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W. David Marx at home.

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PEOPLE WHO ACCOMPANIED MOZART ON HIS DEATHBED AND AT HIS FUNERAL

ON HIS DEATHBED

1. Constanze Mozart (his wife):

Constanze stayed with Mozart throughout much of his illness, although she was also physically weakened during his final days. This detail is recorded in multiple biographies of Mozart, such as Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon.

2. Sophie Haibl (sister-in-law):

Sophie provided detailed accounts of Mozart's last moments, which are documented in Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Friedrich Kerst and Henriette von Herberstein.

3. Franz Xaver Süssmayr (disciple and collaborator):

Süssmayr, entrusted with completing the Requiem, visited Mozart during his final days. These interactions are mentioned in the preface of various editions of the Requiem and in Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies by Christoph Wolff.

4. Kapellmeister Roser and musician friends:

Reports, such as the singing of parts of the Requiem at Mozart's bedside, are recorded in sources like The Life of Mozart by Otto Jahn.

AT THE FUNERAL

1. Baron Gottfried van Swieten:

Van Swieten, a patron of Mozart, helped organize the funeral and attended the ceremony. This is documented in Mozart's Death: A Corrective Look by David Schroeder.

2. Antonio Salieri:

While often mentioned in controversial theories, Salieri’s attendance at the funeral is recorded in Mozart: The Final Years by H.C. Robbins Landon.

3. Franz Xaver Süssmayr:

His attendance is noted in several biographies, including Mozart: A Cultural Biography by Robert W. Gutman.

4. Joseph Deiner (servant and friend):

His testimony about Mozart's death and funeral is included in Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores by Alan Tyson.

5. Other friends and colleagues:

The attendance of a small group of friends due to severe weather conditions is mentioned in Mozart: The Man and the Myth by Karl Barth.

BURIAL DETAILS

• Mozart’s burial in a third-class grave and the conditions at St. Marx Cemetery are documented in Mozart and His World by Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe.

PRIMARY SOURCES AND REFERENCES

Books:Mozart:

A Life – Maynard Solomon

Mozart: The Final Years – H.C. Robbins Landon

Mozart: The Man and the Artist – Friedrich Kerst and Henriette von Herberstein

Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies – Christoph Wolff

Articles and Studies:

Mozart's Death: A Corrective Look – David Schroeder

Mozart and His World – Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe

Historical Records:

St. Marx Cemetery records

Death certificates and contemporaneous accounts

Thank you Alex Rosas Navarro • FB @ Mozart Group

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XユーザーのW. David Marxさん：「I'm always interested in the question "What is culture?" and here's one answer. (Translation: "Gyoza with beer is culture.")」

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hi shay! if you're doing them, i'd love to hear about Thethuthinnang, Clover, and Bluebell for the watership down book asks!

Thethuthinnang: What book do you want to recommend to everyone you meet?

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou about the now-defunct medical startup Theranos is a wild ride.

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks is a vivid recounting of the author's experiences with academia and schizophrenia.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty is written by a mortician and will make you think about death and mortality differently.

Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx is just a super fascinating book about a niche topic.

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel is a fun book for readers about readers.

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare revived my hope in historical romance books. If you like romance, read it!

How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis should be required reading for anybody who is neurodiverse.

Clover: What book has fundamentally changed you?

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen is a beautiful collection of poems.

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood is a graphic memoir and was relatable as a fellow creative who was depressed through her early 20s. This Is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle made me sob.

Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical by Brian Rea is thoughtful, amusing, and charming.

A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures: A Cookbook by Cynthia Chen McTernan is one of my favorite Asian cuisine cookbooks.

In the Small Kitchen by Phoebe Lapine and Cara Eisenpress is a fun cookbook that chronicles their 20s.

Bluebell: Have you ever laughed out loud while reading?

The Hidden Legacy series by Ilona Andrews made me giggle a lot (two words: ferret heist). I'm also partial to the Innkeeper series.

The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today by Hitsuzi Yamada is a manga series that is very totoro x way of the house husband. I too would like a giant cat butler.

