FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2016

[Little.Egret]

Karpathos Collections

The Charles Darwin Collection by Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species (6th edition, I would recommend the 1st)
The Voyage of the Beagle
On the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
The Power of Movement in Plants
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants
Insectivorous Plants
The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms
The Effects of Cross & Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
Coral Reefs
Volcanic Islands
Geological Observations on South America


AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES:
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
Darwin and Modern Science by A.C. Seward (1909)
The Darwinian Hypothesis by Thomas H. Huxley
Charles Darwin by Grant Allen

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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FGTQIA0/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01FGTQIA0/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01FGTQIA0/

[itisbomb]

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
by Anthony Summers

is $1.99 at

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...j-edgar-hoover

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Official-Conf...=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Below is the blurb:
Anthony Summers peels back layers of fact and hearsay to reveal the truth about one of the most powerful Americans of the twentieth century

No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For this consummate biography, renowned investigative journalist Anthony Summers interviewed more than eight hundred witnesses and pored through thousands of documents to get at the truth about the man who headed the FBI for fifty years, persecuted political enemies, blackmailed politicians, and lived his own surprising secret life. Ultimately, Summers paints a portrait of a fatally flawed individual who should never have held such power, and for so long.

[itisbomb]

Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
by Arthur Herman

is $2.99 at Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Forg...edom%27s+forge

Below is the blurb:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his patriotic duty.

In Freedom’s Forge, bestselling author Arthur Herman takes us back to that time, revealing how two extraordinary American businessmen—automobile magnate William Knudsen and shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser—helped corral, cajole, and inspire business leaders across the country to mobilize the “arsenal of democracy” that propelled the Allies to victory in World War II.

“Knudsen? I want to see you in Washington. I want you to work on some production matters.” With those words, President Franklin D. Roosevelt enlisted “Big Bill” Knudsen, a Danish immigrant who had risen through the ranks of the auto industry to become president of General Motors, to drop his plans for market domination and join the U.S. Army. Commissioned a lieutenant general, Knudsen assembled a crack team of industrial innovators, persuading them one by one to leave their lucrative private sector positions and join him in Washington, D.C. Dubbed the “dollar-a-year men,” these dedicated patriots quickly took charge of America’s moribund war production effort.

Henry J. Kaiser was a maverick California industrialist famed for his innovative business techniques and his can-do management style. He, too, joined the cause. His Liberty ships became World War II icons—and the Kaiser name became so admired that FDR briefly considered making him his vice president in 1944. Together, Knudsen and Kaiser created a wartime production behemoth. Drafting top talent from companies like Chrysler, Republic Steel, Boeing, Lockheed, GE, and Frigidaire, they turned auto plants into aircraft factories and civilian assembly lines into fountains of munitions, giving Americans fighting in Europe and Asia the tools they needed to defeat the Axis. In four short years they transformed America’s army from a hollow shell into a truly global force, laying the foundations for a new industrial America—and for the country’s rise as an economic as well as military superpower.

Featuring behind-the-scenes portraits of FDR, George Marshall, Henry Stimson, Harry Hopkins, Jimmy Doolittle, and Curtis LeMay, as well as scores of largely forgotten heroes and heroines of the wartime industrial effort, Freedom’s Forge is the American story writ large. It vividly re-creates American industry’s finest hour, when the nation’s business elites put aside their pursuit of profits and set about saving the world.

Praise for Freedom’s Forge

“A rambunctious book that is itself alive with the animal spirits of the marketplace.”—The Wall Street Journal

“A rarely told industrial saga, rich with particulars of the growing pains and eventual triumphs of American industry . . . Arthur Herman has set out to right an injustice: the loss, down history’s memory hole, of the epic achievements of American business in helping the United States and its allies win World War II.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Magnificent . . . It’s not often that a historian comes up with a fresh approach to an absolutely critical element of the Allied victory in World War II, but Pulitzer finalist Herman . . . has done just that.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

[GtrsRGr8]

This is a relatively new book (being published in 1990) for it to be from the Internet Archive. Although most of their items are in the public domain, so older, the Internet Archive has a small number (relatively speaking, the number is still in the millions) of items that are still in copyright; probably most people do not realize that. These are items which the copyright holders have generously allowed the Internet Archive to make available for free. This is one of them.

This is a catalog of an exhibition in 1984, but it is an extremely nicely done one. It's big, too. The book contains Impressionist paintings from many museums and collections, both private and public, from across the world. Almost all of the paintings are in color and, are, of course, beautiful. There is a bounteous amount of text describing the paintings, as well as bringing out various points about Impressionism as an art.

As far as I know, this book is not available for sale anywhere as an ebook (I did a quick search of Luzme, the title did not appear). It is only available as an ebook on the Internet Archive. And it's free.

