Free/Bargain Nonfiction in December, 2013

[Brendan Moody]

Among the Janeites is also one of the US Kindle Daily Deals for the same price of $2.99.

[AnemicOak]

Basic Crocheting: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics) by Sharon Hernes Silverman is free from Stackpole

• Fundamental skills and stitches, such as the chain stitch, slip stitch, and single, half double, and double crochet
• Techniques include creating an integral fringe, crocheting in the round, and filet crocheting
• Create a shadowbox pillow, basketweave blanket, bunny basket, child's cap and mittens, openwork placemats, woven shoulder bag, and more

A heavily illustrated introduction to the skills you need to become a crocheter, Basic Crocheting begins with the yarn, hooks, and other tools you need to get started, and then moves on to cover the skills you need to make a wide variety of home accessories and wearables. Detailed instructions for every step of each project are supplemented with helpful photographs and illustrations.

[Little.Egret]

More for Jane Austen 'ites

Free

Jane Austen and Food by Maggie Lane

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...cm_cd_asin_lnk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...cm_cd_asin_lnk

Why is it so appropriate that the scene of Emma's disgrace should be a picnic, and how do the different styles of housekeeping in Mansfield Park relate to the social issues of the day?

'Jane Austen And Food' is a brilliant and original study of one of England's greatest novelists and will fascinate her many fans.

'This book will enrich our interpretation of Jane Austen's fiction, for Ms Lane makes us look afresh at the use of food as symbol and metaphor.' Jane Austen Society Newsletter


The Uffizi Gallery: The Top 30 Paintings to Visit in Florence's Greatest Art Museum by Samuel Hilt "The Uffizi Gallery" is a guidebook that can serve as a virtual companion for your armchair travels as well as a hands-on guidebook for your on-site visits to the Uffizi when you're in Tuscany.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00829UC90
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00829UC90

Scotland's Inventors - How Scotland Invented Everything by Callan Anderson

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E51N5BG
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00E51N5BG

[Little.Egret]

The Fall of the West by Matt Buttsworth

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055HFRW4
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0055HFRW4

Publisher: Buttsworth Books

[Little.Egret]

Free

Attrition: The Great War on the Western Front - 1916 by Robin Neillands

http://www.amazon.com/Attrition-Grea...dp/B00GDIBWUA/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Attrition-Gr...dp/B00GDIBWUA/

[itisbomb]

Leonardo and the Last Supper
by Ross King

is $2.99 at B&N.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/leon...he+last+supper

Below is the blurb:
Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history’s most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise. His latest failure was a giant bronze horse to honor Sforza’s father: his 75 tons of bronze had been expropriated to be turned into cannon to help repel a French invasion of Italy. The commission to paint The Last Supper in the refectory of a Dominican convent was a small compensation, and his odds of completing it were not promising: Not only had he never worked on a painting of such a large size--15’ high x 30’ wide--but he had no experience in the extremely difficult medium of fresco.

In his compelling new book, Ross King explores how--amidst war and the political and religious turmoil around him, and beset by his own insecurities and frustrations--Leonardo created the masterpiece that would forever define him. King unveils dozens of stories that are embedded in the painting. Examining who served as the models for the Apostles, he makes a unique claim: that Leonardo modeled two of them on himself. Reviewing Leonardo’s religious beliefs, King paints a much more complex picture than the received wisdom that he was a heretic. The food that Leonardo, a famous vegetarian, placed on the table reveals as much as do the numerous hand gestures of those at Christ’s banquet.

As King explains, many of the myths that have grown up around The Last Supper are wrong, but its true story is ever more interesting. Bringing to life a fascinating period in European history, Ross King presents an original portrait of one of history’s greatest geniuses through the lens of his most famous work.
Winner of the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction

[itisbomb]

Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free
by John Ferling

is $2.99 at B&N

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/inde...dence+struggle

Below is the blurb:
No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary effort, said bringing the fractious colonies together was like getting "thirteen clocks to strike at once."


Other books have been written about the Declaration, but no author has traced the political journey from protest to Revolution with the narrative scope and flair of John Ferling. Independence takes readers from the cobblestones of Philadelphia into the halls of Parliament, where many sympathized with the Americans and furious debate erupted over how to deal with the rebellion. Independence is not only the story of how freedom was won, but how an empire was lost.


At this remarkable moment in history, high-stakes politics was intertwined with a profound debate about democracy, governance, and justice. John Ferling, drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, brings this passionate struggle to life as no other historian could. Independence will be hailed as the finest work yet from the author Michael Beschloss calls "a national resource."

