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An online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
For over 40 years, Heinemann's African Writers Series published the key texts of modern African literature. It has a unique importance in the history of postcolonial writing. This online edition includes over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.
Anthropology Online offers published and primary source material focusing on peoples in the British Empire who were studied mainly by British and British-trained anthropologists.
The Revised Oxford Translation of The Complete Works of Aristotle, edited by Jonathan Barnes, and published by Princeton University Press in 1984.
Alternate Name(s) A&AePortal
Authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, photography, and design. Innovative functionality and extensive metadata offer students and scholars exciting ways to discover and engage with content from Yale University Press and other leading university presses and museum publishers

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An in-progress database of free back-in-the day British e-books, fiction and non-fiction, with robust listings in literature and short stories, and thin coverage in poetry, drama, non-fiction (including biographies), and reference works.
Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts combines visual inspiration with practical advice on everything from idea generation and research techniques to portfolio development – making this the ultimate guide to a visual arts education.
Over 200 key titles for the design studio and professional practice
The leading source of information for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design, Bloomsbury Architecture Library offers access to a carefully curated collection of fully-searchable text and image content.
The Bloomsbury Design Library offers cross-searchable access to a broad and expanding range of encyclopedias, reference works, e-books, images, and more.
Scholarly resource on fashion encompassing Berg Fashion Library and Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive. Find fashion encyclopedias, dictionaries, ebooks, article citations, images, biographies, timelines, videos, and more.
This database provides full text works by the following philosophers: Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, British Moralists (Selections), Anne Conway, John Locke, Bishop George Berkeley, David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick.

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The online Chicago Manual of Style is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.
Full text of works by Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz.

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Alternate Name(s) DOAB
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

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Early European Books provides scholars with new ways of accessing and exploring all works printed in Europe before 1701.
An exhaustive selection of authoritative, scholarly e-books that combines ebook databases ebrary and EBL into one platform.
Alternate Name(s) eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Scholarly and popular e-books on a wide range of topics. Most can be downloaded.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

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This database includes textbooks and supplementary resources that support interior design education; includes construction and building systems; drawing, modelling, and CAD; professional practice; principles of color, light, form, and materials; accessibility; sustainability; and history, theory, and criticism.
Fairchild Books Library covers a full spectrum of topics in fashion including construction, draping, fashion business management, history, illustration, journalism, marketing, promotion, theory, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion, textiles, and more.

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Gale Ebooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) is a database for multidisciplinary research in encyclopedias and general and specialized reference sources in the Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science, and Technology.
Search for books by author and/or title to get full citation information, brief description, information about the author, and sources for borrowing or buying it.
includes thousands of full-text poems, novels, plays and other works in the public domain, as well as close to 100,000 quotations. Resources are carefully edited to ensure accuracy of data entry.
A selection of classic non-fiction literature including essays, biographies, autobiographies, speeches and commentaries from the early 20th century as well as historical documents and religious texts.

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Contains texts of 51 volumes of the Harvard Classics, (including non-fiction, poetry, plays, folklore, and religious and philosophical writings) as well as a 20-volume Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, with works by British, American, French, Russian, and other authors of novels and short stories.
This database of full-text books provides access to a selective number of them here for The New School community. Of the 30 featured collections that appear under “Browse Collections,” the Edison Collection of American Sheet Music and books from UM [University of Michigan] Press are of particular interest.
This edition of G. W. F. Hegel: The Oxford University Press Translations is based on all Hegel translations published by Oxford University Press.

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Recent articles are generally not available. JSTOR now includes access to the Artstor collection. Artstor is an extensive image resource for educational and scholarly use . Including high-quality images and visual media from top museums, archives, scholars, artists, and contributors around the world.

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This database of Kant’s collected writings covers the first 23 volumes of the Akademie-Ausgabe (2nd ed., 1999), plus a few additional letters. These 23 volumes are organized into three sections: Works (vols. 1-9); Letters (from 1747-1804)(vols. 10-13); and Nachlass ( the papers and drafts – including the influential Opus Postumum – left at his death in 1804) (vols.14-23).

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This 520+ volume database focuses on Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations. Its wide scope includes literature, drama, history, travel, philosophy, oratory, medicine, math, and religious writings of some early Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture.

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MOA History Books is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
MIT Press covers more than 40 ejournals and 3200 ebooks , with 150 ebooks added annually. Subjects emphasized include cognitive science, digital humanities & new media, economics, environment, information science, neuroscience, philosophy, science/technology & society, and social sciences.

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Provides MARC records for ca.50,000 books and other materials and access to their texts scanned as part of the Internet Archive's OCA (Open Content Alliance) initiative; includes Gutenberg scans. This initiative expresses the collaborative efforts of a global group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations to help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. OCA book scans were sponsored by Yahoo! and the Sloan Foundation.
Lists over 3 million free books on the Web. Full-text for those in the HathiTrust are available by clicking on “Full View” in the record of the holding library. Serials, including many in foreign languages, are cited with abstracts but full-text (aside from sample pages) is not available.
Launched in 2008, the Getty Foundation’s Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative is helping museums explore digital scholarly publishing.
A project of the Internet Archive, this database provides access to over 1 million free e-books, ranging from I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! by Dr. Seuss to The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides and Value, Price and Profit by Karl Marx to The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

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Plotinus (/plɒˈtaɪnəs/; Greek: Πλωτῖνος, Plōtînos; c. 204/5 – 270) was a major Hellenistic philosopher who lived in Roman Egypt. He is one of the most influential philosophers in antiquity after Plato and Aristotle. His writings, compiled in the Six Enneads, were edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (c. AD 270).

The translation by Stephen McKenna is perhaps one of the best known. While not a literal translation, it is known for its poetic style and beauty.
Poets.org currently features biographies of more than 500 poets, with new pages being added all the time.
Founded by Michael Hart in 1971 with the aim of distributing a trillion (1,000,000,000) electronic literature files by the year 2001, Project Gutenberg has evolved into an on-going project to produce and distribute free electronic editions of literature.
All ProQuest databases, ranging from dissertations to newspaper articles to scholarly journals to trade journals to wire services.
This database is a full-text collection of over 1600 books published by APA. Classic books from other publishers are also included, along with over 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

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Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With more than 13 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.
SAGE Knowledge is a searchable collection of more than 60 scholarly encyclopedias, a range of Sage Books, Business Cases, and Video titles in the social sciences: anthropology, communication, education, geography, history, law, management, politics, psychology, and sociology. New interdisciplinary titles are continuously added to the collection.
Social Theory is an online collection designed to provide comprehensive coverage for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The database combines an extensive range of influential writings in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content from seminal works by major social thinkers.

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Provides access to open access and purchased titles from Taylor & Francis, from the imprints Routledge, Psychology Press, Focal Press, and CRC Press. Many of these titles also appear in our catalog at library.newschool.edu

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Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It provides access to millions of articles from 1,600 journals, over 20,000 books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.
The Collected Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein contains all translations of Wittgenstein published by Blackwell Publishers (as well as The Blue and Brown Books).

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