National Academies Release Over 4,000 Free Science Books 119
Shipud writes "The National Academies Press are offering all their books for free in PDF format. These are all the publications of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. Lots of great stuff there, and now for free."
Re:Not exactly "free". (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Do they have the truth about electricity? (Score:2, Insightful)
We're talking about people who believe that some long-dead bastard child of a divine being is going to be waiting after death to bring them to eternal happy land in the sky. Some of them gather each week so a guy in a robe can magic crackers in to the flesh of this guy so they can eat it.
With that foundation I'm more surprised that people are as sane and competent as they appear to be.
Re:Not exactly "free". (Score:5, Insightful)
I did. Lost Crops of Africa vol 1-3 and Lost Crops of the Incas. Informative, although definitely a narrow topic. When you think science books you think more like textbooks with broad overviews and lots of information, which these certainty are not. If you're deep into a specific area, some of these will be useful. If you're just some normal person looking to learn more about something,well, these aren't exactly Light and Matter. I found a number of things on genetic engineering next to them, but skimming them, these are scientific, and they're books, but I wouldn't exactly call them science books, more like reports on the state of the science and policy ideas & suggestions than anything. I can see how these would be useless to the average reader.
Re:Not exactly "free". (Score:4, Insightful)
I wouldn't exactly call them science books
They said "science books", not "popular science books".