national security

"This title provides a wide range of opinions on whether or not the United States should close its Mexican and Canadian borders to immigrants. The impact and efficacy of increased border patrol and enforcement are debated"--From the publisher's web site.

Final report of the National Commission on terrorist attacks upon the United States. The result of months of intensive investigations and inquiries by a specially appointed bipartisan panel. While the commission notes that future attacks are probably inevitable, a coordinated preventive effort along with a clear plan to respond with efficiency can offer Americans some hope in a post 9/11 world.

Readers are exposed to many sides of a debate, which promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking concerning domestic terrorism.

Caitlin Decter, a sixteen-year-old who discovered Webmind, a consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the World Wide Web and has helped humanity, races to protect it from the government after the Pentagon decides it needs to be eliminated.

Caitlin Decter befriends Webmind, an emerging consciousness on the Web that wants to learn more about Caitlin's world, but when Webmind attracts the attention of a top-secret government agency, Caitlin's life is put in danger as she tries to protect her friend.

Contains articles that examine sixteen contentious issues in American foreign policy, including nuclear disarmament, the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico, human rights in China, and Middle East peace prospects, each with a pro/con box that examines competing sides of the question, a chronology, photographs, charts, graphs, and maps.

Contains eighteen essays in which the authors debate the implications of NATO enlargement, arguing that bringing nations such as the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland into the alliance could prove to be a disaster for the U.S.

Argues that the 9/11 Commission's analysis was superficial and its organizational proposals unsound, and explains how the analysis led to the ineffectual Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

Online ads from websites you've visited... smartphones and cars transmitting your location... data-gathering surveillance operations across the Internet and on your phone lines. You are being watched.... Angwin offers a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. She argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose our freedom. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself.

Explores the issues surrounding privacy by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.