FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2014

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Re Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II. By William Stevenson as posted above, I can't comment on that book but I have read another book on Vera Atkins:
A Life in Secrets
Sarah Helm

Alas it's not on special, nor even cheap, but as per the blurb it 'stripped . . . . . . . . .

Thanks. I was not aware of the book. But, I was not aware of the tome that I posted, until I saw it listed as a markdown.

I never even had heard of Vera Maria Rosenberg (aka Vera Atkins) before (please, no flying legumes from the peanut gallery. ha), even though I consider myself fairly well educated about the major people and events of WWII. It's interesting that Rosenberg is not nearly so well known as Bill "Wild Bill" Donovan, head of the United States' OSS (Office of Strategic Services) (the predecessor of the CIA) of the same period. Donovan no doubt had more authority, but I wonder if that is the only reason for the difference. Maybe one or both of the two books on Rosenberg would shed light on that question.

I wish that I had time to read one or both of those books. I don't. I have some spare time occasionally for listening to something, so I might have to spring for the Whispersync deal on the Stevenson (or is it Stephenson? hahahahah) book. And, that would give me the last of the four audiobooks that I need to get the $10 credit with the Audible B4G10 promotion. I notice that the Helm book does not have any audiobook counterpart at all, at least that's sold by Audible.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Re Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II. By William Stevenson as posted above, I can't comment on that book but I have read another book on Vera Atkins:
A Life in Secrets
Sarah Helm

Alas it's not on special, nor even cheap, but as per the blurb it 'stripped away Vera’s many veils and -- with unprecedented access to official and private papers, and the cooperation of Vera’s relatives -- vividly reconstructed an extraordinary life.'

If you're interested in female secret agents in WWII, you might try Susan Ottaway's A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France (published in Britain as Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne). Unfortunately not on sale, but quite fascinating.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the Kobo Coupon thread, since this is a Kobo-only offer for Canada-only for 50% off the current $14 CAD price until December 31st:

Alan Turing: The Enigma by mathematician and LGBT activist Andrew Hodges (Wikipedia), his classic 1983 biography of the groundbreaking gay mathematician/codebreaker/computer scientist/etc. (Wikipedia), updated with a new preface, and also an introduction by Douglas Hofstadter (Wikipedia) of Gödel, Escher, Bach fame.

A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.

Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer.

Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing committed suicide and one of Britain's greatest scientific minds was lost.

[itisbomb]

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
by Adam Hochschild

is $2.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Bury-Chains-Pr...ury+the+chains

Below is the blurb:
From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history -- the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. In early 1787, twelve men -- a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery -- came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another continent. Masterfully stoking public opinion, the movement's leaders pioneered a variety of techniques that have been adopted by citizens' movements ever since, from consumer boycotts to wall posters and lapel buttons to celebrity endorsements. A deft chronicle of this groundbreaking antislavery crusade and its powerful enemies, Bury the Chains gives a little-celebrated human rights watershed its due at last.

[itisbomb]

Trident K9 Warriors: My Tale from the Training Ground to the Battlefield with Elite Navy SEAL Canines
by Mike Ritland

is $2.99 at
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Trident-K9-War...nt+k9+warriors
Kobo http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...nt-k9-warriors

Below is the blurb:
As Seen on "60 Minutes"!

As a Navy SEAL during a combat deployment in Iraq, Mike Ritland saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew he’d found his true calling. Ritland started his own company training and supplying dogs for the SEAL teams, U.S. Government, and Department of Defense. He knew that fewer than 1 percent of all working dogs had what it takes to contribute to the success of our nation’s elite combat units, and began searching the globe for animals who fit this specific profile. These specialized canines had to pass rigorous selection tests before their serious training could begin.

