FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2014

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I just ran across a huge number of Kindle ebooks and booklets published by "Speedy Publishing," priced at $0/each.
You can find all of the current freebies at

I'm going to try to get on Speedy Publishing's mailing list, or at least bookmark their website, so perhaps I can get notification of their sales, in advance. Finding their sale this time was serendipitous.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...edy+Publishing

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

Only 6 in the UK and in Canada

[itisbomb]

Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
by Jack Rakove

is $2.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionarie...evolutionaries

Below is the blurb:
In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary" by ambition, but when events in Boston escalated, they found themselves thrust into a crisis that moved, in a matter of months, from protest to war.

In this remarkable book, the historian Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men were suddenly transformed into public careers—how Washington became a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliant policymaker. Rakove shakes off accepted notions of these men as godlike visionaries, focusing instead on the evolution of their ideas and the crystallizing of their purpose. In Revolutionaries, we see the founders before they were fully formed leaders, as individuals whose lives were radically altered by the explosive events of the mid-1770s. They were ordinary men who became extraordinary—a transformation that finally has the literary treatment it deserves.

Spanning the two crucial decades of the country’s birth, from 1773 to 1792, Revolutionaries uses little-known stories of these famous (and not so famous) men to capture—in a way no single biography ever could—the intensely creative period of the republic’s founding. From the Boston Tea Party to the First Continental Congress, from Trenton to Valley Forge, from the ratification of the Constitution to the disputes that led to our two-party system, Rakove explores the competing views of politics, war, diplomacy, and society that shaped our nation.

Thoughtful, clear-minded, and persuasive, Revolutionaries is a majestic blend of narrative and intellectual history, one of those rare books that makes us think afresh about how the country came to be, and why the idea of America endures.

[Difflugia]

Tasting Whiskey by Lew Bryson is $2.99. The Workman's Blue Plate Special has a page with links to sellers and a sweepstakes to win a bar set.

Whiskey lovers will devour this fresh and comprehensive guide to everything there is to know about the world's whiskeys, including Scotch and bourbon as well as Tennessee, Irish, Japanese, and Canadian whiskeys. You'll learn about the types of whiskey and the distilling traditions of the regions where they are made, how to serve and taste whiskeys to best appreciate and savor them, how to collect and age whiskey for great results, and much more. There are even recipes for cocktails and suggestions for food pairings. This is the guide no whiskey drinker will want to be without!

If you buy it from eBooks.com, you can download both the epub and PDF into Digital Editions (and thence, of course, into Calibre ). The book is lavishly illustrated and nicely formatted, so I think the PDF is worth having.

[koland]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I just ran across a huge number of Kindle ebooks and booklets published by "Speedy Publishing," priced at $0/each....

I was not familiar with this publishing company before now, but I must say that I am impressed with the quality of their products, based upon viewing some previews.

Not a publisher, per se. Just another self-publishing platform, like smashwords or draft2digital (and many others popping up, all over). They do automate some of the listing in other stores for authors that don't want to deal with it (and no doubt take a cut, there).

http://www.speedypublishing.com/

[itisbomb]

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
by John Mullan

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/What-Matters-J...in+jane+austen

Below is the blurb:
Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness.

In twenty short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austens novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction. Readers will discover when Austen's characters had their meals and what shops they went to; how vicars got good livings; and how wealth was inherited. What Matters in Jane Austen? illuminates the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and daring as a novelist. It uses telling passages from Austen's letters and details from her own life to explain episodes in her novels: readers will find out, for example, what novels she read, how much money she had to live on, and what she saw at the theater.

Written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Jane Austen? will allow readers to appreciate Jane Austen's work in greater depth than ever before.

[itisbomb]

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Brunelleschis-...eschi%27s+dome

Below is the blurb:
On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore--already under construction for more than a century--was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month of September." The proposed dome was regarded far and wide as all but impossible to build: not only would it be enormous, but its original and sacrosanct design shunned the flying buttresses that supported cathedrals all over Europe. The dome would literally need to be erected over thin air.

Of the many plans submitted, one stood out--a daring and unorthodox solution to vaulting what is still the largest dome (143 feet in diameter) in the world. It was offered not by a master mason or carpenter, but by a goldsmith and clockmaker named Filippo Brunelleschi, who would dedicate the next twenty-eight years to solving the puzzles of the dome's construction. In the process, he did nothing less than reinvent the field of architecture.

Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Denounced at first as a madman, Brunelleschi was celebrated at the end as a genius. He engineered the perfect placement of brick and stone, built ingenious hoists and cranes to carry an estimated 70 million pounds hundreds of feet into the air, and designed the workers' platforms and routines so carefully that only one man died during the decades of construction--all the while defying those who said the dome would surely collapse and his own personal obstacles that at times threatened to overwhelm him.

Even today, in an age of soaring skyscrapers, the cathedral dome of Santa Maria del Fiore retains a rare power to astonish. Ross King brings its creation to life in a fifteenth-century chronicle with twenty-first-century resonance.

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Brunelleschis-...eschi%27s+dome

Thanks! I remember hearing about Brunelleschi in art appreciation class, and this looks like an interesting read.

