Google permite que bajes libros completos
Google ahora permite que bajemos los libros enteros digitalizados como archivos *.pdf. Los libros disponibles serán aquellos cuya protección de copyright ya ha expirado, osea… que se encuentran en el dominio público.
Un libro que me agradó bastante es The Doom of War, escrito por Arthur Deerin Call. Es un libro escrito en 1916… y para ser honesto, es bastante interesante. Aunque de veras que nos deja pensando ‘¿porqué se sigue fomentando la inversión financiera en tecnología militar?‘.
He aquí un extracto:
Irrelevant though it may seem to be, we may well pause and reiterate the meaning of war to us in terms of money. To fire one of our big navy guns once, for example, costs the equivalent of a respectable home. To fire it twice costs enough to meet every essential expense of a college education.
The money spent for one battleship would build a thousand locomotives, or fit 75,000 persons for a trade, or build a fine macadam road from New York to Washington and thence on to Gettysburg, or erect two Congressional Libraries, or dredge the longed-for six-foot channel in the Mississippi River half way from St. Lous to St. Paul. The money spent in the construction of one battleship would erect a dozen Washington monuments, or float fifteen first-class vessels for our merchant marine, or create an Appalachian Forest Reserve, with all that that would mean in terms of water and timber and soil; it would give a college education [...]
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