Philosophy
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America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights
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Soon after the start of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, the Thirteen Colonies proclaimed their independence from British rule and became the United States of America. The written word Read More →
Common Sense and Other Works by Thomas Paine
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Known as the Father of the American Revolution, English-American author Thomas Paine became famous for two pamphlets that inspired the colonists to fight for their independence. Common Sense, Read More →
First Avenue Classics ™ Grades 6–8 Collection (Multi-User) — eBook Set
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From Alice and the Wizard of Oz to Hamlet and Don Quixote, your favorite characters from literature are now accessible from any digital device. First Avenue Classics transform unabridged… Read More →
First Avenue Classics ™ Grades 9–12 Collection (Multi-User) — eBook Set
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From Alice and the Wizard of Oz to Hamlet and Don Quixote, your favorite characters from literature are now accessible from any digital device. First Avenue Classics transform unabridged… Read More →
Leviathan
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During the upheaval of the English Civil War in the seventeenth century, political philosopher Thomas Hobbes composed his masterwork, Leviathan. It was first published in 1651, between the… Read More →
The Communist Manifesto
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The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential political books in the world, despite being over one hundred years old. German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels authored the… Read More →
The Prince
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"It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity." In this sixteenth-century treatise to aspiring rulers,… Read More →
The Prophet
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Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is one of the world's best-selling books of poetry. In twenty-six poetic essays, Gibran writes from the perspective of fictional prophet… Read More →
The Republic
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What is justice? And what is its relation to happiness? These two questions form the central themes of this philosophic text, written by the Greek philosopher Plato around 380 BCE. It is… Read More →
Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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In these two American literary classics, Henry David Thoreau offers readers his experiences and thoughts on how to live a more fulfilling life and stand up for what is right. Having spent two Read More →