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Free ebooks. Making Books Work - reading books organization. Foundations of Physics, Volume 5, Number 1. Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality - John Horgan. How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical manifestations "work"? What are their neurological mechanisms and psychological implications? John Horgan investigates a wide range of fields — chemistry, physics, psychology, radiology, theology, and more — to narrow the gap between reason and enlightenment. As both a seeker and an award-winning journalist, Horgan is uniquely positioned to profile researchers and their work. To find the ends of enlightenment, he communes with a number of experts, including the theologian Huston Smith, spiritual heir to Joseph Campbell; Andrew Newberg, the scientist whose quest for the brain's "God module" was the focus of a Newsweek cover story; Ken Wilber, the doyen of transpersonal psychology; Alexander Shulgin, the legendary chemist who has synthesized scores of psychedelic drugs and tested them on himself; and Susan Blackmore, a Zen practitioner, psychologist, and parapsychology debunker who teaches at Oxford.
SF Books Showing Humanity at its Best? | Science Fiction Fans. This topic is currently marked as "dormant"—the last message is more than 90 days old. You can revive it by posting a reply. 1zinschj Edited: Mar 25, 2011, 3:00am I'm looking for recommendations on SF books that are the opposite of post-apocalyptic or distopian stories --stories that show humanity at its best or, at least, a world in which all human existence is elevated beyond basic survival. I recently read the The Player of Games by Iain Banks and loved the idea of the Culture. I also liked the Commonwealth in Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star. Thanks! 2Jarandel Edited: Mar 25, 2011, 9:36am Singularity SkyThe Festival civilization is transhuman and post-singularity, though we see relatively little of them except their utmost interest for new information, art and entertainment, and how the sudden limitless abundance they bring wreaks havoc on a typical & somewhat backward industrial society still reliant on scarcity and uneven distribution of riches. 3randalhoctor Edited: Mar 25, 2011, 8:17pm.
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To read. Self-help. Neuroscience. Early Onset of Night, Volume One (9781453867648): Michael Kindt. Puzzles. Best Japanese books. 40 Modern Nonfiction Books Everyone Should Read. UC Berkeley Summer Reading List. Greetings to Berkeley faculty, staff, and students, As we do at the start of each spring term, we're soliciting your suggestions for great books to pass on to incoming Cal freshmen later this year as part of the 2014 UC Berkeley Summer Reading List for Freshmen. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement on campus, we've chosen Free Speech as this year's theme. Of course, we'd love suggestions of readings that have to do with the events and people here at Berkeley back in 1964, but we also encourage you to think of the theme more broadly: any novels, memoirs, historical texts, and other books that touch on the issue of free speech in various times and places.
The primary criteria are that the book resonates for you with the theme of free speech, and that it’s a great read you think an incoming freshman would enjoy. So, by Feburary 28, 2014, here's what we'd love to have from any of you out there with a berkeley.edu email address: The 2013 theme was "What Would Seniors Read? " UC Berkeley Summer Reading 2006. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first CenturyThomas L. FriedmanNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 Although the message can be boiled down into fewer pages, a future President should understand that technology has created the opportunity for anyone in the world to perform tasks that used to be limited by geography.
It sounds good for the world; is it good for the U.S.? We are the leader in offshoring. Dave PattersonPardee Professor of Computer Science The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan DidionNew York: Knopf, 2005 This is a wonderful meditation on loss and grief, but also on a forty-year-long relationship between a man and a woman who spent hardly a day outside of each other's company. Charles FaulhaberProfessor, Spanish and PortugueseJames D.
Life and FateVasilii Semenovich GrossmanNew York: Harper & Row, 1986, ©1985 This is the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century and one of the six or seven greatest works of fiction of the century in the Western canon. Why? G. Read book reviews, preview books, bestsellers, join a book club, meet people and read author book blogs and interviews. 6 million books and counting. Welcome to Open Library. Best Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Asylum. Welcome to StephenKing.com. 10 Websites for Book Lovers. At this point most everyone has heard of LibraryThing, the most popular social cataloging website online, and perhaps even of the Amazon-owned Shelfari, but here are a few websites for book lovers that you may not have heard about: Blippr Blippr is a website where you can add short reviews of 160 characters or less of books, movies, music, games, and applications.
You can connect your account to many other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook where you can continue your conversations. Book Cover Archive The Book Cover Archive is a collection of over 1,000 book covers categorized and browsable by designers, authors, titles, art directors, photographers, illustrators, and more. BookJetty BookJetty is a social cataloging app that will let you set up a bookshelf of titles you own or want and then easily search for them in your local library with a click.