Full Sack: Thanksgiving Erotica by Layla Fae is so ridiculous and so charming at the same time lol.

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With A Martyr Complex: Reading List 2023

Adapted from the annual list from @balioc​, a list of books (primarily audiobooks) consumed this year. This list excludes several podcasts, but includes dramatizations and college lecture series from The Great Courses, which I consume like a parrot emotionally dependent on access to lecturers.

The Birth of Tragedy Out Of The Spirit of Music byFriedrich Nietzsche (Translated by Ian Johnston)

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Translated by Michael Henry Heim, Introduction by Michael Cunningham)

Financial Literacy: Finding Your Way in the Financial Markets by Connel Fullenkamp, from The Great Courses

The Dispossessed: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport by Patrick Bixby

Making History: How Great Historians Interpret the Past by Allen C. Guelzo, from The Great Courses

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (Translated by Donald Keene)

Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Understanding Japan: A Cultural History by Mark J. Ravina, from The Great Courses

The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

What Has Passed Shall In Kinder Light Appear by Baoshu (Translated by Ken Liu)

The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World by Robert Garland from The Great Courses

The Just City by Jo Walton

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture by Andrew R. Wilson, from The Great Courses

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Contains: Tower of Babylon, Understand, Division By Zero, Story of Your Life, Seventy-Two Letters, The Evolution of Human Science, Hell is the Absence of God, and Liking What You See.)

Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition by Grant Hardy, from The Great Courses

By The Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohen

War in Japan: 1467-1615 by Stephen Turnbull

Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost by Zack Davisson

Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (Translated by Dennis Washburn)

Buddhism by Malcolm David Eckel, from The Great Courses

The Rise of Modern Japan by Mark Ravina, from The Great Courses

The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps: The Bloody Battles and Intrigues of the Shinsengumi by Romulus Hillsborough

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, (Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima (Translated by Michael Gallagher)

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, from The Great Courses

Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, from The Great Courses

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood)

Cycles of American Political Thought by Joseph F. Kobylka, from The Great Courses

Docile by K. M. Szpara

Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques by James Hynes, from The Great Courses

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card

Real Service by Raven Kaldera and Joshua Tenpenny

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alhigieri (Translated by Clive James)

Dante's Divine Comedy by William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman from The Great Courses

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Secrets of The Occult by Richard B. Spence (From the Great Courses, possibly?)

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

American Monsters by Adam Jortner from The Great Courses

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard byGuy de la Bédoyère

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

Great World Religions: Hinduism by Mark W. Muesse, from The Great Courses

At The Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft

The Whisperer in Darkness by H. P. Lovecraft

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft (Collected by The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, contains: The Alchemist, At the Mountains of Madness, Azathoth, The Best in the Cave, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Book, The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Cats of Ulthar, Celephais, The Colour out of Space, Cool Air, Dagon, The Descendent, Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," The Doom that Came to Sarnath, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Dunwich Horror, The Evil Clergyman, Ex Oblivione, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, The Festival, From Beyond, The Haunter of the Dark, He, Herbert West-Reanimator, History of the Necronomicon, The Horror at Red Hook, TheHound, Hypnos, Ibid, In the Vault, The Little Glass Bottle, The Lurking Fear, Memory, The Moon-Bog, The Music of Erich Zann, The Mysterious Ship (Long and Short Versions), The Mystery of the Grave-Yard, The Nameless City, Nyarlathotep, Old Bugs, The Other Gods, The Outsider, Pickman's Model, The Picture in the House, Polaris, The Quest of Iranon, The Rats in the Walls, A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson, The Secret Cave, The Shadow out of Time, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shunned House, The Silver Key, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Strange High House in the Mist, The Street, Sweet Ermengarde, The Temple, The Terrible Old Man, The Thing on the Doorstep, Through the Gates of the Silver KeyThe Tomb, The Transition of Juan Romero, The Tree, Under the Pyramids, The Unnamable, The Very Old Folk, What the Moon Brings, The Whisperer in Darkness, The White Ship)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Patton: The Man Behind The Legend, 1885-1945 by Martin Blumenson

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger by Matt Yglesias

Red: A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo (Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood)

The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Joost A. M. Meerloo

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Legacies of Great Economists by Timothy Taylor from The Great Courses

Incomplete books: Trouble on Triton, Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds, Dark Archives, The History of the World: Map by Maps, The Iliad (Emily Wilson Translation), Christina Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric, The Three Musketeers, The Only Plane in the Sky, Myth in Human History, The Dragon: Fear and Power

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Great Courses consumed: 17?

