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Project Gutenberg ( PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ." [ 2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [ 3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in ...
It is a very long book about a small component of the built environment." [5] Susan Handy, in a review for the Journal of Planning Education and Research, found the book daunting at first, saying "this book, at more than 600 pages, is downright intimidating". However, she says that the book showed her that "parking is interesting, and it is ...
Book Review Digest. Book Review Digest is a reference work by H. W. Wilson Company that compiles recent book reviews. Printed monthly with annual compendia, it digests American and English periodicals from 1905 to the present day. Before the Internet, Book Review Digest was a significant reference tool and bibliographic aid used by the American ...
The Notebook was Nicholas Sparks' first published novel and written over a time period of six months in 1994. [ 1][ 2] Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks by picking the book out of her agency's slush pile and reading it. Park offered to represent him. In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for the book from the Time ...
Book review. A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is merely described (summary review) or analyzed based on content, style, and merit. [ 1] A book review may be a primary source, an opinion piece, a summary review, or a scholarly view. [ 2] Books can be reviewed for printed periodicals, magazines, and newspapers, as ...
Issued by: the Extension Service, 1930-Nov. 1954; the Federal Extension Service, Dec. 1954-Mar. 1970; the Extension Service, Apr. 1970-1978 Formed by the merger of: Boys' and girls' 4-H club leader; Home demonstration review, and: This looks good Subjects: Agricultural extension work Periodicals; Agricultural extension work United States ...
First edition. Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of the American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help ...
The Anthropocene Reviewed is the shared name for a podcast and 2021 nonfiction book by John Green. The podcast started in January 2018, with each episode featuring Green reviewing "different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale ". The name comes from the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch that includes significant ...