FREE/BARGAIN — Non-Fiction

[Froide]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The price is right (free)! The ratings are great (4.5 stars at Amazon (36)).

Not many pages, though (150).

Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. By Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins.

The book description is short, and speaks volumes, so I'm going to repeat it:
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims is the first known autobiography by an a Native American woman. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins' riveting, heartbreaking memoir is both a history of the Piute Indian tribe and an account of the devastation caused to the Piute people after their first contact with white men in the nineteenth century.

I'd like to give my personal political historical opinion, on the subjects in the book, but the last time that I did on a book containing subjects like this, someone accused me of being anti-American (I hope that I'm representing his or her views accurately; I did not go back and search for the messages in that short exchange of opinions).

Here's the URL: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Among-Pi...sap_bc?ie=UTF8

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Charles River Editors, free

Sharia Law: The History and Legacy of the Religious Laws that Governed Islamic Societies

Notre-Dame de Paris: The History and Legacy of France's Most Famous Cathedral

Broadway: The History and Legacy of New York City's Theater Center and Cultural Heart


https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...ld-title=-kids

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...ld-title=-kids

https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...ld-title=-kids

All back to $2.99.

But thanks for the post Little.Egret!

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Froide

Here's the URL: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Among-Pi...sap_bc?ie=UTF8

I didn't want anyone to get it, I just wanted them to want it! hahah

Sorry. I got in too big of a hurry.

Thanks for posting the webpage so everyone who wanted it wouldn't have to look it up for themselves.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I didn't want anyone to get it, I just wanted them to want it! hahah

Sorry. I got in too big of a hurry.

Thanks for posting the webpage so everyone who wanted it wouldn't have to look it up for themselves.

De nada, GtrsRGr8.

[Little.Egret]

Charles River Editors, free

Jason and the Argonauts: The Origins and History of the Ancient Greeks' Most Famous Mythological Hero

The Teutonic Knights: The History and Legacy of the Catholic Church's Most Famous Military Order

The East African Slave Trade: The History and Legacy of the Arab Slave Trade and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade

The Captivity of the Oatman Girls: The History of the Young Sisters Who Were Abducted by Native Americans in the 1850s

Weird New York City: A History of Mysteries, Strange Tales, and Hauntings across the Big Apple


https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...ld-title=-kids

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...ld-title=-kids

https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...ld-title=-kids

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Charles River Editors, free

Jason and the Argonauts: The Origins and History of the Ancient Greeks' Most Famous Mythological Hero

The Teutonic Knights: The History and Legacy of the Catholic Church's Most Famous Military Order

The East African Slave Trade: The History and Legacy of the Arab Slave Trade and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade

The Captivity of the Oatman Girls: The History of the Young Sisters Who Were Abducted by Native Americans in the 1850s

Weird New York City: A History of Mysteries, Strange Tales, and Hauntings across the Big Apple


https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...ld-title=-kids

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...ld-title=-kids

https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...ld-title=-kids

Are these Charles River things real books, or just copy and paste from Wikipedia? I've had a quick look at on via Amazon's "Look Inside", and it all seems very amateurish.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Are these Charles River things real books, or just copy and paste from Wikipedia? I've had a quick look at on via Amazon's "Look Inside", and it all seems very amateurish.

I don't think they're quite that bad, but they are limited. If you know nothing about a topic, you'll pick up some information in short order.

As with any of these written-to-order imprints, some books are better than others. I think it's partially the skill of the author and partially the topic, the better defined, the better the results are likely to be. I read one last year, a biography of Nathan Hale (our first spy), and it was reasonably scholarly and informative.

[GtrsRGr8]

I decided that this better belongs in the Under $3.00 thread, so that's where she went.

[GtrsRGr8]

Chaos: Making a New Science. By James Gleick.

The book's way above my head. But one thing that I am capable of grasping is that, at only 99 cents, it is 95% off of the digital list price!

For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones—and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before.

4.3 stars (258), New York Times bestseller, etc., etc.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Q3RRPI.

