Wikipedia Tour: The Grand Tour
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Explore history, literature, and art with our Grand Wikipedia Tour. It's your personal journey towards cultural enlightenment--five minutes at a time.
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Here's what Cory Doctorow writes: ... With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I’ve published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publis ...
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THE ULTIMATE Y2K GLITCH . . . ... 1632: In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a ...
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In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise - and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywher ...
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THE CONVULSING EARTH HAD SHATTERED CIVILIZATION - AND SOMETHING WAS MOVING IN TO PICK UP THE PIECES ... Mal was heading across an America ravaged by worldwide earthquakes when he ran into a dying stra ...
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DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIME ... Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA's greatest adversary on the world stage is sendi ...
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"A scarily realistic adventure about how homeland security technology could be abused to wrongfully imprison innocent Americans. A teenage hacker-turned-hero pits himself against the government to fig ...
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Humanity's worst fears come true in this grand science-fiction adventure from H.G. Wells. Through telescopes fixed on faraway planets, scientists begin noticing strange events occurring on the surface ...
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Khan Academy Video Course: Biology
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Earth explodes with plants and animals of all kinds, but many of us don't know much about how life really works. The Khan Academy video course on Biology illuminates the elements and processes that br ...
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Dr. Frankenstein's dark alchemy brings a monster to life one fateful day. His form is a hulking mass of dead body parts, his appearance wild and ghoulish. This is a nightmarish creature, frightening a ...
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In childhood, the borders between reality and fantasy often blur just enough for a grand adventure to take place. E. Nesbit's The Enchanted Castle tells the story of an afternoon game of "pretend ...
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In 1903, sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois set out to describe the experience and position of African Americans living in the United States. Du Bois was a tireless writer and thinker, seeking an end to the r ...
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Khan Academy Video Course: Chemistry
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Note that given the length of these lessons, you may want to adjust your settings to receive one or two lessons a week. ... Extended Copyright Information ... Copyright 2011 by Khan Academy. ...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Science-fiction wizard Jules Verne takes us not to outer space or to the ocean's depths, but straight into the heart of the planet in this astonishing 1864 work. Professor Lidenbrock comes across an a ...
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6 short stories: "After the Siege", "Anda's Game", "I, Robot", "I, Row-boat", "Printcrime", "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth".
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A Place So Foreign and Eight More
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Doctorow's first short-story collection. "Craphound", "0wnz0red", and others.
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CONTROLLING AUTHORITY ... Andre Norton - Grand Mistress of science fiction - presents a grand tapestry of the far-flung interstellar future, in which the first starships from Earth have burst out into ...
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
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A mix of Borges-worthy fantasy with nethead-bellhead debates. It works.
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