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Maurice Sendak’s sample artwork for the proposed thirtieth anniversary deluxe illustrated edition of The Hobbit.
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Explosive Cats Imagined in a Strange, 16th Century Military Manual. Odd Illustrations. Find more great illustrations at Open Culture.
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It seems like a very morbid and inhuman practice to treat the suicide note as a piece of literature, even if the author of said note is a writer as famous as Virginia Woolf.
Virginia Woolf’s Handwritten Suicide Note: A Painful and Poignant Farewell (1941).
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Download 90 Free Philosophy Courses and Start Living the Examined Life
The Philosophy section of our big Free Online Courses collection just went through another update, and it now features 90 courses. Enough to give you a soup-to-nuts introduction to a timeless discipline. You can start with one of several introductory courses.
- Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Web Video – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
- Critical Reasoning for Beginners - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web Video – Oxford
- A Romp through Ethics for Complete Beginners - iTunes Video–Web Video – Oxford
- Introduction to Political Philosophy – YouTube – iTunes – Web Video - Steven B. Smith, Yale
- The Art of Living - Web Video – Stanford
- The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - Multiple Formats– Peter Adamson, King’s College London
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A radio adaptation of Asimov's epic Foundation Trilogy has been added to our Free Audio Books collection: http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
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It’s becoming a trend. Around the country, policemen are pepper spraying peaceful protestors. It started in NYC when Tony Bologna, one of New York’s finest, pepper sprayed a...
The Grammy-winning 2000 film, The Clash: Westway to the World, is a fascinating look at the rise and fall of one of history’s greatest rock bands. The Clash didn’t invent punk...