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The 9/11 Commission - 9/11 Commission Report

9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was...

Sam Stinson and 17 more 23 hours 19 minutes United States Government Reports

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Doris Stevens - Jailed For Freedom

A first-hand account of the 1913-1919 campaign of American suffragettes, detailing their treatment at the hands of the courts, and the true conditions of their incarceration. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)

Blazin48 and 9 more 10 hours 6 minutes

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Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives

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United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives

This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effects will be global and wide-spread. (Summary by Allyson Hester)

Allyson Hester 55 minutes

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Sigmund Freud - Reflections on War and Death

Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death , forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still...

D.E. Wittkower 1 hour 15 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography

In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken presidents in American history. Not only are we privy to the formation of...

Marfschen and 15 more 21 hours 51 minutes

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Political Science

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Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (Books III and IV)

In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nature of a Christian commonwealth. Book 3 begins with a wealth of biblical...

Carl Manchester and 7 more 10 hours 54 minutes

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Thomas Paine - Age of Reason

The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion...

lukkystarr 8 hours 12 minutes

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Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

Law

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William Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769. The...

Jc Guan and 5 more 17 hours 54 minutes

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Political Science

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Marcus Tullius Cicero - Philippics

A philippic is a fiery, damning speech delivered to condemn a particular political actor. The term originates with Demosthenes, who delivered an attack on Philip II of Macedon in the 4th century BCE. Cicero...

ontheroad 9 hours 46 minutes

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Political Science

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Thames Williamson - Problems in American Democracy

Problems in American Democracy is a very detailed, specific explanation of some of the underlying and surface problems of a democracy system of government, particularly of the American form of democracy. Though...

Allyson Hester 16 hours 32 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Rabindranath Tagore - Home and the World

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the...

Accent and 4 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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United States Government - Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

Andrea Fiore and 22 more 1 hour 31 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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