Physics books online

• Ph 136: APPLICATIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS by Kip Thorne – http://www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2004/
• PX436 notes – http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/teach/module_home/px436/notes
• General Relativity course notes by N.M.J. Woodhouse, MT 2003 – http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/nwoodh/gr/index.html
• Sean Carroll’s notes on General Relativity – http://preposterousuniverse.com/grnotes/ | http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Carroll3/Carroll_contents.html
  • “Lecture Notes on General Relativity” at arXiv –http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9712019
  • Spacetime and Geometry: Bibliography – http://preposterousuniverse.com/spacetimeandgeometry/bibliography.html | Additional Resources – http://preposterousuniverse.com/spacetimeandgeometry/resources.html
  • Cosmic Variance blog – http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/
• Warren Siegel (http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/plan.html) has several free online books:
  • Introduction to string field theory (1988, with corrections 2001): arXiv:hep-th/0107094 (http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0107094)
  • Superspace, or One thousand and one lessons in supersymmetry (1983, corrections 2001; with S. James Gates Jr., Marcus T. Grisaru, Martin Roček): arXiv:hep-th/0108200 (http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0108200)
  • Fields: http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/errata.html
• Mark Srednicki’s Quantum Field Theory textbook: http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/article.html
• Light and Matter – an open-source physics textbooks library: http://www.lightandmatter.com/
• The Online books in physics: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lccn&key=QC
• Physics Formulary by Johan C.A.Wevers (Eindhoven University of Technology): xs4all.nl/~johanw/contents.html | nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March02/Phys/paper.ps | fisicanet.terra.com.br/fisicaavancada/physics_formulary.pdf | samizdat.mines.edu/formulary
• NRL Plasma Formulary by Dave Book, Todd Brun, and Robert Scott – wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/nrlformulary/nrlformulary.html
• Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics by Martin V. Zombeck; Cambridge University Press; 1982, 1990 – ads.harvard.edu/books/hsaa – web presentation of the book
• A Heat Transfer Textbook by John H Lienhard V (MIT) and John H Lienhard IV (U Houston) – web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html
• Essential Physics 1 by Frank W. K. Firk , physicsforfree.com/essential.html
• phas.ucalgary.ca/phys323/fall/notes/optics.pdf
• Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics — A short introduction by Marek Rychlik – alamos.math.arizona.edu/~rychlik/557-dir/mechanics
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom – mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/
• The Slacker’s Guide to Physics – nusoy.com/slackersguide/slindex.php
• The Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks – lightandmatter.com/area1.html
• Courses taught by Richard Fitzpatrick at UT Austin:
  • PHY 380L: Plasma Physics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/plasma/plasma.html
  • PHY 389K: Quantum Mechanics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qm/qm.html
  • PHY 387K: Classical Electromagnetism – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/jk1/jk1.html
  • PHY 329: Computational Physics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.html
  • PHY 369: Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/sm1/sm1.html
  • PHY 373: Quantum Mechanics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qmech/qmech.html
  • PHY 352K: Classical Electromagnetism – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/em.html
  • PHY 336K: Newtonian Dynamics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/336k/336k.html
  • PHY 315: Oscillations and Waves – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/315/315.html
  • PHY 316: Electromagnetism And Optics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/302l/302l.html
  • PHY 301: Classical Mechanics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/301.html
• “Free Physics Ebooks And Free Online Libraries That Specialize on Physics” (at Twitersong’s Blog; 2008.05.22) – http://twitersong.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/free-physics-ebooks-and-free-online-libraries-that-specialize-on-physics/
• Physics books at Bookyards – http://www.bookyards.com/categories.html?type=books&category_id=215
• Science & Engineering books for free download – http://www.techbooksforfree.com/science.shtml
• OSP (Open Source Physics) – http://www.compadre.org/osp/
  • “Science education prize goes to Open Source Physics” by John Timmer (Ars Technica; 2011.11.25) – http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/science-education-prize-goes-to-open-source-physics.ars

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Online libraries

Archives at large:

• the World Digital Library (UNESCO): http://www.wdl.org/en/
• Europeana: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
• USA: C-SPAN video archive: http://c-spanvideo.org/
• Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – Virtual Library: http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/index.htm – library of Medieval codexes
• Archives and Records articles at NYTimes online – http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=des&v1=ARCHIVES+AND+RECORDS&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=ARCHIVES+AND+RECORDS&rt=1%2Cdes%2Corg%2Cper%2Cgeo
• The Hilandar Research Library: http://cmrs.osu.edu/rcmss/ – the largest repository of medieval Slavic Cyrillic texts on microform in the world
• Project Rastko – http://www.rastko.rs/

Local libraries:

• NY Public Library catalog online: http://www.nypl.org/news/thecatalog.cfm

Archives of disappeared online content

• The Archive.org: http://www.archive.org/
• TextFiles.com – http://www.textfiles.com/ | PDFs – http://pdf.textfiles.com/ | Audio files – http://audio.textfiles.com/ | Old software CDs – http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html, http://cdmirror.textfiles.com/, http://cdmirror2.textfiles.com/ | Digitize project – http://digitize.textfiles.com/ | description at Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textfiles.com
• In 2009 Yahoo killed the Geocities collection of free personal web sites. Some archives are still present on the web:
  • OOCites – http://oocities.com/ | http://br.oocities.com/ | http://es.oocities.com/ | http://mx.oocities.com/
  • Reocities – http://www.reocities.com/
  • Yahoo!locaust (at TextFiles.com) – http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2848 | “What Happened to Yahoo” by Paul Graham (2010.08) – http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

Toward a New Alexandria Library

The New Republic (tnr.com) has an article “Toward a New Alexandria” by Lisbet Rausing (2010.03.12) – http://www.tnr.com/print/article/books-and-arts/toward-new-alexandria.

Book: Enterprise Security For the Executive

One more infosec book for management types. I am not sure yet if it is worth reading – it got favorable SlashDot review by Ben Rothke, whose opinion I usually trust.

Info:

• SlashDot: http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/01/06/1431240

Books online

Free ebooks

• Amazon free ebooks for Kindle – http://www.amazon.com/
• DailyLit’: http://www.dailylit.com/ – receive installments of books through email or RSS
• Feedbooks – http://www.feedbooks.com/ – free books in epub, mobi (Kindle) and pdf formats
• Green Tea Press has several (~10) free books available on their web site – http://www.greenteapress.com/
• The Online Books Library: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
• Baen Books – Science Fiction & Fantasy – http://www.baen.com/ | Baen Free Library – http://www.baen.com/library/
• InTechOpen – http://www.intechopen.com/ – free academic books
• http://www.readprint.com/
• http://feedbooks.com/
• http://www.bookyards.com/
• http://www.planetebook.com/
• http://www.classicreader.com/
• Read romance novels online free: http://www.publicbookshelf.com/
• Finding Free eBooks: http://finding-free-ebooks.blogspot.com/
• The Burgomeister’s Books: http://www.truly-free.org/
• Google search for free ebooks: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=016675791389865783747:wai43m5rm4q&hl=en
• eBooks@Adelaide: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/
• article “The Best 6 Sites to Get Free Ebooks”: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-6-sites-to-get-free-ebooks/
• Folklore and Mythology – Electronic Texts: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
• FanFiction.net – http://www.fanfiction.net/ – a web site of amateur writings
• Good Reads – http://www.goodreads.com/ – requires opening a free account
• Science & Engineering books for free download – http://www.techbooksforfree.com/science.shtml
• The Online Books Page at UPENN – http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Audio books

• LibriVox: http://librivox.org/

Commercial

• http://vook.com/the-master-of-rampling-gate.html

Magazines

• article “Read 650 Magazines Online for Free With Maggwire” – http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/read-650-magazines-online-for-free-with-maggwire/
• article “Read Complete Magazines Online in Google Books” – http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/read-complete-magazine-archives-in-google-books/
• article “The Best and Worst Magazines for Men” – http://artofmanliness.com/2009/01/06/best-mens-magazines/

Health:

• Runner’s World – http://books.google.com/books?id=p8gDAAAAMBAJ
• Running Times – http://books.google.com/books?id=BcYDAAAAMBAJ
• Yoga Journal – http://books.google.com/books?id=0-kDAAAAMBAJ
• Men’s Health – http://books.google.com/books?id=E8gDAAAAMBAJ
• Women’s Health – http://books.google.com/books?id=QMYDAAAAMBA
• Prevention – http://books.google.com/books?id=7MYDAAAAMBAJ
• Backpacker – http://books.google.com/books?id=SuIDAAAAMBAJ
• Black Belt – http://books.google.com/books?id=fNsDAAAAMBAJ

IT:

• Maximum PC – http://books.google.com/books?id=L9IDAAAAMBAJ
• InfoWorld – http://books.google.com/books?id=tDcEAAAAMBAJ
• Network World – http://books.google.com/books?id=nBkEAAAAMBAJ

Finances:

• Kiplinger’s – http://books.google.com/books?id=IwQEAAAAMBAJ
• Outlook Profit – http://books.google.com/books?id=jTIEAAAAMBAJ
• Outlook Money – http://books.google.com/books?id=bTEEAAAAMBAJ

Music:

• Jazz Times – http://books.google.com/books?id=vicEAAAAMBAJ

VARIOUS:

• New York Magazine – http://books.google.com/books?id=AugCAAAAMBAJ
• Popular Science – http://books.google.com/books?id=wzsEAAAAMBAJ
• Mother Jones Magazine – http://books.google.com/books?id=mOcDAAAAMBAJ
• Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – http://books.google.com/books?id=sgsAAAAAMBAJ
• Best Life – http://books.google.com/books?id=CscDAAAAMBAJ
• Ancestry Magazine – http://books.google.com/books?id=FTgEAAAAMBAJ

Manga

• http://www.onemanga.com/
• http://www.mangavolume.com/
• http://www.trimanga.com/
• http://www.mangafox.com/
• One Simple Manga Ajax Viewer – http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26336

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