The results were a revelation: highly trained working dogs capable of handling both detection and apprehension work in the most extreme environments and the tensest of battlefield conditions. Though fiercely aggressive and athletic, these dogs develop a close bond with the handlers they work side by side with and the other team members. Truly integrating themselves into their units, these K9 warriors are much like their human counterparts—unwavering in their devotion to duty, strong enough and tough enough to take it to the enemy through pain, injury, or fear.

For the first time ever, Trident K9 Warriors gives readers an inside look at these elite canines—who they are, how they are trained, and the extreme missions they undertake saving countless lives, asking for little in the way of reward. From detecting explosives to eliminating the bad guys, these powerful dogs are also some of the smartest and most highly skilled working animals on the planet.

[itisbomb]

Hard Choice
by Hillary Clinton

is $5 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Choices-H...s=Hard+choices

Below is the blurb:
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.

“All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. “Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.”

In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted.

Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm’s way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications, and health. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth, and LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day.

Secretary Clinton’s descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use “smart power” to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world—one in which America remains the indispensable nation.

[Smartie]

European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics are in a Mess - and How to Put Them Right
2.62 dollar

http://www.amazon.com/European-Sprin...uropean+spring

one of the best books in 2014

[GtrsRGr8]

HarperCollins Publishers has several business titles on sale for $2.99. Apparently, they must be bought directly from HarperCollins to get the lower price (Amazon, at least, is not matching the prices).

Most, if not all, of the titles are high-quality.

Here are the titles:
- Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders, by Lindsey Pollak.
- Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer, by William Knoedelseder.
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner.
- Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World, Revised edition. By Lindsey Pollak.
- How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections--In Person and Online, 25th Anniversary Edition (fully revised and updated), by Susan RoAne.
- I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: How to Ask for the Money, Snag the Promotion, and Create the Career You Deserve, by Kate White.
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Revised and Expanded Edition, by Dan Ariely.
- Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--and How It All Came Crashing Down . . ., by Ben Mezrich.
- The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught in America's Top Business Schools, 4th Edition, by Steven A. Silbiger.
- What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness, by Stanley Bing.
- Welcome to the Real World: Finding Your Place, Perfecting Your Work, and Turning Your Job into Your Dream Career, by Lauren Berger.

Now, the bad news. These ebooks can be read only with HarperCollins' proprietary reader app. Then the ebooks can be read on iPhone/iPad, Android, and Kindle Fire.

All information can be found here: http://www.harpercollins.com/weeklydeal. Be sure to note that you must use promo code BUSINESS299 to get the reduced price, when you check out.

I'd like to have several of the titles but, unfortunately, the lack of availability of the ebooks in a standard format (mobi, ePub, pdf) is a dealbreaker for me.

[Froide]

The University of Chicago Press monthly freebie for December 2014 is
Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator
by Richard Ellis
296 pages | 51 halftones, 3 line drawings | 6×9 | ©2013

E-book Free! See below (about e-books)
ISBN: 9780226922928


Cloth $26.00
ISBN: 9780226922904 Published April 2013



“Swordfish has plenty to offer, from striking facts to adventures on the high seas.… Ellis paints the picture of an enigmatic fish and delivers plenty for the reader to enjoy.”—Times Literary Supplement
Get this e-book free!

Enter your e-mail address and click "Get E-book." You will receive an e-mail confirmation with a link to download your free e-book.

[Smartie]

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

2.62 at amazon.com

both Gates and Buffet recommend it

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_i=1000677541

[crich70]

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin By Erik Larson is $1.99 at Kobo. I've read one of his other books and am currently reading another through library loan.
Kobo

[AnotherCat]

Originally Posted by Froide

The University of Chicago Press monthly freebie for December 2014 is
Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator
by Richard Ellis
296 pages | 51 halftones, 3 line drawings | 6×9 | ©2013

Can recommend this interesting and very nicely produced epub to others who are interested in fishy things. It has a lot of interesting halftone illustrations too, but those are best viewed on LCD or AMOLED displays due to E Ink displays being very poor in presenting greyscale images.

