Electronic Books The Future Of Publishing

Traditional paperback books could soon become as obsolete as cassette tapes and LPs, as leading publishing houses start to print their books electronically.

In an age where children are more interested in having an iPod and a MySpace account than the complete works of Charles Dickens, publishers are turning to digital books in an attempt to attract younger audiences.

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Blair’s Advance for Memoir Said to Be About $9 Million

Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Britain, has agreed to sell his memoir for an advance of around $9 million, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.

After a four-day auction, the book was bought by two divisions of Random House: Alfred A. Knopf in the United States and Canada, and Hutchinson in Britain. Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor in chief of Knopf, said that Mr. Blair intended to write a “serious and frank book” about his life and, in particular, his decade at 10 Downing Street.

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Harry Potter First Edition Auctioned

A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000.

The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the back of the title page, was sold to an anonymous private bidder for $40,326 at Christie's auction house.

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Previous Post: One Pirate Booksite Now Has All 7 Harry Potter Books To Be Downloaded.

Carnegie Mellon Study Ranks Most Informative Blogs

A recent Carnegie Mellon study used higher mathematics to answer the question: if you want to be informed about what the entire blogospohere is talking about, but you can only read 100 blogs (out of the millions available), which blogs should you read? We were very happy to learn that BloggersBlog.com came in 8th on the list.

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My Comment: A third of the blogs that are listed are read regularly by me......so.....I have to agree.....it is a good list.

Da Vinci Code Fans Can Pay £4,000 To Show Innocence Of The Knights Templar

Fans of The Da Vinci Code may think that £4,000 is a small price to pay for an exclusive document that clears the good name of the mysterious Knights Templar.

The Vatican is selling a limited edition of life-sized replicas of a giant forgotten parchment that absolves the mysterious knights of their status as heretics.

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My Comment: A copy of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code can be freely downloaded from Hotmix here.

Record Price For 13th-Century Quran

LONDON - A Quran written in 1203, believed to be the oldest known complete copy, has sold for more than $2.3 million at an auction.

The holy book, which had been estimated to sell for up to $715,000, fetched $2,327,300 at Tuesday's auction in London, Christie's said.

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My Comment: That's all !!!!! Considering its uniqueness I would have expected various Islamic organizations in the West, the Middle East, or elsewhere to go all out in purchasing this item. In my view, whoever purchased it will get a fantastic return on his investment when Islamic groups and organizations realize what is out there.

A copy of the Quran can be freely downloaded from Bookyards here. Bookyards has a section dedicated to Islam here.

An Amusing Moment Away From Books

I am a bit overloaded with work today, so nothing about books right now. But I cam across the following amusing post ...... you have to figure that this opens up a huge new untapped market for Mountain Dew. (Hat Tip To Tigerhawk)

UPDATE: Hoax Alert: How to Make Mountain Dew Glow in the Dark From Wired News

E-Books Multiply, But Who's Reading Them?

Caitlin Lyons labors in the towering stacks as bibliophiles trickle into Boston's Brattle Book Shop. Many are repeat customers, here to browse an eclectic collection - hundreds of thousands of loosely categorized tomes that spill from these two floors onto outdoor shelves in an empty lot.

It's an avalanche of paper, concedes Ms. Lyons, a recent English major with an ecosensitive streak. She acknowledges that this vast inventory, digitized, could shrink dramatically into an easily managed series of reads on a PC, PDA, or some dedicated device's screen. That, she says, would represent a loss. "Way too many things are becoming technological," she says, cradling a fragile-looking hardback copy of Benjamin Disraeli's "Sybil." "A bookshelf and a study? You can't do that on a disc."

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My Comment: Being involved with digital libraries for the past 10 years has given me some perspective on where we were, where we are, and I hope on where we going. For our digital library (Bookyards) I have been to see an increase of 500% in the past year alone. There were only 20 digital libraries 7 years ago .... today there are over 800. A slowing down in growth has not yet happened......and will not in the next few years. If anything, newer formats and websites that focus on specific areas of study is what is now driving the growth of ebooks. When I look at the traffic stats for these sites, almost all of them are growing at a constant rate. Pirate book sites that are making available copyright materials (mainly from India and Eastern Europe) are experiencing unbelievable growth in readership. This is a trend that is not going to stop.

Research Libraries Close Their Books To Google and Microsoft

Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they were put off by restrictions these companies wanted to place on the new digital collections.

The research libraries, including a large consortium in the Boston area, are instead signing on with the Open Content Alliance, a nonprofit effort to make digital material as widely accessible as possible. Libraries that agree to work with Google do so on Google's terms, which involve access to the material only through the Google search engine, as well as restrictions on how much of it can be downloaded.

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My Comment: No surprise here. One of the many frustrations that I have when I use Google Books comes from not getting the book that I want asap. And when you do get the book you want, you are then confronted with only a few chapters, an incomplete version, and/or a huge list of possible books that their search engine has produced ..... which in turn results with the user (i.e. you and me) spending a good share of their time trying to find what we are exactly looking for.

The Open Content Alliance is a better way to go. It is easier to use, and the content that they have is more relevant to present needs and requests.

Update: The New York Times looks into this story also.

Books To Read This Weekend -- Part 5

Another weekend to spend reading books. Who needs football, hockey, visiting the in-laws, cleaning the house ..... just curl up in front of your computer screen and read the following:

The Black Death by Joseph P. Byrne
A great book on one of mankind's worst plagues.

The Opium War – England And China From 1840 to 1842 by Peter Ward Fay
This is probably one of the many reasons why Asia has always been leary of the west.

Ancient China and its Enemies by Nicola Di Cosmo
Another great book on the history of China

Science Fiction Quotations by Gary Westfahl
A definite for all science fiction fans.

To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee Harper
One of America's greatest classics of the 20th century, and Lee Harper's only novel.

Sex God Method by Daniel Rose ( +18 )
And I thought my ego was big....

Gimme! The Human Nature of Successful Marketing by John Hallward
A great marketing book.

Comandante Che: Guerilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956-1967 by Paul J. Dosal
A confession to make. The anniversary of his death was a few weeks ago. People like myself who understand what communism is all about (and lived through it) can never understand why people in the west are always idolizing this murderer. But here is the book.

Global Catastrophes by Bill Mcguire
For those who like to be scared to death .... move aside Al Gore.

iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon
I have followed Steve Jobs career for the past 25 years. Another great book to read about on the man.

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Another great classic

Cry The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Another classic. The plot is South Africa during apartheid.

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
A book made into a movie

Genocide Aliens by David Bischoff
For all you science fiction fans.


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World Digital Library -- A Joint UNESCO And Library Of Congress Project

My Comment: One of many worthy projects. This project will probably only involve dated and old pieces of work (due to copyright laws) ..... but a project that is definitely worth the effort.

For a list of present online libraries, Bookyards has a made a categorized list of 800 libraries here.

100 Most Influential Books Ever Written

Earlier this year Digg published "Digg's 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written".

