FREE/BARGAIN — Non-Fiction

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber is $4 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Now it's £1 in the UK, as an example of how UK deals are cheaper than US deals.

[Martinoptic]

University of Chicago press are offering Lions in the Balance by Craig Packer as their free monthly deal.

[salty-horse]

Link: https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

But I can't get through their email confirmation process to download the (I assume) ACSM file.

Update: Choosing "Adobe DRM" instead of "Readium LCP" bypasses the issue.

[Martinoptic]

@salty-horse thank you for posting the link.

[Martinoptic]

University of Chicago Press are offering The Political Orchestra as their free book this month.

The Political Orchestra

The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich.

[Section8]

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson is $1.99: Amazon, Kobo

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.

In a time when our political and cultural views feel more polarized than ever, Tyson provides a much-needed antidote to so much of what divides us, while making a passionate case for the twin chariots of enlightenment—a cosmic perspective and the rationality of science.

After thinking deeply about how science sees the world and about Earth as a planet, the human brain has the capacity to reset and recalibrates life’s priorities, shaping the actions we might take in response. No outlook on culture, society, or civilization remains untouched.

With crystalline prose, Starry Messenger walks us through the scientific palette that sees and paints the world differently. From insights on resolving global conflict to reminders of how precious it is to be alive, Tyson reveals, with warmth and eloquence, an array of brilliant and beautiful truths that apply to us all, informed and enlightened by knowledge of our place in the universe.

[Martinoptic]

University of Chicago Press are offering
The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siècle as their free ebook of the month.

[Cactus Chef]

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

National Book Award Finalist: "This man's ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century."— Columbus Dispatch

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future.

"Don't be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor."— The New York Times

"When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis."—John Updike, The New Yorker

"He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior."— American Journal of Psychiatry

[Quoth]

It's fiction, because the historical record is much older than 3,000 years.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by Quoth

It's fiction, because the historical record is much older than 3,000 years.

I don't think historically we've put works of scholarship into the "Fiction" thread simply because you disagree with the scholarship's conclusions.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I don't think historically we've put works of scholarship into the "Fiction" thread simply because you disagree with the scholarship's conclusions.

What about "Chariot of the Gods" if it was free or 99c?

I understand what you are saying and I guess it goes on what the book is marketed as rather than an opinion or the actual content.

Sorry!

[issybird]

A Search for Solitude, the third volume in Thomas Merton’s journals, is $1.99. The other six books in the series are currently either $9.99 or $14.99.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000U913PC