FREE/BARGAIN — Non-Fiction

[Paperbackstash]

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston is only $2.99

https://www.harpercollins.com/produc...ent=promo-deep

[Paperbackstash]

Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson on sale for $1.99

Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its finest. The full story of an amazing rescue—where extraordinary courage, ingenuity, will, and technology combined in one of the most remarkable maritime feats ever recorded—has never been told before now. It’s The Perfect Storm meets Deadliest Catch.

Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003L780VK...ercollinsus-20
Kobo - https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...OlLTMWx.9KnNrw

[sufue]

Per its blurb, Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture, by Neil Dahlstrom, seems to pretty much be what its title says it is - a history of the early competition between those companies/people to develop and market the first tractors. I'm a little bit biased since my uncle was an IH dealer, and owned an early Fordson tractor, so when I spotted this on sale at Kindle US for $2.99 as part of today's Daily Deal, and matched at Kobo US, I thought, WTH...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0936KDTMD
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0936KDTMD
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tractor-wars

Spoiler:

"Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered." —Wall Street Journal

Discover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming—the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years.

Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908-1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming.

By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation’s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That’s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man’s landing on the moon or the advent of the internet—after all, with the tractor, a shrinking farm population could still feed a growing world. But getting the tractor from the boardroom to the drafting table, then from factory and the farm, was a technological and competitive battle that until now, has never been fully told.

A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In Tractor Wars, Dahlstrom offers an insider’s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure.

With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture—a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by sufue

Per its blurb, Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture, by Neil Dahlstrom, seems to pretty much be what its title says it is - a history of the early competition between those companies/people to develop and market the first tractors. I'm a little bit biased since my uncle was an IH dealer, and owned an early Fordson tractor, so when I spotted this on sale at Kindle US for $2.99 as part of today's Daily Deal, and matched at Kobo US, I thought, WTH...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0936KDTMD
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0936KDTMD
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tractor-wars

Sounds great!

The Saskatchewan Roughriders' radio broadcasts are sponsored by BOTH John Deere and IH!

[salty-horse]

Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer is $3 on Amazon.com

Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also exploits the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, the book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working in the field today, including George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added an additional 50 pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice that is also a stunning and inspiring object.

[Loosheesh]

The Human Condition: Second Edition by Hannah Arendt at AmazonUS for $2.99

The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, “the theorist of beginnings,” whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations—from totalitarianism to revolution.

A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then—diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions—continue to confront us today. This new edition, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of its original publication, contains Margaret Canovan’s 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen.

A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.

[Section8]

Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different by Philip Ball is $2.99 at Amazon

Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not really telling us that “weird” things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don’t seem obvious or right at all—or even possible.

An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means—and what it doesn’t. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge—about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn’t a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called “weird,” it’s us.

[rrrlakin]

At this time it seems to be $11.99
And I would have purchased the book at 2.99
Oh, well.

rrr

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by rrrlakin

At this time it seems to be $11.99
And I would have purchased the book at 2.99
Oh, well.

rrr

Looks like the price expired before midnight Seattle time (unusual) or the price on the web page was an error and got corrected.

It was $12.99 at kobo earlier in the day and $17.99 at ebooks.com, so either the $2.99 price was an amazon exclusive or an error. The University of Chicago Press has and had a $17.99 price. So amazon still has lowest price.

[Section8]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Looks like the price expired before midnight Seattle time (unusual) or the price on the web page was an error and got corrected.

It was $12.99 at kobo earlier in the day and $17.99 at ebooks.com, so either the $2.99 price was an amazon exclusive or an error. The University of Chicago Press has and had a $17.99 price. So amazon still has lowest price.

Ereaderiq says it was $2.99 on Jan 2, from 4:44am to 5:39pm PST. That is how I found this - the book was on my price drop watch list.

[itisbomb]

The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
by Binyamin Appelbaum

is $2.99 at Kobo

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-economists-hour-1

Below is the blurb:
In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution.

Before the 1960s, American politicians had never paid much attention to economists. But as the post-World War II boom began to sputter, economists gained influence and power.

In The Economists' Hour, Binyamin Appelbaum traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations and hastening globalization.

Some leading figures are relatively well-known, such as Milton Friedman, the elfin libertarian who had a greater influence on American life than any other economist of his generation, and Arthur Laffer, who sketched a curve on a cocktail napkin that helped to make tax cuts a staple of conservative economic policy.

Others stayed out of the limelight, but left a lasting impact on modern life: Walter Oi, a blind economist who dictated to his wife and assistants some of the calculations that persuaded President Nixon to end military conscription; Alfred Kahn, who deregulated air travel and rejoiced in the crowded cabins on commercial flights as the proof of his success; and Thomas Schelling, who put a dollar value on human life.

Their fundamental belief? That government should stop trying to manage the economy.

Their guiding principle? That markets would deliver steady growth, and ensure that all Americans shared in the benefits.

But the Economists' Hour failed to deliver on its promise of broad prosperity. And the single-minded embrace of markets has come at the expense of economic equality, the health of liberal democracy, and future generations.

Timely, engaging and expertly researched, The Economists' Hour is a reckoning -- and a call for people to rewrite the rules of the market.

A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller

Winner of the Porchlight Business Book Award in Narrative & Biography

[Apache]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
by Binyamin Appelbaum

is $2.99 at Kobo

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-economists-hour-1

Below is the blurb:
In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution.

Before the 1960s, American politicians had never paid much attention to economists. But as the post-World War II boom began to sputter, economists gained influence and power.

In The Economists' Hour, Binyamin Appelbaum traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations and hastening globalization.

Some leading figures are relatively well-known, such as Milton Friedman, the elfin libertarian who had a greater influence on American life than any other economist of his generation, and Arthur Laffer, who sketched a curve on a cocktail napkin that helped to make tax cuts a staple of conservative economic policy.

Others stayed out of the limelight, but left a lasting impact on modern life: Walter Oi, a blind economist who dictated to his wife and assistants some of the calculations that persuaded President Nixon to end military conscription; Alfred Kahn, who deregulated air travel and rejoiced in the crowded cabins on commercial flights as the proof of his success; and Thomas Schelling, who put a dollar value on human life.

Their fundamental belief? That government should stop trying to manage the economy.

Their guiding principle? That markets would deliver steady growth, and ensure that all Americans shared in the benefits.

But the Economists' Hour failed to deliver on its promise of broad prosperity. And the single-minded embrace of markets has come at the expense of economic equality, the health of liberal democracy, and future generations.

Timely, engaging and expertly researched, The Economists' Hour is a reckoning -- and a call for people to rewrite the rules of the market.

A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller

Winner of the Porchlight Business Book Award in Narrative & Biography

Actually, The US Government started consulting with economists well before the end of WWII. They realized they needed a plan to keep the economy from crashing when the military discharged a large portion of their men. They also needed to plan for what needed to be done in Europe and Asia to rebuild the economies of those nations. There is a very well written paper about this in the University of Texas Archives. I read it a long time ago and do not remember the title. It was well a written testament to the forward thinking of some members of the military and civilian heads of the government. Previous large-scale wars had decimated many economies of the world and they wanted to avoid this if at all possible.
Apache

[sufue]

This month's free e-book from the University of Chicago press looks really interesting (to me, at least). It's A Natural History of Time by Pascal Richet, and here's the blurb:

The quest to pinpoint the age of the Earth is nearly as old as humanity itself. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide the answer, even though nature abounds with clues to the past of the Earth and the stars. In A Natural History of Time, geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built a chronological scale that has made it possible to reconstruct the history of nature itself.

It's available at https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

You have to give them your email address, and then they'll email you with the link and info on downloading the book. But my experience is that they don't abuse your email address, and I get mostly just one email a month, with the info on the free book of the month, and then maybe a very occasional additional sale announcement or something like that. Most of the UChi free books are in PDF format, which can be a bit annoying, not sure if this one is or not, since I haven't gotten it yet.

[Kindleing]

Originally Posted by sufue

Most of the UChi free books are in PDF format, which can be a bit annoying, not sure if this one is or not, since I haven't gotten it yet.

I followed the link but the book comes with DRM. ADE is a choice, but I don't do ADE so I skipped the download. It didn't say what format the file was in.

Wally

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by Kindleing

I followed the link but the book comes with DRM. ADE is a choice, but I don't do ADE so I skipped the download. It didn't say what format the file was in.

It's a PDF.