Non-Great Courses Nonfiction consumed: 13

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Works consumed by women: 13

Works consumed by men: 53

Works consumed by men and women: 0

Works that can plausibly be considered of real relevance to foreign policy (including appropriate histories): 7

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With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, fiction division: Convenience Store Woman

>>>> Honorable mention: Hart's Hope, Ancillary Justice, Child of God, No Longer Human, Piranesi, the first 1/3 of Cyteen, What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear

With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: By The Sword

>>>> Honorable mention: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps, Praetorian, The Birth of Tragedy most of the Great Courses stuff I got to this year

>>>> Great Courses Division: Buddhism

The Annual “An Essential Work of Surpassing Beauty that Isn’t Fair to Compare To Everything Else” Award: The Divine Comedy

>>>> Honorable mention: Julius Caesar, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Shadow Out of Time, Pride and Prejudice, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Man Who Laughs, The Dispossessed

The “Reading This Book Will Give You Great Insight Into The Way I See The World” Award: What Has Passed Shall In Kinder Light Appear

>>>> Honorable mention: Hell is the Absence of God (from Stories of Your Life and Others)

The "My Mind is Thoroughly Exhausted By Reading Through All This But It Was Worth It In The End" Award: The Tale of Genji

Book Most in Need of A Single Extra Chapter: The Man Who Laughs

Best Dude: Darcy from Pride and Prejudice

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This is the first year where I didn't struggle to reach my 52 book goal at all, only some of which is thanks to the Lovecraft marathon. I also read a ton of short sci-fi stories early in the year for an online class I took (which is also why there are so many sci-fi novels in the beginning of the year) and feel much more knowledgeable in the genre even though I'm still not very well read in it. I will be taking a fantasy course next year to what I assume will be similar effect.

It's still hard to read non-audiobooks, made worse this year by a promotion at work that means I have much less free time overall but still a fair deal of time for audiobooks while working with my hands. My (I don't post it) movie list suffered similarly, with this being the first year in a while I didn't hit my movie target. Not discussed: I read various comics this year! Standouts: Chainsaw Man Part 1, the first volume of Pluto, Fun Home, the fifth volume of Phoenix, Look Back

Goals for next year: more foreign policy reading, more literary fiction, write something of my own, ohgodthesearethesamegoalsaslastyearpleasetellmeI'mnotstagnating

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Okay, so this post is from 2015, and thus is pretty outdated. A lot of these links are dead, so here's the updated list:

FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online. (this site is still active, but the original link is dead)

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Merged with pontly - effectively dead

Read Print: Dead.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Redirects to the Montclair State University website - effectively dead

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

Textbook Revolution: Dead.

Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.

KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Site is still active, but the page is gone.

Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.

Online Science and Math Textbooks: Dead.

MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Site is still active, but the page is gone.

Flat World Knowledge: Dead.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: Dead.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Dead.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Page is up, but no resources are linked - effectively dead.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Dead.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Dead.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Dead.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: Dead.

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Page is active, but says it's closed.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Dead.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: Dead.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: Dead.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Project Laurens Jz Coster: Dead.

ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.

Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.

Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: Dead.

Proyecto Cervantes: Dead.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Dead.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Dead.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Captcha loop - effectively dead.

Free History Books: Site is still active, but the page is gone.

Most Popular History Books: Dead.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Dead.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: Dead.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.

Free Art Books: Dead.

Free Web design books: Dead.

Free Music Books: Dead.

Free Fashion Books: Dead.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Dead.