It was good to see the list, but unfortunately there were no links to the books themselves. We at Bookyards have corrected this as best as we can.

So ..... here is the list ..... and links to read these books.

1) The Old Testament
2) The Origin Of Species by Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
3) The I Ching
4) The Koran
5) The First Folio – William Shakespeare
6) Works By Aristotle
7) The New Testament
8) The Prince by Niccol Machiavelli
9) Don Quixote, Parts I and II, by Miguel de Cervantes
10) The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Marx and Engels
11) Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
12) Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
13) The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
14) The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (summary and study guide from enotes)
15) The Upanishads
16) Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
17) The Way and Its Power by Lao-tzu
18) Analects by Confucius
19) Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
20) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
21) Relativity by Albert Einstein
22) A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson ( Wikipedia entry )
23) The Dhammapada
24) Common Sense by Thomas Paine
25) The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
26) Summa Theologicae by Thomas Aquinas
27) Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
28) Lives by Plutarch
29) Experiments with Plant Hybrids by Gregor Mendel
30) The Republic by Plato
31) The Trial by Franz Kafka
32) The Avesta
33) Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre ( Wikipedia Entry )
34) History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
35) Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
36) Works by Hippocrates
37) Candide by Franois-Marie de Voltaire
38) History by Herodotus
39) Elements by Euclid
40) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
41) Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
42) Aeneid by Virgil
43) Psychological Types by Carl Gustav Jung
44) On the Nature of Reality by Lucretius
45) Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky
46) Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws by Philo of Alexandria
47) Annals, from the Death of the Divine Augustus by Tacitus
48) The Gospel of Truth
49) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
50) Outlines of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus
51) Enneads by Plotinus
52) Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
53) Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
54) The Kabbalah
55) In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
56) On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church by Martin Luther
57) Gargantua and Pantagruel by Franois Rabelais
58) Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
59) On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs by Nicolaus Copernicus
60) Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
61) The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler
62) Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
63) Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems by Galileo
64) Discourse on Method by Ren Descartes
65) Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
66) Works by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
67) Penses by Blaise Pascal
68) Ethics by Baruch de Spinoza
69) Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
70) The Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
71) The New Science (In Italian) by Giambattista Vico
72) A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
73) The Encyclopedia by Denis Diderot, ed.
74) Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
75) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
76) Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
77) Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
78) An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin
79) An Essay on the Principle of Population by T. R. Malthus
80) Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel
81) The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
82) Course in the Positivist Philosophy (In French) by Auguste Comte
83) On War by Carl Marie von Clausewitz
84) Either/Or by Sren Kierkegaard (cannot find link to book)
85) On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
86) First Principles by Herbert Spencer
87) Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell
88) Pragmatism by William James
89) The Mind and Society by Vilfredo Pareto
90) I and Thou (Wikipedia Entry) by Martin Buber
91) The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Wikipedia Entry) by Karl Popper
92) General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John M. Keynes
93) The Road to Serfdom (Wikipedia Entry) by Friedrich von Hayek
94) The Second Sex (Abbreviated Version) by Simone de Beauvoir
95) Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener
96) Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Ivanovitch Gurdjie (Cannot find a link to the book)
97) Philosophical Investigations (Wikipedia Entry) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
98) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by T. S. Kuhn
99) Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung [The Little Red Book]
100) Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Wikipedia Link) by B.F. Skinner

There are some books that I would have added. Ayn Rand, Free To Choose by Milton Freedman, Kama Sutra, and scores of science books and reports.

Update: A more realistic list is from the BBC and Time Magazine. I will be finding those books next week.

Vatican Publishes Knights Templar Papers

VATICAN CITY - It's not the Holy Grail, but for fans of "The Da Vinci Code" and its tantalizing story line about the Knights Templar, it could be the next best thing.

Ignored for centuries, documents about the heresy trial of the ancient Christian order discovered in the Vatican's secret archives are being published in a limited edition — with an $8,377 price tag.

They include a 14th-century parchment showing that Pope Clement V initially absolved the Templar leaders of heresy, though he did find them guilty of immorality and planned to reform the order, according to the Vatican archives Web site.

But pressured by King Philip IV of France, Clement later reversed his decision and suppressed the order in 1312.

Only 799 copies of the 300-page volume, "Processus Contra Templarios," — Latin for "Trial against the Templars" — are for sale, said Scrinium publishing house, which prints documents from the Vatican's secret archives. Each will cost $8,377, the publisher said Friday.

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On the Net:

Vatican secret archive, http://asv.vatican.va

Publishing house, http://www.scrinium.org

Dr. Phil Says OJ Book Is A Confession

Oscar Wilde Voted Greatest British Wit

One a playwright feted for his literary genius, the other a rock star renowned for his foul mouth: but Oscar Wilde and Liam Gallagher now share the accolade of being voted among Britain's greatest wits.

Wilde, who even on his deathbed remarked, "either those curtains go or I do", was voted number one in the list of comic masters, ahead of comedian Spike Milligan, who had engraved on his tombstone the epitaph "I told you I was ill".

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Bookyards has a collection of works by Oscar Wilde here.

Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Can’t Do Without

The Daily Revolver has made a list (which I agree with) on "a number of great references available to you that isn’t Wikipedia".

He has written a great post ..... so I am just going to quote him directly:

GENERAL RESOURCES

* Bartleby - This site has far more than quotes, you can find full texts here as well - poetry in particular.Citizendium - This is supposed to be the more “professional” Wikipedia. So far it’s not really taken off, but the information here is often a bit more “elite” but usually not as detailed.Answers.com - Answers.com is a sort of “commercial” Wikipedia. It makes use of the info on Wikipedia, combined with many other reference sties, to become a one stop shop. It also has a mobile site that I tend to use a great deal.ePodunk - If you’re looking for information regarding a city or place, it doesn’t get much better than ePodunk.
* Encylopedia Britannica - I know it seems awfully “old school” but this site is an excellent source of information and much more authoritative than Wikipedia.
* Scholarpedia - A step up from both Wikipedia and Citizendium in terms of scholarly respectability, it doesn’t have nearly as much information, but the articles have all been written by experts with peer review. An academic paradise!
* Okay, two sources that your college probably gives you access to. If you aren’t a student, sorry… but these are too good to ignore. You’ll need to see your local school librarian to see how to access these (or you may have a library website you can access it through.)
* JSTOR - You know all those stuffy journals around your professors office? And those articles in your course packets? This is pretty much that. For research it enormously useful.
* Oxford English Dictionary - The definitive resource when it comes to the English language. Not just for English majors, the OED (as it’s known) is useful for almost anyone in the social sciences.
* Wikiseek - When you absolutely, positively, must have the real thing - WikiSeek is Wikipedia with a better search engine. I would also suggest WikiMindMap for when you’re trying to get a better holistic grasp of a subject.