[GtrsRGr8]

Nisyros Publishers has marked down to $0/each a new group of their Kindle titles.

A different Mobilereader from I usually posts the Nisyros markdowns. Since she hasn't yet, I'm going to go ahead and post them.

Nisyros re-publishes public domain "high quality and rare titles." Although most, if not all, of the titles that they publish are available from archive.org and elsewhere, I feel that Nisyros and other publishers like them do a real service by making "cleaned up" old titles available to the public.

About half of the titles are fiction, rather than non-fiction. If the Mobileread site rules allow it and someone wants to do it, I hope that he or she will feel free to post the fiction titles to one or more appropriate fiction threads.

Here's a link to all of the titles below, with the URLs at Amazon for their individual pages: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?...qid=1417672263. That page lists all Nisyros titles at Amazon, sorted by low-to-high price. I know that there is a way to do a search at Amazon for only free titles, but I have forgotten how and don't have time to research it right now. Maybe someone else will post that link.

Eccentric Preachers, by Charles Spurgeon.
Parzival, by Wolfram von Eschenbach.
Practical Piety as Set Forth by St. Francis de Sales, by St. Francis de Sales.
Grace, by Lewis Sperry Chafer.
The Cabala: Its Influence on Judaism and Christianity, by Bernhard Pick.
Phantastes, by George MacDonald.
The Evil Eye, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy.
The History of Agathocles, by H.J.W. Tillyard.
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, by Archibald Forbes.
The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi.
The Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear.
Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri.
Cross Purposes and the Shadows, by George MacDonald.
Early Greek Philosophy, by John Burnet.
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, by Charles Perrault.
Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit.
Gutta-Percha Willie, by George MacDonald.
Mazes and Labyrinths (Illustrated), by William Henry Matthews.
Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel, by Ignatius Donnelly.
Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, by Charles Taylor.
The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, by Bliss Perry.
Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America, by Matthew Arnold.
The Diplomacy of the Great War, by Arthur Bullard.
Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse, by Various.
The Positive School of Criminology, by Enrico Ferri.
Religion and the Reign of Terro, or the Church during the French Revolution, by M. Edmond de Pressense.
St. Jane Frances de Chantal's Depositions in the Cause of the Beatification and Canonisation of St. Francis de Sales, by St. Jane Frances de Chantal.

[GtrsRGr8]

I just ran across a huge number of Kindle ebooks and booklets published by "Speedy Publishing," priced at $0/each.

The selection covers many and wide-ranging subjects. They are almost all non-fiction, however, the only exception, it seems, being children's books. And many of the ebooks are very "meaty," with hundreds of pages in each.

There are too many titles to list. The subjects, however, cover nutrition, cooking, health, foreign language, medical, children's, and personal development.

I was not familiar with this publishing company before now, but I must say that I am impressed with the quality of their products, based upon viewing some previews.

You can find all of the current freebies at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?...qid=1417681089. As with my previous post, the page referenced by the URL lists all of the publisher's titles at Amazon, sorted by low-to-high price.

I'm going to try to get on Speedy Publishing's mailing list, or at least bookmark their website, so perhaps I can get notification of their sales, in advance. Finding their sale this time was serendipitous.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Nisyros Publishers has marked down to $0/each a new group of their Kindle titles.

A different Mobilereader from I usually posts the Nisyros markdowns. Since she hasn't yet, I'm going to go ahead and post them.

Nisyros re-publishes public domain "high quality and rare titles." That page lists all Nisyros titles at Amazon, sorted by low-to-high price. I know that there is a way to do a search at Amazon for only free titles, but I have forgotten how and don't have time to research it right now. Maybe someone else will post that link.

That's
http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=Nisyros

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...lisher=Nisyros
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...lisher=Nisyros

I don't find
Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri
The Positive School of Criminology, by Enrico Ferri
published by Nisyros in the UK store but they are there as free editions