Tuesday, March 18, 2008

An interesting site for books

(via J.K. Mohana Rao in the discussion group racchabanda)From the site Forgotten Books:
"Welcome to ForgottenBooks.org! From here you can read thousands of books FREE online (100% viewable) and purchase the books you like as high-quality paperbacks at wholesale prices.

We specialize in historical writings, this includes works such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, religion, folklore, mythology and sacred texts, in addition to secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic and ancient knowledge. Fiction and non-fiction books.

It is our mission to find hidden knowledge and preserve lost knowledge, from antiquity to the present day, and make this information freely available to the world. If you like any of our books, they are all for sale on Amazon.com for little over the cost of the printing. Please take a look."

There are translations of poems of Kabir, Vemana, of vedas etc. There is a useful feature. When I searched for Bates, it gave the references with page numbers in all the listed books of various bates. There are two from Darwin's book for Walter Bates.

As mentioned before Arvind Gupta's site Toys and Books has many downloadable books of current interest from children's books to those on sustainable development.It has also many books by I.Asimov and D.D. Kosambi. It has some by J.B.S. Haldane, E.F. Schumacher and the leftist classic "Man's Worldly Goods" by Leo Huberman.

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