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GtrsRGr8 · 05-09-2017, 05:14 PM

BIG book, very highly rated, very cheap.

Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima.

Details: 619 pages; ratings of 4.6 (330) Amazon; 4.19 (914) at GoodReads; 99 cents.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HVPI1IA.

CWatkinsNash · 05-09-2017, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

BIG book, very highly rated, very cheap.

Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima.

Details: 619 pages; ratings of 4.6 (330) Amazon; 4.19 (914) at GoodReads; 99 cents.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HVPI1IA.

Nice find! Thanks!

GtrsRGr8 · 05-11-2017, 10:10 PM

Packt's free title today is Practical Linux Security Cookbook.

You've got until U.S. 7 p.m. ET to download it.

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning.

GtrsRGr8 · 05-12-2017, 07:20 PM

I've decided that I should post today's free Packt ebook.

It's Learning AWS. Like all of Packt's books that I have seen, this one is highly technical, but it's about a subject directly dealing with coding for Amazon. We've all of heard them, right?

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning.

The offer ends at 7 p.m. U.S Eastern Time.

GtrsRGr8 · 05-13-2017, 08:28 PM

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War. By Robert K. Massie.

It seems like interest in World War I has increased lately. It's hard for me to read about it--armies exchanging, in battle, the same territory over and over; trench warfare; battles in which tens of thousands were killed being a routine thing . . . . But reading about the dreadnoughts in World War I (a type of warship of that time) might be more pleasant.

This is an enormous book--1040 pages!

And it's got great ratings--4.6 (216) at Amazon.

The price? Only $1.99, an 86% markdown from the digital list price of $13.99 (that's a bargain in itself).

https://www.amazon.com/Dreadnought-B.../dp/B0089EHK70.

sufue · 05-15-2017, 03:04 PM

The Quest for Kim documents the attempts, some successful, and some not, by author Peter Hopkirk, who has written a lot about India/central Asia and the Great Game period, to trace actual places and people in Kipling's Kim. I've read several books by Hopkirk and enjoyed them all, including this one, which has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

However, with the novel as its focus, Quest is a little different than Hopkirk's more traditional books, which are histories. I myself had read Kim a long time ago, then read Quest, and then got inspired to re-read Kim, and enjoyed it in a different way with some of the background I now had.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Kim-Pet...dp/B00GW4L0HK/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/quest-for-kim-1

Spoiler:

Little.Egret · 05-15-2017, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sufue

The Quest for Kim documents the attempts, some successful, and some not, by author Peter Hopkirk, who has written a lot about India/central Asia and the Great Game period, to trace actual places and people in Kipling's Kim. I've read several books by Hopkirk and enjoyed them all, including this one, which has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

However, with the novel as its focus, Quest is a little different than Hopkirk's more traditional books, which are histories. I myself had read Kim a long time ago, then read Quest, and then got inspired to re-read Kim, and enjoyed it in a different way with some of the background I now had.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Kim-Pet...dp/B00GW4L0HK/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/quest-for-kim-1

£1.99 in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quest-Kim-S...dp/B00713DMTU/

I note that one of those histories is £0.99

Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trespassers...dp/B0074OKE38/

GtrsRGr8 · 05-15-2017, 06:57 PM

I've already identified several in this forum.

Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People. By Joe Navarro; Toni Sciarra Poynter.

At 99 cents, it's 95% off of the digital list price!

4.6 (116) at Amazon. 258 pages.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K8DSRFE.

sufue · 05-15-2017, 07:00 PM

I hadn't read that one yet (Trespassers) and now I think I only need one more of his histories. They are normally pretty expensive, although I note there is another one, On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire (also published in DTB, I think, with the title, Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire) available for £2.99 at Amazon UK, which is still not too bad a price:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Serv...dp/B005HVR9WY/

Quote:

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

£1.99 in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quest-Kim-S...dp/B00713DMTU/

I note that one of those histories is £0.99

Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trespassers...dp/B0074OKE38/

GtrsRGr8 · 05-15-2017, 07:14 PM

Free Packt title of the day: GitHub Essentials.

I don't know anything about GitHub, but I have heard of it before. The book description says that it "is the largest host of source code in the world." Sounds important.

And GitHub must have been invented by a Southerner, I know that. Anyone else would have called it "GetHub."

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning.

The deal runs until 7 p.m. ET U.S. tomorrow.

