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A Citizen's Handbook of North Carolina's Environmental Information Sources
This guide describes non-governmental groups and governmental agencies that provide environmental information and resources for North Carolina. Although most sources are located within North Carolina, selected out-of-state organizations, agencies, and publications are listed as well. The eleven chapters of the guide are: (1) Agriculture, Soil, & Pesticides, (2) Air Quality (Indoor and Atmospheric) & Climate, (3) Coastal Resources and Marine Fisheries, (4) Consumer Behavior, (5) Energy, (6) Environmental Justice, (7) Hazardous and Radioactive Substances and Waste, Solid Waste, and Recycling, (8) Land Use, Protected Areas, Wetlands, and Wildlands, (9) Population, (10) Transportation, and (11) Water, Freshwater Fisheries, and Fish.

Dr Fun Archive
Dr. Fun (a.k.a. David Farley) has a virtual bookshelf of his pre-internet humor collections. included are:
Blobs If you happen to be looking for a collection of cartoons mostly about amoebas, then Blobs may be the place for you.
Boogers, A Celebration is a collection of hand-picked cartoons on a certain subject. Only the most assiduous digging has pulled out these treasures.
The Eyes Have It is mostly about gigantic eyeballs, with some other random eye jokes. (I'm extremely nearsighted, and spent a lot of time at the eye doctor when I was young.)
Heads Up is in two sections, the first section features the madcap antics of decapitated heads floating about in jars; the second section features people who have managed to somehow grow more than one head, and the shenanigans that ensue.
The Iceman Cometh is about snowmen.
Science Fair was actually drawn a couple years before all the other stuff here. Science Fair documents a visit to the so-called Hoagiesville Science and Engineering Fair, with exhibits in different age divisions, prizes, handouts, etc.
Doctor Fun's Grab Bag An assortment of 200 cartoons.

GCIDE_XML
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (largely based on Merriam-Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of 1913), presented in XML. Search for a word

Geology, Ice-ages, Mountains, Climate, Weather.
A new theory of mountain formation and ice-ages is presented. Reference is made to global warming, climate, weather patterns, and biological evolution.

Henriette's Herbal Homepage
Medicinal and culinary herbs: Articles and classic texts, faqs, pictures, newsgroup archives, plant names. An extraordinary resource!

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - C++ Advanced Placement Version
An online textbook of C++ covers from the basics through objects, vectors and invariants. From the series of books, 'How to Think Like a Computer Scientist' by Wellesley College Computer Science professor, Allen B. Downey.

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - How to Think in Java
A very readable and clear overview / introductory text to java programming. Covers topics from programming language basics through trees, heaps and tables. From the series of books, 'How to Think Like a Computer Scientist' by Wellesley College Computer Science professor, Allen B. Downey.

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - Python Version
This readable online textbook covers Python Programming from beginning syntax through methods and polymorphism. From the series of books, 'How to Think Like a Computer Scientist' by Allen B. Downey (Wellesley College Computer Science professor) and Jeffrey Elkner.

Lessons In Electric Circuits
A free series of textbooks on the subjects of electricity and electronics.

Linux Documentation Project Guides
The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) is working on developing good, reliable documentation for the Linux operating system. The overall goal of the LDP is to collaborate in taking care of all of the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from online documentation (man pages, HTML, and so on) to printed manuals covering topics such as installing, using, and running Linux.

Old Eclectic Books and Journals of Traditional Medicines
Digitized classic texts on herb and traditional medical treatments provided by Henriette's Herbal Homepage including: King's American Dispensatory, Felter's Eclectic Materia Medica, Ellingwood's American Materia Medica, and more!
Also included are several shorter works and some historic journals.

Open Book Project
The Open Book Project is aimed at the educational community and seeks to encourage and coordinate collaboration among students and teachers for the development of high quality, freely distributable textbooks and educational materials on a wide range of topics.

Open Humanities Press
Open Humanities Press (OHP) is an open access publisher of contemporary critical and cultural theory. A grassroots initiative by academics, librarians, journal editors and technology specialists, OHP was formed in response to the growing inequality of readers' access to critical materials necessary for research in the humanities. OHP is dedicated to the highest intellectual standards and free, unrestricted access in equal measure. Launching in 2008 as a consortium of leading open access journals in continental philosophy, cultural studies, new media, film and literary criticism, OHP is committed to making scholarly works of outstanding quality and challenge freely available to a worldwide audience.

Project Gutenberg
You will find classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors including Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jane Austen, and over 15,500 other books. Books are almost always available in plain text format, with many in HTML and other formats. Other than books, additional content types include musical scores, movies and sound files. Most Project Gutenberg eBooks are in the public domain in the US, so tend to be from items published prior to 1923. A text file lists all the titles.

Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
A mirror of the SWSBM site.
The Southwest School of Botanical Medicine is a school of herbal medicine located in Bisbee, Arizona. This site contains many of the books, pamphlets and fields guides used by the school. A large site that offers extensive resources in such areas as traditional herbal remedies, distribution maps for medicinal plants, ethnobotanical texts, plant identifacation photos, and more.

Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
Full text downloadable programming books with examples:
Thinking in Java introduces Java fundamentals, one step at a time, using to-the-point code examples and emphasizing the fundamental concepts underlying all Java programming -- including: program flow initialization and cleanup hiding implementations reusing classes and polymorphism.
Thinking in C++ begins with a tour of what object-oriented programming is all about, as well as the software design life cycle. The book examines the immplementation of C++, from basic keywords and programming principles to more advanced topics, like function and operator overloading, virtual inheritance, exception handling, namespaces, and templates.

World War II Primary Source Document Collection and the Pearl Harbor Archives
A voluminous archive containing original documents regarding all aspects of the war.
There are several complete books and several hundred individual documents, all original material relating to WWII. The Pearl Harbor Archives hold more than 5,000 pages of documents, exhibits, and testimonies surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor.