Download 20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books Every year, thousands of American high school students read a common selection of great novels — classics loved by young and old readers alike. Today, we have selected 20 of the most popular books and highlighted ways that you can download versions for free, mostly as free audio books and ebooks, and sometimes as movies and radio dramas. You will find more great works — and sometimes other digital formats — in our twin collections: 600 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices and 550 Free Audio Books. 1984 by George Orwell: Free eBook – Free Audio Book – Free Movie Although published in 1949, 1984 still captures our imagination generations later because it offers one of the best literary accounts of totalitarianism ever published. Animal Farm by George Orwell: Free eBook – Free Audio Book – Free Animated Movie Orwell’s 1945 allegorical novella took aim at the corruption of the Soviet Union and its totalitarian rule. Plays by William Shakespeare No description needed.
Vision of Humanity SCAI 2014 CINECA offers every year a deep and solid teaching program in the field of Scientific Computing, to guarantee a suitable support to scientists who need an advanced training to compete in their specific research field. The courses are tailored to all researchers who need to build or update their knowledge on computational sciences and in particular to ISCRA users. Our training programme is held by internal experts and foresees the access to our computing systems. The locations for courses are Cineca bases in Bologna, Milan and Rome (See addresses below). Most courses will be held in Italian, but PATC events (*) will be in English, sponsored by the European PRACE-3IP project. All courses are free of charge. For more info, course outline and to register go to the event page by clicking on the title. Contacts: News are delivered by the mailing-list HPC-NEWS and the Cineca newsletter (to subscribe see get in touch). Courses are hosted in CINECA premises:
ARKive - Discover the world's most endangered species Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. As a small conservation charity, Wildscreen eventually reached the point where it could no longer financially sustain the ongoing costs of keeping Arkive free and online or invest in its much needed development. Therefore, a very hard decision was made to take the www.arkive.org website offline in February 2019.
The Creators of 30 Programming Languages: pages, biographies, blogs, interviews Behind any programming language there is a creator or sometimes a small team. Each language has a story and a philosophy and each creator had a motivation, a problem to solve. Programming languages influence and sometimes determine the way programmers solve problems and the way problems can be solved. They gain supporters, make enemies and cause flames and “religious” wars. I think it is very useful for every programmer to understand the history of programming languages and also to understand the reasoning and the way of thinking of the programming language designers; for the programming languages you love but, even more, for those you don’t like or understand. I compiled here a list of languages with their creators and some links to information about them. Most of the interviews are extremely interesting. For an in depth analysis of programming language popularity read:13 reasons why Ruby, Python and the gang will push Java to die… of old age
Read Easily - Ebooks Online Library Vivos - Underground Shelter Network for Surviving 2012 and Beyond Apps - iTunes U TeacherTube - Teach the World Hackers wanted! Scholarships available to coders who'll come to journalism and help save democracy - O'Reilly Radar Guest blogger Brian Boyer is a hacker journalist who writes about the intersection of technology and journalism. He’s worked at public-interest journalism site ProPublica and is now at the Chicago Tribune, building their new News Applications team. It’s not news that journalism is in crisis. Journalism needs great hackers. Free beer school! Tell your programmer friends: The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University is giving away full scholarships, plus expenses, to software developers.They can get a masters degree in journalism, gratis, from one of the most prestigious J-schools around. I recently graduated from the year-long program, during which I studied with with one other hacker and ~45 brilliant ‘normal’ journalism students. Journalism is an info-geek’s dream. We also wrote some software. For our final project at Medill, the two coders and four non-coder new-media students built NewsMixer, an experiment in integrating social networks with news coverage. Hackers wanted