ATDrake · 05-15-2017, 09:59 PM

Bargain @ $2.99 and up for today only (May 15th) as part of the Kindle Daily Deal in Canada & the US (apparently exclusive, but you can price-match at Kobo):

Assorted DIY hobby learning titles in Wiley's Dummies series, including a number of rather nice language learning and musical education books (mostly at the $4.99-$6.99 range).

For language-learning hobbyists, @ $6.99 each in the All In One For Dummies series which are omnibus editions of a number of previous learning/grammar/vocabulary books are available for German, Italian, Spanish, and French (covering French-Canadian, at least of the Quebec variety, which is moderately unusual for anglophone learning materials

). For comparison purposes, they're regularly priced at $27.99 CAD at Kobo.

And at $4.99 there's Japanese for Dummies. These all come with downloadable supplementary audiofiles. The ones for the Italian AIO book you can get directly from the website linked in the beginning of the text. The ones for the other titles you have to hoop jump a little for, by visiting their Wiley Booksupport site and enter either the ISBN or the book title and wait for the search results to pop up your title and click on it to select and download the zip files (don't try to fill in all 3 fields with accurate information, or you will get no search results). NB: some of them are very large files at hundreds of mb, and they advise you to download via a stable connection from your desktop computer.

There's also some DIY books for learning banjo, guitar, classical music appreciation, violin, regular and blues harmonica (sold separately), piano, mandolin, and also some computer programming and job help stuff.

Linkage for the lot @ Amazon main & CA, if you're interested.

While I personally wouldn't consider the Dummies books to be in the top tier of DIY language learning materials, they seem to be fairly decently-done and offer solid basics for beginners with a few nice extras that might help one advance to a more intermediate level, and I've no hesitation whatsoever about scooping these up myself, at these low prices.

GtrsRGr8 · 05-16-2017, 01:35 AM

Another Packt freebie, although this one is not one of their giveaways of the day. The book is Learning Python.

SharewareonSale.com (they're legit, I've downloaded freebies from them several times; the guy, Ashraf, who runs the site is great) is offering the software. This ebook is obviously more basic that some of the ones that I have posted as one of Packt's giveaways of the day.

The book retails for $49.99. It's free now, as a "limited time offer."

Learn more about the book, download it, well, do a lot of different things at this SOS webpage.

Downloading the book and installing it, after you've done what little that it takes to set up an account, is easy peasy. I won't mention any names, but I wish that websites, like Giveaway of the Day (software freebies only), would take a cue from SOS, and make it not so hard to download and install their software!

Difflugia · 05-16-2017, 01:44 PM

Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History is currently $1.99.

Quote:

Were dinosaurs really dumber than lizards? Why, after all, are roughly the same number of men and women born into the world? What led the famous Dr. Down to his theory of mongolism, and its racist residue? What do the panda's magical "thumb" and the sea turtle's perilous migration tell us about imperfections that prove the evolutionary rule? The wonders and mysteries of evolutionary biology are elegantly explored in these and other essays by the celebrated natural history writer Stephen Jay Gould.

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes was required reading in one of my biology classes and I've been a fan ever since. I can't recommend Gould's books highly enough.

Kobo
B&N
Amazon

GtrsRGr8 · 05-16-2017, 05:56 PM

Winner of the Biggest Markdown of the Day Award.*

92% off of the digital list price (of $24.99)--$1.99.

It's The Guardian of Mercy: How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today.

I wish this was available as an audiobook (and an inexpensive one at that).

https://www.amazon.com/Guardian-Merc.../dp/B017WS32GG

* Of the ebooks that I've looked through. This award may not be repeated tomorrow or . . . well . . . ever again.

ATDrake · 05-17-2017, 02:20 PM

X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new Humble Bundle:

Humble Book Bundle Make: Essentials Maker Faire Special contains assorted craft/hobby/practical self-education books from the popular DIY tech magazine, for high and low tech projects which are a mix of domestic and robotic (possibly even for domestic robotics

), including drones and edibles and musical instruments, oh my!

05-13-2017, 08:28 PM	#365
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War. By Robert K. Massie. It seems like interest in World War I has increased lately. It's hard for me to read about it--armies exchanging, in battle, the same territory over and over; trench warfare; battles in which tens of thousands were killed being a routine thing . . . . But reading about the dreadnoughts in World War I (a type of warship of that time) might be more pleasant. This is an enormous book--1040 pages! And it's got great ratings--4.6 (216) at Amazon. The price? Only $1.99, an 86% markdown from the digital list price of $13.99 (that's a bargain in itself). https://www.amazon.com/Dreadnought-B.../dp/B0089EHK70. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 05-13-2017 at 08:32 PM.

