Free and Bargain Non-Fiction in February 2014 - Page 2

mitford13 · 02-17-2014, 04:32 PM

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ClareK · 02-17-2014, 06:25 PM

I think "Forever Amber" might belong in a Historical Fiction forum!

mitford13 · 02-17-2014, 07:42 PM

@$!_)/+?$!!!

That's the second time I've done that lately.
Guess it's time for that eye check-up...
Sorry.

GtrsRGr8 · 02-23-2014, 07:23 PM

Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything. Jeffrey Needham. Kindle format. $0.00. Regular print list price $12.99. O'Reilly Media.
http://www.amazon.com/Disruptive-Pos.../dp/B00CLH387W

Internet-scale computing—popularly known as big data—has more disruptive potential than any information technology in the past 40 years. As author Jeffrey Needham points out in this eye-opening book, big data can provide unprecedented insight into user habits, giving enterprises a huge market advantage. It will also inspire organizations to change the way they function.
Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything takes you on a journey of discovery into the emerging world of big data, from its relatively simple technology to the ways it differs from cloud computing. But the big story of big data is the disruption of enterprise status quo, especially vendor-driven technology silos and budget-driven departmental silos. In the highly collaborative environment needed to make big data work, silos simply don’t fit.
Internet-scale computing offers incredible opportunity and a tremendous challenge—and it will soon become standard operating procedure in the enterprise. This book shows you what to expect.

Some of you may recognize the phrase "big data" from the recent disclosures of the use of big data databases and analytics by the NSA. This book, it appears, focuses on the use of big data by corporations.

Difflugia · 02-24-2014, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything. Jeffrey Needham. Kindle format. $0.00. Regular print list price $12.99. O'Reilly Media.
http://www.amazon.com/Disruptive-Pos.../dp/B00CLH387W

Thanks! It's also free (and DRM-free) at O'Reilly's online store in Kindle, epub and PDF formats.

murg · 02-24-2014, 03:13 PM

Thanks to both of you (GtrsRGr8 for the notice, Diffugia for O'Reilly's).

koland · 02-24-2014, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything. Jeffrey Needham. Kindle format. $0.00. Regular print list price $12.99. O'Reilly Media.
http://www.amazon.com/Disruptive-Pos.../dp/B00CLH387W

Bad link here in the US AND it was affiliate tagged.

ETA: Functional link: http://www.amazon.com/Disruptive-Pos...dp/B00CLH387W/

itisbomb · 02-28-2014, 09:26 AM

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
by Sandy Tolan

is today's Kindle Daily Deals. It can be downloaded for $1.99.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_i=1000677541

Below is the blurb:
In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Based on extensive research, and springing from his enormously resonant documentary that aired on NPR's Fresh Air in 1998, Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, suggesting that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and reconciliation.

koland · 03-01-2014, 08:50 PM

Thread closed, see new thread

02-17-2014, 04:32 PM	#16
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02-23-2014, 07:23 PM	#19
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything. Jeffrey Needham. Kindle format. $0.00. Regular print list price $12.99. O'Reilly Media. http://www.amazon.com/Disruptive-Pos.../dp/B00CLH387W Internet-scale computing—popularly known as big data—has more disruptive potential than any information technology in the past 40 years. As author Jeffrey Needham points out in this eye-opening book, big data can provide unprecedented insight into user habits, giving enterprises a huge market advantage. It will also inspire organizations to change the way they function. Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything takes you on a journey of discovery into the emerging world of big data, from its relatively simple technology to the ways it differs from cloud computing. But the big story of big data is the disruption of enterprise status quo, especially vendor-driven technology silos and budget-driven departmental silos. In the highly collaborative environment needed to make big data work, silos simply don’t fit. Internet-scale computing offers incredible opportunity and a tremendous challenge—and it will soon become standard operating procedure in the enterprise. This book shows you what to expect. Some of you may recognize the phrase "big data" from the recent disclosures of the use of big data databases and analytics by the NSA. This book, it appears, focuses on the use of big data by corporations. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 02-24-2014 at 07:29 PM. Reason: Removed affiliate tag from hyperlink.

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02-17-2014, 06:25 PM	#17
ClareK Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 175816 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Laser	I think "Forever Amber" might belong in a Historical Fiction forum!

02-17-2014, 07:42 PM	#18
mitford13 Guru Posts: 685 Karma: 6495650 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Arlington, VA Device: iPad Air2, Fire HD10, Paperwhite, Kobo App	@$!_)/+?$!!! That's the second time I've done that lately. Guess it's time for that eye check-up... Sorry.

02-24-2014, 03:13 PM	#21
murg No Comment Posts: 3,240 Karma: 23878043 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Australia Device: Kobo: Not just an eReader, it's an adventure!	Thanks to both of you (GtrsRGr8 for the notice, Diffugia for O'Reilly's).

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itisbomb Evangelist Posts: 400 Karma: 1997754 Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Third planet from the sun Device: PaperWhite 4	The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan is today's Kindle Daily Deals. It can be downloaded for $1.99. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_i=1000677541 Below is the blurb: In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Based on extensive research, and springing from his enormously resonant documentary that aired on NPR's Fresh Air in 1998, Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, suggesting that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and reconciliation.

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