[AnemicOak]

Basic Basket Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics) is free from Stackpole

• Step-by-step instructions complete with detailed color photographs
• Includes a chapter on dyeing reed at home
• 4 basic basket projects for the beginning weaver

The art of basket making is described in detail for the beginning or experienced weaver. Complete with a chapter on tools and materials to get started, this easy-to-use guide explains and illustrates how to weave reed, incorporate premade handles, finish basket rims, and a host of other basket-making techniques. It also contains a chapter on dyeing reed, a simple and cost-effective way to obtain desired colors and results. Complete instructions for making a Flared Bun Basket, Small Market Basket, Napkin Basket, and Easter Basket teach necessary skills.

[bwaldron]

Same price at Amazon

Originally Posted by itisbomb

Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free
by John Ferling

is $2.99 at B&N

[murg]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Basic Basket Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics) is free from Stackpole

Now I can get that Football scholarship!

[slex]

Originally Posted by bwaldron

Same price at Amazon

Discounted at Kobo as well.

[Little.Egret]

Kindle Fire HDX User Guide From Novice to Master Expert in 1 Hour (Unleash the Mastery of Kindle Fire HDX: Getting Started, Apps, User tricks, Google play and Third-party games) by Alfred May

Free

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Novice-...dp/B00HG1GCSU/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Novic...dp/B00HG1GCSU/

[Little.Egret]

Free


M.I. 7b - the discovery of a lost propaganda archive from the Great War by Jeremy Arter

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BNTE396/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BNTE396/

This unique archive of propaganda was discovered by chance and provides a remarkable insight into a highly successful and sophisticated operation directed at the home front in 1917.

With previously unseen and unpublished contributions from writers such as A A Milne, Cecil Street, H B C Pollard, and other notable literary men of the day, the archive is both exciting and moving. It tells stories of individual acts of supreme heroism, and details the daily life of soldiers in the front line trenches as experienced by one who fought there.

The narrative includes original MI 7b material written between 1917-18 and tells the story of Lt James Lloyd who was shot and wounded in the first Battle of the Somme, recruited into Military Intelligence and saved his archive from the Government's destruction of all MI 7b's official papers shortly after the Armistice.

[Little.Egret]

Moments of Stark Terror! Tommy Towery (Editor)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AW5C4UW/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AW5C4UW/

Flying in a B-52 is hours and hours of pure boredom, followed by moments of stark terror!
If you are not interested in the peacetime alert or the non-flying tales of B-52 crewmembers and are only interested in the edge-of-the-seat, fingernail-biting stories of men under extreme pressure, then this book is the one you want to read.
*** D I S C L A I M E R ***
All the stories in this book have previously been published in Volumes 1-6 of the "We Were Crewdogs" series. This book is a collection of only the stories that involved inflight emergencies, ejections, crashes, and combat momemts that involved a sense of danger and the rapid responses needed to control the situation.
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It includes the complete story of the Red Cell mid-air out of Guam. It also includes the shootdown of a B-52 over New Mexico by a F-100 fighter. There are multiple stories of ejections and survival, both in combat and peacetime environments. One story is told by a crewmembers who ejected from a B-52 and survived , even after riding his ejection seat to the ground without a parachute. There are stories from the first crew to be shot down over Hanoi and the last B-52 shot down in the Vietnam War.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moments-Star...dp/B00AW5C4UW/ Tommy Towery (Editor)

Flying in a B-52 is hours and hours of pure boredom, followed by moments of stark terror!
If you are not interested in the peacetime alert or the non-flying tales of B-52 crewmembers and are only interested in the edge-of-the-seat, fingernail-biting stories of men under extreme pressure, then this book is the one you want to read.
*** D I S C L A I M E R ***
All the stories in this book have previously been published in Volumes 1-6 of the "We Were Crewdogs" series. This book is a collection of only the stories that involved inflight emergencies, ejections, crashes, and combat momemts that involved a sense of danger and the rapid responses needed to control the situation.
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It includes the complete story of the Red Cell mid-air out of Guam. It also includes the shootdown of a B-52 over New Mexico by a F-100 fighter. There are multiple stories of ejections and survival, both in combat and peacetime environments. One story is told by a crewmembers who ejected from a B-52 and survived , even after riding his ejection seat to the ground without a parachute. There are stories from the first crew to be shot down over Hanoi and the last B-52 shot down in the Vietnam War. Guidelines

[Little.Egret]

Basic Glass Fusing: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics) by Lynn Haunstein

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BIPMGEY/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BIPMGEY/