FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2014

[GtrsRGr8]

The World of Indigenous North America (Routledge Worlds). By Robert Warrior. No rating yet (it has just been published). Print list price $220.00; Kindle price now $0.00. Routledge, publisher. 676 pages. http://www.amazon.com/World-Indigeno...+North+America.

Book Description
The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics, geography, sciences, and gender studies, among others, in order to make sense of the Indigenous experience.

Covering both Canada's First Nations and the Native American tribes of the United States, and alluding to the work being done in indigenous studies through the rest of the world, the volume reflects the critical mass of scholarship that has developed in Indigenous Studies over the past decade, and highlights the best new work that is emerging in the field. The World of Indigenous North America is a book for every scholar in the field to own and refer to often.

[GtrsRGr8]

You will save only $49 on this one.

A Practical Guide to Teaching Computing and ICT in the Secondary School (Routledge Teaching Guides). By Andrew Connell, et al. No rating yet (it has just been published). Print list price $48.95; Kindle price now $0.00. Routledge, publisher. 166 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Teac...hing+Guides%29.

Book Description
Now in its second edition, A Practical Guide to Teaching ICT in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice, inspiration and support for all training and newly qualified ICT teachers. Based on the best research and practice available, it has been updated to reflect changes in the curriculum, Initial Teacher Training standards, classroom technologies, and the latest research in the field.

Packed with photocopiable resources and illustrated throughout with examples of good practice and samples of pupil’s work, it offers a wide range of tried and tested strategies to ensure success in the secondary classroom. Key aspects of ICT teaching considered include:

-managing the ICT classroom: the environment, resources and pupil grouping

-developing knowledge for applications and knowledge for teaching

-planning for learning and teaching: ICT lessons and ICT coursework

-developing pupils’ understanding of concepts including challenging misconceptions

-assessment, feedback, target setting and examinations

-modelling and simulation in ICT

Written by expert professionals, A Practical Guide to Teaching ICT in the Secondary School provides detailed examples of theory in practice, enabling you to analyse and reflect on your own teaching in order to ensure pupil learning is maximised. It will be an essential source of ideas and guidance for all training and newly qualified teachers, as well as tutors and mentors.

[GtrsRGr8]

This is the last one of the recently published free Routledge titles, that I've found.

Vocational Education of Female Entrepreneurs in China: A multitheoretical and multidimensional analysis of successful businesswomen's everyday lives (Routledge ... in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education). By Mary Ann Maslak. Not rated yet (it has just been published). Print list price $145.00; Kindle price now $0.00. Routledge, publisher. 120 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Vocational-Edu...t+Education%29.

Book Description
This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to mature and possibly illiterate women’s successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings. Calling on varied yet pertinent social theories, and the exceptional introduction to and study of profitable businesses operated by Dongxiang Muslim women in the southern Gansu province of north-western China, the author explains the multifaceted formula for women's challenges and successes in their business endeavours and goal for financial security, and argues that informal learning is the most important type of education to employ knowledge and skills to earn a living in general, and design and operate small businesses by women in rural areas in particular. The book concludes with an original, timely and necessary model for education that could be utilized by the women in this work; one that positions informal education as the primary conduit for successful entrepreneurial work and combines elements of both formal and non-formal educational principles and practices, thus offering support for the successful operation of women's businesses.

[GtrsRGr8]

These are the free Routledge titles that are not recently published. There were two more that I found, but they were marked down some time in the past, so I won't include them.

Yes, these are specialized and scholarly books. That's the kind that the publisher, Routledge, publishes.

I'm sorry about making so many posts. I found the one title and the more that I looked, the more that I found. I felt that I could not not post them.

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World? (Routledge Global Security Studies). http://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Disarm...ity+Studies%29.

The Practices of Happiness: Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy). http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...cal+Economy%29.

Civil Society and International Governance: The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East (Routledge/GARNET series). http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Society-...RNET+series%29.

Consumer-Citizens of China: The Role of Foreign Brands in the Imagined Future China (Routledge Contemporary China Series). http://www.amazon.com/Consumer-Citiz...hina+Series%29http://www.amazon.com/Consumer-Citiz...hina+Series%29.

Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO's Bioethics Programme (Genetics and Society). http://www.amazon.com/Negotiating-Bi...and+Society%29.

Online Dispute Resolution for Consumers in the European Union (Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law). http://www.amazon.com/Resolution-Con...ommerce+Law%29.

NGOs in India: The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series). http://www.amazon.com/NGOs-India-emp...Asia+Series%29.

[Little.Egret]

Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen by Jane Aiken Hodge

In her lifetime, Jane Austen did her best to conform to the conventions of her day, and after her death the family touched up the picture.

But the real Jane Austen, who started as author at twelve years old, was something very different.

What depths of intellectual and moral despair must she have plumbed before she achieved the extraordinary moral vision that has been compared, with justice, to Chaucer's?

It was a fortunate thing for her family that the highly polished surface of the six novels, their sheer artistry concealing tension, makes it easy to miss the depth and bitterness of what they are often saying.

This is a book for those who have always loved Jane Austen, and for those who would like to know more about her.

Jane Aiken Hodge (December 4, 1917 - June 17, 2009) was an American-born British writer. Her novels include `Runaway Bride', `Escapade', `All for Love' and `One Way to Venice'.

All her novels seem to have been just reissued by Endeavour at modest prices. All for Love was previously entitled Savannah Purchase

Free in UK and Canada, not clear for US

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OMZJL5Y/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00OMZJL5Y/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00OMZJL5Y/

[Little.Egret]

The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill, 1650-1744 by Christopher Hibbert

The Marlboroughs is a biography by Christopher Hibbert, one of Britain's most popular historians, of subjects who were in their time Britain's most popular couple. John Churchill was a charming, ambitious but impoverished son of an obscure country squire from Devon, who achieved his rise to the top by never quite saying what he thought and appearing to agree with everybody. The riskiest thing he did in his youth was jump into bed with Barbara Villiers, an ex-mistress of Charles II, and reputedly "a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous", "the lewdest as well as the fairest of King Charles's concubines". The King actually caught them red-handed on one occasion, but being the kind of Merry Monarch that he was, smiled politely, withdrew from their chamber, and said no more.

With the accession of the Protestant William of Orange to the throne of England, it was typical of John Churchill that he should both endear himself to the new King, and secretly stay firmly in touch with the exiled, Catholic King in France, James II: an historical each-way bet that paid handsome dividends. But John Churchill was more than merely a smooth-faced time-server: he was also one of the great military commanders of all time, up there with Wellington and Napoleon. His four great victories over the French in Europe--Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), Oudenarde (1708) and Malplaquet (1709) assured his ascendancy and gained him the title of Duke of Marlborough.

His wife Sarah, on the other hand, was his polar opposite in temperament: quick-tempered, indiscreet, gossipy, and surely rather more amusing to talk to. Her intimate and distinctly passionate friendship with Queen Anne is fascinatingly brought to life, as is her strength of character which that opulent monstrosity, Blenheim Palace, brought to completion after her husband's death. Their permanent memorial, the palace was disliked even in its own day--as Alexander Pope observed, "'Tis a house, but not a dwelling", and it remains one of the most ostentatious and unappealing buildings in the country, though set in the most beautiful man-made landscape.

'Hibbert is magnificent at domestic detail, gripping on scandal and intrigue, clever in negotiating the problem of making a life consistently interesting without cheating the reader of information... all the elements of a wonderful book and a story of near-incredible ascent.' SUNDAY TIMES

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ODWHP8Q/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00ODWHP8Q/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00ODWHP8Q/

[koland]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen by Jane Aiken Hodge

Free in UK and Canada, not clear for US

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OMZJL5Y/

Now free in the US

[Little.Egret]

The Secret War 1939-45 by Gerald Pawle (1913-1991) with an introduction by Nevil Shute {Norway}

I found e-book downloads of this while Googling for uses of 'equipment' in the plural for a thread elsewhere.

https://archive.org/details/secretwar193945007234mbp

First published in 1957, it was reprinted by Nabu Press (September 16, 2011)

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-War-193...dp/1245668463/

Which has a hilarious note "This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections ..."

It's about the weird and strange inventions that appeared out of times of hardship during WW2 some of which even worked!

I edit to personally recommend it.

Usual scan/OCR artefacts like 'dock' for 'clock' and footnotes run into the main text but readable.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

The Secret War 1939-45 by Gerald Pawle (1913-1991) with an introduction by Nevil Shute {Norway}

I found e-book downloads of this while Googling for uses of 'equipment' in the plural for a thread elsewhere.

https://archive.org/details/secretwar193945007234mbp

First published in 1957, it was reprinted by Nabu Press (September 16, 2011)

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-War-193...dp/1245668463/

Which has a hilarious note "This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections ..."

It's about the weird and strange inventions that appeared out of times of hardship during WW2 some of which even worked!

Funny, and a nice find.

Little.Egret's post reminded me of a bit of information that people might not be aware of, but might find helpful.

Some people may not realize that the IA (Internet Archive) has a huge number of works from 1923 and after, as well as pre-1923 (1923 being the big date in U.S. copyright law, for reasons that I won't get into here) works. I think that I am correct with these numbers: there are a little over 12.5 million works of all publication dates in the IA. There are about 5 million works from 1923 and after. That's a little over 1/3!

If you ever want to search only 1923 stuff, which all or almost all is in the public domain in the United States (ymmv in other countries), you can do it by doing a regular "advanced search." You want to insert in the appropriate place that you want to search from 01/01/1923 to the date of the day that you are doing the searching or some date in the future. Viola, you get only 1923-to-now stuff from the search.

I don't know why there is so much stuff in the IA from 1923 till now. I haven't looked into that. I suspect that many times the copyright holders have (graciously) approved IA's use of it. In other instances, I'm sure that the works never were copyrighted in the first place or that explicit permission was given in the works for them to be freely used for one purpose or another or in one situation or another.

Unfortunately, there is not, to my knowledge, a simple and easy way to do a search by subject in IA, including in the results from the search that you do above. However, there are all kinds of other options, both within the search commands area and through some links on the right hand side of the search results webpage.

[GtrsRGr8]

How to Lose the Civil War: Military Mistakes of the War Between the States. By Bill Fawcett. Rated 4 stars, but from only 3 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $13.99; Kindle $0.99. HarperCollins Publishers, publisher. 320 pages. http://www.amazon.com/How-Lose-Civil...een+the+States.

Book Description
An expert on historical military incompetence, Bill Fawcett now offers an engrossing, fact-filled collection that sheds light on the biggest, dumbest screw ups of the America’s bloodiest conflict. How to Lose the Civil War is a fascinating compendium of battlefield blunders and strategic mistakes on both sides of the line. History and military buffs, trivia lovers, and students of the War Between the States will all be mesmerized by this amazing collection of gaffes and bungles perpetrated by idiot officers and short-sighted politicians, Union and Confederate alike— published on the 150th anniversary of the brutal conflict that changed America forever.

[itisbomb]

Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
by Anna Reid

is $2.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Leningrad-Epic...ords=Leningrad

Below is the blurb:
On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation. Anna Reid's Leningrad is a gripping, authoritative narrative history of this dramatic moment in the twentieth century, interwoven with indelible personal accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists on both sides. They reveal the Nazis' deliberate decision to starve Leningrad into surrender and Hitler's messianic miscalculation, the incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet war leadership, the horrors experienced by soldiers on the front lines, and, above all, the terrible details of life in the blockaded city: the relentless search for food and water; the withering of emotions and family ties; looting, murder, and cannibalism- and at the same time, extraordinary bravery and self-sacrifice. Stripping away decades of Soviet propaganda, and drawing on newly available diaries and government records, Leningrad also tackles a raft of unanswered questions: Was the size of the death toll as much the fault of Stalin as of Hitler? Why didn't the Germans capture the city? Why didn't it collapse into anarchy? What decided who lived and who died? Impressive in its originality and literary style, Leningrad gives voice to the dead and will rival Anthony Beevor's classic Stalingrad in its impact.

[itisbomb]

The Irish Americans: A History
by Jay P. Dolan

is $2.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Irish-American...rish+Americans

Below is the blurb:
Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In THE IRISH AMERICANS, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the 1960s. Dolan draws on his own original research and much other recent scholarship to weave an insightful, colorful narrative. He follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine that brought millions of starving immigrants; the trials of ethnic prejudice and "No Irish Need Apply;" the rise of Irish political power and the heyday of Tammany politics; to the election of John F. Kennedy as president, a moment of triumph when an Irish American ascended to the highest office in the land.

Dolan evokes the ghastly ships crowded with men and women fleeing the potato blight; the vibrant life of Catholic parishes in cities like New York and Chicago; the world of machine politics, where ward bosses often held court in the local saloon. Rich in colorful detail, balanced in judgment, and the most comprehensive work of its kind yet published, THE AMERICAN IRISH is a lasting achievement by a master historian that will become a must-have volume for any American with an interest in the Irish-American heritage.

[itisbomb]

Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II
by Nicholas Best

is $2.99 at Kobo and other major online bookstores.

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...cked-the-world

Below is the blurb:
In the momentous days from April 28 to May 2, 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. Mussolini’s capture and execution by Italian partisans, the suicide of Adolf Hitler, and the fall of the German capital signaled the end of the four-year war in the European Theater. In Five Days That Shocked the World, Nicholas Best thrills readers with the first-person accounts of those who lived through this dramatic time.

In this valuable work of history, the author’s special achievement is weaving together the reports of famous and soon-to-be-famous individuals who experienced the war up close. We follow a young Walter Cronkite as he parachutes into Holland with a Canadian troop; photographer Lee Miller capturing the evidence of Nazi atrocities; the future Pope Benedict returning home and hoping not to get caught and shot after deserting his infantry unit; Audrey Hepburn no longer having to fear conscription into a Wehrmacht brothel; and even an SS doctor’s descriptions of a decadent sex orgy in Hitler’s bunker.

In skillfully synthesizing these personal narratives, Best creates a compelling chronicle of the five earth-shaking days when Fascism lost it death grip on Europe. With this vivid and fast-paced narrative, the author reaffirms his reputation as an expert on the final days of great wars.

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II
by Nicholas Best

is $2.99 at Kobo and other major online bookstores.

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...cked-the-world

Below is the blurb:
In the momentous days from April 28 to May 2, 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. Mussolini’s capture and execution by Italian partisans, the suicide of Adolf Hitler, and the fall of the German capital signaled the end of the four-year war in the European Theater. In Five Days That Shocked the World, Nicholas Best thrills readers with the first-person accounts of those who lived through this dramatic time.

Golly, so this author thinks that WWII was a four year war for the Europeans ..... if they've got that fact wrong I can't understand how the book ever got published!

[mitford13]

Looks like a few of the drastic reductions from Random House Australia, as reported in the Kobo thread, are showing up on amazon...

(I have faith the aussie'll get his dates right! )

36 cents for Kindle:

Pacific Fury by Peter Thompson

http://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Fury-P...dp/B004T6E47Q/

How Australia and her allies defeated the Japanese. Pearl Harbor; The Fall of Singapore; Curtin's Fight With Churchill; The Bombing Of Darwin; POW Camps; The Battle of Midway; Kokoda; Buna; Kamikaze Pilots; Hiroshima... These words alone are enough to convey the terror, courage and drama of the Pacific War, when the balance of power stood on a knife-edge and when the future of Australia was on the brink - threatened by Japanese aggression on the one hand and British deception on the other. After a conflict that took an unimaginable number of lives and ended with the unleashing of the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen, the Allies emerged victorious. Australia, however, was criticised by Churchill and his generals for showing cowardice in the face of the enemy and for not caring about the fate of other nations. The endorsement of these claims by several military historians today shows that the smear has not gone away. Until now. Peter Thompson presents, for the first time, an account of the conflict that places Australian voices and action at the heart of the struggle. Based on exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses and written with all the pace and verve you would expect of a master storyteller, Pacific Fury brings the people and the battles to life in a sensational history not to be bettered in a generation.