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Education points the way to growth, and growth points the way to happiness.

Welcome to Lady DaVinci's Salon, a library founded on the idea that a high quality education is available to anyone at any time through the use of free internet sources. Never before in history has a complete education been so readily available to almost anyone who has the passion to pursue it. But today, thanks to the Web and to those who dedicate themselves to scanning and posting cultural works of all kinds, anyone can experience a personal "renaissance" if they have access to a computer with an internet connection.

The Salon regularly features new literary and educational sources on a wide variety of topics. All of these are fully available online at no cost.

Featured Articles from Lady DaVinci's Salon: Gary Evans is a writer and TV editor who is also a PCWA—Parent of a Child With Autism. Evans has applied his extensive research experience toward learning whatever he could about his son's world and he shares some of this information along with his personal insight as a father in The Language of Autism and Autism: Finding Out, The Autismspectrumasaurus by artist Shane Anderson was photographed by Andrew Kuchling. The sculpture was cosponsored by St. Croix Solutions and the Holland Center for children with Autism Spectrum disorders

Featured Online Book, Fiction: What the Moon Saw, and Other Tales (Hans C. Andersen) Don't be lulled into thinking every story in Andersen's collection is going to make great bedtime reading for children. Many of these tales are not for the faint of heart. However, parents who are careful to pick and choose among them may find the occasional story with a happy (or at least neutral) ending that could while away an hour or two fairly pleasantly. It is interesting to note that Vincent van Gogh owned a copy of this book, which is thought to have provided inspiration for some of his paintings.

Featured Online Text: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It Every issue of this children's magazine features fascinating perspectives of world events that were once "current," although their importance is not in the least diminished for now being "historical." The February 25, 1897 issue, for instance, contains an interesting account of the move of Katonah, New York, necessitated by an investigation by the Water-Shed Commission. The town was ordered to move or be destroyed because its inhabitants had polluted the local water supply, making it unfit for drinking. Inhabitants literally picked up their houses and moved the entire town a quarter of a mile down the road and outside the water shed area.

Looking for a particular book or text? Try our favourite sources: the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library of texts, audio, video and music; and Project Gutenberg, an online book catalog containing free downloadable e-books in the public domain.

Interviews
Ruth Nemzoff: Parent Talk
Ruth Nemzoff, a mother of four and grandmother of six, is a researcher and resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Her primary field of interest is interpersonal communication, with her most recent book addressing the role of communication in the relationship between parents and their grown children. (2006).

Deborah Tannen: Communicating With Style
A respected linguistics scholar who has written extensively within the scholarly community, Deborah Tannen is also author of six books for popular audiences, two of which have been on the New York Times best-seller list

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