Free and Bargain Non-Fiction in March 2014

[GtrsRGr8]

The Art of Hacking. Author--Can Akdeniz. Kindle. Five stars out of 5 from 3 reviews, at this moment. Digital list price--$9.95; Print list price--$15.99. Kindle now--$0.00. http://www.amazon.com/Art-Hacking-Ca...art+of+hacking

No, it's not about what you probably think it is about. Read on . . . .

The world as it exists today is barely recognizable as the same world that existed on hundred, or even fifty, years ago. The last century has seen innovation after innovation reshape and revolutionize almost every aspect of human existence. Far from bringing us to an end point – a settled state in which no further innovation is possible – the rate of change has increased exponentially in recent decades. It seems that we a set firmly on a path of endless enhancement.

This leads us to ask: where does innovation come from, and how does it happen?

The answer, quite simply, is people. People have ideas. People strive to make their ideas a reality. Through this, people create change.

We call these people hackers. A hack is a small change to the recognized way of doing things, which leads to a large-scale increase in efficiency, success, or achievement. Hackers break the rules and change the game. Hackers are the most important members of our society, of any society, as they hold the power to shape the future.

This book celebrates the lives and achievements of some of history’s greatest hackers: from Tim Berners-Lee to Jack Dorsey, from Leonardo da Vinci to Steve Jobs. Learn about who they were and how they functioned. Discover the characteristics that allow hackers to keep pushing forward, innovating, revolutionizing industries and changing the world.

[itisbomb]

Einstein: The Life and Times
by Ronald Clark

is today's Nook Daily Find. It can be downloaded for $1.99.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eins...=9781448202706

Below is the blurb:
First published in 1972, Ronald W. Clark's definitive biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they seemed. Here is the classic portrait of the scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate pacifist who agonized over making The Bomb, the indifferent Zionist asked to head the Israeli state, the physicist who believed in God.

[GtrsRGr8]

Now available at Amazon in the Kindle format: http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-...life+and+times

[Lynx-lynx]

Kobo Aus* has Astrid Karlsen Scott, Dr. Tore Haug's

Defiant Courage: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
$2.10 (and discountable - see the Kobo Discounts thread)

"I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could never forget it. Then when we went to Norway to do a docu-drama, people told us again and again that certain parts were pure fiction. Since I was a Norwegian that was not good enough; I had to find the truth. I sincerely believe we did," writes author Astrid Karlsen Scott, and Defiant Courage is the true story of what Jan Baalsrud endured as he tried to escape from the Gestapo in Norway's Troms District.

In late March 1943, in the midst of WWII, four Norwegian saboteurs arrived in northern Norway on a fishing cutter and set anchor in Toftefjord to establish a base for their operations. However, they were betrayed, and a German boat attacked the cutter, creating a battlefield and spiraling Jan Baalsrud into the adventure of his life.

The only survivor and wounded, Baalsrud begins a perilous journey to freedom, swimming icy fjords, climbing snow-covered peaks, enduring snowstorms, and getting caught in a monstrous avalanche. More than sixty people of the Troms District risk their lives to help Baalsrud, who was suffering from snow-blindness and frostbite, to freedom.

Meticulously researched for more than five years, Karlsen Scott and Haug bring forth the truth behind this captivating, edge-of-your-seat, real-life survival story.

*I suspect that Kobo in your country has similar pricing as this - as well as being discountable.

[itisbomb]

The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon
by John Ferling

is $1.99 at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Ascent-Geo...4881874&sr=8-1

Below is the blurb:
Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting. What has gone unnoticed about the much-researched life of Washington is that he was in fact a consummate politician, as historian John Ferling shows in this revealing and provocative new book. As leader of the Continental Army, Washington's keen political savvy enabled him not only to outwit superior British forces, but--even more challenging--to manage the fractious and intrusive Continental Congress. Despite dire setbacks early in the war, Washington deftly outmaneuvered rival generals and defused dissent from officers below him, ending the war with the status of a national icon. His carefully burnished reputation allowed Washington, as president, to lead the country under the guise of non-partisanship for almost all of his eight years in office. Washington, Ferling argues, was not only one of America's most adroit politicians, he was easily the most successful of all time--so successful, in fact, that he is no longer thought of as having been political.

[LovesMacs]

I found Stephen Ambrose's two-part biography on U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower at $2.99 for each volume on Amazon's US site:

Eisenhower, Vol. 1: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952

http://www.amazon.com/Eisenhower-Vol.../dp/B00BD4E53K

"Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952" is the first volume of Stephen Ambrose's brilliantly received biography. This definitive, sympathetic, objective and sometimes critical work is the culmination of twenty years of research by one of the editors of the Eisenhower Papers. Drew Middleton in The New York Times praised the first volume as "the most complete and objective work yet on the general who became President."

"With this first volume of a life of Eisenhower, Stephen E. Ambrose, a historian at the University of New Orleans, takes the lead in reassessment. Ambrose has mined the vast library of papers well. It cannot have been easy work: Eisenhower was nearly as reticent about his private and interior life as George Washington. Volume One crosses the long span of years from Eisenhower's birth to his election as president . . .The advantage of a life study is that we get to see the man." --Richard Rhodes, Bookworld

Eisenhower, Vol. 2: The President

http://www.amazon.com/Eisenhower-Vol.../dp/B00BCL8S4Q

"Eisenhower: The President" is the eagerly awaited second and concluding volume of Stephen Ambrose's brilliantly received biography. This definitive, sympathetic, objective and sometimes critical work is the culmination of twenty years of research by one of the editors of the Eisenhower Papers. Drew Middleton in The New York Times praised the first volume as "the most complete and objective work yet on the general who became President."

