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January 2003 Top 20 Best Read eBooks; Celebrated African-American Voices of Freedom Top January List

January 2003 Top 20 Best Read eBooks; Celebrated African-American Voices of Freedom Top January List

Published 02-11-03

Submitted by Questia Media Inc.

HOUSTON, TX - Keeping in the spirit of Martin Luther King Day, six out of the Top 20 Best Read eBooks in January 2003 relate to the legendary Civil Rights leader or fellow African-American spokesman and celebrated author, Langston Hughes. The Top 20 Best Read eBooks provides a view of the most widely read books on Questia, the world's largest online library of books and is immediately available at www.top20ebooks.com.

The historic life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the history of the Civil Rights Movement are captured in five of the Top 20 Best Read eBooks. A bio-bibliography on Langston Hughes, advocate for the American Negro, and a celebrated African-American spokesman in his own right, is featured in book number nine on the Top 20 list.

"The high readership of books on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Langston Hughes corresponds with the recent commemoration of King's birthday and the February celebration of African-American History month," said Troy Williams, Questia Media, Inc.'s President and CEO. "The subjects on the Top 20 Best Read eBooks list are influenced by current world events, widely researched topics in undergraduate and graduate studies, popular cultural phenomena, and even the calendar, as we've seen in January. The online reading habits of Internet users is diverse, wide-ranging, and reflected in the usage patterns of users of Questia, the Internet's largest library of books with more than 70,000 books and journal articles," continued Williams.

To develop the Top 20 Best Read eBooks, the reading patterns of Questia users are aggregated and then ranked, with ranking based primarily on page views (each time one user looks at a page results in one "page view") and the overall number of unique users who accessed that title. Secondarily, book length is factored in to correct for the fact that shorter books, even if read in their entirety, would have fewer page views. The January 2003 list and past lists can be accessed at http://www.top20ebooks.com . The February 2003 list will be available on March 11, 2003.

The Questia service is a personal online library for its subscribers, offering unlimited, simultaneous access to complete titles regardless of how many other users are reading the same book or journal article. Research tools help students and researchers organize, highlight, cite, and store their work on personalized bookshelves in the Questia library.

Questia Top 20 Best Read eBooks January 2003

1. The Ethics of Human Cloning, by Leon R. Cass & James Q. Wilson. American Enterprise Institute, 1998.

2. Understanding Drugs of Abuse: The Processes of Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery, by Mim J. Landry. American Psychiatric Press, 1994.

3. The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning, by Irving Brant. Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.

4. The Importance of Learning Styles: Understanding the Implications for Learning, Course Design, and Education, by Serbrenia J. Sims. Greenwood Press, 1995.

5. Domestic Violence: Facts and Fallacies, by Richard L. Davis. Praeger Publishers, 1998.

6. Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement, by James R. Ralph. Harvard University Press, 1993.

7. Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, by Peter B. Levy. Praeger, 1992.

8. Leadership for the Twenty-First Century, by Joseph C. Rost. Praeger Publishers, 1993.

9. A Bio-Bibliography of Langston Hughes, 1902-1967, by Donald C. Dickinson. Archon Books, 1967.

10. Depression Decade; From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-1941, by Broadus Mitchell. Rinehart, 1947.

11. Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Annotated Bibliography, by Sherman E. Pyatt. Greenwood Press, 1986.

12. Causes and Consequences of World War II, by Robert A. Divine. Quadrangle Books, 1969.

13. The Civil Rights Movement, by Peter B. Levy. Greenwood Press, 1998.

14. Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction, by Kim Knott. Oxford University Press, 2000.

15. Ethical Issues in Human Cloning: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, by Michael C. Brannigan. Seven Bridges Press, 2000.

16. Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Stewart Burns. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

17. The Causes of the World War: An Historical Summary, by Camille Bloch and Jane Soames. G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1935.

18. At War in the Gulf: A Chronology, by Arthur H. Blair. Texas A & M University Press, 1992.

19. A History of American Literature, 1607-1765, by Moses Coit Tyler. Cornell University Press, 1949.

20. Culture and Customs of Japan, by Noriko Kamachi and Hanchao Lu. Greewood Press, 1999.

Rankings reflect total page views and unique users on the Questia service for January 1 through January 31, 2003, statistically weighted to factor in book length.

About Questia
Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc., launched its revolutionary online library in January 2001, with powerful search and writing tools created specifically to help students do better research and write better papers. Questia provides unlimited access to the full content of an extensive collection of books and journal articles, as well as a wide range of tools, including highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and bibliography builder. For millions of students and researchers, the Questia (SM) service enables them to efficiently research and compose papers at any time, from virtually every connected corner of the world. Based in Houston, Questia is delivering on the true promise of the Internet by providing access to a wealth of human knowledge.

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