FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2016

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Froide

That's a LOT of emails.

There may be a way to select which newsletters that you want to receive, there frequently is when an organization has more than one. I just never have explored that. I'd like to quit getting the videos newsletter.

I forgot to mention a third type that she sends everyday--a tips newsletter. I want to keep on that mailing list. I also keep all of them, so when I have a computer issue I can search my emails to see if she's had a tip about it.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by murg

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We get an email everyday announcing that our local pizza delivery chain store has opened for the day.

That's funny.

Now that's excessive! Unless they don't have set hours or they habitually come in late to work or something.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by murg

It's the way of the world.

We get an email everyday announcing that our local pizza delivery chain store has opened for the day.

Should be a tweet.

I have several email accounts plus rules to divert some to folders.

[murg]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

That's funny.

Now that's excessive! Unless they don't have set hours or they habitually come in late to work or something.

They're a major global chain. And quite punctual.

[TrevorViking]

The number of my unread emails is approaching one million.

[murg]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

The number of my unread emails is approaching one million.

You should work on clearing that. There may be an email from a Nigerian prince that will fund your retirement.

[GtrsRGr8]

Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences. By Leonard Sax Md Phd. Rated 4.3 stars, from 171 reviews, at Amazon. Print list price $15.99; digital list price $13.99; Kindle price now $1.99. Harmony, publisher. 336 pages. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEIIPW.

Book Description
Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends.

It's hard to cling to that belief today. An avalanche of research over the past twenty years has shown that sex differences are more significant and profound than anybody guessed. Sex differences are real, biologically programmed, and important to how children are raised, disciplined, and educated.

In Why Gender Matters, psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax leads parents through the mystifying world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act. He addresses a host of issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations.

For example, girls are born with more sensitive hearing than boys, and those differences increase as kids grow up. So when a grown man speaks to a girl in what he thinks is a normal voice, she may hear it as yelling. Conversely, boys who appear to be inattentive in class may just be sitting too far away to hear the teacher—especially if the teacher is female.

Likewise, negative emotions are seated in an ancient structure of the brain called the amygdala. Girls develop an early connection between this area and the cerebral cortex, enabling them to talk about their feelings. In boys these links develop later. So if you ask a troubled adolescent boy to tell you what his feelings are, he often literally cannot say.

Dr. Sax offers fresh approaches to disciplining children, as well as gender-specific ways to help girls and boys avoid drugs and early sexual activity. He wants parents to understand and work with hardwired differences in children, but he also encourages them to push beyond gender-based stereotypes.

A leading proponent of single-sex education, Dr. Sax points out specific instances where keeping boys and girls separate in the classroom has yielded striking educational, social, and interpersonal benefits. Despite the view of many educators and experts on child-rearing that sex differences should be ignored or overcome, parents and teachers would do better to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl, and a boy a boy.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by murg

You should work on clearing that. There may be an email from a Nigerian prince that will fund your retirement.

It's too late. I got an email from him, too, and I went ahead and sent my life savings to him. Better luck next time.

[GtrsRGr8]

This book was originally published in 1891. However, historian Michael Grant (author of History of Rome, et al.) states that "this book has never been bettered." This is a classic that belongs in the library of every person who has an interest in Carthage and/or ancient Rome at least.

This edition was published by Albion Press (an imprint of Endeavor Press). It's very "clean" and contains a clickable TOC.

This book seems to originally have been published as a 2-volume work. So, in effect, with the price of the ebook being 99 cents, you're getting two books for less than 50 cents each! And, however you look at it, the markdown from the digital list price right now is a nice 75%.

Hannibal: A History of the Art of War among the Carthaginians and Romans down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 B.C., with a detailed account of the Second Punic War. By Theodore Ayrault Dodge. Print list price $24.99; digital list price $3.99; Kindle price now $0.99. Rated 4.5 stars, from 74 reviews, at Amazon. Albion Press. 473 pages. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DWL6V5Q.

Book Description
Carthage grew to rival Rome.

But only under the leader of its greatest general: Hannibal.


A clash of titans was inevitable.

Roman jealousy brought about the First Punic War — in which Hamilcar became a leading commander — and her efforts enabled her to defeat Carthage in her own element: at sea.

Although Carthage was on the wane at the time of the Barcas, the impetus, intelligence and ability of Hamilcar and then his son Hannibal almost carried them to success.

As a commander Hannibal was a visionary, recognising challenges that he would have to face before being able to set foot on Italian soil in 218 B.C., as well as opponent’s weaknesses.

By virtue of having followed in his footsteps with the sources, Dodge’s narrative is very much grounded in the topography and delivers a greater understanding to the general’s wars.

With admirable calculation of the power of the forces opposing him, Hannibal disregarded the accepted rules of war and took advantage of circumstance … or made his own.

Much like Alexander, Hannibal would act promptly and energetically on this knowledge but following Cannæ he was obliged to confine himself within much narrower boundaries.

A master tactician, it was in logistics and overall strategy that Hannibal excelled and led to him defying numerous efforts to dislodge him from his Italian foothold.

