions    by Francis Kroncke
Price: $2.99 USD. 125410 words. Language: English. Published on January 21, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Civil and human rights.
Outlaw Visions wends through monastic hallways, trial courtrooms, prison cells, onto campuses to engage young activists. I shouted “Peace! Peace!” and heard “Criminal!” We descend into prison’s hellish darkness where I existed as a subhuman. You are invited to transform you own subhumanness through ritual practices envisioning yourself as an "Earthfolk" peacefully at home on the Living Earth.

The Role of Small States in the Post-Cold War Era: The Case of Belarus - President Alexander Lukashenko, Putin, Medvedev, Iranian Relationship, Gas Blackmail, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad    by Progressive Management
Price: $7.99 USD. 31480 words. Language: English. Published on March 5, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
Belarus officially became an ally of Russia and formed a "union" state. Still, since 2006, Minsk's relationship with Moscow became extremely acrimonious, when Moscow abruptly increased the price of oil/gas delivered to Minsk. Minsk engaged in conflict with Moscow—a conflict that has been mixed with a peculiar detente and new tensions.