[Little.Egret]

Lots and lots of Pyrrhus freebies in fact 49

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=Pyrrhus

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...lisher=Pyrrhus
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...lisher=Pyrrhus

The Ancient History of the Near East from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Salamis by Henry Hall

Darius the Great by Jacob Abbott
Persian emperor Darius I led the First Persian War against the Greeks that failed at the Battle of Marathon

The Greek Fathers by Adrian Fortescue

Constantine the Great: The Reorganisation of the Empire and Triumph of the Church by John Firth

History of Civilization in the Fifth Century, Volume 1 by Frederic Ozanam
History of Civilization in the Fifth Century, Volume 2 by Frederic Ozanam

Spanish Islam: A History of the Moslems in Spain by Reinhart Dozy

The Fall of Constantinople by Edwin Pears

Spain: Its Greatness and Decay (1479-1788) by Martin A.S. Hume


The Story of the Saracens, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Baghdad by Arthur Gilman

The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of Roman Dominion by Alfred Butler

History of the Fall of the Roman Empire by Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi

Civilization during the Middle Ages by George Burton Adams

Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

The Life of King Alfred by Asser and J.A. Giles

History of the Conquest of England by the Normans; Its Causes, and Its Consequences, in England, Scotland, Ireland, & on the Continent, Volume 1 by Augustin Thierry

The Life and Times of Saint Margaret Queen and Patroness of Scotland by Anon

Elizabethan Sea-Dogs, A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions by William Wood Eliza

[Little.Egret]

The Amazons by Guy Cadogan Rothery

Stories of the Saints by Grace Hall

History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages by Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi

The Queens of the Franks by Anon

The Story of Joan of Arc by Andrew Lang

Edward Plantagenet, The English Justinian by Edward Jenks

Louis XIV and the Zenith of the French Monarchy by Arthur Hassall

Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru by Frederick Ober

Hernando de Soto and the Invasion of Florida by Frederick Ober

On the State of Europe before and after the French Revolution by Frederick Gentz

Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott

The Life of Napoleon by John H. Rose

The History of Napoleon Bonaparte by John Gibson Lockhart

Josephine Empress of the French by Frederick Ober

The Decline and Fall of Napoleon by Viscount Wolseley

The Last Century in Europe 1814-1910 by C.E.M. Hawkesworth

The Slavery Question by John Lawrence
a work written by an abolitionist in the North about the evils of slavery in America before the Civil War.

The Story of the Great War Volume 1 by Leonard Wood

Flying for France by James McConnell

[koland]

Numerous new/repeats freebies in nonfiction & classics:

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...sher=Heraklion
http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=Waxkeep

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
by Jack Rakove

is $2.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionarie...evolutionaries

Thanks you so much, I got it at amazon.ca for $CDN 3.41
http://www.amazon.ca/Revolutionaries.../dp/B003KVKW86

Rakove is a history prof at Stanford. He won a Pulitzer in 1996. I listened to some of his podcasts several years ago; he was a very interesting presenter. I'm looking forward to reading this.

[Little.Egret]

Metamorphoses by Ovid and Ian Crowe

http://www.amazon.com/Metamorphoses-...dp/B00AM08R3K/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metamorphose...dp/B00AM08R3K/
http://www.amazon.ca/Metamorphoses-O...dp/B00AM08R3K/



The Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidus Naso (43 BC-AD17) is, beyond all question, one of the the most famous works from our classical past. It has decisively influence painters, dramatists, poets, and storytellers from the moment it first appeared up to the present day and has retained its immense popularity as a source of classical myths for over two thousand years.

The poem is a long narrative history of the world which incorporates about 250 well known legends and folk tales from Greek and Roman times, starting with the creation of the world and ending in Imperial Rome at the time of Augustus. Ovid has long been the principal source for such stories. However, the poem is a great deal more than merely a collection of tales, for it possesses a unique style, widely celebrated for its variety, vividness, narrative energy, and, above all, wit.

Ian Johnston's new verse translation of this immortal epic brilliantly captures the wonderful spirit of Ovid's poem in a fluent and immediately accessible English style.

On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and Ian Crowe

On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus (written around 60 BC) has for centuries been one of the most popular and influential works from our classical past. The poem is a long, impassioned plea for a materialistic understanding of the universe and of human life, without reference to divine creativity or benevolence or to a future life.

New poetic translation

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Things-...dp/B008KO2GEG/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Thing...dp/B008KO2GEG/
http://www.amazon.ca/Nature-Things-L...dp/B008KO2GEG/

[koland]

New batch from Pyrrhus
http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=Pyrrhus

[Froide]

Originally Posted by koland

New batch from Pyrrhus
http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=Pyrrhus

The link to and heads-up about this batch were posted yesterday.

[koland]

Originally Posted by Froide

The link to and heads-up about this batch were posted yesterday.

I must have missed a few, then. Saw a few new ones in one of the other searches today, as well.

I have noticed that on Chrome and Firefox, sometimes Amazon doesn't always display all 16 titles that it claims are on that page's lists. Sorting by pub date seems to help and on Internet Explorer, I haven't seen the issue at all.