Free and Bargain Non-Fiction in April 2014

[GtrsRGr8]

Good evening, Mobilereaders.

I got an email earlier today from this website called Noisetrade. In today's email they are offering a free copy of Dave Ramsey's book Complete Guide to Money: The Handbook of Financial Peace University.

If you’re looking for practical information to answer all your “How?” “What?” and “Why?” questions about money, this book is for you. In over 300 pages, Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money covers the A to Z of Dave’s money teaching, including how to budget, save, dump debt, and invest. You’ll also learn all about insurance, mortgage options, marketing, bargain hunting and the most important element of all—giving. This is also the handbook for Dave's 9-week class, Financial Peace University.

This book is apparently not available from Amazon in anything other than a hardcover edition (http://www.amazon.com/Dave-Ramseys-C...guide+to+money), priced at $18.22. It is rated there at 4 1/2 stars out of 5 from 58 reviews at this moment.

Here's the Web address for the free book: http://books.noisetrade.com/ramsey/c...guide-to-money.
You will note that you will have the option to download the book in pdf, epub, or mobi. To receive the book, you will need to give them your name and an email address; they will send you a "download code." Although you can get the book for free without any hassle, they do suggest a $7 tip; all tips will be donated to a charity called "Young Life."

Even if you do or don't decide to tip to Young Life, feel free to send me any monetary tips for letting you know about this book which will end up saving you a lot of money. haha

[GtrsRGr8]

What Happy Kids Know: How Happy Girls and Boys Think. By Paul Ducham. Print List Price $5.99. Digital List Price $0.99. Kindle Price $0.00. Five stars out of 5 from 3 reviews at this moment. http://www.amazon.com/WHAT-HAPPY-KID...APPY+KIDS+KNOW.

There are so many books available for adults on the subject of finding happiness. The most useful of them approach the subject with research-based cognitive psychology and help their readers retrain the way they think. To be more objective. More optimistic. Happier.

But how many years of unhappiness can be avoided for anyone who learns these psychological concepts at a younger age, before they need them. What if you could help someone avoid losing the ability to be happy in the first place?

What Happy Kids Know is the first book on the subject of happiness written specifically for young readers. What Happy Kids Know uses well-established principles of cognitive psychology to provide step-by-step instructions and examples to help young minds find balance, perspective, and happiness to last them a lifetime.

[GtrsRGr8]

I much prefer free books, but I guess you have to pay something sometimes. Life is so unfair!

Chronicles: Volume One: 1. By Bob Dylan. Print List Price $16.00. Kindle Price $2.99. Four and 1/2 stars out of 5 from 381 reviews at the present moment. http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-One...icles+volume+1.

Book Description:
"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."

So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities -- smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences. Dylan's voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

[GtrsRGr8]

Posting books to this forum can become addictive. But I can quit anytime I want to. Really. I can.

Writing Simple User Defined Functions in C++. by Somnath PaulChoudhury. Digital List Price $27.00. Kindle Price $0.00. http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Simple...ons+in+c%2B%2B.

The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript. By Axel Rauschmayer. Kindle Price $0.00. http://www.amazon.com/Past-Present-F...+of+javascript.

JavaScript Principles: A Brief Introduction. By Greg Sidelniknov. Digital List Price $4.75. Kindle Price $0.00. http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Pri...f+introduction.

Java 8 Preview Sampler. By Herbert Schildt, et al. Kindle Price $0.00. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...view%20Sampler.

The Problem with Native JavaScript APIs. By Nicholas C. Zakas. Kindle Price $0.00. http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Native...avaScript+APIs.

All of these books were free at the time of this posting but, as you know, prices can change at any time. Please double check the prices before purchasing.

[geekaren]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Posting books to this forum can become addictive. But I can quit anytime I want to. Really. I can.

Thanks for the links you've been posting! I find it more difficult to find good free/discounted nonfiction books than fiction, and really appreciate your posts.

[rollei]

Agree, some good books in this thread.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by geekaren

Thanks for the links you've been posting! I find it more difficult to find good free/discounted nonfiction books than fiction, and really appreciate your posts.

Originally Posted by rollei

Agree, some good books in this thread.

Thanks geekaren and rollei. It's nice to get feedback. Otherwise I wonder if people find the posts helpful.

[GtrsRGr8]

Modern Love: The Grownup's Guide to Relationships & Online Dating (Full Version). By Cija Black. Print List Price $39.95; Digital List Price $9.99. Kindle Price $0.00. Five stars out of 5 from 30 reviews at this moment. http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Love-Gr...ern+love+black.

Tired of making the same relationships mistakes? Take charge of your love life and attract the quality partner you’re looking for. Cija Black is THE love expert to help you dump that baggage and invite love in.

MODERN LOVE is the book for anyone unsure of where to start in the modern dating world. This book will help you understand the assumptions and expectation you have about relationships and reshape them into a realistic set of goals and healthy boundaries that will help you find the love you want and deserve. It is packed full of tips, advice and insights designed to help you create a clear path to love.

[GA Russell]

Emily Post - Etiquette (original edition) - free

http://www.amazon.com/Etiquette-Emil...ords=etiquette

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Emily Post - Etiquette (original edition) - free

http://www.amazon.com/Etiquette-Emil...dp/B0082PYQJQ/

Only available in the US Kindle store, d 1960 so may be in copyright elsewhere

Etiquette by Emily Post
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14314

The Title Market by Emily Post (novel)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17680

[Little.Egret]

Here's 73 freebie history books from Pergamum

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...isher=pergamum
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...isher=Pergamum

and so on for other amazons



eg The Conquest of Florida under Hernando de Soto by Theodore Irving

The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by P.C. Headley

The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington by G.R. Gleig

[Little.Egret]

Big day for history

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...sher=Heraklion
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...sher=Heraklion

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=Waxkeep
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...lisher=Waxkeep

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=Acheron
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...lisher=Acheron

[Brianrh]

Thanks for the links Little.Egret, I found some little gems in there.

[GtrsRGr8]

This will appeal to a limited number of Mobilereaders, I know, because of its highly technical nature. I'm posting it in part because it has a list price of $43 but is free today. Me? I got the book for those times when I have trouble falling asleep at night . . . .

Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP MySQL--Connecting MySql Database to Webpages. By Somnath PaulChoudhury. Not rated yet at Amazon. Digital List Price $43.00; Kindle Price $0.00. http://www.amazon.com/Database-Drive...Driven+Website.

Connecting a database to a webpage leads to interactive participation and not as static information being displayed. MySQL database can store records in tables which can be accessed (both updated and retrieved) through webpage forms.

This book will be useful for anyone who wants to understand how to connect a MySQL database to a web page. It is also intended for someone, who has ever wondered, “How a webpage displays the result of a candidate given her unique_id as input”? As in every remote school, colleges results are published on their respective notice boards, the same can be done in their website and viewed by all. Also one can prepare feedback forms that can be filled up online. Such data can be either used to update a table or make any query…. The possibilities are many.

[koland]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

This will appeal to a limited number of Mobilereaders, I know, because of its highly technical nature. I'm posting it in part because it has a list price of $43 but is free today. Me? I got the book for those times when I have trouble falling asleep at night . . . .

sadly, no longer free. Will have to resort to warm milk...