TopMystery.com: Site is still active, but the page is gone.

Mystery Books: Dead.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Dead.

CompleteClassics.com: Dead.

PinkPoem.com: Dead.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: Dead.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer

FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.

KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.

Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.

Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.

MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.

Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.

ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.

Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.

Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.

Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.

Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.

Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.

Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

[noxaeternaetc]

"Humans have no universal faculty to judge aesthetics: Our appreciation of beauty is highly-contextual and depends on factors other than the raw visual stimulus. Most tech-workers are unaware of this fact, and for them, the fact that AI-art resembles human-art means it must be pretty damn good. But AI art is already in very poor taste: not just because it recycles existing conventions in a way that looks outmoded, but because it's already overly associated with less-than-prestigious institutions. GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. Despite all the techno-utopian promises, our brains see it as ersatz."

W. David Marx, GenAI is Our Polyester, Jun 3, 2025

[sonatadeunas]

david w. marx | 2015

[sanctobin]

NIGO loves Verdy so much that they're opening a concept store together. OTSUMO PLAZA brings together the HUMAN MADE and Wasted Youth founders for a proper brick and mortar retail moment, offering fans the first-ever dedicated Verdy shopping experience.

Named for OTSUMO, Human Made's parent company — which recently added KAWS and W. David Marx to its board — OTSUMO PLAZA is located inside an unassuming façade within Tokyo's pricey Aoyama neighborhood.

It's spacious inside, though, and promises to offer exclusive merch, HUMAN MADE collaborations, and all sorts of other treats for Verdy's ardent following. OTSUMO PLAZA has a similar feel to PARK-ING GINZA and THE CONBINI, two intentionally short-lived experiential stores operated by NIGO's mentor, fragment design founder Hiroshi Fujiwara.

NIGO loves Verdy so much that they're opening a concept store together. OTSUMO PLAZA brings together the HUMAN MADE and Wasted Youth founders for a proper brick and mortar retail moment, offering fans the first-ever dedicated Verdy shopping experience.

Named for OTSUMO, Human Made's parent company — which recently added KAWS and W. David Marx to its board — OTSUMO PLAZA is located inside an unassuming façade within Tokyo's pricey Aoyama neighborhood.

It's spacious inside, though, and promises to offer exclusive merch, HUMAN MADE collaborations, and all sorts of other treats for Verdy's ardent following. OTSUMO PLAZA has a similar feel to PARK-ING GINZA and THE CONBINI, two intentionally short-lived experiential stores operated by NIGO's mentor, fragment design founder Hiroshi Fujiwara.

Unlike those streetwear experiments, though, OTSUMO PLAZA will represent a long-term bet on Verdy's success when it opens on November 4.

For the past five-ish years, graphic designer Verdy has evolved from a Japanese fashion insider to a streetwear celebrity of sorts, thanks to an intentional boost in visibility from Fujiwara and NIGO. Verdy has since evolved into a collaborative powerhouse, his Wasted Youth and Girls Don't Cry imprints partnering with companies as diverse as Budweiser, glasses label JINS, Nike, and UNIQLO.

Most recently, Verdy took a high-profile appointment as BLACKPINK's artistic director.

OTSUMO PLAZA is an extension of OTSUMO CENTRE, also known as OTSUMOSO, founded in 2022. This was a collective of high-profile Japanese designers who came together behind the scenes to, as the kids say, link and build.

NIGO loves Verdy so much that they're opening a concept store together. OTSUMO PLAZA brings together the HUMAN MADE and Wasted Youth founders for a proper brick and mortar retail moment, offering fans the first-ever dedicated Verdy shopping experience.

Named for OTSUMO, Human Made's parent company — which recently added KAWS and W. David Marx to its board — OTSUMO PLAZA is located inside an unassuming façade within Tokyo's pricey Aoyama neighborhood.

It's spacious inside, though, and promises to offer exclusive merch, HUMAN MADE collaborations, and all sorts of other treats for Verdy's ardent following. OTSUMO PLAZA has a similar feel to PARK-ING GINZA and THE CONBINI, two intentionally short-lived experiential stores operated by NIGO's mentor, fragment design founder Hiroshi Fujiwara.

