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"The Obligation" is a modern parable about a young Capitol Hill staffer who discovers that the seasoned congressman he works for is guarding an ancient secret. An obsession over a mysterious inscription launches his introduction to a worldview that will challenge everything he thought he knew about space, evolution and humanity. Under the guidance of the congressman, the young man is propelled on a journey of mind and spirit that takes him from Washington to California to Arizona and back to the floor of the House of Representatives. Along the way, he meets six extraordinary individuals who...

149 Ways to Wipe Your Ass is a saucy, quirky, humorous and introspective look at a multitude of subjects. Wolfe juxtaposes eccentric, off-center, and unconventional humor with reflective stories of death and dying, exhaustion, suicidal thoughts, and touching moments with patients. He is reverential and appreciative of those things he likes and bold, satirical, discriminating, and uncurbed in those he doesn't. There is slapstick humor about penises, unconventional descriptions of painful scrotal surgeries, roguish reading lists, brassy analysis of the pharmaceutical industry, and blow-by-blow...

The American Military in the Twenty-First Century assesses the likely roles of U.S. military forces in the changed international environment of the twenty-first century and how military roles and missions might best be allocated among the armed services to create a flexible, cost-effective force able to support U.S. national interests. It focuses on the basic functions of the armed forces (for example, defence of the homeland, projection of power abroad, and peacekeeping and humanitarian operations) and shows, with an illustrative force posture, how military capabilities might best be...