References for Specific Disciplines

* Online Education Database - This is a strange site, and I’m not quite sure what to make of it - but this link lists over 100 specific search and research tools, often relevant to specific subjects.
* MathWorld - if you have the great misfortune of having to take math, then this site can be of great help. Everything mathematics from Geometry to Calculus is covered by this site in great detail.
* GeoHive and Fedstats - These are both statistics sites, so if you need to know how many people. Fedstats allows public access to public agency statistics. Geohive is a bit cooler, primarily providing global statistics (gender populations, coal reserves, etc). I know, it’s so exciting I can’t stand it.
* Theoi and Encyclopedia of Mythology - Both excellent resources on the subject of mythology and ancient religions. This is useful information all across the humanities.
* Glossary of Poetic Forms - This will help you get through that English Literature class. You too can know the difference between a Canto and a Cento.
* Now, if you’re in my fields - these next three are excellent resources.
* Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Foldop - Both of these are excellent sources on just about anything philosophy related. I use the Stanford site all the time.
* Religion Online - If you are a scholar of religion this is an excellent, excellent resource filled with many primary texts.

Bookyards has compiled the following list of resources according to specialty:
Almanacs
Article / Document Search
Arts
Atlases And Maps
Business / Economics
Dictionaries
Education Resources -- Categorized For Different Age Groups
Encyclopedias
English Instruction/Education -- Categorized For Different Age Groups
Foreign Language Instruction/Education -- Categorized For Different Age Groups
Health Instruction/Education -- Categorized For Different Age Groups
History -- Categorized For Different Age Groups
Math -- Categorized For Different Age Groups
Reference And Facts
Science -- Categorized For Different Age Groups
Technology -- Categorized For Different Age Groups
Translation Tools

List Of Best Selling Books Of All Time

Wikipedia has an interesting page on the “Best Selling Books Of All Time”. I made the effort to find these books on the web ….. so …. with just a few exceptions in which I could not find certain books ….. the entire list and links to download these books are the following:

1) Holy Bible

2) Quotations From Chairman Mao

3) Koran or Qur’an -- Version 1, Version 2

4) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

5) Xinhua Dictionary (link to book not found)

6) Book of Common Prayer by Thomas Cranmer

1662 Edition
1928 Edition
1979 Version

7) Pilgrim’s Progrss by John Bunyon

8) Book Of Martyrs by John Foxe

9) Book Of Mormon

1908 Edition
Scanned 1830 Edition

10) Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

11) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

12) The Lord of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

13) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

14) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

15) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

16) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

17) The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger

18) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

19) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

20) Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri

21) King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard

22) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

23) The Curse of Capistrano (The Mark of Zorro) by Johnston McCulley

24) Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince") by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

25) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock (link to book not found)

26) O Alquimista (The Alchemist) by Paulo Coelho

27) How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

28) Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (eBook Version) (Audio Version)

29) The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (Version 1) (Version 2)

30) Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

31) A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

32) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

33) The Late, Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey, C. C. Carlson (link to book not found)

34) Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne W. Dyer (link to book not found)

35) Westminster Shorter Catechism by Church of Scotland

36) In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? By Charles M. Sheldon

37) Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com/ThinkAndGrowRich.zip

38) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary by A. S. Hornby

39) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

40) Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (link to book not found)

41) The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

42) The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories by William J. Bennett (link to book not found)

43) Daily Light on the Daily Path by Jonathan and Samuel Bagster (link to book not found)

44) My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers (link to book not found)

45) Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

46) Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

47) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

48) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowlng

Books that I would add to this list are:
The Guinness Book of Records
World Almanac
The McGuffey Readers 1853

For more books to download and read, go to the Bookyards Library

The Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics: An Introduction To Their Careers And Main Published Works

On Monday October 15, 2007, the Nobel committee will be announcing their winner for the Nobel Prize in Economics.

While searching for information on the prize, I came across this book by Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn in Avaxhome's Economics and Business section..

Quoting .....

"Erudite, accessible and lucidly written, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the careers and main published works of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. It will prove to be an invaluable reference book on key figures in economics and their path-breaking insights. The vignettes should also encourage the reader to sample some of the Laureates’ original works and gain a better understanding of the context in which new ideas were first put forward.
Original features of the book include: • a foreword by Professor Mark Blaug • a review of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, including a biographical guide to potential future winners • a table summarizing the Laureates’: year and country of birth; university and year of their first and higher degrees; their affiliation at the time of the award; broad field of study; and Prize citation • comprehensive individual entries on each of the Laureates (including their photographs), covering their careers and main published works • a glossary of selected associations, awards, institutions and societies."

This is an excellent book, one that I recommend for all those who enjoy mathematics and economics. It can be downloaded here or here.

For more books on economics, Bookyards has over 350 books on economics in its economics section.

Books For The Star Trek Fan -- (Trekkie Alert)

USAWarez has compiled a number of books that focus on Star Trek and their spinoffs. For the complete list scroll down.

Deep Space Nine (47 books)
Deep Space Nine - 001 - Emissary
Deep Space Nine - 002 - The Siege
Deep Space Nine - 003 - Bloodletter
Deep Space Nine - 004 - The Big Game
Deep Space Nine - 005 - Fallen Heroes
Deep Space Nine - 006 - Betrayal
Deep Space Nine - 007 - Warchild
Deep Space Nine - 008 - Antimatter
Deep Space Nine - 009 - Proud Helios
Deep Space Nine - 010 - Valhalla
Deep Space Nine - 011 - Devil in the Sky
Deep Space Nine - 012 - The Laertian Gamble
Deep Space Nine - 013 - Station Rage
Deep Space Nine - 014 - The Long Night
Deep Space Nine - 015 - Objective Bajor
Deep Space Nine - 016 - Invasion 3 - Time's Enemy
Deep Space Nine - 017 - The Heart of the Warrior
Deep Space Nine - 018 - Saratoga
Deep Space Nine - 019 - The Tempest
Deep Space Nine - 020 - Wrath of the Prophets
Deep Space Nine - 021 - Trial by Error
Deep Space Nine - 022 - Vengeance
Deep Space Nine - 023 - The 34th Rule
Deep Space Nine - 024 - The Conquered
Deep Space Nine - 025 - The Courageous
Deep Space Nine - 026 - The Liberated
Deep Space Nine - 027 - The Lives of Dax
Deep Space Nine - 028 - Millennium 1 - The Fall of Terok Nor
Deep Space Nine - 029 - Millennium 2 - The War of the Prophets
Deep Space Nine - 030 - Millennium 3 - Inferno
Deep Space Nine - 031 - A Stitch in Time
Deep Space Nine - 032 - Avatar Book 1
Deep Space Nine - 033 - Avatar Book 2
Deep Space Nine - 034 - Mission Gamma 1 - Twilight
Deep Space Nine - 035 - Mission Gamma 2 - This Gray Spirit
Deep Space Nine - 036 - Mission Gamma 3 - Cathedral
Deep Space Nine - 037 - Mission Gamma 4 - Lesser Evil
Deep Space Nine - 038 - Rising Son
Deep Space Nine - 039 - The Left Hand of Destiny Book 1
Deep Space Nine - 040 - The Left Hand of Destiny Book 2
Deep Space Nine - 041 - Warped
Deep Space Nine - 042 - Prophecy and Change
Deep Space Nine - 043 - Unity
Deep Space Nine - 044 - Worlds of Deep Space Nine Volume One
Deep Space Nine - 045 - Worlds of Deep Space Nine Volume Two
Deep Space Nine - 046 - Worlds of Deep Space Nine Volume Three
Deep Space Nine - 047 - Hollow Men

The link for these books is here.

