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TWELVE BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Principia Mathematica (1687) by Isaac Newton
Married Love (1918) by Marie Stopes
Magna Carta (1215) by members of the English ruling classes
Book of Rules of Association Football (1863) by a group of former English public-school men
On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789) by William Wilberforce in Parliament, immediately printed in several versions
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft
Experimental Researches in Electricity (three volumes, 1839, 1844, 1855) by Michael Faraday
Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine (1769) by Richard Arkwright
The King James Bible (1611) by William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
The First Folio (1623) by William Shakespeare
I had the opportunity of sitting with Ismail Serageldin, the director of the Library of Alexandria at a session at the STS Forum. He told me a story about a fellow educator and librarian who was dismayed that students were only citing things that they could find on the Internet and were no longer using physical libraries. Ismail said that he disagreed. He told me that he felt that students using the Internet were correct and that it was the libraries that needed to make more material available online. I totally agree. (He also said he was a fan of Wikipedia.) So it's good news that:
Matt Haughey @ CC Blog30 Million newspapers to be put online
Great news for the public domain: The National Endowment for the Arts and the Library of Congress are putting 30 million newspaper pages online, dating from 1836 to 1922.
It'll take until 2006 to complete the project but the Library of Congress has put up a sample from The Stars and Stripes, an armed forces paper, posting every issue from 1918-1919.
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I drove my son to school in Michigan last weekend. During the drive, which took 3 days, non stop, I listened to four audio books:
A Friend of the Earth. New York: Viking, 2000 T C Boyle
Little Scarlet, Walter Mosley
Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward
American Soldier, Tommy Franks
All extremely powerful books and highly recommended!
Darknet: An experiment in group editing is a bold venture. J.D. Lasica, the author of Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music and Television has published a wiki where he is inviting readers to participate in writing and editing his book. He even promises a mention in the book if you contribute a lot.
I have been following the progress of Dan Gillmor's book writing project, Making the News, but this takes the process up a notch.
It took 9 hours! There was sooo much traffic! First in Binghamton, where there was road work; and then on the Mass Pike. Normally it takes about 6 and half hours. Luckly, I had my iPod. I listened to Stevie Ray Vaughn, Pharoh Sanders, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Carla Bley, Charlie Mingus, Taj Mahall, Albert King, Mission of Burma, The Ramones, and Elvis. All in all, it was a high volume night; very caffinated. Now I am relaxing at home. Whew. Remember Love Story, I think they drove back and forth from Harvard to Cornell in about 5 hours.
BTW, I forgot how good Mission of Burma was. What a great album.
