Category: Books

  • Japanese flora

    Japanese flora

    BibliOdyssey, as usual, presents one more impressive antique book: Ten albums of Japanese flora containing more than 700 images from the Museum at the University of Tokyo: honzo database (English home page).

  • Jesuits always missionaries for Christ: Second Life

    Jesuits belong to a catholic church order that can be rightfully praised for its passion for spreading the word of God to all ends of the world and for science in general (and some less brilliant moments, I have to admit). Today, we learn from Antonio Spadaro in La Civilta Cattolica a Jesuit Rome-based journal,…

  • BibliOdyssey, a quality library

    BibliOdyssey, a quality library

    BibliOdyssey is a web site about art in antique prints. You love books, you love quality books, you must stay tuned to BibliOdyssey. Today, I just want to point to one single impressive post there: Drawing on the Renaissance.

  • 90+ online photography tools and resources

    Mashable published a list of Internet resources particularyl useful to photographers. The list is organised aroudn the following categories: Online photo Editors – Editeurs de photo en ligne Photo sharing – Partage de photographies Free photo hosting – Hébergement gratuit de photographies en ligne Photography blogs – Blogs photographiques Mashups – Combinaisons Mobile Photo mixing…

  • The Windows upgrade

    The Windows upgrade

    An upgrade maybe painful: Vista as a fakir chair. Source: Ctrl-Alt-Del.

  • Bhagavata Purana, sacred book

    Bhagavata Purana, sacred book

    For the amateur of lovely art books, the Rylands Library of Manchester University publishes on the Internet this superb copy of the Bhagavata Purana, sacred book of Hinduism. Exceptionally nice visit of a web site that is providing excellent copies of antique books. Source: BiblioOdyssey.