Unlike those streetwear experiments, though, OTSUMO PLAZA will represent a long-term bet on Verdy's success when it opens on November 4.

For the past five-ish years, graphic designer Verdy has evolved from a Japanese fashion insider to a streetwear celebrity of sorts, thanks to an intentional boost in visibility from Fujiwara and NIGO. Verdy has since evolved into a collaborative powerhouse, his Wasted Youth and Girls Don't Cry imprints partnering with companies as diverse as Budweiser, glasses label JINS, Nike, and UNIQLO.

Most recently, Verdy took a high-profile appointment as BLACKPINK's artistic director.

OTSUMO PLAZA is an extension of OTSUMO CENTRE, also known as OTSUMOSO, founded in 2022. This was a collective of high-profile Japanese designers who came together behind the scenes to, as the kids say, link and build.

“Just like the Tokiwa-sō, the apartment where Showa manga artists gathered, I want to make OTSUMO CENTRE a place that embodies the activities of the creators, who will lead the next generation of Japan,” NIGO said in a press release.

OTSUMO PLAZA is an evolution of that shared design ethos, offering NIGO's cache of sought-after creators a physical store to sell their covetable product. The emphasis will remain on Verdy, though plenty of other creatives will pop up in due time.

Collaboration is the name of NIGO's game, who's steered his own HUMAN MADE brand towards big-time team-ups with Cactus Plant Flea Market, Lil Uzi Vert, and Levi's, to name but a few

[wrengrif]

First reaction - damn the Marx Brothers were H A W T.

Second reaction - did Neil Gaiman ask the hairdressers of GO to give Crowley a Marx Brother's pompadour? Because that really does look like Crowley's coif in Season Two.

Third reaction - does Neil Gaiman find the Marx Brothers hawt and is that why he wanted David Tennant to have a Marx Brother's pompadour?

Fourth reaction - do I hold any of this against Neil Gaiman? Oh Hell No. Please put David Tennant in a pompadour again with a 1911 suit with the pinned up collar yes please and thank you.

Fifth reaction - OOOO OR MICHAEL SHEEN Hell Yeah he would Rock This Sexy Old Timey Look. Sixth reaction - damn i really am obsessed with good omens.

An early photo of the Marx Brothers. From the left: Harpo, Gummo, Chico and Groucho.

[lolonolo-com]

Değişim Sosyolojisi 2024-2025 Vize Soruları

Değişim Sosyolojisi 2024-2025 Vize Soruları Değişim Sosyolojisi 2024-2025 Vize Soruları 1. Karl Marx’ın toplumsal değişmeyi kavramsallaştırırken kullandığı diyalektik metodun kaynağı aşağıdaki düşünürlerden hangisidir? A) David Ricardo B) Ludwig Feuerbach C) Immanuel Kant D) G. W. F. Hegel E) Auguste Comte Cevap: D) G. W. F. Hegel Açıklama: Marx, diyalektik yöntemi Hegel’in felsefi…

[vintagelasvegas]

Riviera Hotel & Casino 1955-2015

Construction of the Riviera, 1954. Photo: Las Vegas News Bureau.

Timeline, a work in progress.

'52: Dec., Casa Blanca Hotel proposed by LB "Doc" Merman (Los Angeles) and W. "Lefty" Clark Bischoff (Miami). The hotel would be financed by Samuel Cohen, landowner brothers David, Meyer, and Louis Gensburg, and hidden partner Meyer Lansky, and leased to operators whose applicants include Merman, Bischoff, and a group from Miami. Most gaming applicants would change in '53.

'53: Sep. 22, Casa Blanca gaming license granted to the Gensburg bros, Harpo & Gummo Marx, and others.

'54: Construction begins May 27. Building owners are the Gensburg bros, and Harvey Silbert (25% ea). Hotel name changed to Riviera shortly after construction begins. Architects: Roy France & Son (Miami), J. Maher Weller (Las Vegas). The hotel was modeled after Casablanca Hotel, 6345 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL, designed by Roy France.

