FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2014

[GtrsRGr8]

One Vote, Dr. Ben Carson's newest book, is available free for 24 hours, at http://www.hannity.com. I don't know for sure what the parameters of the 24-hour period are, but I suspect that it is 12 midnight last night to 12 midnight tonight (of some U.S. time zone).

Unfortunately, this is a BookShout! book and so requires their app.

My posting of this book does not necessarily mean that I endorse the political or other views of Dr. Carson. I am just putting the information "out there" to inform you of its free availability.

[jgaiser]

at http://www.hannity.com

Ahh... Nope...

[silverraven]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

One Vote, Dr. Ben Carson's newest book, is available free for 24 hours, at http://www.hannity.com. I don't know for sure what the parameters of the 24-hour period are, but I suspect that it is 12 midnight last night to 12 midnight tonight (of some U.S. time zone).

Unfortunately, this is a BookShout! book and so requires their app.

My posting of this book does not necessarily mean that I endorse the political or other views of Dr. Carson. I am just putting the information "out there" to inform you of its free availability.

Thank you very much!
S

[AnemicOak]

A couple of Endeavour Press freebies available at the various Amazon stores...

The Spencer Family by Charles Spencer

Tracing the history of the Spencers from their beginnings as medieval sheep farmers, through centuries of service to country and crown to their high public profile following the marriage of Diana Spencer to the Prince of Wales, Charles, Ninth Earl Spencer, has written a superb and engaging work of family history.

Hugely enriched by his unique access to private papers and family memories, it details the lives of such fascinating figures as the romantic, chivalrous Henry Spencer, First Earl of Sunderland; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, scandalizer and enchantress of eighteenth century high-society; and George Spencer, who, as Father Ignatius, rejected the privileges of his birth to live a life of poverty and chastity as a mendicant monk.

‘A labour of love and a very successful one… The Spencers have been leading actors on the British stage for more than 300 years. Look at every reign from James I onwards and you will find a Spencer in the thick of things. .. The women of the family have their own histories which are every bit as fascinating.’ - Amanda Foreman, Mail on Sunday

'Charles Spencer is a very good writer… a splendidly enjoyable, elegantly written narrative in which the author brings all his characters to life in a manner that is both at once astute and vivid.' - Literary Review

'A warm, entertaining and appropriately personal account of one of the most successful families England has produced.' -Daily Mail

'A history of his family which contrives to be always entertaining without descending to the trivial … he writes well, with wit and panache.' - Daily Telegraph

Charles Spencer was educated at Eton College and obtained his degree in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of five books, including the Sunday Times bestseller ‘Blenheim: The Battle for Europe’ (shortlisted for History Book of the Year, National Book Awards), 'Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I' and ‘Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier’.

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

The Autobiography of the British Soldier: From Agincourt to Basra, in His Own Words by John Lewis-Stempel

From Agincourt to Waterloo, from Dunkirk to the Gulf War, and in every conflict in between, one man has served in all these battles. This is the story of Britain at war from the perspective of that man.

It is the autobiography of the British soldier.

In a comprehensive series of first-hand accounts, this anthology offers a huge variety of views on the experience of war: from a letter written by Oliver Cromwell to the Speaker of Parliament, to a First World War's soldier's last letter home to his son, to a powerful description of what it was like to be on the Sir Galahad when it was hit by a missile in the Falklands conflict of the 1980s, right up to life as a soldier on the ground in Basra, Iraq.

Winner of impossible victories, cannon fodder for the Western Front, thin khaki line against Hitler - wherever and whenever, the British soldier has done his duty - and more, this is his heroic story.

It includes first hand accounts from George Orwell, Winston Churchill, Vera Brittain, Siegfiried Sassoon and Corporal Chris Ryan to name but a few.

It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the British Army.

Praise for The Autobiography of the British Soldier:

'[A] thoughtful compilation... One is struck by the breadth of suffering it covers and the sheer quantity of human blood that has been spilled on the earth... The letters "to be opened only in the event of my death" are almost unbearably moving" The Guardian

'Five stars' The Sunday Express

John Lewis-Stempel is a writer predominantly known for his books on military and natural history. He lives in Herefordshire, on the very edge of England before it runs into Wales, and within a stone's throw (with a decent gust of wind) from where his family were farming in the 1300s. His many books include Fatherhood: The Anthology, England: The Autobiography, The Autobiography of the British Soldier (Sunday Express '5 stars') and The Wild Life (Sunday Telegraph 'Timely and Compelling') and Foraging: The Essential Guide to Free Wild Food.

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

[Vroo]

The Centre for Eastern Studies is a think-tank based in Warsaw, Poland. They analyse the political and economic processes taking place in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Caucasus etc.

They publish many detailed studies and now a few of them are available as EPUB

• Federation without federalism. Relations between Moscow and the regions
• Ever further from Moscow. Russia's stance on Central Asia
• Greater Europe. Putin's Vision of the European (Dis)integration

[AnemicOak]

The Iron Road: The Illustrated History of Railway by Christian Wolmar - $1.99 at
Amazon US | B&N | Kobo | Google

The Iron Road is full of wondrous curiosities. Did you know that early trains in Australia were pulled by convicts, or that elephants were until recently used to shunt freight wagons in India? The world's most magnificent railway station, the Chhatrapati Shivaji terminal in Mumbai, took 10 years to build. The longest possible continuous railway journey in the world is the 10,600 miles between Algeciras in Spain and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. And the idea that Mussolini made the trains run on time is a myth.

No invention, not even the Internet, has ever transformed the way the world traveled, worked, thought, fought, ate, drank, made love--you name it--the way the train did.

