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Written by Mount Allison professors Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, Drone Nation unveils an unexpected scenario where international drone warfare leads to a state of permanent war through increasing numbers of assassinations of the western world's declared enemies. It provides historical context for the rise and acceptance of drone warfare and examines likely future impacts. The book discusses the broad political-economic forces at play in the United States. While there was widespread social and economic progress in the U.S. from the 1950s through 1970s, the country is now in a period of economic and political regression. The rise of drone warfare, and the domestic use of drones, is partly to blame. This gradual and important change signals a major departure from the traditional embrace of international law, military ethics, and domestic privacy.

 

Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates tells the story of Moishe, a young man who, enchanted by maps and seeking adventure, leaves the shtetl to join a ship's crew. ...A post-colonial satire filled with Kabbalistic hijinks, this is also a tender love story...[and] a compelling examination of mortality, identity and persecution told by one of the most memorable narrators in literature (a "ribald yet philosophical" parrot named Aaron).