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Amazon.com Order books online.
Animal Crackers The serious, step-by-step way to crack your toughest research and development, manufacturing, and marketing problems using the genius of Natural Selection.

Banned Books

A refuge for the books and tapes your church, government or others afraid of the truth don't want you to read.

Basic Books

Catalog for the division of Harper Collins.

BookSense Order books from your local, independent bookstore.
Great Books Online Literature, reference, and verse.
Jossey-Bass Theory to practice publications in management and business, education, higher education, nonprofit and public management, health, psychology, and religion.
Right Brain Books Recommended new and classic books on creativity.

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Dictionaries

Answers.com Dictionary, thesaurus, languages, news, facts, etc.
Dictionary.com Plus other language resources.
Free Dictionary English, medical, legal, financial, and computer dictionaries, thesaurus, acronyms, idioms, encyclopedia, literature reference library, and search engine.
Guide to Grammar Hosted by Capital Community College.
Research-It Dictionary, thesaurus, translator, anagrams.
Rhyme Zone Rhyming tool with references and definitions
Thesaurus.com Plus other language resources.

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Galleries

American Museum of the Moving Image Calendar, information, and tours.

Ankiewicz Galleries

Fine art, fun art, creative experiments, and other endeavors of the hands, eyes, and mind by Kristen Ankiewicz.

Art Institute of Chicago

Museum and school.

Art Museum Network

Official website of the world's leading art museums.

Art Tower Mito

Exhibitions and gallery talks in English and Japanese.

California Museum of Photography

University of California, Riverside. Exhibitions of contemporary and historical photography.

The Cartoon Factory

Animation Art Gallery.

Dia Center 4 for the Arts

Works from the permanent collection.

J. Paul Getty Museum

Collection, exhibitions.
Harvard University Art Museums Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, Arthur M. Sackler museums, collections, exhibitions, events,  information.

Hermitage

Collection, history, virtual tours, digital collection, education. In English and Russian.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Online catalogs of exhibitions.

Louvre

Selections from each collection and history of the museum. French, English, Spanish, and Japanese versions.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Selections from the collections and information.

Museum of Modern Art

Collections, museum, educational resources, calendar, store.
National Women's History Museum Exhibitions, news, shop.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collections, digital projects, exhibitions, information.

Sotheby's

Auction results and scheduled auctions, and other information.

Sulabh International Museum of Toilets Collection, history, information.

Tate

Collections, history, Modern, Liverpool, St Ives. French, English, German, Italian, and Japanese.

Tretyakovskaya Gallery

Collection, exhibition, artists, information. In Russian only. Seems to require special permission to view English version.

Walker Art Center

Collections, education, programs, information.

WebMuseum, Paris

Special exhibitions, glossary of painting styles.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Current works, essays, education, research, and information.

Zanadu Comics

Retail comic emporium.

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Libraries, Lists

Bibliomania A wealth of literary reference.
Book o' Verse  
BrainSkills Expert advice to train your brain
Brainstorming Definitions From the Brainstorming site.

Fedworld

Over 130 government databases.

Idea-A-Day Over 700 free ideas and growing.
Legal Information Institute At Cornell Law School.

The Library Of Congress

You're paying for it. Use it.

Online Communicator Files, links, and other resources for communication professionals.
Project Gutenberg Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books.

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People

Ask the Space Scientist

Your space science questions answered by a real scientist.
Biography  
Celebrity Atheists Great thinkers who don't believe in God.

James Gleick

Home page of author of Chaos and Genius, the life and science of Richard Feynman.

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News

Adweek News from the advertising industry.

Art Daily

Worldwide guide to museum exhibitions worldwide. In English and Spanish.

BBC Online world edition.
Brandweek Marketing news.
Condé Nast Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Brides, Glamour, Gourmet, GQ, House & Garden, Lucky, Mademoiselle, New Yorker, Self, Traveler, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Wireda
Rolling Stone  

Dark Horse Comics

Quality, Diversity, Creativity: The Dark Horse Creed

Fast Company  
Heads Up! Free news of innovation and other creative stimulation.
Innovator's Digest News of innovation from Gerald Haman of the Solution People.
Jazz

Editorials, featured artists.

Journal of Contemporary Art

Artists' projects, portfolios, and discussions.

London Times Online edition.

Los Angeles Times

Online edition.

New York Times

Online edition. Registration required.
Science News Weekly newsmagazine of science.
Scientific American Longest running science and technology magazine in America.
Sports Illustrated Sports news.

Technology Review

Catalog of books.

Washington Post

Online edition.

Urban Desires

Interactive art magazine.

USA Today

Online edition.
Utne Reader A different read on life.
Wired News  
Wired Magazine  

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Quotes

Advertisers Artists Capitalists Cyberians
Einstein Evil Geniuses Fictional Characters
Fools GooRoos Inventors Jokers
Musicians Philosophers Poets Powerticians
Radicals Scientists Shakespeare Writers
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature

Brainstorming Quotations from the Brainstorming site.
Columbia World of Quotations

65,000 essential quotations.

Quotations Page

Sorted and random quotations.

Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations More than 10,000 quotations from 4,000 sources organized into 25 categories and 60 sections.
 

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