FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2015

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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

A gold 1980 something Buick was big enough to sleep comfortably in.
My father had one.

It's probably worth its weight in gold, too, if it's still around somewhere and in a decent condition.

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Python Books--books about Python--that is. ha

Here's the blurb:
From machine learning to Raspberry Pi programming, this bundle has something for every Pythonista looking to push their skills.

You’ll receive the following 7 titles: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python; Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization; NumPy Cookbook; Python 3 Object Oriented Programming; Python Geospatial Development; Python Testing Cookbook; and Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents. Get it now!

Here's where you go to get it.

At this writing, the clock thingie on the webpage says that the sale ends in 2 days 2 hours "or until sold out."

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Duplicate of previous post. So, deleted.

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Python Books--books about Python--that is. ha
. . . .

UPDATE: I ran across some more information on this deal, so I'll share it with you.

It is offered free by Packt Publishing. The bundle has a value of over $160, according to this source.

From machine learning to Raspberry Pi programming, this bundle has something for every Pythonista looking to push their skills.
. . . .
You'll receive a zip file with the following 7 titles:
- Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Expand your Python knowledge and learn all about machine-learning libraries in this user-friendly manual. ML is the next big breakthrough in technology and this book will give you the head-start you need.
- Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization - IPython provides a rich architecture for interactive computing, and as a Python developer you can take advantage of this practical hands-on guide to make yourself an expert. Covers numerical computing, data analysis, and more.
- NumPy Cookbook - If you're a Python developer with basic NumPy skills, the 70+ recipes in this brilliant cookbook will boost your skills in no time. Learn to raise productivity levels and code faster and cleaner with the open source mathematical library.
- Python 3 Object Oriented Programming - If you feel it's time you learned object-oriented programming techniques, this is the perfect book for you. Clearly written with practical exercises, it's the painless way to learn how to harness the power of OOP in Python.
- Python Geospatial Development - Second Edition - If you're experienced in Python here's an opportunity to get deep into Geospatial development, linking data to global locations. No prior knowledge required – this book takes you through it all, step by step.
- Python Testing Cookbook - Making your life easier with automated testing of Python is the sole aim of this book. Because it's a cookbook, you can take things at your own pace, in your own order, and learn practical application rather than nebulous theory.
- Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents - An exciting guide for Raspberry Pi programmers to turn your Raspberry Pi into your very own secret agent toolbox with this book of fun espionage projects!

[Little.Egret]

Charles River Editors

Assassinating Adolf Hitler: The History of the Failed Conspiracies and Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator


http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016LUUDJK/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B016LUUDJK/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B016LUUDJK/

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The University of Manchester (England, in case there is a university by that name somewhere else) Library has published a booklet of 25 pages called First Impressions: How Printing Began. It is a free pdf.

Here's a short description: The PDF . . . is an introduction to printed books. It looks at how books are printed, where printing started and the early pioneers of the printed word. Great for a background to printing, looking at inventors or the spread of language.

The book looks to be very well done. It is certainly attractive. From what I gather, the book is intended for children, though not young ones--probably preteen to early teens. So why am I not posting it on a children's nonfiction thread? Well, sometimes I don't want a large book with "heavy" text that forces me to have to concentrate a whole lot. Sometimes I want a book like this one to get a quick overview of some subject. In fact, I downloaded and saved it for myself for just that reason. Maybe you will find this tome to be just what you want, for that reason or some other one.

Ironically, this book about printing of physical books appears to be available only as an electronic book. ha

I'm going to give you two links here. One is the direct link to the pdf book and the other one is the indirect link. The webpage that you get when you follow the indirect link also shows how you can access, also freely, some other nice resources on the same subject, including an interactive website on the history of printing.

[Little.Egret]

James Tissot: The Old Testament - 110 Paintings - Jacques Joseph Tissot by Daniel Ankele and James Tissot

This Art Book contains 110 HD Reproductions from Tissot's series of fourteen Old Testament Books of the Holy Bible, painted from 1896-1902. Presented in traditional order beginning with Genesis and includes the following books; Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, Ezra, Isaiah and Job.

includes; Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums of the World, and is compatible with all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).

James Jacques-Joseph Tissot was born in 1836, in Nantes. He was a French painter and illustrator.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016AJMC7S/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B016AJMC7S/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B016AJMC7S/

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Okay, I don't know very much about this sale, yet. But, I know enough to know that it holds potential to get Mobilereaders really good prices on a large number of reference and school-type ebooks, so I'm going to go ahead and tell you what little that I do know.

Collins Publishers, a subsidiary or something like that of HarperCollins Publishers, has marked down in the last 24 hours or so, it seems, a huge number of ebooks. I think that reference and school-type books may be the only thing that they publish. I think that the publisher is oriented, at least, toward the U.K., as opposed to American, English language.

Here's an example of one of Collins' ebooks on sale. It is the Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus. The digital list price is $14.99. The print list price is a whopping $79.00. The Kindle ebook is currently $3.99. Oh, I might make mention of the fact that this book is just short of 2000 pages long!

About the only way that I know how to find the markdowns, right now, is to just do a search in the Kindle store for Collins titles. Here is the link for that search, with the ebooks priced low to high. Then, you might want to select a category from the menu on the left-hand side. The one that I selected to find the example above was "Dictionaries and Thesauruses." Of course, one main shortcoming of this search is that you don't know from it alone how much the ebooks were priced before being marked down.

Now, here's where I ask for the help of other Mobilereaders: if you know of a better way to find these markdowns, please let us know! Thanks.

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You can get a free pdf copy of How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text* of Racial Politics, by David M. Levy. The freebie is courtesy of The University of Michigan Press.

It's not available in ebook form from Amazon, apparently. However, a physical copy of this book would set you back a minimum of $17 there (and that's for a used copy).

