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David Hilton

Internet Archive: A Future for Books -- BookServer - 5 views

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  • David Hilton on 14 Dec 09
     
    The Internet Archive BookServer, A Future for Books, distributed lending & vending on the internet is an Open Web for Books project for worldwide distribution of e-books. BookServer with more than 1,5 millions books is, today, one of the biggest digital libraries offering and sharing free access to digital books both in PDF and ePub format, the latest recommended by the International Digital Publishing Forum a free and open e-book standard with extension ".epub".
  • David Hilton on 14 Dec 09
     
    Cool!
Kay Cunningham

Digital publishing: Google's big book case | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Kay Cunningham on 05 Sep 09
     
    'Google has a big economic incentive to ensure that its online library is widely available: it makes most of its money from search advertising, so the more people that use its services, including the online book archive, the better. It also has a legal incentive to watch its step. The agreement stipulates that institutional subscription prices must be low enough to ensure that the public has "broad access" to digital books, while at the same time earning market rates for copyright owners. So if lots of libraries refuse to sign up for Google's service because it is too costly, the company could be slapped with a lawsuit.'
Kay Cunningham

Why preserve books? The new physical archive of the Internet Archive, by Brewster Kahle... - 3 views

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  • Kay Cunningham on 06 Jun 11
     
    'Internet Archive is building a physical archive for the long term preservation of one copy of every book, record, and movie we are able to attract or acquire. Because we expect day-to-day access to these materials to occur through digital means, the our physical archive is designed for long-term preservation of materials with only occasional, collection-scale retrieval. Because of this, we can create optimized environments for physical preservation and organizational structures that facilitate appropriate access. A seed bank might be conceptually closest to what we have in mind: storing important objects in safe ways to be used for redundancy, authority, and in case of catastrophe.'
joseph koch

Character Strengths and Virtues (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

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  • joseph koch on 21 Oct 11
     
    Character Strengths and Virtues (book) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The authors of the CSV mention the importance and power of strong, clear principles to any person The Character Strengths and Virtues (CSV) handbook of human strengths and virtues, by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, represents the first attempt on the part of the research community to identify and classify the positive psychological traits of human beings.[1] In the same way that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is used to assess and facilitate research on mental disorders, the CSV is intended to provide a theoretical framework to assist in developing practical applications for positive psychology.[1] The CSV identifies six classes of virtue (i.e. "core virtues"), made up of twenty-four measurable character strengths. Contents [hide]
David Hilton

Search and download free e-books from everywhere with DocJax.com (242,410+ free e-books... - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 05 Jul 09
     
    A search engine for free ebooks. Usually these are out-of-print, older texts which can be useful for historical research.
Lance Mosier

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - 16 views

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  • Lance Mosier on 19 Nov 10
     
    E-Book about the story of the Linda Brent
David Hilton

Supplementary material - Volume GallipoliMission | Australian War Memorial - 3 views

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  • David Hilton on 30 Oct 11
     
    This is the first edition of the 1948 book written by C E W Bean about the 1915 Gallipoli campaign. 
David Hilton

Modern History textbooks - 27 views

Thanks Jeremy for that. Very helpful. I really appreciate it :)

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Jeremy Greene

World History Connected: EJournal of Learning and Teaching - 6 views

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  • David Hilton on 14 Jan 10
     
    Has articles and some source material links related to World History. The site (run out of University of Illinois, by the looks) has a strong focus on 'big history.' I hadn't encountered this term before; it seems to mean looking at history not through civilisations but rather periods or regions. If that description is wrong and someone could provide more accuracy on 'big history' that would be cool.
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  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    World History Connected: The EJournal of Learning and Teaching [www.worldhistoryconnected.org] World history poses extraordinary demands upon those who teach it, challenging the talent of experienced instructors as well as to those new to the field. World History Connected is designed for everyone who wants to deepen the engagement and understanding of world history: students, college instructors, high school teachers, leaders of teacher education programs, social studies coordinators, research historians, and librarians. For all these readers, WHC presents innovative classroom-ready scholarship, keeps readers up to date on the latest research and debates, presents the best in learning and teaching methods and practices, offers readers rich teaching resources, and reports on exemplary teaching. WHC is free worldwide. It is published by the University of Illinois Press, and its institutional home is Washington State University. Editors: Heather Streets, Washington State University and Tom Laichas, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences. Associate Editor: Tim Weston, University of Colorado. Funding for World History Connected, Inc. has been provided by The College Board and private donations. Should you wish to contribute, please contact Heidi Roupp, Executive Director [Heidiroupp@aol.com]
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    Check out past issues by using the index key. The home page is always the current issue.
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    The journal focuses on the New World History (looking at the world at a global scale across time) as opposed to the one civilization at a time approach. See the World History AP course description for an example of what this means: http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/ap/students/worldhistory/ap-cd-worldhist-0708.pdf David, as an Australian you are at Ground Zero of Big History since its leader is an Australian = David Christian. Christian's _Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History_ is the one book to read on the subject. This article well covers it: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/whc/3.1/christian.html Google David Christian, Big History for more
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    Again, the journal is not specifically focused on Big History but on the New World History, but it did have one issue on Big History as its forum: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.3/ More links than you probably want here about Big History: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.3/maunu2.html This month's forum is on Latin America. Other forums range the gamut of world history.
  • David Hilton on 18 Nov 10
     
    Thanks very much Jeremy. I'll check it out!
Aaron Palm

Edited by Eric Foner and Manning Marable / Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Re... - 0 views

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  • This reader collects fourteen influential essays by Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003) on the African American experience. Written with passion and eloquence, they are full of ideas originally dismissed by a white, segregated academy that have now become part of the scholarly mainstream. Covering topics including slave resistance, black abolitionists, Reconstruction, and W. E. B. Du Bois, these essays demonstrate the critical connection between political commitment and the advancement of scholarship, while restoring Aptheker's central place as one of the founding scholars in the development of African American studies.
    • Aaron Palm
      Aaron Palm on 11 Jul 10
       
      Herbert Aptheker was a member of the American Communist Party and worked to write revisionist history that separated America from its founding
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