Content FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - September 2010

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Five free business/self-help books:

The Personal Credibility Factor: How to Get It, Keep It, and Get It Back (If You've Lost It), by Sandy Allgeier

Book Description
Can you be trusted? Right now, someone is asking that question. If they decide to trust you, they’ll work with you, care about you, open up to you…help you live a more successful, more fulfilled, happier life. If not, you’re on your own…

Build the Strong Personal Credibility You Need to Live a Truly Great Life

* Learn the secrets of personal credibility that make trust possible
* Use the plan to earn trust and respect from those you encounter in your daily life
* Enable others to have confidence in you by following the 7 easy steps
* Follow the Personal Credibility Factor’s steps to repairing credibility when you’ve lost it

There’s no fakery here: In the long run, you either earn trust or you don’t. This book gives you the tools to earn it for life.


The Truth About Personal Performance, by Robert E. Gunther, James O'Rourke & Leigh L. Thompson

Book Description
A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts-now in a convenient e-format, at a great price.

150+ secrets of exceptional personal performance: how to present confidently, negotiate successfully, and make smarter decisions--anywhere, anytime!

Three full books of proven solutions for supercharging personal performance! Prepare for any audience, negotiation, or decision-compel attention and motivate action-manage anxiety or anger-use nonverbal communication-negotiate with people you love (or hate)-build (or repair) trust-make decisions with imperfect data-and much more!


How McDonald's Got Its Groove Back, from the editors of New Word City, is a business short from FT Press.

Book Description
How did the lumbering fast-food giant McDonald's cure its own sclerosis and become a newly lean, hungry competitor? Its comeback offers lessons for leaders everywhere in focusing on what their customers really want. For example, don't react to competitors, react to customers. When you broaden your market appeal, don't abandon your first customers. Don't skimp on product development.

McDonald's hit bottom early in 2003. Sure, it was still the biggest fast-food provider in the world. But the stock collapsed after the company reported its first-ever quarterly loss. Battered by critics, nibbled at by new competitors (Subway, Sonic, Quiznos), undermined by overbuilding and a failure to adapt to changes in consumer habits and tastes, the giant was out of breath and sagging over its belt. Behind the scenes, though, a turnaround had begun. A new team of leaders was out to rejuvenate the core brand, shed irrelevant activities, and adjust McDonald's operations to what the customer really wanted. The story of how they did it holds copious lessons for any business faced with bringing new life to a lagging brand. It demanded changes in every phase of a worldwide enterprise with $23 billion in sales, 31,000 restaurants, and fully 1.6 million employees. But the new McDonald's team had patience, determination, and a "Plan to Win"....


33 Million People in the Room: How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking, by Juliette Powell

Book Description
Social networks are no fad. They’re a permanent reality: one that offers immense opportunities to smart, innovative businesses. Now, top social networking consultant Juliette Powell reveals how dozens of innovators are driving real ROI through social networks–and how you can, too.

Powell’s wide-ranging research, including coverage on Barack Obama's successful online strategy in his bid for the presidency, focuses on technology, media and gaming companies, leaders in fashion, beauty, publishing, finance, retail, event planning, and beyond. These powerful narratives illuminate the reality of doing business on today’s social networks as never before.


So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience, by Mark Magnacca

Book Description
Supercharge Your Success by Answering the One Question That Everyone Cares About:

* Answer the “So What?” question quickly, succinctly, convincingly—every time!
* Practical techniques, examples, and exercises proven with thousands of winning salespeople.
* Straight from Mark Magnacca, one of the world’s leading sales consultants.
* For all your personal interactions—in business and in life!

It’s tough, but true—the people you’re trying to communicate with, sell to, or convince don’t really care about you. Nor do they care what you’re offering them—until they understand exactly how it’ll benefit them. If you recognize that one hard, cold fact—and you know what to do about it—you’ll make more money, achieve greater success, and even have more fun!

In this book, world-renowned sales consultant Mark Magnacca shows you how to answer the “So What?” question brilliantly, every time—no matter who’s asking it or what you’re trying to achieve. This book will transform the way you communicate: You’ll use it every day to get what you want—in business and in life!

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The Big 5-OH!, by Sandra D Bricker, is free in the Kindle and Barnes and Noble ebookstores.

Book Description
Olivia Wallace has a birthday curse . . . or so she thinks. It was a broken heart on her 16th, a car accident on her 21st, pneumonia on her 30th, and a fall down a flight of stairs on her 35th. There were Ohio blizzards on her 38th, 39th, and 40th; and six days before her 45th, she lost the love of her life to a heart attack. Numbing grief stole that birthday and a couple more to follow and, on the morning of her 48th birthday, she received the call she’d dreaded ever since losing her mom so many years ago…she was diagnosed with stage-3 ovarian cancer. The doctors didn’t hold out a lot of hope, but Liv survived and maintained her faith. Months of surgeries and chemotherapy and radiation treatments followed.

But now, as her 50th birthday creeps up the icy Ohio path toward her, her hair has grown back, her energy level is up, and she is officially cancer free. It makes her nervous. After everything she’s gone through, Liv hates the idea of driving on icy roads and returning to work as an O.R. nurse in a local Cincinnati hospital.

Her best friend Hallie knows just the thing to break Liv out of the winter doldrums, while providing a safe haven of warmth, sunshine, and a time to regroup: a holiday in the Florida sunshine!

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Compromising Positions, by Jenna Bayley-Burke, is another freebie from Samhain.

Book Description
Falling in love is the last thing on his busy agenda-but compromising positions can lead just about anywhere.

David Strong knows how to do a lot of things-run an international fitness company, finesse stock portfolios and stay out of emotional entanglements. That is, until he gets tangled up with Sophie Delfino and her Sensational Sex workout. He's supposed to help her demonstrate Kama Sutra positions for her couples yoga class. The rigorous postures require more than just physical control. And his co-instructor unexpectedly tests his control to the limit.

Sophie's been fantasizing about David since her teens, but she never dreamed she'd actually be expected to run through her intimate desires -- with an audience! The class is very professional, tame even -- or it would be, if she'd been in any of the positions before. But she hasn't -- except in her wildest fantasies about David. Sophie knows she wants David in every way, and she's flexible enough to use whatever she has to get him.

David can't afford any unexpected distractions. Besides the sensual positions he has to endure without embarrassing himself in public, there's an embezzler stealing from his company. And then there's Sophie -- who is well on her way to stealing his well-guarded heart.

Warning: This is one exercise program you won't need to consult your doctor before beginning - unless he's hot and available for house calls. The Kama Sutra isn't for the prudish or faint of heart, and neither is this story.

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UK FREEBIE EBOOK:

Cybill Disobedience by Cybill Shepherd


Book description:

From wholesome beauty queen to saucy cover girl, from heartbreaking movie star to one of television's most loved comediennes, Cybill Shepherd is renowned as sassy, shocking and sexy. In this autobiography she displays the wit and honesty and indomitable spirit of a star who knows it all.

link to book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cybill-Disob...dp/B002KAOQSK/

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Six free non-fiction titles this morning:

The Expository Genius of John Calvin, by Steven J. Lawson, Greg Bailey (Editor), & Kent Barton (Illustrator)

Book Description
In The Expository Genius of John Calvin, Dr. Steven J. Lawson delves into the practices, commitments, and techniques that made John Calvin, the great Reformer of the sixteenth century, such an effective preacher during his long pastorate at Saint Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Lawson identifies thirty-two distinctives of Calvin's preaching, providing comments from Calvin's writings, quotations from Reformation scholars, and examples from Calvin's own sermons to reinforce his points. In the end, Dr. Lawson finds in Calvin a strong model for expository preaching and calls on modern pastors to follow the Reformer's example.


Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort through the Noise around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies, by Sherry Seethaler

Book Description
Don’t Get Hoodwinked! Make Sense of Health and Science News...and Make Smarter Decisions!

Every day, there’s a new scientific or health controversy. And every day, it seems as if there’s a new study that contradicts what you heard yesterday. What’s really going on? Who’s telling the truth? Who’s faking it? What do scientists actually know—and what don’t they know? This book will help you cut through the confusion and make sense of it all—even if you’ve never taken a science class! Leading science educator and journalist Dr. Sherry Seethaler reveals how science and health research really work...how to put scientific claims in context and understand the real tradeoffs involved...tell quality research from junk science...discover when someone’s deliberately trying to fool you...and find more information you can trust! Nobody knows what new controversy will erupt tomorrow. But one thing’s for certain: With this book, you’ll know how to figure out the real deal—and make smarter decisions for yourself and your family!

Watch the news, and you’ll be overwhelmed by snippets of badly presented science: information that’s incomplete, confusing, contradictory, out-of-context, wrong, or flat-out dishonest. Defend yourself! Dr. Sherry Seethaler gives you a powerful arsenal of tools for making sense of science. You’ll learn how to think more sensibly about everything from mad cow disease to global warming–and how to make better science-related decisions in both your personal life and as a citizen.

You’ll begin by understanding how science really works and progresses, and why scientists sometimes disagree. Seethaler helps you assess the possible biases of those who make scientific claims in the media, and place scientific issues in appropriate context, so you can intelligently assess tradeoffs. You’ll learn how to determine whether a new study is really meaningful; uncover the difference between cause and coincidence; figure out which statistics mean something, and which don’t.

Seethaler reveals the tricks self-interested players use to mislead and confuse you, and points you to sources of information you can actually rely upon. Her many examples range from genetic engineering of crops to drug treatments for depression...but the techniques she teaches you will be invaluable in understanding any scientific controversy, in any area of science or health.


15 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Now, from publisher FT Press, is a collection of business shorts.

Book Description
A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts-now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!

Practical Tools to Jumpstart Your Career, Transform Your Future, and Achieve Your Full Potential-Both Personally and Financially.

Fifteen powerfully useful mini-guides help you get ahead where you are or move on-find your next great job, negotiate great compensation, and start with confidence-smoothly handle nonstop change, negative emotions, and whatever else comes your way!

From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Dr. Gregory Shea, Robert Gunther, Martha I. Finney, and more.

Included in this collection:

1. Mastering the Roll: Succeeding Amidst Change Means Trying New Things, Failing, and Trying More (Gregory Shea, Ph.D. and Robert Gunther)
2. Taking Advantage of Social Networking to Land Your Perfect Job (Martha I. Finney)
3. How to Use Social Networking for Your Job Search (Martha I. Finney)
4. Embracing Risk in Your Career: A Story of How to Make More and Worry Less (Wes Moss)
5. How to Evaluate the Job You've Been Offered (Martha I. Finney)
6. Keep Active While Out of Work! (Martha I. Finney)
7. How to Control Your Finances After You Are Laid Off (Martha I. Finney)
8. In Turbulent Times, You Can't Expect Others To Save You: How to Keep Yourself Prepared for AnyEconomy (Gregory Shea, Ph.D. and Robert Gunther)
9. Should You Take a Job with a Company That's Laying People Off? (Martha I. Finney)
10. Start Your New Job with Confidence: Ideas for Success in Your First 100 Days (Martha I. Finney)
11. Making Sure Your Finances Are in Order Before Being Laid Off (Martha I. Finney)
12. Make Sure You Have a Plan for Your Exit Before You are Laid Off (Martha I. Finney)
13. You've Been Laid Off: Now, Make a Plan! (Martha I. Finney)
14. Dealing with a Lay Off: What to Expect When You Are No Longer Expected (Martha I. Finney)
15. Managing Emotions to Learn from Failure (Dean A. Shepherd)


Smart Pricing: How Google, Priceline, and Leading Businesses Use Pricing Innovation for Profitability, by Jagmohan Raju & Z. John Zhang

Book Description
Innovative Pricing Strategies that Improve Profitability, Attract New Customers, and Transform Industries

In Smart Pricing, Wharton professors and renowned pricing experts Jagmohan Raju and Z. John Zhang draw on examples from high tech to low tech, from consumer markets to business markets, and from U.S. to abroad, to tell the stories of how innovative pricing strategies can help companies create and capture value as well as customers. They teach the pricing principles behind those innovative ideas and practices.

Smart Pricing introduces to marketing and product executives, along with corporate strategists, many innovative approaches to pricing, as well as the research and insights that went into their creation. Filled with illustrative examples from the business world, readers will discover restaurants where customers set the price...learn how Google and other high-tech firms have used pricing to remake whole industries...and understand how executives in China successfully start and fight price wars to conquer new markets.

Smart Pricing goes well beyond familiar approaches like cost-plus, buyer-based pricing, or competition-based pricing, and puts a wide variety of pricing mechanisms at your disposal. This book helps you understand them, choose them, and use them to win.


Options for the Beginner and Beyond: Unlock the Opportunities and Minimize the Risks, by W. Edward Olmstead

Book Description
Brief, carefully paced lessons on options and trading strategies using verbal definitions and many trading examples for clarification. Each lesson builds on the one preceding it and explains options in plain English, from start to finish. Step-by-step coverage of controlling risk, protecting your investments -- even advanced strategies other introductory books ignore! Authored by Dr. W. Edward Olmstead, contributing editor to The Spear Report and editor of The Options Professor newsletter.


Shopper Intimacy: A Practical Guide to Leveraging Marketing Intelligence to Drive Retail Success, by Rick DeHerder & Dick Blatt

Book Description
In Shopper Intimacy, two world-renowned retail experts draw on unprecedented in-store research to illuminate how shoppers actually think, feel, and act in retail environments. Then, they introduce the Retail Ecosystem Analytics Program (REAP), a rigorous, complete methodology for transforming this knowledge into winning campaigns, products, and formats.

Retail marketing is undergoing cataclysmic change, driven by upheavals in media, consumer attitudes, and the retail industry itself. To build brands and drive sales, retailers must invest more heavily in marketing. But how? With Shopper Intimacy, you will understand the customer more deeply than ever before–and be able to act on that knowledge.

Drawing on years of industry research, Rick DeHerder and Dick Blatt introduce a start-to-finish system for achieving true shopper intimacy. You’ll master powerful new tools for influencing shopper behavior–supported by extensive case studies, charts, and real-world examples. You’ll also find indispensable performance metrics–including new ways to measure return on investment (ROI) from the standpoint of key stakeholders.

Shopper Intimacy brings together breakthrough insights for all retail segments, detailed data to support them, and practical techniques for applying and profiting from them.

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Picking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life's Weeds (A Search for Faith Among Life's Weeds), by Sarah Cunningham, is free courtesy of Christian publisher Zondervan.

Book Description
Sarah Cunningham, a moderate middle-class white girl who grew up in the Michigan countryside, speaks about God with humor and honesty more characteristic of liberal west-coast writers in this Picking Dandelions Ebook. In this warm and witty memoir, she describes finding and keeping a personal faith in the quirky settings of her ultra-Christian childhood. Whether recounting living next to a cemetery, teaching at-risk high schoolers, or listening to her grandmother's stories about being a British 'war bride,' the author weaves faith into down-to-earth metaphors of growth and renewal, planting and reaping, greenery and weeds. In the end, Cunningham succeeds in sifting through the dysfunctions and flaws of human life and discovering pockets of God's original Eden goodness for both herself and for you.Picking Dandelions is a candid and personal account of outgrowing laissez-faire Christianity, moving into mature faith, and realizing that a God-following person is a changing person ... and you just might follow suit.

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The Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley

Book Description
Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people’s lives as never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying this for two hundred years.

Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit of exchange and specialization—which started more than 100,000 years ago—has created a collective brain that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair.

This bold book covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change. It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.

Also free from Sony, HERE.

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Sheltering Hearts, a short story by Robyn Carr, is finally free in the Kindle bookstore, joining Harlequin, B&N and Sony in offering the book at no charge.

Book Description
In this touching story, single mother Dory Finn has focused her life on raising her two children and the volunteer work she does with single parents. After a bad experience in the romance department, Dory is not looking for love. But her feelings begin to change when Clay Kennedy moves in next door and makes his way into both her heart and her children's hearts. Dory must overcome the past in order to learn to love again.

Originally published in the sixth annual More Than Words anthology ($9.54 Kindle):

Little by little, one person at a time, we can make our world a better place. The five dedicated women selected as this year’s recipients of Harlequin’s More Than Words award have done just that, by discovering a seed of compassion, and nurturing it to effect real change in their communities. To celebrate their accomplishments, five bestselling authors have honored the winners by writing short stories inspired by these real-life heroines.

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Seven new freebies, all romance or urban fantasy/romance.

White Tigress, by Jade Lee

Book Description
Captured and sold into slavery in Shanghai, an Englishwoman finds power, freedom, and most of all love through ancient Taoist sex practices.


Guns Will Keep Us Together, by Leslie Langtry

Book Description
Dakota Bombay prided himself on his blond Bond image---bad-guy killer by day, lady-killer by night. Then his life gets both shaken and stirred by an irate grandmother demanding a marketing plan for the family assassination business, a precocious six-year-old son Dak never knew he had, and a mysterious redhead who's erased his decades-old preference for blondes.

Suddenly the perennial playboy is knee deep in pie charts and thinking he may have found the perfect mom for his boy. She's smart, funny, and directs a funeral home no less---what could be better? Now if he can just take out a team of rival assassins without getting killed himself, they can all live trigger-happily ever after.


Immortals: The Crossing, by Joy Nash

Book Description
For centuries they have walked among us--vampires, shape-shifters, the Celtic Sidhe, demons, and other magical beings. Their battle to reign supreme is constant, but one force holds them in check, a race of powerful warriors known as the IMMORTALS.

For Manannán mac Lir, a musician and Celtic demigod, life had become a blur of post-gig parties, expensive whisky, and cheap sex. And then the baby almost died--a baby he had sworn to protect. On the hunt for the would-be killer, Mac finds Artemis Black, a stunningly dangerous woman who's inexplicably able to intertwine life magic with death magic. For the safety of his people, he should destroy her. But the aching vulnerability in her eyes calls to him. And the raw desire she inspires has nothing to do with a spell. Their love may be forbidden, but Mac and Artemis can't go back once they've made...THE CROSSING


Strike Zone, by Kate Angell , is the third in the Richmond Rogues series.

Book Description
When the captain of the Richmond Rogues starts dating his former runaway bride, he knows this time their relationship will be a home run


Shadow Fall, by Erin Kellison

Book Description
Custo Santovari is a fallen hero, a man who sacrificed himself for his best friend, an angel who's earned himself a well-deserved place in Heaven. But he risks it all to rescue a woman from soul-sucking wraiths.


Penelope & Prince Charming, by Jennifer Ashley

Book Description
THE PLAYBOY PRINCE His blue eyes beguiled. His muscular form could have satisfied any fantasy. He had a delicious foreign accent—and to top it off, he was royalty! What woman would dare refuse the most sought-after lover in Europe? Miss Twice-a-Jilt Penelope Trask, that’s who. And, unfortunately for Damien, marrying Penelope was only way to inherit his kingdom. Good thing this enchantingly infuriating woman didn’t seem completely immune to his many charms. The passionate way she returned his kisses told Damien he wasn’t the only one head over heels. But wooing was difficult amid assassination attempts, wild magic, and desire so strong it threatened to overwhelm him every time they touched. Why had no one mentioned the road to happily-ever-after was so difficult?


Marked, by Elisabeth Naughton

Book Description
As unrest in the Underworld threatens, seven warriors descended from the greatest heroes in all of Ancient Greece may just be mankind's last hope.

THERON - Dark haired, duty bound and deceptively deadly. He's the leader of the Argonauts, an elite group of guardians that defends the immortal realm from threats of the Underworld.

From the moment he walked into the club, Casey knew this guy was different. Men like that just didn't exist in real life--silky shoulder-length hair, chest impossibly broad, and a predatory manner that just screamed dark and dangerous. He was looking for something. Her.

She was the one. She had the mark. Casey had to die so his kind could live, and it was Theron's duty to bring her in. But even as a 200-year-old descendent of Hercules, he wasn't strong enough to resist the pull in her fathomless eyes, to tear himself away from the heat of her body.

As war with the Underworld nears, someone will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

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UK Kindle free science books

All seem to have same wrong cover though.