Enterprise (8 books)
Enterprise - 001 - Broken Bow
Enterprise - 002 - By the Book
Enterprise - 003 - What Price Honor
Enterprise - 004 - Shockwave
Enterprise - 005 - Surak's Soul
Enterprise - 006 - The Expanse
Enterprise - 007 - Daedalus
Enterprise - 008 - Daedalus's Children

The link for these books is here.


New Frontier (16 books)
New Frontier - 001 - House of Cards
New Frontier - 002 - Into the Void
New Frontier - 003 - The Two-Front War
New Frontier - 004 - End Game
New Frontier - 005 - Martyr
New Frontier - 006 - Fire On High
New Frontier - 007 - The Quiet Place
New Frontier - 008 - Dark Allies
New Frontier - 009 - Excalibur 1 - Requiem
New Frontier - 010 - Excalibur 2 - Rennaissance
New Frontier - 011 - Excalibur 3 - Restoration
New Frontier - 012 - Being Human
New Frontier - 013 - Gods Above
New Frontier - 014 - Stone and Anvil
New Frontier - 015 - No Limits
New Frontier - 016 - After the Fall

The link for these books is here.


Next Generation (106 books)
Stargazer (6 books)
Stargazer - 001 - Gauntlet
Stargazer - 002 - Progenitor
Stargazer - 003 - Three
Stargazer - 004 - Oblivion
Stargazer - 005 - Enigma
Stargazer - 006 - Maker
Titan (2 books)
Titan - 001 - Taking Wing
Titan - 002 - Red King
Next Generation (98 books)
The New Generation - 001 - Ghost Ship
The New Generation - 002 - The Peacekeepers
The New Generation - 003 - The Children of Hamlin
The New Generation - 004 - Survivors
The New Generation - 005 - Strike Zone
The New Generation - 006 - Power Hungry
The New Generation - 007 - Masks
The New Generation - 008 - The Captain's Honor
The New Generation - 009 - A Call to Darkness
The New Generation - 010 - A Rock and a Hard Place
The New Generation - 011 - Gulliver's Fugitives
The New Generation - 012 - Doomsday World
The New Generation - 013 - The Eyes of the Beholders
The New Generation - 014 - Exiles
The New Generation - 015 - Fortune's Light
The New Generation - 016 - Contamination
The New Generation - 017 - Boogeymen
The New Generation - 018 - Q-In-Law
The New Generation - 019 - Perchance to Dream
The New Generation - 020 - Spartacus
The New Generation - 021 - Chains of Command
The New Generation - 022 - Imbalance
The New Generation - 023 - War Drums
The New Generation - 024 - Nightshade
The New Generation - 025 - Grounded
The New Generation - 026 - The Romulan Prize
The New Generation - 027 - Guises of the Mind
The New Generation - 028 - Here There Be Dragons
The New Generation - 029 - Sins of Commission
The New Generation - 030 - Debtors' Planet
The New Generation - 031 - Foreign Foes
The New Generation - 032 - Requiem
The New Generation - 033 - Balance of Power
The New Generation - 034 - Blaze of Glory
The New Generation - 035 - The Romulan Strategem
The New Generation - 036 - Into the Nebula
The New Generation - 037 - The Last Stand
The New Generation - 038 - Dragon's Honor
The New Generation - 039 - Rogue Saucer
The New Generation - 040 - Possession
The New Generation - 041 - Invasion 2 - The Soldiers of Fear
The New Generation - 042 - Infiltrator
The New Generation - 043 - A Fury Scorned
The New Generation - 044 - The Death of Princes
The New Generation - 045 - Intellivore
The New Generation - 046 - To Storm Heaven
The New Generation - 047 - Q Continuum 1 - Q-Space
The New Generation - 048 - Q Continuum 2 - Q-Zone
The New Generation - 049 - Q Continuum 3 - Q-Strike
The New Generation - 050 - Dyson Sphere
The New Generation - 051 - Double Helix 1 - Infection
The New Generation - 052 - Double Helix 2 - Vectors
The New Generation - 053 - Double Helix 3 - Red Sector
The New Generation - 054 - Double Helix 4 - Quarantine
The New Generation - 055 - Double Helix 5 - Double or Nothing
The New Generation - 056 - Double Helix 6 - The First Virtue
The New Generation - 057 - The Forgotten War
The New Generation - 058 - Gemworld 1
The New Generation - 059 - Gemworld 2
The New Generation - 060 - Tooth and Claw
The New Generation - 061 - Diplomatic Implausibility
The New Generation - 062 - Maximum Warp 1 - Dead Zone
The New Generation - 063 - Maximum Warp 2 - Forever Dark
The New Generation - 064 - Metamorphosis
The New Generation - 065 - Vendetta
The New Generation - 066 - The Valiant
The New Generation - 067 - Imzadi
The New Generation - 068 - The Devil's Heart
The New Generation - 069 - Dark Mirror
The New Generation - 070 - Q-Squared
The New Generation - 071 - Crossover
The New Generation - 072 - Kahless
The New Generation - 073 - Ship of the Line
The New Generation - 074 - The Best and the Brightest
The New Generation - 075 - Planet X
The New Generation - 076 - Triangle - Imzadi II
The New Generation - 077 - I, Q
The New Generation - 078 - Reunion
The New Generation - 079 - Immortal Coil
The New Generation - 080 - A Hard Rain
The New Generation - 081 - The Battle of Betazed
The New Generation - 082 - Do Comets Dream
The New Generation - 083 - Genesis Wave, Book 1
The New Generation - 084 - Genesis Wave, Book 2
The New Generation - 085 - Genesis Wave, Book 3
The New Generation - 086 - Genesis Force
The New Generation - 087 - A Time to Be Born
The New Generation - 088 - A Time to Die
The New Generation - 089 - A Time to Sow
The New Generation - 090 - A Time to Harvest
The New Generation - 091 - A Time to Love
The New Generation - 092 - A Time to Hate
The New Generation - 093 - A Time to Kill
The New Generation - 094 - A Time to Heal
The New Generation - 095 - A Time for War
The New Generation - 096 - Engines of Destiny
The New Generation - 097 - Articles of the Federation
The New Generation - 098 - Death In Winter

The link for these books is here.


