Free and bargain Non-Fiction in May 2013

[koland]

Free from FT Press (mostly repeats)

1. Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called "Don't Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A" by Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge
2. The Secrets of Economic Indicators: Hidden Clues to Future Economic Trends and Investment Opportunities by Bernard Baumohl
3. Analysis Without Paralysis: 12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions (2nd Edition) by Babette E. Bensoussan and Craig S. Fleisher
4. Hospital Operations: Principles of High Efficiency Health Care (FT Press Operations Management) by Wallace J. Hopp and William S. Lovejoy
5. How to Innovate in Marketing (Collection) (2nd Edition) (FT Press Delivers Collections) by Monique Reece, Michael Tasner, Tony Davila and Marc Epstein
6. Supply Chain Design (Collection) by Mark J. Schniederjans, Stephen B. LeGrand, Arthur V. Hill and Michael Watson

http://www.amazon.com/s/?rh=n:154606...2FT%20Press%22
(also at B&N)

[koland]

repeats from Stackpole:

• Lines of Fire: A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security by Ralph Peters
• Infantry Aces: The German Soldier in Combat in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series) by Franz Kurowski

http://www.amazon.com/s/?rh=n:154606...sher=stackpole

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by koland

Free from FT Press (mostly repeats)

1. Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called "Don't Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A" by Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge
2. The Secrets of Economic Indicators: Hidden Clues to Future Economic Trends and Investment Opportunities by Bernard Baumohl
3. Analysis Without Paralysis: 12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions (2nd Edition) by Babette E. Bensoussan and Craig S. Fleisher
4. Hospital Operations: Principles of High Efficiency Health Care (FT Press Operations Management) by Wallace J. Hopp and William S. Lovejoy
5. How to Innovate in Marketing (Collection) (2nd Edition) (FT Press Delivers Collections) by Monique Reece, Michael Tasner, Tony Davila and Marc Epstein
6. Supply Chain Design (Collection) by Mark J. Schniederjans, Stephen B. LeGrand, Arthur V. Hill and Michael Watson

http://www.amazon.com/s/?rh=n:154606...2FT%20Press%22
(also at B&N)

Oddly enough, it seems that The Secrets of Economic Indicators is not free at B&N unless there's a different EAN. I sometimes see that there's a free and a non-free version, or sometimes the printed version comes up in a search, but the NookBook is not linked to the printed one.

[koland]

Originally Posted by hwlester

Oddly enough, it seems that The Secrets of Economic Indicators is not free at B&N unless there's a different EAN. I sometimes see that there's a free and a non-free version, or sometimes the printed version comes up in a search, but the NookBook is not linked to the printed one.

Ok, I'll admit - I only checked the newly free ones at B&N.

Here are the searches to find the B&N freebies from FT Press/Pearson Education (it's all under FT Press at Amazon):

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/?sor...n+education%22

[itisbomb]

Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words by John Marciano

is being sold for $1.72 at Amazon

Edit: Oops, it is now back to $9.39 (Kindle copy). But you can buy a hardcover for $1.81

http://www.amazon.com/Anonyponymous-...=anonyponymous

An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people.

Eponymous, adj. Giving one’s name to a person, place, or thing.

Anonymous, adj. Anonymous.

Anonyponymous, adj. Anonymous and eponymous.

The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practices—such as substituting a darkened outline for a proper painted portrait. Both bequeathed their names to the language, but neither man is remembered.

In this clever and funny book, John Bemelmans Marciano illuminates the lives of these anonyponymous persons. A kind of encyclopedia of linguistic biographies, the book is arranged alphabetically, giving the stories of everyone from Abu “algorithm” Al-Khwarizmi to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Along with them you'll find the likes of Harry Shrapnel, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, and many other people whose vernacular legacies have long outlived their memory.

Accented by amusing line portraits and short etymological essays on subjects like “superhero eponyms,” Anonyponymous is both a compendium of trivia and a window into the fascinating world of etymology. Carefully curated and unfailingly witty, this book is both a fantastic gift for language lovers and a true pleasure to read.

[koland]

thread closed - see June 2013