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Latin

Latin was the everyday language of the Romans and the basis of many modern languages. From Latin it is easy to learn any Romance language, thus opening a new world of opportunity. With the Latin book, as you learn one of the world's classical languages, you'll connect with Julius Caesar and many other famous Romans, such as writers Cicero, Vergil and Horace, and emperors Augustus and Nero.

LaTeX (download) (printer-friendly)

LaTeX is one of the best languages for marking up technical documents to provide a quality publication.

Consciousness Studies

Everyone has his or her own view of the nature of consciousness. The intention of Consciousness Studies is to expand this view by providing an insight into the various ideas and beliefs on the subject as well as a review of current work in neuroscience.

UNDP-APDIP Books

This collection of e-primers, on the subjects of FOSS and ICT, has been donated to Wikibooks from the UNDP-APDIP.

This quantum world

This Quantum World is an introduction to the subject of quantum mechanics, following the historical development of the theory. Physics and mathematics required, not for the faint of heart.

Ada Programming (download)

Ada Programming is a tutorial teaching the Ada programming language. Ada puts unique emphasis on, and provides strong support for, good software engineering practices that scale well to very large software systems (millions of lines of code, and very large development teams).

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