Original Series (161 books)
Bantam Episodes (13 books)
Bantam Episodes - 001 - Charlie's Law
Bantam Episodes - 002 - Arena
Bantam Episodes - 003 - Trouble with Tribbles
Bantam Episodes - 004 - Journey to Babel
Bantam Episodes - 005 - Tholian Web
Bantam Episodes - 006 - The Savage Curtain
Bantam Episodes - 007 - Who Mourns for Adonais
Bantam Episodes - 008 - Where No Man
Bantam Episodes - 009 - Immunity Syndrome
Bantam Episodes - 010 - Galileo Seven
Bantam Episodes - 011 - Little Girls
Bantam Episodes - 012 - Patterns of Force
Bantam Episodes - 013 - Mudd's Angels
Bantam Novels (15 books)
Bantam Novels - 001 - Spock Must Die
Bantam Novels - 002 - The New Voyages
Bantam Novels - 003 - Spock Messiah
Bantam Novels - 004 - The Price of the Phoenix
Bantam Novels - 005 - Planet of JudgmEnterprise
Bantam Novels - 006 - The New Voyages 2
Bantam Novels - 007 - Vulcan
Bantam Novels - 008 - The Starless World
Bantam Novels - 009 - Trek to Madworld
Bantam Novels - 010 - World Without End
Bantam Novels - 011 - The Fate of the Phoenix
Bantam Novels - 012 - Devil World
Bantam Novels - 013 - Perry's Planet
Bantam Novels - 014 - The Galactic Whirlpool
Bantam Novels - 015 - Death's Angel
Errand of Fury (1 book)
Errand of Fury - 001 - Seeds of Rage
Errand of Vengeance (3 books)
Errand of Vengeance - 001 - The Edge of the Sword
Errand of Vengeance - 002 - Killing Blow
Errand of Vengeance - 003 - River of Blood
Janus Gate (3 books)
Janus Gate - 001 - PresEnterprise Tense
Janus Gate - 002 - Future Imperfect
Janus Gate - 003 - Past Prologue
Shatner (8 books)
Shatner - 001 - The Ashes of Eden
Shatner - 002 - The Return
Shatner - 003 - Avenger
Shatner - 004 - Spectre
Shatner - 005 - Dark Victory
Shatner - 006 - Preserver
Shatner - 007 - Captain's Peril
Shatner - 008 - Captain's Blood
Vanguard (1 book)
Vanguard - 001 - Harbinger
Vulcan's Soul (1 book)
Vulcan's Soul - 001 - Exodus
Whitman Book (1 book)
Whitman Book - 001 - Mission to Horatius
Original Series (115 books)
Original Series - 001 - The Motion Picture
Original Series - 002 - The Enterpriseropy Effect
Original Series - 003 - The Klingon Gambit
Original Series - 004 - The Covenant of the Crown
Original Series - 005 - The Prometheus Design
Original Series - 006 - The Abode of Life
Original Series - 007 - The Wrath of Khan
Original Series - 008 - Black Fire
Original Series - 009 - Triangle
Original Series - 010 - Web of the Romulans
Original Series - 011 - Yesterday's Son
Original Series - 012 - Mutiny on the Enterpriseerprise
Original Series - 013 - The Wounded Sky
Original Series - 014 - The Trellisane Confrontation
Original Series - 015 - Corona
Original Series - 016 - The Final Reflection
Original Series - 017 - The Search for Spock
Original Series - 018 - My Enemy, My Ally
Original Series - 019 - The Tears of the Singers
Original Series - 020 - The Vulcan Academy Murders
Original Series - 021 - Uhura's Song
Original Series - 022 - Shadow Lord
Original Series - 023 - Ishmael
Original Series - 024 - Killing Time
Original Series - 025 - Dwellers in the Crucible
Original Series - 026 - Pawns and Symbols
Original Series - 027 - Mindshadow
Original Series - 028 - Crisis on CEnterpriseaurus
Original Series - 029 - Dreadnought
Original Series - 030 - Demons
Original Series - 031 - Battlestations
Original Series - 032 - Chain of Attack
Original Series - 033 - Deep Domain
Original Series - 034 - Dreams of the Raven
Original Series - 035 - The Romulan Way
Original Series - 036 - How Much for Just the Planet
Original Series - 037 - Bloodthirst
Original Series - 038 - The IDIC Epidemic
Original Series - 039 - Time for Yesterday
Original Series - 040 - Timetrap
Original Series - 041 - The Three-Minute Universe
Original Series - 042 - Memory Prime
Original Series - 043 - The Final Nexus
Original Series - 044 - Vulcan's Glory
Original Series - 045 - Double, Double
Original Series - 046 - The Cry of the Onlies
Original Series - 047 - The Kobayashi Maru
Original Series - 048 - Rules of EngagemEnterprise
Original Series - 049 - The Pandora Principle
Original Series - 050 - Doctor's Orders
Original Series - 051 - Enemy Unseen
Original Series - 052 - Home is the Hunter
Original Series - 053 - Ghost-Walker
Original Series - 054 - A Flag Full of Stars
Original Series - 055 - Renegade
Original Series - 056 - Legacy
Original Series - 057 - The Rift
Original Series - 058 - Faces of Fire
Original Series - 059 - The Disinherited
Original Series - 060 - Ice Trap
Original Series - 061 - Sanctuary
Original Series - 062 - Death Count
Original Series - 063 - Shell Game
Original Series - 064 - The Starship Trap
Original Series - 065 - Windows on a Lost World
Original Series - 066 - From the Depths
Original Series - 067 - The Great Starship Race
Original Series - 068 - Firestorm
Original Series - 069 - The Patrian Transgression
Original Series - 070 - Traitor Winds
Original Series - 071 - Crossroad
Original Series - 072 - The Better Man
Original Series - 073 - Recovery
Original Series - 074 - The Fearful Summons
Original Series - 075 - First Frontier
Original Series - 076 - The Captain's Daughter
Original Series - 077 - Twilight's End
Original Series - 078 - The Rings of Tautee
Original Series - 079 - Invasion 1 - First Strike
Original Series - 080 - The Joy Machine
Original Series - 081 - Mudd in Your Eye
Original Series - 082 - Mind Meld
Original Series - 083 - Heart of the Sun
Original Series - 084 - AssignmEnterprise - Eternity
Original Series - 085 - My Brother's Keeper 1 - Republic
Original Series - 086 - My Brother's Keeper 2 - Constitution
Original Series - 087 - My Brother's Keeper 3 - Enterpriseerprise
Original Series - 088 - Across the Universe
Original Series - 089 - Wagon Train to the Stars
Original Series - 090 - Belle Terre
Original Series - 091 - Rough Trails
Original Series - 092 - The Flaming Arrow
Original Series - 093 - Thin Air
Original Series - 094 - Challenger
Original Series - 095 - Swordhunt
Original Series - 096 - Honor Blade
Original Series - 097 - In the Name of Honor
Original Series - 098 - Enterpriseerprise, The First AdvEnterpriseure
Original Series - 099 - Strangers from the Sky
Original Series - 100 - Final Frontier
Original Series - 101 - Spock's World
Original Series - 102 - The Lost Years
Original Series - 103 - Prime Directive
Original Series - 104 - Probe
Original Series - 105 - Best Destiny
Original Series - 106 - Shadows on the Sun
Original Series - 107 - Sarek
Original Series - 108 - Vulcan's Forge
Original Series - 109 - Vulcan's Heart
Original Series - 110 - The Last Roundup
Original Series - 111 - Federation
Original Series - 112 - Garth of Izar
Original Series - 113 - Gemini
Original Series - 114 - The Colonist's Corpse
Original Series - 115 - Ex Machina