In the end it was the Carthaginian senate, facing defeat at Scipio’s hands, who would relieve the pressure on Rome by ordering Hannibal to return home in attempt to save a lost cause.

Inevitably the Romans proved themselves fast learners once more, and for all the bitter experiences he had inflicted upon them it was Hannibal who taught them the art of war.

In this masterful two-volume study of the Romano-Carthaginian art of war, Theodore Ayrault Dodge charts Hannibal’s extraordinary career and examines how he earned the moniker “the Father of Strategy.”

[Ricky D'Angelo]

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay.
http://amzn.com/B004TPP976

[GtrsRGr8]

CORRECTION: I doubt that this matters to anyone, but David & Charles Publishers, which Amazon shows as publisher, is now F&W Media International Limited. WarGameVault correctly, it seems, shows the publisher as F + W.

The WarGameVault Deal of the Day is an ebook. Or, to be more accurate, two ebooks, because you get both the PDF and ePub of this 354-page book with your purchase.

The book is Tales from the Front Line - D-Day, by Jonathan Bastable. From the WarGameVault's Deal of the Day webpage:
Tales From the Front Line - D Day is a chronicle of the build-up and aftermath of the most decisive battle of World War II, told through the tales of the extraordinary participants who recorded their experiences in letters or diaries, or recounted them after the event.

Tales From the Front Line - D-Day commemorates the bravery and skill of generals, frontline soldiers, statesmen and civilians.

Jonathan Bastable has skillfully woven disparate tales into a compelling narrative of one of the key events in the twentieth century. You will find that this is the most personal account to date of the day s events.

Unfortunately, there are no ratings on this David & Charles imprint book at Amazon yet. There is just one, a 4.00, at GoodReads.

The current price at Amazon for the Kindle mobi is $14.99. The price at WarGameVault is only $4.50 at the present time.

I've just now learned about this special. There are currently just short of 15 hours left on the daily deal.

Go here to purchase.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free thread for two new bundles:

Humble Book Bundle Hacking presented by No Starch Press, full of computer/internet-related books mainly focusing on security and malware-protection issues, but also a few DIY programming guides.

The Boss Fight Bundle from StoryBundle, containing mostly guides to assorted video games with substantial making/history-of with interviews with the game developers, and some other essays and fiction in the game settings as well.

[Dngrsone]

That Hacking bundle is very tempting... don't know whether I'd read enough of them to recoup my money though... I don't find a lot of time to do programming lately.

[GtrsRGr8]

The State of North Carolina has a State Library. Among the items in the library are books that have been published by different agencies of the State. Residents of the state can actually borrow physical books from the library. Residents and non-residents can download ebooks in the library. That, in itself, is not unusual.

Something that does seem to be unusual, however, and that I just discovered about this library, is the fact that you can request that the Library digitize specific books in the Library that are currently not available there in digital form. Then, you can download them. And there is no charge to you for it.

Of course, they cannot do this for books not published by the State that are not yet in the public domain (to make things simple, they say none of them published "after 1924," even though some of them actually may be in the public domain for one reason or another). However, apparently anything that has been published by an agency of the State of North Carolina is eligible, regardless of copyright status.

Before you decide that all that possibly could have been published by a state government is basically junk, let me quickly say that this offer applies to items published by such agencies as the prestigious North Carolina Museum of Art (other agencies are listed at http://catalog.ncdcr.gov/index.html in the yellow box near the top righthand corner of the page).

I want to use the Museum as an example. They published a book, a number of years ago, entitled Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture. I want it for my library. I could buy a used paperback copy at Amazon for $14.37, shipped. However, I am in no big hurry to obtain it, so I made a request to the State Library for them to digitize the physical copy that they have in their holdings. I notice that they have already put it in the queue. So my savings will be $14.37. I also will be getting it in a digital form (PDF), which I would prefer over a dead-tree version, and which is not available at any price at a retailer, as far as I can determine.

If this sounds interesting to you, I suggest that you do a little experiment. Do a search of books at Amazon with "North Carolina Museum of Art." If your experience is like mine, you will get 952 hits. Not all of these will be books actually published by the North Carolina Museum of Art, and so you will have to weed those out. Look through the selection for a book that you might be interested in. Then, go to the North Carolina State Library and search for the book, starting from http://catalog.ncdcr.gov/index.html. It may have already been digitized, if so you're already in business. If it has not been digitized, you can request it, and obtain a digital copy. If you want to browse through even more books published by the Museum, including those which are out-of-print now, I recommend that you go to a meta used book search engine such as Bookfinder, and do a search there.

Remember that you also can check other agencies of the State of North Carolina besides the Museum of Art. Again, I refer you to the list of them here.

After you make a request, they will send you a confirmation email. You can also find your ebook, when it has been approved for digitization, in the Library's digitization queue. Is there a caveat or downside? Only one that I know of: the Library advises that it might take 4-6 months to get to and complete your digitization request.

If you're interested in doing a search of the Library to see what they have, the best place to start may be here.

I don't have any idea, yet, of how many other states offer this service. But I hope that it is many or, at least, that many will start doing this in the future. Don't you?

[Cinisajoy]

That sounds neat.
Oh many works by a government agency are automatically public domain. I know NASA is.