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GtrsRGr8 · 11-06-2016, 06:43 PM

CORRECTION: Okay, all of the information that I gave below about the book is correct, as far as I know. It's the little postscript, of sorts, about International Open Access Week that I put at the end that is in error.

I think that I am good about accepting responsibility when I mess up. But, I won't take responsibility for the incorrect information that I put about the IOAW. On UCL's website, they had a rotating banner ad (I don't know what they are actually called, but maybe you know what I mean) that simply said "International Open Access Week." Now what would you assume? You would assume that it was going on then or just about to start, right?

Well, I just found out that it is over for this year. It was October 24-30. Sorry for the incorrect information.

This is simply a delightful ebook.

It is Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman. Bindman is " is emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London and has been a research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard since 2010." (Wikipedia). Fittingly, the book is published by University College London.

The ebook is free, being "published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and*publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

I can hear some of you yawning right now. ha "A book of essays?" "Written in honor of a professor?" "Published by a university press?" How could a book like that be delightful or interesting? Well, the topics of the essays are a little esoteric for most people, but it's a pleasure just to peruse through the many historical images, with their captions, throughout the book.

The physical book is not currently available at Amazon U.S., but on the webpage at UCL for the book, the price for it is shown as £40.00. That is approximately $50 USD (xe.com).

To find out much more about this book, buy it in physical form, or download the free PDF, visit the webpage whose URL that I just gave you.

Oh, one very interesting thing that I learned from the UCL website is that this (starting tomorrow (Monday)?) is International Open Access Week! I hope that that means that we'll be seeing a lot more freebies in commemoration of the week! I'll do what I can to ferret them out and post them for you in this forum!

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	CORRECTION: Okay, all of the information that I gave below about the book is correct, as far as I know. It's the little postscript, of sorts, about International Open Access Week that I put at the end that is in error. I think that I am good about accepting responsibility when I mess up. But, I won't take responsibility for the incorrect information that I put about the IOAW. On UCL's website, they had a rotating banner ad (I don't know what they are actually called, but maybe you know what I mean) that simply said "International Open Access Week." Now what would you assume? You would assume that it was going on then or just about to start, right? Well, I just found out that it is over for this year. It was October 24-30. Sorry for the incorrect information. This is simply a delightful ebook. It is Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman. Bindman is " is emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London and has been a research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard since 2010." (Wikipedia). Fittingly, the book is published by University College London. The ebook is free, being "published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author andpublisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. I can hear some of you yawning right now. ha "A book of essays?" "Written in honor of a professor?" "Published by a university press?" How could a book like that be delightful or interesting? Well, the topics of the essays are a little esoteric for most people, but it's a pleasure just to peruse through the many historical images, with their captions, throughout the book. The physical book is not currently available at Amazon U.S., but on the webpage at UCL for the book, the price for it is shown as £40.00. That is approximately $50 USD (xe.com). To find out much more about this book, buy it in physical form, or download the free* PDF, visit the webpage whose URL that I just gave you. Oh, one very interesting thing that I learned from the UCL website is that this (starting tomorrow (Monday)?) is International Open Access Week! I hope that that means that we'll be seeing a lot more freebies in commemoration of the week! I'll do what I can to ferret them out and post them for you in this forum! Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 11-07-2016 at 01:53 PM.