The links for these books are:
http://rapidshare.com/files/1411577/star.t.original.series.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/1411578/star.t.original.series.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/1411579/star.t.original.series.part3.rar


Other Collections (112 books)
Amazing Stories (1 book)
Amazing Stories - 001 - Book 1
Badlands (2 books)
Badlands - 001 - Book One (TOS, The New Generation)
Badlands - 002 - Book Two (VOY, Deep Space Nine)
Captain's Table (6 books)
Captain's Table - 001 - War Dragons (TOS)
Captain's Table - 002 - Dujonian's Hoard (The New Generation)
Captain's Table - 003 - The Mist (Deep Space Nine)
Captain's Table - 004 - Fire Ship (VOY)
Captain's Table - 005 - Once Burned (NF)
Captain's Table - 006 - Where Sea Meets Sky (TOS)
Dark Passions (2 books)
Dark Passions - 001 - Book One
Dark Passions - 002 - Book Two
Day of Honor (5 books)
Day of Honor - 001 - AnciEnterprise Blood (The New Generation)
Day of Honor - 002 - Armageddon Sky (Deep Space Nine)
Day of Honor - 003 - Her Klingon Soul (VOY)
Day of Honor - 004 - Treaty's Law (TOS)
Day of Honor - 005 - Day of Honor - The TV Ep (VOY)
Dominion War (5 books)
Dominion War - 001 - Behind Enemy Lines (The New Generation)
Dominion War - 002 - Call to Arms (Deep Space Nine)
Dominion War - 003 - Tunnel Through the Stars (The New Generation)
Dominion War - 004 - Sacrifice of Angels (Deep Space Nine)
Dominion War - 005 - Tales of the Dominion War
Eugenics (3 books)
Eugenics - 001 - Khan Noonian Singh - Vol 1
Eugenics - 002 - Khan Noonian Singh - Vol 2
Eugenics - 003 - To Reign in Hell
Gateways (7 books)
Gateways - 001 - One Small Step (TOS)
Gateways - 002 - Chainmail ©
Gateways - 003 - Doors into Chaos (The New Generation)
Gateways - 004 - Demons of Air and Darkness (Deep Space Nine)
Gateways - 005 - No Man's Land (VOY)
Gateways - 006 - Cold Wars (NF)
Gateways - 007 - What Lay Beyond
I.K.S. Gorkon (3 books)
I.K.S. Gorkon - 001 - A Good Day to Die
I.K.S. Gorkon - 002 - Honor Bound
I.K.S. Gorkon - 003 - Enemy Territory
Lost Era (6 books)
Lost Era - 001 - The Sundered
Lost Era - 002 - SerpEnterprises Among the Ruins
Lost Era - 003 - The Art of the Impossible
Lost Era - 004 - Well of Souls
Lost Era - 005 - Deny Thy Father
Lost Era - 006 - Catalyst of Sorrows
Section 31 (4 books)
Section 31 - 001 - Rogue (The New Generation)
Section 31 - 002 - Shadow (VOY)
Section 31 - 003 - Cloak (TOS)
Section 31 - 004 - Abyss (Deep Space Nine)
Starfleet (1 book)
Starfleet - 001 - Year One
Starfleet Corps of Engineers (57 books)
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 001 - The Belly of the Beast
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 002 - Fatal Error
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 003 - Hard Crash
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 004 - Interphase Book One
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 005 - Interphase Book Two
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 006 - Cold Fusion
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 007 - Invincible Book One
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 008 - Invincible Book Two
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 009 - The Riddled Post
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 010 - Gateways Epilogue
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 011 - Ambush
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 012 - Some Assembly Required
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 013 - No Surrender
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 014 - Caveat Emptor
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 015 - Past Life
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 016 - Oaths
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 017 - Foundations Book 1
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 018 - Foundations Book 2
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 019 - Foundations Book 3
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 020 - Enigma Ship
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 021 - War Stories Book 1
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 022 - War Stories Book 2
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 023 - Wildfire Book 1
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 024 - Wildfire Book 2
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 025 - Home Fires
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 026 - Age of Unreason
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 027 - Balance of Nature
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 028 - Breakdowns
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 029 - Aftermath
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 030 - Ishtar Rising Book 1
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 031 - Ishtar Rising Book 2
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 032 - Buying Time
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 033 - Collective Hindsight Book 1
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 034 - Collective Hindsight Book 2
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 035 - The Demon Book 1
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 036 - The Demon Book 2
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 037 - Ring Around the Sky
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 038 - Orphans
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 039 - Grand Designs
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 040 - Failsafe
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 041 - Bitter Medicine
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 042 - Sargasso Sector
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 043 - Paradise Interrupted
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 044 - Where Time Stands Still
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 045 - The Art of the Deal
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 046 - Spin
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 047 - Creative Couplings Book 1
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 048 - Creative Couplings Book 2
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 049 - Small World
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 050 - Malefictorum
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 051 - Lost Time
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 052 - IdEnterpriseity Crisis
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 053 - Fables of the Prime Directive
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 054 - Security
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 055 - Wounds Book 1
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 056 - Wounds Book 2
Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 057 - Out of the Cocoon
Strange New Worlds (8 books)
Strange New Worlds - 001 - Book I
Strange New Worlds - 002 - Book II
Strange New Worlds - 003 - Book III
Strange New Worlds - 004 - Book IV
Strange New Worlds - 005 - Book V
Strange New Worlds - 006 - Book VI
Strange New Worlds - 007 - Book VII
Strange New Worlds - 008 - Book VIII
The Brave and the Bold (2 books)
Brave and Bold - 001 - Book One
Brave and Bold - 002 - Book Two

The links for these books are:
http://rapidshare.com/files/1414031/star.t.collections.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/1414032/star.t.collections.part2.rar


Voyager (29 books)
Voyager - 001 - Caretaker
Voyager - 002 - The Escape
Voyager - 003 - Ragnarok
Voyager - 004 - Violations
Voyager - 005 - IncidEnterprise at Arbuk
Voyager - 006 - The Murdered Sun
Voyager - 007 - Ghost of a Chance
Voyager - 008 - Cybersong
Voyager - 009 - Invasion 4 - The Final Fury
Voyager - 010 - Bless the Beasts
Voyager - 011 - The Garden
Voyager - 012 - Chrysalis
Voyager - 013 - The Black Shore
Voyager - 014 - Marooned
Voyager - 015 - Echoes
Voyager - 016 - Seven of Nine
Voyager - 017 - Death of a Neutron Star
Voyager - 018 - Battle Lines
Voyager - 019 - Dark Matter - Cloak and Dagger
Voyager - 020 - Dark Matter - Ghost Dance
Voyager - 021 - Dark Matter - Shadow of Heaven
Voyager - 022 - The Nanotech War
Voyager - 023 - Homecoming
Voyager - 024 - The Farther Shore
Voyager - 025 - Spirit Walk 1 - Old Wounds
Voyager - 026 - Spirit Walk 2 - Enemy of my Enemy
Voyager - 027 - String Theory 1 - Cohesion
Voyager - 028 - String Theory 2 - Fusion
Voyager - 029 - Distant Shores

The link for these books is here.

