FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2014

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Free from the small press start-up republisher via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Classical Greek Reader by Kenneth J. Atchity, an accessible scholarly introduction to the less well-known Ancient Greek texts, originally out from Henry Holt & Company in 1996 and picked up by Oxford University Press in 1998.

Are they in Greek ?

[ATDrake]

^ No, the actual texts are in translation.

If you want the originals, the Perseus site at Tufts University is pretty good for those, and they're even hooked up to a dictionary look-up for any words you might have difficulty with.

[Lynx-lynx]

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day:

The Big Fat Surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet
Nina Teicholz
$2.39

blurb:

For the past 60 years, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat. But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem? What if the very foods we’ve been denying ourselves — the creamy cheeses, the sizzling steaks — are the key to reversing the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?

In this captivating, vibrant, and convincing narrative, based on a nine-yearlong investigation, Teicholz shows how the misinformation about saturated fats took hold in the scientific community and the public imagination, and how recent findings have overturned these beliefs. She explains why the Mediterranean diet is not the healthiest, and how we might be replacing trans fats with something even worse.

With eye-opening scientific rigour, The Big Fat Surprise makes the groundbreaking claim that more, not less, dietary fat — including saturated fat — is what leads to better health and wellness. Science shows that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades, and that we can now, guiltfree, welcome these delicious foods back into our lives.

Amazon US $2.10
Not on special Amazon UK or CA

Not on special at Kobo US - and beware because the 30 minute summary of this book is $2.99. It's also called The Big Fat Surprise, with 30 Minute Summary written on the bottom.

Edit
My library has the ebook, so yours may too.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day:

The Big Fat Surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet
Nina Teicholz
$2.39
<snip>

Let me know if you find a book that says that milk chocolate, french fries, and sugary soda (pop) drinks belong in a healthy diet. I'd like to buy that one. hahah

Wow! That book certainly goes against everything that I've heard. Now, just who do you believe??? Do you believe the weight of the majority of scholarship on the matter, or do you accept the very minor opinion of this author? I strongly tend to follow the majority opinion on scientific questions. Would reading just this one book put the issue to rest in my mind? I don't have the time to research all of the different positions. Who can I rely on to have/tell the truth on the matter?

As far as the Mediterranean diet is concerned, a friend of mine recently was advised by his doctor to go on the diet, based on the results of some blood work. He has already been slowly changing over the way that he eats to this diet entails. Now I wonder if he's doing the wrong thing.

Anyway, thanks Lynx-lynx for your post of the book.

[GtrsRGr8]

This is a great book; at least Somme people think so.

The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front. By Peter Hart. Rated 4 stars from 80 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $17.95; digital list price $17.95; Kindle price now $1.99. Pegasus, publisher. 386 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Somme-Darkest-...+Western+Front. This ebook is $1.99 at Kobo, also, and discountable: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...-western-front.

Book Description (from Amazon)
One of the bloodiest battles in world history—a military tragedy that would come to define a generation.

On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the “Big Push” that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between British, French, and German forces. What resulted was one of the greatest single human catastrophes in twentieth century warfare. Scrambling out of trenches in the face of German machine guns and artillery fire, the Allied Powers lost over twenty thousand soldiers that first day. This “battle” would drag on for another four bloody months, resulting in over one million causalities among the three powers.

As the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, Peter Hart has brought to light new material never before seen or heard. The Somme is an unparalleled evocation of World War I’s iconic contest—the definitive account of one of the major tragedies of the twentieth century.

[shootist]

Also on Kobo

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

This is a great book; at least Somme people think so.

The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front. By Peter Hart. Rated 4 stars from 80 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $17.95; digital list price $17.95; Kindle price now $1.99. Pegasus, publisher. 386 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Somme-Darkest-...+Western+Front. This ebook is $1.99 at Kobo, also, and discountable: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...-western-front.

Book Description (from Amazon)
One of the bloodiest battles in world history—a military tragedy that would come to define a generation.

