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> Free mathematics books

> What's so great about the Dewey decimal system?

> Assigning Wikipedia in a US history survey

> Literary tourism and the quest for authenticity

> What if the world emobied our highest potential?

> Far from liberating us, technology isolates us and makes us stupid

> Chris Anderson claims to know how the internet will rewrite the rules of business

> What is human wisdom?

> URL shortening services

> The French way of doing things

> High stakes in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection campaign

> Reading Khamenei: the world view of Iran's most powerful leader [.pdf]

> Cheever in charge

> Data center overload

> Teaching in the twenty-first century

> 15 ways to fix the world

> Uncomfortable plot summaries

> Clive Thompson on the future of reading in a digital world

> Caricatures of writers, artists, philosophers and scientists, by illustrator Mike Caplanis

> What Jewish book changed your life?

> What ever happened to the live album?

> Malcolm Gladwell, everyone's favorite social scientist

> Richard Pryor: stand-up philosopher

> The entire archives of Nature, stretching back to the first issue in 1869, have been made available online

> The world of famous diamonds

> The Quaterly Conversation book review archive

> Stephane Halleux, sculpteur

> Is the US really a nation of god-fearing Darwin-haters?

> Why Europeans have it wrong about Americans

> Joseph Conrad’s tragic predicament

> A worrier’s guide to our economic future

> Malcolm Gladwell: the future of the media

> The Reading Miss Nude 2009

> The long goodbye? The book business and its woes

> Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war [TED]

> For a happier life, shake off your misplaced optimism

> I suppose you could describe literary festivals as a sort of live porn show for the educated classes

> Orwell’s instructive errors

> Short takes on books that don't exist

> The American system of education as it now exists is a status machine

> Who is Spengler?

> From Animal Farm to Zog, an A-Z of Orwell

> Michael Dirda on 'The complete Ripley novels'

> Secret of Googlenomics

> Aronson's book 'Living without God' welcomes the emergence of the New Atheists

> Julian Bell on a chromatic culture clash

> That “comics” persists in connoting “pulp” and “graphic novels” implies something “literary” is purely a matter of convention

> Web usability consultant Jakob Nielsen discusses the hazards and limitations of tweeting

> The uncelebrated beauty of men’s sexuality

> 6 ways that porn runs the world

> We should not rue the passing of a bookish golden age that never existed

> From Shakespeare's 'Cardenio' to Ovid's Getic poetry, missing texts hold tantalizing possibilities

> Julian Barnes on John Updike

> The body in the library - book covers

> Le site d'un bouquiniste des quais de Paris

> Adaptation: on literary darwinism

> The reason men want sex and women want to cuddle is all about our respective brains

> Twelve top female writers celebrate the many faces of Michelle Obama

> The competing myths about fresh food

> ‘Two cultures’ turns 50

> Why we love prequels

> The 13 people who made torture possible

> Why do we often care more about imaginary characters than real people?

> Encyclopedic knowledge, then vs. now

> Review of 'Memoirs' of duc de Saint-Simon

> 5 terrifying bastardizations of the Wikipedia model

> The global food crisis

> Thousands in scramble for free books after Amazon supplier abandons warehouse

> Souvenirs verdringen boeken langs de Seine

> German literature in exile

> French bibliomaniacs [YouTube]

> The 5 most likely ways humans will become obsolete

> Who controls the internet?

> If intellectuals disappear from the public eye, academia may suffer

> Do narcissists have better sex?

> Harold Bloom on Harry Potter

> My Father's Library - Finn-Olaf Jones

> El Ateneo op Flickr

> A new book explores the poetic, ever-changing world of slang

> Like boiling a frog : on Andrew Lih's 'The Wikipedia revolution'

> It's not Google that's killing the media

> The Kundera conundrum

> A guide to the best historical novels and tales (1911)

> One hundred best books : with commentary and an essay on books and reading (1916)

> A guide to historical fiction (1914)

> Comfort found in good old books (1911)

> The choice of books (1905)

> A thousand of the best novels (1919)

> What is the deal with Western men's erotic obsession with the East?

> The book-lover, a guide to the best reading (1889)

> Books for village libraries (1895)

> The world's best books: suggestions for the selection of a home library (ca. 1909)

> A guide to identifying fake dust jackets

> Bloom's western canon with links to fulltexts online

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