More books on Star Trek can be downloaded from here.

Comandante Che: Guerilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956-1967

Receive some comments from my post on Che a few days back. One of them included the following link to this book. The link to download this book is here.

Previous Post: Che Guevara Remembered 40 Years After Death

The Armenian Genocide.

The U.S. Congress is debating a resolution that would condemn Turkey for the genocide of the Armenians almost 90 years ago.

At the same time I was able to come across a book titled "The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians" by Donald Bloxam.

The link to download this book is here.

Bookseller Of Kabul Extends His Trade With A Mobile Shop

From The Independent:

The Bookseller of Kabul has a new literary ambition: to take a bus across the rubble-strewn roads of his war-torn homeland offering a "mobile" bookshop service to those living in the most remote regions.

Shah Muhammad Rais gained fame after the Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad wrote a bestselling novel, The Bookseller of Kabul, on his life running a bookshop in the Afghan capital after the fall of the Taliban.

Mr Rais, who regards himself as a books missionary, told the BBC World Service yesterday that he is seeking to satisfy Afghans' voracious appetite for books and reading, even in the midst of conflict and poverty. He said he had recently returned from northern Afghanistan after selling almost all his books in 40 days.

Read more .....

My Comment: After reading this story I will now never personally complain on how hard it is to run an online library.

Beowulf -- The Manuscript

Bookyards copy of Beowulf is here.

Che Guevara Remembered 40 Years After Death

Che was killed 40 years ago, and for better or worse he is being remembered for the next two days. The two articles that I have come across which discuss this anniversary and which I have linked to are the following:

Cuba Pays Tribute To Che Guevara -- BBC News
Che Remembered 40 Years After Death -- Yahoo News


My Comment: Personally ...... having parents that experienced the Communist system in Russia and knowing friends of the family that had experienced the worst under Stalin AND Castro ..... my perceptions of these Communist folk heroes is "slightly" ..... and I am using this term facetiously ...... different from what a number of young and idealistic university students may have.

Personal feelings aside, we at Bookyards have compiled a list of works by Che Guevara and related external links here.

Robert Hooke, Britain's Leonardo, Papers Go Online

The papers of Robert Hooke, a 17th century scientist hailed as Britain's answer to Leonardo, have gone on line so that his pioneering work can now be appreciated by a global audience.
The Hooke Folio (for broadband users)
Extracts from Hooke manuscript

Hooke (1635-1703), the first professional scientist, was always desperate for publicity and now, three centuries after Sir Isaac Newton allegedly tried to erase him from history, his papers have been made available on the internet by the Royal Society, London.

Read more ....

My Comment: This is so cool. This project reveals the best side of what the world wide web can provide.

40 Unusual Websites You Should Bookmark.

While browsing through Clipmarks I came across the following post ..... "40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark". This is one of those posts that ..... even though they do not involve books ...... it is so cool that it should be posted.

Did Archimedes Discover Calculus?

For all math groupies, a thought provoking article from Science News Online on the possibility that Archimedes discovered Calculus centuries before Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz did.

I was surprise to find that when I did a search for him in Bookyards, I discovered that we do not have any works by him. I will be remedying this in the next few weeks.

We do however have an excellent book by T. L. Heath titled "Works Of Archimedes" which I strongly recommend.

Who Says Distributing Books Is An Easy Job

These two stories caught my eye this morning:

Gaza's Christian Bookseller Killed from the Independent, and New York City Libraries offer terror 'recruiting' Islamic texts from the New York Post.

I have been editing Bookyards for the past six years. During this time my only stress from this project has come from receiving a legal notice (from Stanford's Legal Department) on a math book that was copyrighted and should not have been in our server .... (we got rid of the book asap), and someone threatening us that The Koran was not authored by Muhammed (which we had put as the author for the Quran), but God himself.

Like Standard University ..... this reader was right about the Quran ..... but we made the decision to make the authorship of the Quran blank to avoid any problems with other religions.

It was only later that I realized from the tone and substance of his email that it was ...... to put it mildly ...... "you do this or else". It has been almost 4 years since that event, and it is an event that I am always remembering and reflecting upon.

Our visitor traffic from muslim countries account for less than one percent of our total traffic. Iran (among Islamic majority countries) ..... surprise surprise .... is our number one visitor, Saudi Arabia is number 2. Almost all of this traffic is directed towards our Religion & Spirituality -- Islam category, or to our section on Regional Middle East News.

Aside from that one experience, no one has bothered us with the content in Bookyards, nor has any country blocked access to Bookyards.

As for the article on Islamic texts that promote religious intolerance (which I have already looked at (an English version) after downloading them from a Middle East book forum .... it is hate material and will never have any place in Bookyards.

Fiction And Fantasy Books In Russia

Books By The Dalai Lama

Bookyards has completed its section on the Dalai Lama. We were able to find three books that are online and are accredited to him. They are:

A Flash Of Lightning In The Dark Of Night by Lama, Dalai

Illuminating The Path To Englightenment by Lama, Dalai

Consciousness At The Crossroads by Lama, Dalai

For related links on the Dalai Lama they can be browsed here.

For more books on Buddhism, Bookyards has about 50 books on the subject, and they can be obtained here.

Books To Read This Weekend -- Part 4

Have some free time ..... the TV is on the blink ...... your buddies/boyfriend/girlfriend are gone for the weekend ..... your sports team is not on the tube .... car is in the garage .....here are some books to curl up and read this weekend.

God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

Reiki Master Secrets by Various Authors

Why We Want You To Be Rich by Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

A Pictorial Bio Of Einstein by Various Authors

Diary Of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

Develop Strength Bruce Lee's Way by Bruce Lee, Justin Frost And Ted Wong

Arabic For Dummies by Amine Bouchentouf

PREVIOUS:
Books To Read This Weekend -- Part 3
Books To Read This Weekend -- Part 2
Books To Read This Weekend -- Part 1

The Success Of Audiobooks

Books On Islam And The Recent Conflicts In The Middle East

With the Middle East being on the news everyday, it is only appropriate that we should list a few books that try to understand the history, the present day, and what may happen in the future in this oil rich region.