Book Glutton BookGlutton is a social community where you can read public domain books and discuss them with groups. Gurulib Listal. 5 Rewarding Social Networks for Book Lovers | | Blogging TipsBlogging Tips. Reading is a great past-time that can be both comforting and rewarding — though to some people it can be more of a chore. One of the best ways to discover new books to read is by seeing what others are reading. Though there are many social networks out there dedicated to book lovers, here are the top 5 that I feel have the most to offer.
Feel free to share your personal favorites in the comments. Goodreads Goodreads is the one that I’ve personally been most active on. Shelfari “Shelfari is the premier social network for people who love books. Revish With Revish you can write book reviews, maintain reading lists, keep a reading journal, participate in groups and much more. LibraryThing “LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily.” aNobii aNobii is kind of similar to to Shelfari, especially when it comes to the virtual bookshelf. What is your favorite book related social network? Welcome to the Polyglot Project. The Book Seer | Find your next book - StumbleUpon. Better Book Titles: Archive. Banned Books Online.
Presents Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page. (See that page for more than 3 million more online books!) Please inform onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu of any new material that can be included here. Note that the listings are meant to be representative rather than exhaustive. October 1 - 7 is Banned Books Week. Books Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities Ulysses by James Joyce was selected by the Modern Library as the best novel of the 20th century, and has received wide praise from other literature scholars, including those who have defended online censorship.
In 1930, U.S. John Cleland's Fanny Hill (also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) has been frequently suppressed since its initial publication in 1749. The Comstock law also forbade distribution of birth control information. LibraryThing | Catalog your books online. Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia. Authorama - Public Domain Books. Page By Page Books. Read Classic Books Online, Free.
Great Poems « Greatest Books of All Time » Life-Changing Arts. A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets. Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry.
The poems are sorted by vote. To vote for a poem, click on the left of it. Voting is possible once per day. Votes PoemAuthor IfRudyard Kipling EchoChristina Georgina Rossetti If you think the best poem of all times is not even on this list, by all means, let us know which poem it is and why you think it should be added. Get inspired.. inspire others.. Back to Greatest Books of All Time. Book recommendations from readers like you. 4 Great Ways To Keep Track Of Your Expanding Book Collection. With the internet taking off the way it has, and the incredible effect it is having on all media outlets, including newspapers, magazines and terrestrial radio, books surprisingly continue to thrive. To this day, whenever you go into a Barnes and Noble or Borders, hoards of people are crowding the coffee shop with books in hand or books out the door.
This also includes Amazon, where although they have moved on to much more then just books, their Amazon book rankings are still heavily relied upon as a popularity factor, and still get a lot of their revenue via paperbacks and hardcovers. With the overwhelming majority of readers still buying books, instead of going to their local library, many like to have a nice way to organize what they’re reading, share it with the world and give their take on it. So, like any other popular forms of media, several websites and applications have been born to do these tasks. I’ve chosen four of the best. Shelfari Features: Goodreads LibraryThing. Keeping Track of Finished Books | So Many Books. One of the things I have been mulling over of late is how I keep track of books I have read. Sure I could just keep track on my blog but it isn’t sufficient for my purposes.
Years ago I used the extremely simple database software that came along with Apple Works, Apple’s sorry attempt to rival Microsoft in office software. It is a flat file database which means searching stinks. The only nice thing about it that it has neatly delineated fields. I could use LibraryThing especially since the book status feature was added. During my just completed systems analysis class, we talked about rapid prototyping–creating barely functional pieces of a systems solution so users can see what they’ve been talking with the analyst about and validate the system requirements and all that good stuff. What does this have to do with keeping track of books?
Excel may or may not be ultimately satisfying. All this begs me to ask the question, how do you keep track of the books you have read? Like this: Welcome to the Polyglot Project. BookMooch: trade your books with other people. The Great Geek Manual » The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries. I make no secret of the fact that I’m a hardcore bibliophile, but we’re a common enough lot these day. And the one sight that always makes me linger over a webpage is rows and rows of neatly organized books.
So, in an effort to draw more like-minded read here to my little blog, I decided to round-up a gallery of photos of some of the most beautiful libraries I’ve ever seen photos of. Enjoy. If you enjoy this gallery, make sure you check out our other list of The United States’ Most Beautiful Libraries! Abbey Library St. The Astronomy Library of the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands Photo Credit: (Erik) Bristol Central Library Photo Credit: *Firefox The British Library reading room at the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum in London, England. Central Library of Vancouver in Vancouver, Canada Photo Credit: lightgazer Delft University Library in The Netherlands Photo Credit: rutger spoelstra José Vasconcelos Library in México City, Mexico Photo Credit: CliNKer.