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Read 700 Free eBooks Made Available by the University of California Press

Read 700 Free eBooks Made Available by the University of California Press
The University of California Press e-books collection holds books published by UCP (and a select few printed by other academic presses) between 1982-2004. The general public currently has access to 770 books through this initiative. The collection is dynamic, with new titles being added over time. Readers looking to see what the collection holds can browse by subject. The curators of the site have kindly provided a second browsing page that shows only the publicly accessible books, omitting any frustrating off-limits titles. The collection’s strengths are in history (particularly American history and the history of California and the West); religion; literary studies; and international studies (with strong selections of Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies, and French Studies titles). Sadly, you can’t download the books to an e-reader or tablet. Rebecca Onion is a writer and academic living in Philadelphia. Related Content: 30 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace on the Web

Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg Şizofrengi Dergisi Milestones in the emergence of a city If you are a regular reader of our Heeley's history booklets, you will be familiar with the name of Mr. Don Ross, for he has contributed many items for inclusion in several of them, which have been most welcome and interesting. As a man born and brought up in Heeley arid with a keen interst in history, he has enjoyed spending some of his spare time in retirement in looking up various aspects of past events which are of local significance. Our regular booklets are still being produced at intervals, and are eagerly looked forward to by many of our readers. The earliest known map of Sheffield, drawn by Ralph Gosling in 1736 shows that the town ended on the south side of Coal Pit Lane (now Cambridge Street), with very few houses beyond Bridgehouses on the north side and from east to west between Pond Street and West Street.

The Crusader Bible | The Morgan Library & Museum Online Exhibitions Old Testament Miniatures with Latin, Persian, and Judeo-Persian inscriptions France, Paris, 1240s The Crusader Bible, also known as the Morgan Picture Bible, the Maciejowski Bible, and the Shah ‘Abbas Bible, is not only one of the greatest medieval manuscripts in the Morgan, it also ranks as one of the incomparable achievements of French Gothic illumination. The miniatures represent one of the greatest visualizations of Old Testament events ever made. Some of the stories and their heroes are well known, but there are also accounts of less familiar Israelites who fought for the Promised Land—tales that resonate to this day. This online exhibition was created in conjunction with the exhibition The Crusader Bible: A Gothic Masterpiece, on view October 17, 2014, through January 4, 2015, and organized by William M.

Free Technology for Teachers The top 10 funding application errors Many charities see their applications for funding be rejected The Directory of Social Change estimates that ineligible applications made to the largest trusts in 2010 equated to seven years of wasted effort. This pointless exertion seems not to have lessened since then. According to the latest figures from the Big Lottery Fund, 46 per cent of applications to its Reaching Communities programme between May and July this year were ineligible. So where are charities going wrong? 1. "If only they had read our eligibility criteria, they would clearly see we don't fund that" is a perennial complaint from funders. The trust also gets a lot of applications from people who want to run welfare projects, even though it clearly states in its entry criteria that it does not fund such schemes. Comic Relief has received applications on behalf of an HIV project in Tanzania for a fund that operates only in Stoke-on-Trent. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Large funders welcome phone calls to discuss potential projects.

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