From the historic moment in September 1830 when the first train chuffed between Liverpool and Manchester, UK, there was a race to lay down tracks across the planet. Adventurers, visionaries, and rogues were attracted to grandiose projects linking distant corners of the globe in a quest for wealth, power, and national unity. The achievements were heroic: India's railway network was the biggest public works project since the building of the pyramids. But the human costs were huge. In the 1850s, six thousand workers died during the construction of the Panama railway, the world's first transcontinental line--120 for each mile of railroad. The cadavers were pickled and sold to medical schools around the world to defray costs. But for the shareholders, there were fortunes to be made, and at their peak, the railroads represented luxury almost beyond belief.

The Iron Road tells of great invention, grand vision, mind-boggling engineering, military strategy, colonial ambition, groundbreaking trade changes, and social impact--all the ways that railroads utterly changed the world in which we live.

[LovesMacs]

The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn

$1.99 Amazon US

The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York's Knickerbocker elite to become the most prominent American political family of the twentieth century. As Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author James MacGregor Burns and acclaimed historian Susan Dunn follow the evolution of the Roosevelt political philosophy, they illuminate how Theodore's example of dynamic leadership would later inspire the careers of his distant cousin Franklin and his niece Eleanor, who together forged a progressive political legacy that reverberated throughout the world. Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt led America through some of the most turbulent times in its history. The Three Roosevelts takes readers on an exhilarating voyage through these tumultuous decades of our nation's past, and these momentous events are seen through the Roosevelts' eyes, their actions, and their passions. Insightful and authoritative, this is a fascinating portrait of three of America's greatest leaders, whose legacy is as controversial today as their vigorous brand of forward-looking politics was in their own lifetimes. "A remarkable example of narrative and biographical history at its best." -- Bruce Clayton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "No one has written more trenchantly about Franklin Roosevelt and American politics ... than James MacGregor Burns...." -- H. W. Brands, The Raleigh News & Observer "A detailed study.... Written with impeccable scholarship." -- Malinda Nash, Houston Chronicle

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by LovesMacs

The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn

$1.99 Amazon US

Thank you so very much. Got it at amazon.ca for $CDN 2.18
http://www.amazon.ca/Three-Roosevelt.../dp/B004I6DD0G

I have the companion book ("The Roosevelts: An Intimate History") to the recent Ken Burns series on my TBR. It will be interesting to compare them.

James MacGregor Burns won a Pulitzer for his biography of FDR, and I enjoyed reading Susan Dunn's "1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler-the Election amid the Storm" last year, so I have high expectations for this book.

[Froide]

Free online, multimedia book:

Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences
by Nancy Duarte

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Froide

Free online, multimedia book:

Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences
by Nancy Duarte

A very well-done multimedia book, on several levels. Thanks for posting it.

In case anyone is interested, the book is available for sale at Amazon, in paperback and Kindle/mobi: http://www.amazon.com/Resonate-Prese...esonate+duarte.

Does anyone know if it would be possible to "grab" or "capture" the version for which Froide gave the URL, and save it somehow? I don't see anything that would prohibit it legally, including "terms and conditions" that we would have to click on that we agree to.

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Does anyone know if it would be possible to "grab" or "capture" the version for which Froide gave the URL, and save it somehow? I don't see anything that would prohibit it legally, including "terms and conditions" that we would have to click on that we agree to.

I'm on dialup, so I haven't looked at the site (I hate dialup) but there's a Firefox add-on called "Scrapbook" that I've been using for sometime to save *webpages*. Doesn't recursively run down the site, but does a good job of a single page.

And if you're running Linux, there is the wget command that *will* recursively save a whole website. Been a while since I used it but managed to save a site about 4 or 5 deep pages.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

I'm on dialup, so I haven't looked at the site (I hate dialup) but there's a Firefox add-on called "Scrapbook" that I've been using for sometime to save *webpages*. Doesn't recursively run down the site, but does a good job of a single page.

And if you're running Linux, there is the wget command that *will* recursively save a whole website. Been a while since I used it but managed to save a site about 4 or 5 deep pages.

Thanks.

I'm not running Linux.

I might give Scrapbook a try. I'll have to install Firefox. I've used Firefox a lot in the past, but haven't installed it yet on this new laptop. Been using Chrome. I need to check and see if there are any extensions for Chrome that might do it too.

I have used PrintWhatYouLike and PrintFriendly to create pdf's from webpages. Both have worked well. But when I tried them on this site, PrintWhatYouLike didn't work at all, and PrintFriendly wasn't too friendly(ha)--I could only do one page at a time.Argghh!

[bookmarked]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks.

I'm not running Linux.

You can run wget on Windows:
Wget for Windows

Make sure you look at the options - it's really easy to goof and start pulling down an entire website (which usually considered kind of rude). More information and links to the documentation here.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by bookmarked

You can run wget on Windows:
Wget for Windows

Make sure you look at the options - it's really easy to goof and start pulling down an entire website (which usually considered kind of rude). More information and links to the documentation here.

Thanks, bookmarked.

I've checked it out some. It looks like something that I want to try.

While looking around, I found that there is also an open source program (just a Beta version now, it looks like) called WinWGet, which is a GUI for wget (http://sourceforge.net/projects/winwget/)! If it works good, that would be great. Looking over the wget documentation gave me flashbacks of old DOS command lines.(ha)

I won't write anymore about this subject on this thread. I'm sure that there is an appropriate thread for it, and I don't want to get in the moderators' doghouse.(ha) But, thanks, again.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

The Iron Road: The Illustrated History of Railway by Christian Wolmar - $1.99 at
Amazon US | B&N | Kobo | Google

Just a warning on this one. Even though Google offers an ePub it can't be downloaded. The PDF downloads, but the ePub gives an error. According to Google support the ePub is over some current file size restriction they have in their store so won't be downloadable. They refunded me.