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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

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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
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The Beast

Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

by Oscar Martinez ...

Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington ...

An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year”“Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier” (New York Times)One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local ... Read more

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An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year”“Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier” (New York Times)One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local
... 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

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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,
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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

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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
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

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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
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Blood Barrios

Dispatches from the World's Deadliest Streets

by Alberto Arce ...

Translated by John Washington, Daniela Ugaz ...

Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-FictionFeatures illustrations by the Honduran artist Germán AndinoWelcome to a country that has a higher casualty rate than Iraq. Wander streets considered the deadliest in the world. Wake up each morning to another batch of corpses – sometimes bound, often mutilated – lining the roads; to the screeching blue light of police sirens and the huddles of ... Read more

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Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-FictionFeatures illustrations by the Honduran artist Germán AndinoWelcome to a country that has a higher casualty rate than Iraq. Wander streets considered the deadliest in the world. Wake up each morning to another batch of corpses – sometimes bound, often mutilated – lining the roads; to the screeching blue light of police sirens and the huddles of
... Read more
A Massacre in Mexico

The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students

Translated by John Washington ...

by Anabel Hernández ...

The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican studentsOn September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were en route to a protest when intercepted by local police. A confrontation ensued. Come the morning, the students were nowhere to be found. The crime that had transpired and the resultant cover-up brought the profound depths of ... Read more

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The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican studentsOn September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were en route to a protest when intercepted by local police. A confrontation ensued. Come the morning, the students were nowhere to be found. The crime that had transpired and the resultant cover-up brought the profound depths of
... Read more
The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister

Life and Death in Juárez

by Sandra Nieto ...

Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington ...

The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalistSixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly inexplicable triple murder, Sandra Rodríguez Nieto paints a haunting and unforgettable portrait of the most violent ... Read more

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The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalistSixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly inexplicable triple murder, Sandra Rodríguez Nieto paints a haunting and unforgettable portrait of the most violent
... Read more
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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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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The Beast

Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

by Oscar Martinez ...

Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

Unabridged

10 hours 15 min

One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories ... Read more

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One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories
... Read more

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The Dispossessed

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

by John Washington ...

Narrated by Zac Aleman ...

Unabridged

10 hours 14 min

Arnovis 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, Arnovis, whose family's search for safety shows how the United States—in concert with other Western ... Read more

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Arnovis 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, Arnovis, whose family's search for safety shows how the United States—in concert with other Western
... Read more

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The Case for Open Borders

by John Washington ...

Narrated by Pete Cross ...

Unabridged

8 hours 44 min

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, over 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their potential—as lines of ... Read more

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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, over 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their potential—as lines of
... Read more

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