05-15-2017, 09:59 PM	#371
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bargain @ $2.99 and up for today only (May 15th) as part of the Kindle Daily Deal in Canada & the US (apparently exclusive, but you can price-match at Kobo): Assorted DIY hobby learning titles in Wiley's Dummies series, including a number of rather nice language learning and musical education books (mostly at the $4.99-$6.99 range). For language-learning hobbyists, @ $6.99 each in the All In One For Dummies series which are omnibus editions of a number of previous learning/grammar/vocabulary books are available for German, Italian, Spanish, and French (covering French-Canadian, at least of the Quebec variety, which is moderately unusual for anglophone learning materials ). For comparison purposes, they're regularly priced at $27.99 CAD at Kobo. And at $4.99 there's Japanese for Dummies. These all come with downloadable supplementary audiofiles. The ones for the Italian AIO book you can get directly from the website linked in the beginning of the text. The ones for the other titles you have to hoop jump a little for, by visiting their Wiley Booksupport site and enter either the ISBN or the book title and wait for the search results to pop up your title and click on it to select and download the zip files (don't try to fill in all 3 fields with accurate information, or you will get no search results). NB: some of them are very large files at hundreds of mb, and they advise you to download via a stable connection from your desktop computer. There's also some DIY books for learning banjo, guitar, classical music appreciation, violin, regular and blues harmonica (sold separately), piano, mandolin, and also some computer programming and job help stuff. Linkage for the lot @ Amazon main & CA, if you're interested. While I personally wouldn't consider the Dummies books to be in the top tier of DIY language learning materials, they seem to be fairly decently-done and offer solid basics for beginners with a few nice extras that might help one advance to a more intermediate level, and I've no hesitation whatsoever about scooping these up myself, at these low prices. Last edited by ATDrake; 05-15-2017 at 10:22 PM. Reason: Lower prices for the cheaper books.

05-16-2017, 01:35 AM	#372
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Another Packt freebie, although this one is not one of their giveaways of the day. The book is Learning Python. SharewareonSale.com (they're legit, I've downloaded freebies from them several times; the guy, Ashraf, who runs the site is great) is offering the software. This ebook is obviously more basic that some of the ones that I have posted as one of Packt's giveaways of the day. The book retails for $49.99. It's free now, as a "limited time offer." Learn more about the book, download it, well, do a lot of different things at this SOS webpage. Downloading the book and installing it, after you've done what little that it takes to set up an account, is easy peasy. I won't mention any names, but I wish that websites, like Giveaway of the Day (software freebies only), would take a cue from SOS, and make it not so hard to download and install their software! Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 05-16-2017 at 03:37 PM.

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	BIG book, very highly rated, very cheap. Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima. Details: 619 pages; ratings of 4.6 (330) Amazon; 4.19 (914) at GoodReads; 99 cents. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HVPI1IA.

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Packt's free title today is Practical Linux Security Cookbook. You've got until U.S. 7 p.m. ET to download it. https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning.

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	I've decided that I should post today's free Packt ebook. It's Learning AWS. Like all of Packt's books that I have seen, this one is highly technical, but it's about a subject directly dealing with coding for Amazon. We've all of heard them, right? https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning. The offer ends at 7 p.m. U.S Eastern Time.

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	I've already identified several in this forum. Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People. By Joe Navarro; Toni Sciarra Poynter. At 99 cents, it's 95% off of the digital list price! 4.6 (116) at Amazon. 258 pages. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K8DSRFE.

05-15-2017, 07:14 PM	#370
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Free Packt title of the day: GitHub Essentials. I don't know anything about GitHub, but I have heard of it before. The book description says that it "is the largest host of source code in the world." Sounds important. And GitHub must have been invented by a Southerner, I know that. Anyone else would have called it "GetHub." https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning. The deal runs until 7 p.m. ET U.S. tomorrow.

05-16-2017, 05:56 PM	#374
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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new Humble Bundle: Humble Book Bundle Make: Essentials Maker Faire Special contains assorted craft/hobby/practical self-education books from the popular DIY tech magazine, for high and low tech projects which are a mix of domestic and robotic (possibly even for domestic robotics ), including drones and edibles and musical instruments, oh my!