CK-12 21st Century Physics: A Compilation of Contemporary and Emerging Technologies
The 21st Century Physics FlexBook is a collaborative effort of the Secretaries of Education and Technology and the Department of Education that seeks to elevate the quality of physics instruction across the Commonwealth of Virginia.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-21st-C...=discounter-21

CK-12 Advanced Probability and Statistics
CK-12 Foundation-s Probability and Statistics (Advanced Placement) FlexBook introduces students to basic topics in statistics and probability but finishes with the rigorous topics an advanced placement course requires.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-Advanc...=discounter-21

CK-12 Algebra I
CK-12 Foundation's Algebra FlexBook is an introduction to algebraic concepts for the high school student. Topics include: Equations & Functions, Real Numbers, Equations of Lines, Solving Systems of Equations & Quadratic Equations.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-Algebr...=discounter-21

CK-12 Biology I - Honors
CK-12 Biology I is a textbook for high school students covering cell biology, genetics, evolution, ecology, and physiology.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-Biolog...=discounter-21

CK-12 Calculus
CK-12 Foundation-s Single Variable Calculus FlexBook introduces high school students to the topics covered in the Calculus AB course. Topics include: Limits, Derivatives, and Integration.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-Calcul...=discounter-21


CK-12 Chemistry
CK-12 Chemistry covers Matter, Atomic Structure; The Elements and Their Properties; Stoichiometry; Chemical Kinetics; Physical States of Matter; Thermodynamics; Nuclear Chemistry; and Organic Chemistry.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-Chemis...=discounter-21

CK-12 Earth Science
CK-12 Earth Science covers the study of Earth - its minerals and energy resources, processes inside and on its surface, its past, water, weather and climate, the environment and human actions, and astronomy.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-Earth-...=discounter-21

CK-12 Engineering: An Introduction for High School
Introduces engineering techniques and practices to high school students. This book is designed for a broad range of student abilities and does not require significant math or science prerequisites.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-Engine...=discounter-21

CK-12 Geometry
CK-12 Foundation's Geometry FlexBook is a clear presentation of the essentials of geometry for the high school student. Topics include: Proof, Congruent Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Similarity, Perimeter & Area, Volume, and Transformations.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-Geomet...=discounter-21

CK-12 People's Physics Book Version 2
The People's Physics Book is intended to be used as one small part of a multifaceted strategy to teach physics conceptually and mathematically.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-People...=discounter-21

CK-12 Trigonometry
CK-12 Foundation-s Trigonometry FlexBook is an introduction to trigonometry for the high school student. Topics include: Trigonometric Identities & Equations, Circular Functions, and Polar Equations & Complex Numbers.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CK-12-Trigon...=discounter-21

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The Devil At My Doorstep, by David Bego

Book Description
A targeted family business owner dedicated to protecting his employees survives full-scale war with the powerful and politically connected Service Employees International Union and its big labor boss, Andy Stern.

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Two freebies from MobileReference:

Acupressure Guide For Relieving Hangovers

Book Description
A hangover is the sum of unpleasant physical effects following heavy consumption of alcohol or the use of other drugs. The most common reported characteristics of a hangover are feelings of extreme thirst (dehydration), feelings of being more tired than usual, nausea and headaches. A good hangover cure should replace essential nutrients lost by the body while counteracting the influence of residual poisons: drink a large amount of water, preferably sports drink such as Powerade or Gatorade, eat mineral-rich foods, like pickles or canned fish.

Acupressure is an effective way to relieve painful sensation associated with hangover. Sit comfortably or lie down, close your eyes and breath deeply when massaging the active points.

The free Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements (Mendeleev's Table) appears to be a limited version and promises to add "Melting & boiling points, Density, Electronegativity, ... affinity, and more" in the "full version", but I don't see a full version available in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Free Periodic Table in the DEMO Version. Melting & boiling points, Density, Electronegativity, Electron affinity, and much more in the Full version. Navigate from TOC or search for words or phrases.

Features

* Formatted for a small screen
* Atomic numbers, symbols & weights
* Chemical symbols and more...
* Easy to navigate.
* Search for the words or phrases
* Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page
* Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.
* Use your down time to prepare for an exam.
* Always have the guide available for a quick reference.

