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McGraw-Hill North Light
Virtual Publishing Group Octavo
Addison-Wesley / Adobe Press The classics

Complete books from McGraw-Hill

The Internet for Busy People
by Christian Crumlish

This book is for people with only a night or a few lunch hours to learn how to explore the Internet.

The Power of Now
by Vivek Ranadive

This is a book about business, speed, competition, technology, and success in an increasingly global networked society.


Book excerpts from Virtual Publishing Group

Logan's Run
by William F. Nolan and William Clayton Johnson
(743 KB / 59 pages)
Logan's World
by William F. Nolan
(992 KB / 51 pages)
Logan's Search
by William F. Nolan
(672 KB / 61 pages)
The Crystal Palace
by Paula Bonnier Anawalt
(1.4 MB / 17 pages)


Book excerpts from Addison-Wesley and Adobe Press

E-Business: Roadmap for Success,
Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series, chapters 1 and 4
(683 KB)
InDesign Classroom in a Book,
Adobe Press, excerpt: "A Quick Tour"
(1.0 MB)


Complete books from North Light

Fresh Ideas In Brochure Design
by Terri Alekzander

Enjoy a showcase of talent and interpretation. The designs are renderings of concept and ideas in brochures, as well as catalogs, booklets, and pamphlets.


Book excerpts from Octavo

Poems
by William Shakespeare
(London: 1640), frontispiece and excerpts
(676 KB)
Sidereu Nuncius
by Galileo Galilei
(Venice: 1610), excerpted pages
(704 KB)
Experiments and Observations on Electricity
by Benjamin Franklin
(London: 1751), letter 1
(1.5 MB)


The classics (complete books)

Featured:

Through the Looking Glass (illustrated)
by Lewis Carroll
(PDF: 3.1 MB / 137 pages)

Other titles:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
(PDF: 1.1 MB / 192 pages)

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
(PDF: 1.1 MB / 161 pages)

Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
(PDF: 388 KB / 106 pages)

A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
(PDF: 2.2 MB / 477 pages)

Declaration of Independence of The United States
(PDF: 97 KB / 10 pages)

Emma
by Jane Austen
(PDF: 2.8 MB / 641 pages)

The Errand Boy
by Horatio Alger
(PDF: 1.5 MB / 399 pages)

The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allen Poe
(PDF: 431 KB / 39 pages)

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
(PDF: 1.7 MB / 399 pages)

Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
(PDF: 3.0 MB / 779 pages)

Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
(PDF: 2.0 MB / 482 pages)

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
(PDF: 1.2 MB / 315 pages)

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
(PDF: 3.1 MB / 790 pages)

Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
(PDF: 1.7 MB / 419 pages)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
(PDF: 540 KB / 57 pages)

Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
(PDF: 2.8 MB / 609 pages)

A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
(PDF: 127 KB / 18 pages)

Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
(PDF: 2.3 MB / 454 pages)

Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
(PDF: 1.8 MB / 312 pages)

The Old Testament of the King James Version of the Bible
(PDF: 7.8 MB / 3,748 pages)

Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
(PDF: 2.8 MB / 720 pages)

Paradise Lost
by John Milton
(PDF: 1.8 MB / 448 pages)

Persuasion
by Jane Austen
(PDF: 1.8 MB / 323 pages)

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
(PDF: 2.3 MB / 550 pages)

Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
(PDF: 2.1 MB / 522 pages)

The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(PDF: 1.9 MB / 426 pages)

Short Stories by Edgar Allen Poe
(PDF: 395 KB / 39 pages)

Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
(PDF: 2.3 MB / 497 pages)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
(PDF: 1.1 MB / 135 pages)

Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
(PDF: 1.6 MB / 401 pages)

Troilus and Criseyde
by Geoffrey Chaucer
(PDF: 1.5 MB / 330 pages)

Typee
by Herman Melville
(PDF: 1.7 MB / 417 pages)

Walden and Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
(PDF: 1.5 MB / 522 pages)

Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
(PDF: 2.2 MB / 625 pages)