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All products sold on thesecondworld.org are digital goods — EPUB and PDF files delivered by email immediately upon confirmed payment. No physical items are shipped. You will receive your files at the email address provided at checkout within minutes of payment confirmation.
The Complete Second World purchase includes all five books, each as a PDF and an EPUB, together with one companion guide (Thematic & Ideological Analysis, 42 pages): eleven files in total. An individual book purchase includes that book as a PDF and an EPUB.
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