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  The Mayflower Voyage & Formation...

  Azel Ames, William Bradford,...

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  Mayflower has become a cultural icon in the history of the United States, with its story of death and survival in the harsh New England winter environment.
  This book brings the story of 102 passengers, commonly known as Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower. The story starts with the year 1608, when Pilgrims settled in the Dutch Republic on the European mainland and it covers events such as crossing the Atlantic, settling off Plymouth Colony and the first Thanksgiving in 1621. 
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  The Mayflower Ship's Log 
  Good Newes From New England
  History of Plymouth Plantation 
  Mourt's Relation
  Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing
  History of the Mayflower

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  Praying for Money

  Russell Herman Conwell

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  Praying for Money by Russell Herman Conwell offers a unique take on the concept of financial success and its potential spiritual roots. Through his initial discourse, Conwell suggests that money can be acquired through the practice of prayer, with a clear emphasis on the importance of hard work. By exploring the notion that success is interwoven with faith, the text expands upon traditional understandings of wealth-building as an external construct. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Code Wars - How 'Ultra' and...

  John Jackson

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  When the top secret code breaking activities at Bletchley Park were revealed in the 1970s, much of the history of the Second World War had to be rewritten.  Code Wars examines the role of ULTRA (the intelligence derived from breaking secret enemy signals) on major events of the Second World War.  It examines how it influenced the outcome of key battles such as D-Day, El Alamein, Crete, key naval battles, the controversy surrounding Churchill and Coventry, the shadowing of Hitlers V1 pilotless aircraft and the V2 rocket.The book also examines the pioneering work in breaking Enigma by the Polish cryptographers, and the building of Colossus, the worlds first digital, programmable computer, which helped unravel the secret orders of Hitler and the German High Command.  It also tells the story of the American successes in breaking Japanese signals, known as Magic. The vital role of the intercept stations which took down the enemy messages, providing the raw material for the cryptographers to break, is also explored.The book shows how the code breakers were able to shorten the war by as much as two years and bring Signals Intelligence, in the postwar years, into a new era of military intelligence gathering.

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  Scarred by war Yemen’s children...

  PBS NewsHour

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  In Yemen, some of the most vulnerable victims are the 2 million children on the brink of starvation, or those who lost limbs during the fighting. In Aden, many children have been fit with prosthetic limbs, but with rudimentary materials and old technology, they are sometimes barely functional. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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  Trash - A Poor White Journey

  Cedar Monroe, Liz Theoharis

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  Every day across the US, 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In this sweeping debut, activist and chaplain Cedar Monroe writes indelibly about and for poor white people: about unlearning the American dream, untangling from white supremacy, and working for liberation alongside other poor folks. 
   
   
   
  Monroe introduces us to people who are poor and unhoused in a small town in Washington, who eke out a living on land that once provided timber for the nation. On the banks of the Chehalis River, we meet residents of the largest homeless encampment in the country, who face sweeps and evictions and are targeted by vigilantes before bringing their case to federal court. We watch a community grapple with desperation, government neglect, and its own racism. 
   
   
   
  Capitalism and colonialism have stolen land from Indigenous people, forced workers into dangerous jobs, and then left them to die when their labor was no longer needed. But what would happen if poor white folks rejected the empty promises of white supremacy and embraced solidarity with other poor people? What if they joined the resistance to the system that is, slowly or quickly, killing us all? Trash asks us to see anew the peril in which poor white people live and the choices we all must make.

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  I Hate the Internet

  Jarett Kobek

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  What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman in a society that hated women?Set in the San Francisco of 2013, I Hate the Internet offers a hilarious and obscene portrayal of life amongst the victims of the digital boom. As billions of tweets fuel the city’s gentrification and the human wreckage piles up, a group of friends suffers the consequences of being useless in a new world that despises the pointless and unprofitable.In this, his first full-length novel, Jarett Kobek tackles the pressing questions of our moment. Why do we applaud the enrichment of CEOs at the expense of the weak and the powerless? Why are we giving away our intellectual property? Why is activism in the 21st Century nothing more than a series of morality lectures typed into devices built by slaves?Here, at last, comes an explanation of the Internet in the crudest possible terms.

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