RECENT MIDDLE EAST HISTORY

The Arabs In History by Bernard Lewis

Six Days of War - June 1967 and and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael O’Bren

The Muslim World After 9/11 by Various Authors

Pan Arabism Before Nasser by Michael Doran


ISLAM

Rethinking Islamist Politics -- Culture, the State and Islamism by Salwa Ismail

The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left
by Ed Husain

The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) by David Commins

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics by L. Carl Brown

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer

Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions by Jacques Waardenburg
( Password is englishtips.org )


ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS

Islam And The Jews by Mark Gabriel

Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Culture,History and Politics by Claude Faure

History Of The Jews In Modern Times by Lloyd P. Gartner

Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy by Kathleen Christison


IRAN

Getting Ready For A Nuclear Ready Iran by Henry Sokolski & Patrick Clawson

Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions 2004 by Henry Sokolski & Patrick Clawson

Iran: Time For A New Approach by Zbiegniew Brzezinski and Robert Gates


AFGHANISTAN

Into The Land Of Bones – Alexander the Great In Afghanistan by Frank L. Holt

Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia by Victoria Schofield


Previous Posts: Books On The Iraq War and Books On Terrorism

10 Most Fascinating Tombs in the World (With Pictures)

I know that this has nothing to do with books, but this blog post from Neatorama is so cool.

Books On Alternative Medicine

ABC News has an article today on "The Mystery Behind Alternative Cancer Treatment" .... a discussion on how cancer patients from Actress Farrah Fawcett and the late Coretta Scott King are now among the thousands of people who have turned to alternative approaches to cancer treatment when conventional medicine has failed.

At the same time while browsing through an Indian book site (hat tip to analog and other stuff) I came across a section that he has dedicated to books on alternative medicine.

Without hesitation, here is the list:

The Ayurveda Encyclopedia Natural Secrets to Healing, Prevention & Longevity
by Swami Sada Shiva Tirtha

Ayurvedic Astrology Self Healing Through the Stars by David Frawley

Nature Cures The History of Alternative Medicine in America by James C. Whorton

Alchemy & Herbalists by Steven Schend

The Herbal Pharmacy by Brigitte Mars

The Cure For All Diseases

Be Your Own Doctor with Foot Reflexology by Dr. Dhiren Gala

Energy Medicine by Donna Eden

Be Your Own Doctor with Acupressure by Dr. Dhiren Gala

Nutrition Almanac, Fifth Edition by Lavon J. Dunne

OZONE A New Medical Drug by Velio Bocci

Absolute Beginners Guide to Alternative Medicine by Karen Fontaine

The Clinical Practice of Complementary, Alternative, and Western Medicine by W. John Diamond

Update: From CNN News .... 5 Alternative Medicine Treatments That Work

Top 10 Free E-books For Bloggers

Mashable Social Networking News has a great post on the "Top 10 Free E-Books For Bloggers".

The list is the following:
Authority Black Book
Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization
BlogBash: Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging - learn from 30 experts
Blog Profits Blueprint
Dive Into Web 2.0
Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber Dissidents
Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com
Unleashing the Idea Virus
Web Style Guide
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Catcher In The Rye And Other Stories By J. D. Salinger

BookYards has completed its section on J. D. Salinger. An American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature; he has not published any new work since 1965 and has not granted a formal interview since 1980.

I guess he wants his work to speak for itself.

The books written by J. D. Salinger that we have collected or found links from other sites to download are the following:

The Catcher In The Rye ( Pdf Version )
The Catcher In The Rye ( Word Version )
Uncollected Short Stories
Franny And Zooey
Hapworth 16, 1924
Nine Stories
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
Musings Of A Social Soph
Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters
Seymour An Introduction

Useful resource links for fans of J. D. Salinger can be found here.

The Best Bookstore Sites On The Web Today

There are a number of bookstores on the web today, so I have listed the best and most popular book sites online. They are all on a single page, giving you one-stop access to the best in online book stores.

(1) Amazon
(2) Barnes & Noble
(3) Half.com (an Ebay Subsidiary)
(4) Borders
(5) Abebooks
(6) Alibris
(7) Books A Million
(8) a1Books
(9) Walmart
(10) Book Closeouts
(11) Powell's Books
(12) Waterstone's
(13) Blackwell
(14) Booksense
(15) Bookfinder
(16) Alpha Craze
17) Elephant Books
(18) Half Price Books

David Blaine (8 E-books), Tricks, Secrets, Lot More!

David Blaine has always been one of my favorite performers. I was always asking the question .... how does he do it? Well ..... while browsing through a book forum I found a link that answers that by providing 8 small ebooks that explains everything.

So .... if you want to wow your friends, go through the books and have some fun.

The rapidshare link is here to download the following books.
David Blaine - Coffee To Coins.doc
David Blaine - Mentalismo.pdf
David Blaine Balducci Levitation.pdf
David Blaine Card Tricks.pdf
David Blaine Magic Secrets.pdf
David Blaine Street Magic Revealed.pdf
David.Blaine's.Magic.Revealed.pdf
David Blaine Mega Magic (.exe)

For more related links on David Blaine we have the following:
Official Site
David Blaine -- Wikipedia
David Blaine -- Myspace
Inside Info On David Blaine

Books On The Iraq War

The Iraq War has been constantly on the news for the past 4 1/2 years. We at Bookyards have compiled a selection of books that we hope give a little insight on what is happening. These books are:

War with Iraq Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives by Carl Kaysen Steven (published 2002)

Historical Dictionary of Iraq (Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East) By Edmund A. Ghareeb

Secret History fo the Iraq War Part 1 & Part 2 by Yossef Bodansky

A War Too Far : Iraq, Iran and the New American Century by Paul Rogers

Target Iraq What the News Media Didn't Tell You by Norman Solomon

Global Rivalries from the Cold War to Iraq by Kees Van Der Pijl

Allies At War: America, Europe and the Crisis Over Iraq by Philip Gordon

Lessons Learned The Iran-Iraq War by Stephen C. Pelletiere

The Iraq Study Group Report The Way Forward - A New Approach by The Iraq Study Group

War with Iraq Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives by Carl Kaysen

Inventing Iraq The Failure of Nation-Building and a History Denied by Toby Dodge


News sites that cover terrorism and war issues are listed by Bookyards at this link.
Blogs that cover terrorism and security issues are listed by Bookyards at this link.

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Clarence Thomas: A Silent Justice Speaks Out -- Part 1To- Part VII

From ABC news ....

Since Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court 16 years ago, he has largely remained silent, and his silence has become part of his mythology. He rarely speaks from the bench. He hasn't responded to legions of critics. His judicial opinions reveal a powerful voice, but his story had been written by others.

Now Thomas has chosen to speak, forcefully and bluntly, in his new book, "My Grandfather's Son," and in a series of interviews with ABC News over four days that can only be described as extraordinary for their scope and intensity. He talks with almost painful candor — all but unprecedented for a public official — about his life and personal struggles, his fears and failings, his anger and his regrets.

Read more ....

My Comment: I had the good fortune of meeting Justice Thomas ten years ago at an international conference that involved Canadian and American Lawyers. I was impressed with him them .... and I am sure the book will accurately reflect the man that met 10 years ago. I am definitely looking forward to this book when it hits the web.