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  • How to Close a Camp

    Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention

    by John Washington ...
    An urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention systemMasked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the bars of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In How to Close a Camp, award-winning journalist and translator John Washington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps—and how to do ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Case for Open Borders

    by John Washington ...
    A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, at least 60,000 people have died or gone missing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Declaration of Independence

    by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, U.S. Government ...
    A revolutionary document that changed the course of history. Drafted primarily by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence stands as one of the most influential political texts ever written. Created by the American Founding Fathers—including figures such as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and others—this historic ... Read more

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  • The Magnetic Tape Miracle: The Sound of Paper

    Fritz Pfleumer, Iron Oxide, and the 1920s German Invention That Birthed Modern Data Storage

    by John Washington ...
    In the 1920s, the cutting-edge technology for recording audio involved massive, heavy steel wires that were incredibly difficult to edit and prone to violently snapping and injuring engineers. An Austrian-German engineer named Fritz Pfleumer changed the world not by improving the steel wire, but by asking a radical question: could you record a symphony on a piece of paper? Pfleumer had previously ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Declaration of Independence

    by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison ...
    Own the Birth Certificate of American Liberty. In the summer of 1776, a group of visionaries risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to articulate a radical new vision for humanity. This definitive edition presents the Declaration of Independence, the cornerstone of the American experiment and a beacon of hope for self-governance across the globe. This volume captures the ... Read more

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  • The Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection

    Novels & Stories of Civil War, Including the Rhodes History of the War

    by Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Randall Parrish, George Washington Cable, John Esten Cooke, Edward Robins, John William De Forest, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Johnston, Winston Churchill, Edward Everett Hale, Charles King, Natalie Sumner Lincoln, Stephen Crane, Charles Carleton Coffin, James Ford Rhodes, John McElroy, Lucy Foster Madison, Harry Hazelton, Henry F. Keenan, George W. Peck, John R. Musick, Robert W. Chambers, Joseph A. Altsheler, G. A. Henty, B. K. Benson, W. H. Shelton, Byron A. Dunn, Ellen Glasgow, María Ruiz de Burton, Thomas Dixon Jr. ...
    e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest novels and stories written in the aftermath of the Civil War, trying to show the truth in disguise of fiction, the trauma, the turmoil, the massacre and the heroism of all people involved: Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage The Little Regiment The Veteran The Private History of a Campaign That Failed & A Curious ... Read more

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  • The Dispossessed

    A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond

    by John Washington ...
    The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protectionsArnovis couldn’t stay in El Salvador. If he didn’t leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning—that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. “It was like a bomb exploded in my life,” Arnovis said.The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • THE BEGINNING OF THE WEB

    How Magicians Stayed Up Late to Create the Internet

    by John Washington ...
    Welcome to "THE BEGINNING OF THE WEB: How Magicians Stayed Up Late to Create the Internet"! This book tells the fascinating story of the early days of the internet, when a small group of visionaries, engineers, and magicians came together to create a revolutionary new technology.In this book, you'll learn about the people who made the internet possible, their struggles and triumphs, and how they ... Read more

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  • Devil Stories: An Anthology

    Exploring the Enigmatic: A Journey into Devil Archetypes

    by Wilhelm Hauff, Niccolò Machiavelli, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Garnett, Anatole France, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, John Masefield, Washington Irving, William Makepeace Thackeray, Fernán Caballero, Charles Deulin, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Francis Oscar Mann, Nikolái Vasilévich Gógol, Frederick Beecher Perkins, Maxím Gorky ...
    Devil Stories: An Anthology offers an enthralling amalgamation of stories that examine the devil's enduring presence in literature. By weaving through a tapestry of cultural beliefs, moral quandaries, and satirical insights, this collection explores the myriad ways in which the devil is portrayed'Äîfrom sinister tempter to cunning trickster, and even misunderstood anti-hero. Each piece in the ... Read more

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  • The Harvard Classics Anthology

    51 Volumes of Nonfiction Books + 20 Volumes of the Greatest Works of Fiction

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Thomas Carlyle, Theodor Storm, Charles Dickens, Plato, Theodor Fontane, René Descartes, Gottfried Keller, Mark Twain, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, Victor Hugo, Joseph Addison, Jane Austen, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas De Quincey, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, Henry Fielding, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Bret Harte, George Sand, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Washington Irving, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, Juan Valera, Alfred de Musset, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Everett Hale, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Walter Bigges, Philip Sidney, Herodotus, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Pretty, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Benvenuto Cellini, Sydney Smith, Jean Froissart, William Henry Harrison, William Harvey, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Malory, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Ivan Turgenev, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas More, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Charles W. Eliot, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson, Honoré Balzac, Alexander L. Kielland ...
    The Harvard Classics Anthology is a sweeping compendium that encapsulates the profound diversity of literary styles and intellectual pursuits across centuries. Spanning drama, philosophy, poetry, and science, this collection offers a profound exploration of humanity's deepest questions and greatest achievements. Whether it's the enlightening dialogue of Socratic thought or the vivid imagery of ... Read more

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  • Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

    Charting America's Path: U.S. Presidential Visions & Promises

    by George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald John Trump ...
    This carefully crafted ebook collection contains all inaugural addresses by United States Presidents, from Washington to Trump, from 1789 to 2017. The edition presents a comprehensive overview of American politics shaped by the words of newly elected presidents. It gives us a deep insight into the rise and development of the United States of America through ambitions and desires of American ... Read more

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  • Declaration of Independence & U.S. Constitution (Including the Bill of Rights and All Amendments)

    Enriched edition. With The Federalist Papers & Inaugural Speeches of the First Three Presidents

    by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, U.S. Government, Mason Langley ...
    The 'Declaration of Independence & U.S. Constitution,' including the Bill of Rights and all amendments, stands as a seminal collection in the annals of American and global political philosophy. Compiled from essential documents that rooted the very foundation of the United States, this anthology encapsulates the revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and governance. The range of political ... Read more

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