FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2015

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by avantman42

I don't know the name "Pillsbury". I know "Doughboy" as a slang term for American infantrymen, but had no idea that it came from a brand name.

It doesn't - it long predates it. The name "doughboy" for American soldiers dates from the Mexican-American war of the 1840s, possibly from dust-covered soldiers being perceived to have an appearance resembling the local adobe (mud-brick) buildings. The "Doughboy" brand, according to Wikipedia, dates only from 1965.

[avantman42]

Then I guess what I actually didn't know was that it was also a brand name

[AnemicOak]

The Pillsbury Doughboy...

[Apache]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

The Pillsbury Doughboy...

No this is the Pillsbury Doughboy.



Apache

[issybird]

"Nothin' says lovin' like something from the oven,' which is open to more than one interpretation.

[murg]

Originally Posted by issybird

"Nothin' says lovin' like something from the oven,' which is open to more than one interpretation.

Isn't that how you get a bun in the oven?

[Little.Egret]

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[Little.Egret]

(US) Music Copyright (Intellectual Property Law Series) by LandMark publications.

THIS CASEBOOK contains a selection of 74 U. S. Court of Appeals decisions that analyze and discuss issues surrounding copyright in musical works. The selection of decisions spans from 2005 to the date of publication.


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[GtrsRGr8]

It is described as the shipwreck in the Great Lakes with the single largest loss of life from a single vessel. The event shocked the entire nation. Yet, I venture to say that very few people alive now have ever heard about it. It is the "shipwreck" (sinking) of the SS Eastland one hundred years ago this year.

It stands out to me not only because of the loss of life, but the fact that the ship was docked on the Chicago River in downtown Chicago when it happened.

I am very happy to learn of this highly rated book, published just last year by a highly respected publisher, about that event. Perhaps it will help rectify the general ignorance of people in this country about that very tragic event. Furthermore, it is a pleasure to see it marked down, at this time, a huge 92% from the digital list price.

Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America. By Michael McCarthy. Rated 4.4 stars, but from only 9 reviews at Amazon; rated 4.4, from 25 reviews at GoodReads. Print list price $25.95; digital list price $24.99; Kindle price now $1.99. Lyons Press, publisher. 320 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Ashes-Under-Wa...+Shook+America.

Book Description
It was the summer that broke America's heart.

In 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified to see the SS Eastland, a massive Lake Michigan steamship, flip over while tied to its dock. More than eight hundred poor factory workers and their children drowned. Twenty-two whole families perished. The nation cried out for justice.

Drawing on previously unpublished evidence from the National Archives, Ashes Under Water is the untold story of a mysterious industrial atrocity and how the prosperous, guilty Eastland owners tried to shift the blame to the whistleblower and one true hero on the ship, Engineer Joseph Erickson, a working class immigrant.

Against all odds, an attorney down on his luck at the time then stepped in to save him: Clarence Darrow, the future legal star. A national tragedy, Chicago politics, corrupt businessmen, a courtroom drama--all woven into one spellbinding narrative. Author Michael McCarthy takes us back one hundred years to the gritty streets of Chicago and the throaty blast of steamship whistles, unveiling the full story of the tragedy--and its incredible aftermath--for the first time.

[GtrsRGr8]

Psychology Student Guide. By David Webb. Rated 4.6 stars, from 29 reviews at the present moment. Print list price N/A; digital list price $4.99; Kindle price now $0.00. Www.all-about-pyschology.com, publisher. 135 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Stu...+Student+Guide.


Book Description

Calling all psychology students - you need to read this guide!

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[AnemicOak]

Harriet Beecher Stowe by Noel Gerson - FREE

“So this is the little lady who made this big war,” marvelled Abraham Lincoln when he first met Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Noel Gerson explores the life of this fascinating woman who literally changed the course of American history with her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe reveals a towering literary figure who was also a remarkable woman, a crusading feminist, and a woman who led a life more dramatic than anything she wrote.

In an age when women were usually confined to the kitchen, the bedroom, and the parlour, Harriet Beecher Stowe argued emancipation with President Lincoln, had an extraordinary woman-to-woman relationship with Queen Victoria, and was regarded by Emile Zola as a comrade-in-arms in their separate crusades for a better world.

Her super-abundant energy and refreshing humour enabled her to combine the duties of a devoted wife and mother of five with a renowned literary career and to become in the process one of the greatest celebrities of the nineteenth century.

‘Harriet Beecher Stowe’ is an impressive biography of a literary giant who changed the course of history forever.

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by Apache

No this is the Pillsbury Doughboy.



Apache

Uh, that's the "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man", not the Pillsbury Doughboy.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

Uh, that's the "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man", not the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Good eyes!

[GtrsRGr8]

The price of $1.99 represents a really nice, 80% markdown from the digital list price.

Powers of Two: How Relationships Drive Creativity. By Joshua Wolf Shenk. Rated 4.3 stars, from 54 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $14.95; digital list price $9.99; Kindle price now $1.99. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publisher. 372 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Powers-Two-Rel...ive+Creativity.

Book Description
Lennon and McCartney, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Pierre and Marie Curie. Throughout history, partners have buoyed each other to better work — though often one member is little known to the general public. (See Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, or Vincent and Theo van Gogh.) In Powers of Two, Joshua Wolf Shenk draws on neuroscience, social psychology, and cultural history to present the social foundations of creativity, with the pair as its primary embodiment. Revealing the six essential stages through which creative intimacy unfolds, Shenk shows how pairs begin to talk, think, and even look like each other; how the most successful ones thrive on conflict; and why some cease to work together while others carry on. At once intuitive and deeply surprising, Powers of Two will reshape the way you view individuals, relationships, and society itself.

[Froide]

Indeed, the picture above is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, discussed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man:


Pictured below this line is the Pillsbury Doughboy (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillsbury_Doughboy):


And pictured below this line is the Michelin Bibendum (aka "Michelin Man") (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibendum):