Welcome to the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms.
a blog about computer history by Sinclair Target. It is intended primarily for computer people. addresses questions like Where did JSON come from? and Why are man pages still a thing?
Free textbooks written by more than 100 leading designers, bestselling authors, and Ivy League professors. We have assembled our textbooks in a gigantic encyclopedia, whose 4,000+ pages cover the design of interactive products and services such as websites, household objects, smartphones, computer software, aircraft cockpits, and what have you. Name an item of design interest, and you'll probably find it discussed inside.
Based at the University of Oxford, it uses statistics on everything from health and population growth to war, the environment, and energy to give insights into how living conditions are changing around the world.
The 1980s BBC Computer Literacy Project. It chronicled a decade of information technology and was a milestone in the history of computing in Britain. This site contains all 146 of the original Computer Literacy Project programmes plus 121 related programmes, broken down into 2,509 categorised, searchable clips.
a site with texts and information about Shakespeare. Linda Alchin created the site. She is an author primarily specialising in history. Her career initially focussed on conventional techniques providing adult education. With the advent of the internet she moved on to distance learning projects...
The Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion.
The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for scholars, educators, students, patients, and others interested in medical humanities. It was created by faculty of the New York University School of Medicine in 1993. The annotations are written by an invited editorial board of scholars from all over North America.
The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) provides information about Open Web technologies including HTML, CSS, and APIs for both Web sites and HTML5 Apps. It also documents Mozilla products, like Firefox OS.
a social network analysis of publishers, writers, manuscripts, and booksellers in the late-fifteenth through eighteenth century England. Created by a team of English scholars and librarians, along with a computer scientist, this project allows English and history scholars to explore metadata compiled from the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) - a catalogue of every book printed in England between 1473 and 1800.
concept definitions and subject overviews of scholarly and technical terms. Each synopsis provides a series of short, authoritative, excerpts from highly relevant book chapters written by subject matter experts in the field. These topic summaries are derived from Elsevier encyclopedias, reference works and books.
an online collection of original articles, primary source texts, and commentaries in the fields of philosophy and ethics designed to provide the newcomer to the discipline of philosophy with the resources necessary to read great philosophical works. We believe that with the proper guidance almost any intelligent person can begin a life-long reading program in philosophy...and perhaps even become a bit wiser in the process. includes eastern philosophy buddhism