Free and worthwhile press
12 January 2004. Inspired by .
Here's something literarily great. The University of California Press has put various academic and wonderful tomes online for public consumption. Though they make things a little harder for non-students by not printing a definitive list of volumes only available to us swarming masses, the easiest way to obtain one is to click here (not including books that don't use the word 'the').
Here's some things that caught my eye:
The art of spiral writing in Yemen, Palestinian Arab folk tales, Soviet Perceptions of the United States, Jewish Memories, Vampires as a metaphor for capitalism in colonial Africa, The travel letters of Anthony Trollope (to the Liverpool Mercury), the unexpectedly literary When a Doctor Hates a Patient, Spanish-speaking readers might enjoy Judo-Spanish ballads from New York, while elsewhere is Chuck Jones' life story, including various of his drawings such as one above showing the difference between Wile E Cayote and a real cayote, and a fascinating (if not remarkably written) short book on the psychology of the individual by the metropolitan editor of the New York Times, about a murder case where 38 people stood by and watched a girl get butchered in the street.
You'll probably find other ones that interest you more; I'm just making that list for my own reference.