Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): Role of DoD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Homeland Security - Border Security, History of UAVs (Remotely Piloted Aircraft - RPA, Drones)    by Progressive Management
Price: $4.99 USD. 9050 words. Language: English. Published on May 28, 2011. Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Military Science.
This paper seeks to identify roles in which the nation can leverage these assets in the defense of the homeland. Drug interdiction, port security, disaster relief, search and rescue, and border patrol are just a few potential roles. Finally, this paper looks at potential obstacles, both legal and policy, to implementing a proposed way-ahead.

Why Liberalism? How our Sense of Empathy and Fairness Determines our Political Orientation    by Eric Balkan
Price: $0.99 USD. 20070 words. Language: English. Published on May 26, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Public affairs.
Ever wonder why it's virtually impossible to change someone's mind on a political issue? It's because political opinion is not based on philosophy, rational thinking or facts. But instead on the culture we've been socialized into. And specifically, how much that culture prizes empathy vs self-interest and the desire for fairness vs the desire for social stability.

TaraElla's New World Vision    by TaraElla
Price: Free! 9470 words. Language: English. Published on May 24, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Activism.
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TaraElla is an Australian singer-songwriter. She has been writing and performing music since 2003. She is, however, most notable for her cultural projects. She supports a culture where love is the rule, where self made stars rule, and where clean living is appreciated.

The Republicrat Junta - How Two Corrupt Parties, in Collusion with Corporate Criminals, have Subverted Democracy, Deceived the People, and Hijacked Our Constitutional Government    by Joe Befumo
Price: $0.99 USD. 113600 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Activism.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans are peddling the exact same deception; and that bill of goods is that the Republicans represent the interests, values, and will of Conservative Americans, and the Democrats represent the interests, values, and will of Liberal Americans.

Welcome to Afghanistan    by Jay Buckner
Price: $4.95 USD. 41310 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
The trials and tribulations of a contractor assigned to pull off an agriculture fair in Herat, Afghanistan. 20,000 Afghans showed up. Candid, opinionated, outspoken.

SMOKE & MIRRORS: The Truth About the Political Status of U.S. Women    by Paula Xanthopoulou
Price: $3.99 USD. 22630 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Current affairs.
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Women hold a measly 18.3% of seats in Congress, 237 years after independence from the British Empire. We are #77th in the world for electing women. Why don’t our political parties establish voluntary quotas or rule changes, like so many other countries have done to accelerate the election of women? Have women become enablers of a national disgrace? Can we reach 30% by 2020? Call to action!

Self-Determination and Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Policy Speech by President Barack Obama, May 2011 - Islam, Israel and the 1967 Borders, Palestine, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran    by Progressive Management
Price: $2.99 USD. 28570 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World leaders.
Here is the complete text of the historic speech given by President Barack Obama on May 19, 2011 about self-determination and change in the Middle East and North Africa, plus extensive material from the State Department about Administration policy towards Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yeman, Iraq, Iran, Israel and the Palestinians, and more.

Willie – The Man, the Myth and the Era, California’s Initiatives    by Pegasus Books
Price: $5.99 USD. 34870 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Activism.
Willie – The Man, the Myth and the Era is the historical and biographical account of California’s Willie Brown and the era in which he served in the legislature. California’s Initiatives takes up the history of the initiative process and the manner in which it has been used in California.