It's 320 pages long.

Here's a list of the chapters in the book:
Part 1. Two Sciences in Collision: The Dismal and the Gay.
1. Poets Come, Bringint Death to Friends of the Dismal Science.
2. Ecce Homo [sic]: Symbols Make the Man.
3. Beginning with an Exchange or with a Command?
4. A Rational Choice Approach to Scholarship.
Part 2. Market Order or Hierarchy?
5. Debating Racial Quackery.
6. Economic Texts as Apocrypha.
7. Hard Times and the Moral Equivalent of Markets and Slavery.
Part 3. The Katallactic Moment.
8. Exchange between Actor and Spectator.
9. The Partial Spectator in the Wealth of Nations: A Robust Utilitarianism.
10.Katallactic Rationality: Language, Approbation, and Exchange.
11.Adam Smith's Rational Choice Linguistics.
12.Bishop Berkeley Exorcises the Infinite.

Here's the direct link to the pdf.

Here's the link to the Amazon webpage for the book.

* Ur-Text: the hidden original from which all others descend in confused and imperfect fashion.

[Little.Egret]

Pyrrhus Press reprint

Medieval Medicine (1920) by James Walsh

James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942)

the story of the medical sciences in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages are usually assumed to begin with the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, 476, and end with the fall of Constantinople, 1453. In this little volume, then, we have to outline the history of human efforts to prevent and treat the ills of mankind for nearly one thousand years. Until recently, it has been the custom to believe that there was so little of genuine interest in anything like the scientific care of ailing human beings during these centuries, that even a volume of this kind might seem large for the tale of it. Now we know how much these men of the Middle Ages, for so long called the "Dark Ages," were interested in every phase of human progress. They created a great art and literature, and above all a magnificent architecture. We have been cultivating the knowledge of these for several generations, and it would indeed be a surprise to find that the men who made such surpassing[Pg viii] achievements in all the other lines of human effort should have failed only in medicine

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LG9YVE0/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LG9YVE0/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00LG9YVE0/

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Pyrrhus Press reprint

Medieval Medicine (1920) by James Walsh

James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942)

For what it's worth, like many of the cheap or free public domain publishers, it looks like this edition dropped the 8 illustrations that were in the original print book. Versions for Kindle and ePub with the illustrations (always for free) can be found at Project Gutenberg.

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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

For what it's worth, like many of the cheap or free public domain publishers, it looks like this edition dropped the 8 illustrations that were in the original print book. Versions for Kindle and ePub with the illustrations (always for free) can be found at Project Gutenberg.

Thanks for informing/reminding us about this.

The cynic in me says that that the situation is not surprising. No one ever accused these publishers of made-over public domain books of pursuing excellence. There may be some publishers operating with a similar modus operandi which do try to provide excellent products (there's always at least one black sheep in every family), but I'm hard-pressed right now to think of any names.

However, the economist in me injects a dose of common sense. Companies with a business model of providing excellence in quality + selling at fire-sale prices are probably not going to last long. Something is going to get short shrift, and it's usually quality.

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks for informing/reminding us about this.

The cynic in me says that that the situation is not surprising. No one ever accused these publishers of made-over public domain books of pursuing excellence. There may be some publishers operating with a similar modus operandi which do try to provide excellent products (there's always at least one black sheep in every family), but I'm hard-pressed right now to think of any names.

However, the economist in me injects a dose of common sense. Companies with a business model of providing excellence in quality + selling at fire-sale prices are probably not going to last long. Something is going to get short shrift, and it's usually quality.

I've been known to "buy" a bunch of Amazon PD freebies, and the daily Open Road Media ones, too, and wonder why I bother when I know that most all of them are available at PG, or here at MR, or a couple other volunteer sites with PD material. The Open Road ones are never illustrated. I think some of the PD publishers even start with the PG material, and still drop the illustrations. I guess part of the problem is that it's so easy to be lazy and click on a bunch of buttons at Amazon than it is to go over to PG, do a search, and download it.

I tend to roll my eyes when I see people get excited at some PD publisher making a dozen or two PD books free for a limited time, when I know that the same books are free all the time here, or at PG, or Google. While Google has the largest collection of free PD material, I won't download it to dedicate ereaders because the Google conversions to ebook formats are total crap. The scanned images on the Google Books website are readable on a PC though.

I try not to bring this up very often. I realize people are just trying to be helpful, and in some cases the temporarily free PD may actually be superior to (or at least more convenient for Kindle owners than) the always free versions elsewhere. However, some people get quite upset if they feel they're being told their contribution isn't all that useful, and then nasty flame wars erupt. I don't think it's ever happened in this thread, and I hope it never does.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

The Open Road ones are never illustrated. I think some of the PD publishers even start with the PG material, and still drop the illustrations. I guess part of the problem is that it's so easy to be lazy and click on a bunch of buttons at Amazon than it is to go over to PG, do a search, and download it.

If you know of an weird-greekie-name publisher who issued an book which didn't come from Gutenberg ?

PG now issues some books with clickable TOCs but the older ones never have this so a good reason may exist for taking the Kindle freebie.

The question is, why do they omit illustrations ?

Their plan is to add a cover image and a clickable TOC and push it out so I don't see how taking the non-illustrated version helps unless Amazon objected to the larger file size.

Does anyone review PG output for points like that ?

{ a very recent Gutenberg ebook with a clickable TOC and clickable
footnotes and index. }

The Grateful Dead by Gordon Hall Gerould

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39408

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Charles River Editors


The Patty Hearst Kidnapping: The History of the Controversial Abduction, Crimes, and Trial that Shocked America

An Interactive Biography of Winston Churchill

151MB download Audio/visual but available for most devices including some that don't have audio.


http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...=charles+river

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...=charles+river
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...=charles+river