A Feast of Ebooks
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Alaa mentions on his blog our purchase of a CD filled with 267 ebooks from a series published by the Kuwait National Culture and Art Council. The series contain several books in many fields, many of them are translated from popular books. Here is a list of the translated books. They are all in Arabic. They are available for download from The Internet Archive.
- 11 & 233- Legacy of Islam by Joseph Schacht and Clifford Edmund Bosworth.
- 18- Comedy by Moelwyn Merchant
- 18- Tragedy by Clifford Leach
- 20- Straight and Crooked Thinking by Robert H Thouless
- 28- Africa in social change by Peter Cutt Lloyd
- 32- The technology of teaching by B. F. Skinner
- 39- The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
- 47- The Idea of Law by Dennis Lloyd
- 53- The concept of the primitive by Ashley Montagu et al
- 55- The Next 200 Years: A scenario for america and the world by Herman Kahn et al
- 58- Existentialism by John Macquarrie
- 62 & 72- Wisdom of the West by Bertrand Russell
- 64- World Hunger by Francis Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins
- 67- Humankind by Peter Farb
- 76- Death and Western thought by Jacques Choron
- 82- The shaping of the modern mind by Crane Brinton
- 88- Microbes and Man by John Postgate
- 90- West & the World Vol 1 by Kevin Reilly
- 92- The shape of minds to come by John G Taylor
- 96- Non-Jewish Zionism: Its Roots in Western History by Regina Sharif
- 97- West & the World Vol 2 by Kevin Reilly
- 106 & 243- Mind Managers by Herbert Schiller
- 110- Concepts of Criticism by Rene Wellek
- 112- Science and scientific researchers in modern society by John P. Dickinson
- 116 & 122- Latin America in Its Literature by Cesar Fernandez Moreno
- 120- The Psychology of Play by Susanna Miller
- 124- The Anxiety Disease by David Sheehan
- 125- Life Itself by Francis Crick
- 130- Genetic Prophecy: Beyond the Double Helix by Dr. Zsolt Harsanyi and Richard Hutton
- 132- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
- 134- The new story of science by Robert M. Augros and George Stanciu
- 136- The Japanese by Edwin O. Reischauer
- 140- The heart of man, its genius for good and evil by Erich Fromm
- 142- Our common future by The World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) Bruntland, G. (editor)
- 144- General and Special Creativity* by Alexandru Rosca
- 146- by Georgy Dmitrievich Gachev
- 148- Not in our genes : biology, ideology and human nature by Steven Rose, Leon J. Kamin and Richard C. Lewontin
- 154- The Shifting Point by Peter Brook
- 156- Understanding and Helping the Schizophrenic: A Guide for Family and Friends by Silvano Arieti
- 159- The Book of Time, edited by John Grant and Colin Wilson
- 163- Secrets of Sleep by Alexander Borbely
- 165- Contemporary European Philosophy by I. M. Bochenski
- 168- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Samuel Kuhn
- 169 & 170- Povijest Knjige (History of Book) by Aleksandar Stipcevic
- 172- Artificial Intelligence by
- 176- Genius, creativity, and leadership: Historiometric inquiries by Dean Keith Simonton
- 178- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- 182- Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word by Walter J. Ong
- 185- The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke
- 189- by Jean-Marie Pelt
- 191- End: Cosmic Catastrophe and the Fate of the Universe by Frank Close
- 194- Goethe und die arabische Welt by Katharina Mommsen
- 197- Oriental Philosophies by John Koller
- 201- Head to Head : The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America by Lester C. Thurow
- 206- Structuralism and Since : From Levi Strauss to Derrida by John Sturrock
- 208- Genius: The History of an Idea by Penelope Murray
- 210 & 211
- 213- Too Many People by Sir Roy Calne
- 217- Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project by Daniel J. Kevles (Editor), and LeRoy Hood (Editor)
- 219 & 260- The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West by Toby E. Huff
- 222- Environmental History: A Concise Introduction by Ian G. Simmons
- 227- A Short History of Linguistics by R. H. Robbins
- 231- The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
- 232- Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies by David Arnold
- 238- The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy (Die Globalisierungsfalle) by Hans-Peter_Martin
- 241-
- 244- Modern Social Theory: From Parsons to Habermas by Ian Craib
- 245- Is Science Necessary: Essays on Science and Scientists by Max Perutz
- 246- The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists by Raymond Williams
- 249- The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History By Keith Whitelam
- 251- Number: From Prehistoric Times to the Computer Age by John Mcleish
- 253- The Infomedia Revolution by Frank Koelsch
- 254- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
- 256- Munitions of the mind : war propaganda from the ancient world to the nuclear age by Philip M. Taylor
- 258- The Power of the Machine: The Impact of Technology from 1700 to the Present Day by R. A. Buchanan
- 262- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- 263- Language and Economy by Florian Coulmas
- 266- Creations of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age by Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite
hemin_80
Hello,
This is a great collection for one to have. I wonder whether it would be possible to get a copy of the CD?
I am living in Iraq, and I have read quite a few books on a similar theme myself, in English, but I would need those for my family.
I will appreciate your help.
moftasa
Thanks you can download it from here http://www.archive.org/deta...
You can also buy the CD from Alam El Ma3refa publishers directly.