Sunday, June 24, 2018
Monday, June 18, 2018
London's Instagrammable Bookshops
Standard: London's prettiest and most Instagrammable bookshops
Book heaven: We've rounded up London's best bookshops for you to browse in (Pixabay)
There's nothing better than spending an entire Sunday browsing one of London's bookshops.
The smells, the crisp snap of the pages and the countless great minds that stalk the shelves are as alluring as a bookstores architectural chic. Luckily, our city is home to an impressive selection of booktopias that celebrate the capital's extraordinary literary history. You'd think the digital age would have seen them close by now, but in fact, gadgets like the Kindle have only made their appeal even stronger.
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Bookyards editor: London and New York City are IMHO the two best places to visit a bookstore.
The Story Of Beowulf
Bookyards editor: Beowulf may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. The link to download this ebook is here.
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Saturday, June 16, 2018
The Canterbury Tales And Other Works by Geoffery Chaucer
Here Are All The Books That Bill Gates Has Recommended Over The Last Eight Years As Well As Some Interesting Links (Updated)
Quartz: All the books Bill Gates has recommended over the last eight years
Bill Gates has become a powerful influence on publishing. An endorsement from the philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder can cause tangible sales spikes, reminiscent of the golden ticket that once came with being picked for Oprah’s book club.
So just what does Gates read? Quartz manually compiled all 185 of the books recommended on his blog, which dates back to January 2010, and organized them by topic. We’ve included all titles, even those of which Gates was mostly critical, like Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist. But this is relatively rare; Gates usually only blogs about books he recommends.
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WNU Editor: A few interesting links from Bill Gates on books ....
The blog of Bill Gates .... Gatesnotes
5 books worth reading this summer (Bill Gates, May 21, 2018)
Bill Gates’ Is Giving A Free Ebook To All US College Graduates This Spring (Bookyards, June 9, 2018)
Essays and commentaries from Bill Gates (Bookyards Library)
Bill Gates: "I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep." (Business Insider, August 22, 2014)
Friday, June 15, 2018
Louisa May Alcott's Novel "Little Women" Still Resonates 150 Years Later As The #MeToo Movement Gains Attention
Bookyards Editor: Louisa May Alcott's novel "Little Women" still resonates as the #MeToo gains attention .... ‘Little Women’ and author Alcott resonate 150 years later (AP)
The novel "Little Women can be downloaded from here (link here), and the works of Louisa May Alcott can be browsed and downloaded from here (link here).
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Was Albert Einstein A Racist?
Einstein described Chinese children as ‘spiritless’ and ‘obtuse’ but some Chinese say he depicted an accurate picture of the era. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive
The Guardian: Einstein's travel diaries reveal 'shocking' xenophobia
Private journals kept by the scientist and humanitarian icon show prejudiced attitudes towards the people he met while travelling in Asia
The publication of Albert Einstein’s private diaries detailing his tour of Asia in the 1920s reveals the theoretical physicist and humanitarian icon’s racist attitudes to the people he met on his travels, particularly the Chinese.
Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries see the scientist musing on his travels, science, philosophy and art. In China, the man who famously once described racism as “a disease of white people” describes the “industrious, filthy, obtuse people” he observes. He notes how the “Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” After earlier writing of the “abundance of offspring” and the “fecundity” of the Chinese, he goes on to say: “It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”
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Update: Einstein was a genius of physics. But he wasn’t a saint (Philip Ball, The Guardian)
Bookyards Editor: The Chinese are defending Einstein .... Chinese defend Einstein's portrait of their people as 'filthy' and 'obtuse' (The Guardian)
Update #2: For ebooks by Albert Einstein, Bookyards has a collection that you can browse and download from here (the link is here).
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