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Soul Identity, by Dennis Batchelder, has been featured at various bargain prices over the last year-and-a-half and was recently free in the Amazon UK store. Today, it's free for those in the US Kindle store (beating the penny that I paid for my copy last year).

Book Description
You can't take it with you...but what if you could? Most people believe their souls outlive their bodies. Most people would find an organization that tracks their souls into the future and passes on their banked money and memories compelling. Scott Waverly isn't like most people. He spends his days finding and fixing computer security holes. And Scott is skeptical of his new client's claim that they have been calculating and tracking soul identities for almost twenty-six hundred years. Are they running a freaky cult? Or a sophisticated con job? Scott needs to save Soul Identity from an insider attack. Along the way, he discovers the importance of the bridges connecting people's lives.

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For those new to Kindle or who missed it the first time, you can once again purchase and download the game Every Word in the Kindle store. For those who already have this game, the one-click button reads Update Available and you can select which of your compatible Kindles to send it to right on the product page, rather than having to go to Manage My Kindle to do so. A new content warning has appeared that there may be words inappropriate for children (just as in any dictionary) and it's been missing from the store long enough that there must have been a team going thru every single word in the dictionary to block anything that might be considered remotely offensive to any particular category of adults (although I suspect that task will never be done). If you read the reviews, you'll find a number of one-star reviews given specifically due to the censorship being applied (although the original no doubt also had some words blocked itself, despite the title implying that every word in the dictionary must be used).

For those who don't have it, this is a fun game (and guaranteed time filler), while those who do will need to decide if they want to update their existing Kindle (for Kindles added to the account, you could still download the old version if it were in your archives, up to today, but may get the new version for future downloads). Unless you play a lot, the chances of running into the expunged words are no doubt fairly small, in any case. My biggest problem with the game is trying to figure out all the extremely obscure (and short) words that it uses.

If you like word scrambles then Every Word is the game for you. Test your vocabulary as you try to find as many words from the scrambled letters in this fun and fast-paced word game.

Here's how it works. You are given six or seven scrambled letters with the goal of finding as many words as you can. You score points by filling out the words in each empty spot on the board using only the letters that appear at the top of the game board. Keep at it until time runs out or until you fill up the board. The more words you make, the higher your score!

Your score is comprised of two components: first make a lot of words, second try to make the longest word possible in each scramble. The best way to increase your score is to do both, but it's a huge bonus to find the longest word possible. Why? Because when you do, you earn the right to play a completely new level with a brand new set of letters. As long as you keep finding the longest word, you can move on to a new level with a new jumble of letters and push your score higher and higher.

Please note: Every Word may contain content inappropriate for children.

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From Dust and Ashes: A Story of Liberation by Tricia Goyer

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It is 1945 and a group of American soldiers liberate a Nazi concentration camp. Helene is the abandoned wife of an SS guard who has fled to avoid arrest. Overcome by guilt, she begins to help meet the needs of survivors. Throughout the process, she finds her own liberation - from spiritual bondage, sin, and guilt. Readers will be intrigued and touched by this fascinating story of love, faithfulness, and courage amidst one of the darkest chapters of mankind's history.

NO LONGER FREE -> Dual Citizens: Worship and Life Between the Already and the Not Yet by Jason J. Stellman

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The saints of old acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth (Hebrews 11:13b). This is no less true for Christians today; as Paul writes, "Our citizenship is in heaven" (Philippians 3:20a). But though we are on the road to that homeland, we are not there yet.

It is from this understanding of Christians as pilgrims wayfaring strangers on the road to their true home but living in the meantime in a foreign land that Rev. Jason J. Stellman has written Dual Citizens: Worship and Life between the Already and the Not Yet.

Stellman wrestles with the implications of the Christian's dual citizenship in the kingdom of God and the kingdom of man, showing that the great challenge for believers today is maintaining their distinctiveness as redeemed people. Believers are free to participate in culture (though the Bible guides the way they participate), but they must not so immerse themselves in it that they obscure their true identities.

Dual Citizens is a call for believers to see the present from the standpoint of the future, for doing so will enable them to see their lives, with all their trials and triumphs, as part of God's great unfolding story.