[AnotherCat]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Chaos: Making a New Science. By James Gleick.

The book's way above my head. But one thing that I am capable of grasping is that, at only 99 cents, it is 95% off of the digital list price!

For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones—and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before.

4.3 stars (258), New York Times bestseller, etc., etc.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Q3RRPI.

I already have an epub copy of this on my tablet close to the top of my reading list. It looks to be an interesting book, is well illustrated and looks ok for lay readers - well worth the 99c for readers interested in physics (my first university degree was in physics so I am not just spouting smoke out my ears in saying so, even though I have just skimmed it so far).

In fact having been reminded of it I have jumped it up so it is now the next to be read for me .

[Dngrsone]

Dang, back up to $9.99... been eyeballing this one for years, just couldn't get myself to spend a lot of money on it.

[ATDrake]

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

Humble Audiobook Bundle Hackers, Gamers, & Geeks presented by Novel Audio contains mainly non-fiction about video game and pop culture media-related topics, but also a few sfnal fiction pieces. Among all the gaming-related stuff, there are also works about the voyages of the Apollo astronauts, early computer hackers, the Pixar movie studio, and a topical current events title about attempted interference with 2016 US elections.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Chaos: Making a New Science. By James Gleick.

The book's way above my head. But one thing that I am capable of grasping is that, at only 99 cents, it is 95% off of the digital list price!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Q3RRPI.

I read it 30 years ago when it was first published. It should not be over the head of anyone in or beyond high school. Gleick is excellent at presenting scientific and technical topics to a lay audience.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Chaos: Making a New Science. By James Gleick.

The book's way above my head. But one thing that I am capable of grasping is that, at only 99 cents, it is 95% off of the digital list price!

For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones—and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before.

4.3 stars (258), New York Times bestseller, etc., etc.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Q3RRPI.

Originally Posted by AnotherCat

I already have an epub copy of this on my tablet close to the top of my reading list. It looks to be an interesting book, is well illustrated and looks ok for lay readers - well worth the 99c for readers interested in physics (my first university degree was in physics so I am not just spouting smoke out my ears in saying so, even though I have just skimmed it so far).

In fact having been reminded of it I have jumped it up so it is now the next to be read for me .

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Dang, back up to $9.99... been eyeballing this one for years, just couldn't get myself to spend a lot of money on it.

Originally Posted by j.p.s

I read it 30 years ago when it was first published. It should not be over the head of anyone in or beyond high school. Gleick is excellent at presenting scientific and technical topics to a lay audience.

Sorry that you missed it, Dngrsone. I hate to be a harbinger of bad news, but I checked its price history for about the last 5 1/2 years, and while it goes on sale fairly often, I never saw it that inexpensive over that period of time. $2.50 was the lowest. You might be interested in setting a price notification alert at ereaderiq.com, and they'll let you know when the price of a book reaches your target price.

This markdown to 99 cents seemed to have lasted only one day. I almost always post deals as soon as I find them. I did with this one. But by the time the publisher put out the price, the source that I used published it, and then I saw it and posted it, there wasn't much "window" left for MobileReaders to see it.

I've got some confidence now that the subject isn't over my head. I think that I'd much better having it as an audiobook, however.

Speaking of physics audiobooks. Downpour has Neil Degrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry for only $2.95 right now. I listened to part of the sample. For some reason, his narration didn't resonate with me, like his TV shows and videos do, what with all of the graphics and everything on them. YMMV.

[GtrsRGr8]

I know that I have more than a little cynicism in me, so you make want to take that into acccount . . . .

But to have a one day sale for such a low price makes me think that someone is trying to get attention for the book and to whet people's appetite for it. That "someone" has the feeling that when peeps miss getting it at the 99 cent price, they decide to go ahead and buy it anyway.

Now, I know that that is not my mentality; but the mentality, and others in this forum and me, probably don't represent the majority of the mentalities of other people in the developed world. After all, the people who read this forum are not just interested in ebooks, but ebooks that are "Deals, Freebies, and Resources."