On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the “Big Push” that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between British, French, and German forces. What resulted was one of the greatest single human catastrophes in twentieth century warfare. Scrambling out of trenches in the face of German machine guns and artillery fire, the Allied Powers lost over twenty thousand soldiers that first day. This “battle” would drag on for another four bloody months, resulting in over one million causalities among the three powers.

As the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, Peter Hart has brought to light new material never before seen or heard. The Somme is an unparalleled evocation of World War I’s iconic contest—the definitive account of one of the major tragedies of the twentieth century.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

The History of the Crusades Volume 2 by Joseph-Francois Michaud

The History of the Crusades Volume 3 by Joseph-Francois Michaud

The Fall of Constantinople, Being the Story of the Fourth Crusade by Edwin Pears

Not free (£0.61) The History of the Crusades Volume 1 by Joseph-Francois Michaud

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GOGVVF2/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00GOGVVF2/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00GOGVVF2/

A History of Persia Volume: All Volumes by P.M. Sykes

The Ancient History of the Near East from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Salamis by H.R. Hall

Great Captains: Alexander A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus by Theodore Ayrault Dodge

Hellenic History by George Willis Botsford

Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic by J.L. Strachan-Davidson

Life and Writings of Sir Thomas More by Rev. T.E. Bridgett

The Eve of the Reformation by Abbot Gasquet

History of Gustavus Adolphus (Great Captain and King of Sweden) by John L. Stevens

Robespierre and the French Revolution by Charles Warwick

The Ancient Fragments Containing What Remains of the Writings of Sanchoniatho, Berossus, Abydenus, Megasthenes, and Manetho

The Ancient Fragments Containing What Remains of the Writings of Sanchoniatho, Berossus, Abydenus, Megasthenes, and Manetho, also the Hermetic Creed, the Old Chronicle, the Laterculus of Eratosthenes, the Tyrian Annals, the Oracles of Zoroaster, and the Periplus of Hanno is a collection of translated surviving fragments from authors of antiquity.

Wow! Some good shit there Maynard! I couldn't find the one on the divorce of Henry VIII, but I was kind of going into sensory overload

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Let me know if you find a book that says that milk chocolate, french fries, and sugary soda (pop) drinks belong in a healthy diet. I'd like to buy that one. hahah

Wow! That book certainly goes against everything that I've heard. Now, just who do you believe??? Do you believe the weight of the majority of scholarship on the matter, or do you accept the very minor opinion of this author? I strongly tend to follow the majority opinion on scientific questions. Would reading just this one book put the issue to rest in my mind? I don't have the time to research all of the different positions. Who can I rely on to have/tell the truth on the matter?

As far as the Mediterranean diet is concerned, a friend of mine recently was advised by his doctor to go on the diet, based on the results of some blood work. He has already been slowly changing over the way that he eats to this diet entails. Now I wonder if he's doing the wrong thing.

Anyway, thanks Lynx-lynx for your post of the book.

I'm in agreement with that!

[Little.Egret]

Seasonal book

The Battle of Trafalgar by Geoffrey Bennett

In this masterly history, Geoffrey Bennett sets the battle in the context of the world-wide struggle of Napoleon, describes the ships, their crews and the tactics of the action.

Captain Geoffrey Bennett RN (1909-1983) served in the Royal Navy from 1923 until 1958, during which time he was for three years Naval Attache in Moscow. He is the author of several distinguished books on the history of naval warfare, including `The Battle of Jutland', `Coronel and the Falklands' and `Naval Battles of the First World War'.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O2Y2FW6/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00O2Y2FW6/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00O2Y2FW6/


Siege: Malta 1940-1943 by Ernle Bradford

'A gripping story' - The Economist.

Ernle Bradford was born in Norfolk in 1922 and joined the Royal Navy at eighteen. He served with distinction throughout the Second World War. After the war he based himself in Malta, sailing the Mediterranean in a number of small boats and writing prolifically about its history. Among his other books are The Great Siege: Malta 1565, Ulysses Found, Mediterranean: Portrait of a Sea, Cleopatra, Hannibal, The Shield and the Sword and Christopher Columbus. He died in 1986

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DBXRAMY/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DBXRAMY/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00DBXRAMY/

[Little.Egret]

Napoleon in Love by R F Delderfield

From penniless artilleryman to the height of his power to his exile on St Helena, R F Delderfield explores the women who accompanied Napoleon's rise and fall.

'Napoleon in Love' is the fascinating story of the personal life of one of Europe's most charismatic historical figures.

"It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well" - Books and Bookmen

Ronald Frederick Delderfield (12 February 1912 - 24 June 1972) was an English novelist and dramatist, some of whose works have been adapted for television.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00NWC1YM6/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00NWC1YM6/

[GtrsRGr8]

Have you noticed what a high percentage of posts on this thread are on the war/military subject or a related topic? I just offer that as an observation, I have no analysis to share.

Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway. By Walter Lord. Rated 4 1/2 stars from 80 reviews at the present moment. Digital list price $14.99; Kindle price now $1.99. Open Road Media, publisher. 306 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Incredible-Vic...ttle+of+Midway.

Book Description
Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War II

On the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. They had fewer ships, slower fighters, and almost no battle experience. But because their codebreakers knew what was coming, the American navy was able to prepare an ambush of its own.

Over two days of savage battle, American sailors and pilots broke the spine of the Japanese war machine. The United States prevailed against momentous odds; never again did Japan advance. In stunning detail, Walter Lord tells the story of one of the greatest upsets in naval history.

[Skydog]

An excellent account by Mitchell Zuckoff. One does not need to be an aviation or military enthusiast to enjoy this incredible and true story.

Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2011: Near the end of World War II, a plane carrying 24 members of the United States military, including nine Women’s Army Corps (WAC) members, crashed into the New Guinea jungle during a sightseeing excursion. 21 men and women were killed. The three survivors--a beautiful WAC, a young lieutenant who lost his twin brother in the crash, and a severely injured sergeant--were stranded deep in a jungle valley notorious for its cannibalistic tribes. They had no food, little water, and no way to contact their military base. The story of their survival and the stunning efforts undertaken to save them are the crux of*Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff’s remarkable and inspiring narrative. Faced with the potential brutality of the Dani tribe, known throughout the valley for its violence, the trio’s lives were dependent on an unprecedented rescue mission--a dedicated group of paratroopers jumped into the jungle to provide aid and medical care, consequently leaving the survivors and paratroopers alike trapped on the jungle floor. A perilous rescue by plane became their only possible route to freedom. A riveting story of deliverance under the most unlikely circumstances,*Lost in Shangri-La*deserves its place among the great survival stories of World War II. --Lynette Mong

Free on Amazon (U.S.):

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Shangri--...rs+in+benghazi

[KyBunnies]

Originally Posted by Skydog

An excellent account by Mitchell Zuckoff. One does not need to be an aviation or military enthusiast to enjoy this incredible and true story.

Free on Amazon (U.S.):

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Shangri--...rs+in+benghazi

This was an incredible book. Wonderful from the beginning to the end.

[Lynx-lynx]

New Guinea was an Australian theatre of war, and it was a known fact at the time that some of the tribes were still headhunters. Overall though we couldn't have did what we did, and survived in the numbers that we survived without the support of the 'fuzzy wuzzy angels' (The native men).

The Japanese were also very wary of the PNG people and called them the 'grey ghosts' because of their abilities to blend in and take very swift warrior actions.

(No, I haven't read the book - but the Kokoda Trail, and other battle grounds of PNG, are etched in the historical mind of every Australian because of the bravery and endurance of all who served.)

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Have you noticed what a high percentage of posts on this thread are on the war/military subject or a related topic? I just offer that as an observation, I have no analysis to share.
[...]

Conflict anyway (I have a thread on another board "Military History Freebies" hence at least some of my posts)

No war here

The Brocksopps: The Barnes Papers 1772-1865 by Lesley Phillips

Unable to find a place to live where she could be happy, in the 1830s Mary Brocksopp travelled to Bath and Cheltenham, with a fortune supplied by the enterprise of her ancestors, especially that of the father she never knew, ironmaster John Brocksopp of Grasshill.
This is the story of the last of the Brocksopps of Hasland, told through their letters and business papers.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0083M0EWQ/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0083M0EWQ/