This volume begins with Ike as President-elect and the whole new set of problems he has to deal with. Ambrose provides us with the first assessment of a Cold War President based on access to the entire record, and the result is full of surprises on a wide range of issues that faced the President over the next eight years. Many of the documents unearthed by Ambrose have never been seen by anyone else since Ike wrote or read them, and they cover a broad range of subjects. Eisenhower's rejection of the near-unanimous advice of the National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA and the State Department to use atomic weapons, the Eisenhower-Nixon relationship; civil rights and McCarthy; and Ike's most private views on and relationships with de Gaulle, Anthony Eden, Nixon, Kruschev, and Dulles among many others.

Ranking Eisenhower as a great President (Just below FDR and Wilson among those of the Twentieth Century), Professor Ambrose provides us with an extraordinary portrait of a good man who lived life to the fullest, and who made a real contribution to the Presidency.

[Little.Egret]

All free for a few days

The Battle of El Alamein: Fortress in the Sand by Fred Majdalany

It has come to be regarded as one of the finest books on World War Two ever written.

"Majdalany recounts the battle with the clarity of full comprehension." - New Yorker

"A shrewd and valuable survey. . . . The course of the battle is lucidly and succinctly described in its successive stages." - Times Literary Supplement


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C1JVU6Q/
(may be not-NA)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00C1JVU6Q/

The French and Indian War: Seven Years of Conflict by Henry Roberts


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J0KY4EY/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00J0KY4EY/


The M1 Garand Rifle: Weapons of War by Rex Richards


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J1S65SS/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00J1S65SS/

[Apache]

You need to edit the link for the US version of The Battle of El Alamein. Also when I corrected it says the book is unavailable.
Apache

[shootist]

Yes please

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by Apache

You need to edit the link for the US version of The Battle of El Alamein. Also when I corrected it says the book is unavailable.
Apache

Thanks.

Australians may try

http://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B00C1JVU6Q/



It works for me but Amazon.com knows I am UK
Luzme.com can't find it

[GtrsRGr8]

The Study Skills Book: Pearson College (Smarter Study Skills) [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition] by Kathleen McMillan, Jonathan Weyers. 464 pages. Print list price $37.50. Kindle price $0.00. http://www.amazon.com/Study-Skills-B...5419474&sr=1-1

The Study Skills Book, Third edition

Kathleen McMillan & Jonathan Weyers

Is there a secret to successful study? The answer is “Yes”! There are some essential skills and smart strategies that will help you to improve your performance and results at university, whatever course you are following.

Using proven techniques and practical tips to help you to focus your efforts and develop successful study skills and strategies, The Study Skills Book provides practical answers to questions such as:

What is the best way to plan an essay or dissertation?

What do lecturers expect from you in a tutorial?

Where should you focus your efforts for maximum impact?

This book is an essential resource for all students who want to improve their performance and succeed in their studies:

All key study skills are covered including academic writing, revision & exams, dissertations & projects, basic academic numeracy and independent learning & research

Practical solutions are presented for the most common problems

A common-sense, no-nonsense approach is offered using practical checklists and tips

This new edition of The Study Skills Book has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout to include the most up-to-date advice and guidance that has been extensively tested and improved by students to help you to focus your efforts, troubleshoot your problems and thrive and succeed at university.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The Study Skills Book: Pearson College (Smarter Study Skills) [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition] by Kathleen McMillan, Jonathan Weyers. 464 pages. ....

[Little.Egret]

The Study Skills Book: Pearson College (Smarter Study Skills) [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition] by Kathleen McMillan, Jonathan Weyers. 464 pages.

Also http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IZ088OC/

And there are 10 similar expensive textbooks free, Publisher=Pearson price low to high

Example Consumer Behaviour: Leeds University Business School by Michael R. Solomon, Gary Bamossy, Søren Askegaard and Margaret K. Hogg

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IZ082JS/


Accounting for Non-Accounting Students: INTO UEA (London Campus)

Operations Management:Processes and Supply Chains: Global Edition: University of the West Indies

Digital Marketing: UEL

Principles of Marketing European Edition: Pearson College by Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong, Lloyd Harris and Nigel F. Piercy


The Business of Sport Management: London College of International Business Studies (LCIBS) by John Beech and Simon Chadwick

Essentials of Organizational Behavior, Global Edition: LCIBS by Stephen P. Robbins and Tim Judge

Purchasing and Supply Chain Management: LCIBS by Brian Farrington and Kenneth Lysons

This is Brilliant: CBT, NLP, Confidence, Memory Training, Interview Answers, Negotiations, Selling, Presentation & Networking: A little bit of help from the best Brilliant books by Stephen Briers, Richard Hall, Jeremy Cassell and Susan Hodgson

Exploring Public Relations: PR Academy by Ralph Tench and Liz Yeomans



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[koland]

Several are also free in the US from Pearson: http://www.amazon.com/s/?rh=n:154606...lisher=pearson

[koland]

UK list and US List of free textbooks from Pearson updated with a couple of extra titles.