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Gibran Khalil Gibran
Lebanese writer, poet and artist Gibran Khalil Gibran (known as Kahlil Gibran). Online works (The Prophet, etc.) and art, museum, Bsharri (Lebanon), biography, discussion list... English - Culture and Thought, Kahlil Gibran, Lebanon - At leb.net |
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Bartleby.com - Great Books Online
Online library, free for noncommercial use. With reference (Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, thesaurus, quotations...), poetry, fiction, nonfiction. English - Books, News and Media, Reference - At bartleby.com |
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Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
With text and image collections, links to other collections... English - United States - At sunsite.berkeley.edu |
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Earth Policy Institute - Building an Economy for the Earth
Dedicated to providing a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy -an eco-economy- as well as a roadmap of how to get from here to there. Its website includes free complete online versions of books by its president Lester R. Brown (former president and founder of the Worldwatch Institute), Eco-Economy Updates (news) in nine languages, etc. English, Catalan, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish - Books, News and Media, Sustainable Economy - At earth-policy.org |
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Gandhi Today - The Story of Mahatma Gandhi's Successors
Online book (full text), by Mark Shepard. English - Mahatma Gandhi - At markshep.com |
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Henry David Thoreau: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Thoreau's 1845-47 experience of living well in nature. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Online book, with annotated full text. At Thoreau Reader. English - Country Living, Culture and Thought, Personal Growth, United States, United States: Ecology - At eserver.org |
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Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
The story of a man in quest of meaning in life. Searchable online book, by Hermann Hesse. With user comments and reviews on this literary classic. English - Culture and Thought, Hermann Hesse, Personal Growth, Spirituality - At online-literature.com |
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Jean Giono: The Man Who Planted Trees
Full text of this beautiful story about a man who planted one hundred acorns each day before, through and after two world wars, and transformed a sorrowful place into one full of life and joy. Free reproduction of text allowed by the author, Jean Giono (see statement in French). Text also at Eco-Action, Salesians, Forest Floor, Arboretum, WorldChanging, IDPH [PDF], etc... There is a public domain translation by Peter Doyle. Image: Printed edition with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. English - Country Living, Ecology, Forests, France, Nature Conservation, Organic Farming - At ftpf.org |
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Mahatma Gandhi: Complete Books Online
Links to read online books by and on Gandhi. English - Mahatma Gandhi - At mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org |
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Mark Shepard: The Community of the Ark
Full text and all photographs of this little book about the communities of the Ark, founded by Lanza del Vasto. English - Communities, Community of the Ark - At markshep.com |
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Mountain Man: Publications of Peace and of Great Souls
Online multicultural publications of peace for students of life, by Albert Einstein (A Selection of Quotes), James Lovelock (The Gaia Hypothesis), Fritjof Capra (The Turning Point), Jesus of Nazareth (Summary of the Bible, The Sermon on the Mount), Kahlil Gibran (Patterns of Happiness, The Prophet), Sri Aurobindo (The Future Evolution of Man), Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching), The Gospel of Buddha, indigenous peoples... English - Australia - At magna.com.au |
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Petra K. Kelly: Nonviolence Speaks to Power
Almost complete text of a book by Petra Kelly. With a selection of speeches and essays covering the period from August 1987 to July 1991, a biographical chapter, selected bibliography, etc. Online version at Center for Global Nonviolence, Hawaii. Also, out of print, published by Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1992. Image: Petra Karin Kelly, marching in a rally for peace (Munich, 1982). English - Greens, Nonviolence, Peace, Petra Kelly - At globalnonviolence.org |
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Sacred Texts: The Works of Rabindranath Tagore
Online books: Gitanjali, Sadhana, The Crescent Moon, Fruit-Gathering, Stray Birds, The Home and the World. English - Rabindranath Tagore - At sacred-texts.com |
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The Internet Public Library
Thousands of online books, magazines, newspapers, etc. English - Books, Books, News and Media, Web Guide - At ipl.org |
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The Online Books Page
Website that facilitates access to thousands of books that are freely readable over the Internet. English - At onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu |
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The Online World resources handbook
A good book with links. English - Internet, Norway - At home.eunet.no |
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Theosophical University Press Online
Full text of theosophical books. (H. P. Blavatsky, Mahatmas Morya and Koot Hoomi, etc.). English - Theosophy, United States: Spirituality - At theosociety.org |
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Wordtheque
Multilingual online library and words in context search facility, with a large database containing works in over one hundred languages. English, Italian, Spanish, etc. - At wordtheque.com |
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