'55: Hotel opened April 20. Original neon lighting and sign work by Western Electric Displays Co (Western Neon). 

'55: Flamingo managers Gus Greenbaum, Goffstein, Berman, Atol, etc. take over management in Fall, leasing the Riviera for $144,444.66/month.

'56: Western Airlines office at the hotel, with airplane sign seen in front of the hotel from 6/56 to 8/61.

'57: Second sign installed c. Mar-Aug.

'58: Dec 3, Gus Greenbaum killed.

'60: Becket building, aka Mediterranean Tower South I addition; architect W. Becket.

'62: Lanai rooms, two wings on the on east and south of the property, opened summer '62. Julius Gabriele, architect.

'63: Suite construction, north tower.

'65: Building addition on NW corner.

'66: Mediterranean Tower South II addition; third sign installed in Jul.

'67: Riviera execs Frank Atol, Ross Miller, Joe Rosenberg indicted relating to charges of skimming. Charges are dropped in '68 and the lease is sold.

'68: New owners, Jerome Mack, E. Parry Thomas, Harvey Silbert, Ed Torres, and others. The group buys the property from Gensburg bros. (Dates unclear.)

'69: Jun., Dean Martin joints the Riviera as headliner and 10% owner.

'69: Second porte-cochère.

'72: Aug., Dean Martin leaves the Riviera group.

'73: Meshulam Riklis/AITS Inc purchases Riviera, remains owner for 20 years.

'74: Larger attraction board on third sign.

'75: Monte Carlo Tower (17 fl) addition.

'77: San Remo Tower (6 fl, 243 rooms) replaces Lanai rooms south wing.

'81: Third sign height raised.

'84: Emerging from bankruptcy, Jeffrey Silver heading the hotel, Riviera opens a Burger King in front of the hotel, first fast food at a Las Vegas resort.

'85: Food court and billboard addition.

'87: Third sign altered, “Riviera” lowered below the oval.

'88: Monaco Tower (24 fl) addition; demolition of Lanai rooms east wing.

'89: Mirror facade over billboard addition, design by Nikita Zukov

'90: Casino expansion to the street over former parking lot; third sign relocated to Paradise Rd.

'98: New sign on NW corner.

Closed May 4, 2015. Demolition through 2016, with implosions on Jun. 16, and Aug. 16, 2016.

2005 Property Map.

Construction, 1955. Harold P. Matosian/AP Photo. 

Hotel map, 1955, from a Riviera Hotel brochure. Erwin G. Harris Archive of Advertising and Commercial Art, University of Miami Special Collections.

Postcard circa '55

Postcard circa '60 after completion of the Becket building, or South wing.

Postcard, early 70s. South wing was extended in '66.

Postcard circa '81. The Monte Carlo tower ('75) can be seen, and the height of the sign had been raised.

Postcard circa 90s.

Sources include: Announce Plans For New Strip Hotel. Review-Journal, 12/19/52; Another Hotel For The Strip. Review-Journal, 3/3/53; 2 Planned Strip Hotels Granted Gaming Permits. Review-Journal, 9/22/53; Plans Move Forward for New Strip Hotel. Review-Journal, 5/23/54; Groundbreaking. Review-Journal, 5/27/54 p1; Hotel Riviera. Review-Journal, 12/21/54; Attends Ground Breaking. Review-Journal, 2/26/62; SEC filing, 10/1/97; Emporis; Jack Sheehan. Quiet Kingmaker of Las Vegas: E. Parry Thomas (Stephens Press, 2009); Gus Greenbaum, Las Vegas Casino Operator for the Mob. Mob Museum, 12/7/2018.

[egelwan]

The diminishing returns of having good taste

‘The internet makes most information instantly available. What if that’s why mass culture is so boring?…’ ( W. David Marx via The Atlantic )

[noweei]

best Friday night plans in a long time :) going to a conversation featuring my favorite author W David Marx <3 tonight is going to be my garden state