Title: A Day in the country: impressionism and the French landscape.
Format(s): Probably every one that you've ever heard of, and more.
Author(s): Andrea P.A. Belloli (editor).
Publishers: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Abradale Books.
Pages: 376.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 5.0 (3); 4.30 (10) at GoodReads.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there: $4.00 (Paperback, Used--"Good").
Book Description (from the book cover flap):
A Day in the Country, with its wealth of exquisite color-plates, is a glorious armchair excursion into the world of the French Impressionists. But it is also a newly opened window on what the great artists who created these masterpieces were trying to achieve.

This is the first volume to approach Impressionist landscapes not merely as exaltations of physical beauty but as modern statements of important principles--artistic and social. The great new network of railroads that expanded the horizons of even the poorest city dweller, and the resulting new interactions of city and country life, are part of this absorbing chronicle . . . .
Comments:
URL: https://archive.org/details/dayincountryimpr00bret.

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour Press reprint

No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer (2001/2005) by Ronald Suresh Roberts

No Cold Kitchen charts Nadine Gordimer's life and work, providing a vibrant portrait of the country Gordimer lived in, the history she lived through and the people around her - people in South Africa, such as Nelson Mandela, George Bizos, Es'kia Mphahlele, Bram Fischer, Nat Nakasa, Desmond Tutu and Alan Paton; and people abroad, including Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Sampson, Edward Said, Amos Oz, Harry Levin and New Yorker editor Katharine White.

Ronald Suresh Roberts is also the author of Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd (1995) and co-author of Reconciliation Through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid's Criminal Governance (1997).


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EN6M63A/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01EN6M63A/
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01EN6M63A/

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Endeavour Press reprint

No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer (2001/2005) by Ronald Suresh Roberts

No Cold Kitchen charts Nadine Gordimer's life and work, providing a vibrant portrait of the country Gordimer lived in, the history she lived through and the people around her - people in South Africa, such as Nelson Mandela, George Bizos, Es'kia Mphahlele, Bram Fischer, Nat Nakasa, Desmond Tutu and Alan Paton; and people abroad, including Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Sampson, Edward Said, Amos Oz, Harry Levin and New Yorker editor Katharine White.

Ronald Suresh Roberts is also the author of Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd (1995) and co-author of Reconciliation Through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid's Criminal Governance (1997).


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EN6M63A/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01EN6M63A/
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01EN6M63A/

Free in the U.S., at least.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Free in the U.S., at least.

Everywhere, I think.

Should I add "Free" to all my posts ?

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Everywhere, I think.

Should I add "Free" to all my posts ?

After I made my little post, I thought to myself, "why didn't I just go ahead and check the other links?"

Are all of your posts of free ebooks? If so, that had never "registered" with me, and I will keep that in mind from now on.

Thanks for your post of the book, by the way.

[GtrsRGr8]

Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan, by David Dalton, is marked down to $1.99 at Amazon at the present moment. "In Who Is That Man? David Dalton provides a new perspective on the man, the myth, and the musical era that forged them both." (from B&N).

I noticed that it is also a NOOK Daily Find; I don't know if Amazon's markdown is a price match kind of thing or an independent move on their part. The point being, if it is a price match, the price may not last past today.

[GtrsRGr8]

If someone wishes to cross-post this to another relevant thread, such as a Fiction one of some kind, please be my guest.

I ran across a website that claims (I didn't count them. ha) to offer 1000 free ebooks. It is the website for Sainsbury's Entertainment in the U.K. I don't remember seeing it mentioned anywhere on the MobileRead website before.

I feel fairly certain that all of these ebooks are going to be out of copyright. However, I didn't recognize many of the titles and/or authors, so there may be some in this collection that you can't get at the usual suspects like Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, Google Books, et al.

With this being a non-U.S. (it's in the U.K.) website, however, there may be--and probably are--books that are out of copyright there, but not here in the U.S. I do not have the knowledge about such matters to say positively, but it is my understanding that you cannot legally download them in the U.S. if the U.S. does not recognize the works as being out-of-copyright. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to read the ebooks, without downloading them (FYI--the one ebook that I tested was available only in ePub).

You must set up an account in order to select books, I don't remember how much is involved there, as I've had an account with Sainsbury's for quite some time now. Once you have set up an account, the ebooks that you select will be placed in your personal "library" on their website, for you to download when you wish to.

Anyway, here's the URL for the free ebooks webpage at Sainsbury's for you to check out if you so desire.

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

If someone wishes to cross-post this to another relevant thread, such as a Fiction one of some kind, please be my guest.

I ran across a website that claims (I didn't count them. ha) to offer 1000 free ebooks. It is the website for Sainsbury's Entertainment in the U.K. I don't remember seeing it mentioned anywhere on the MobileRead website before.

I feel fairly certain that all of these ebooks are going to be out of copyright. However, I didn't recognize many of the titles and/or authors, so there may be some in this collection that you can't get at the usual suspects like Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, Google Books, et al.

With this being a non-U.S. (it's in the U.K.) website, however, there may be--and probably are--books that are out of copyright there, but not here in the U.S. I do not have the knowledge about such matters to say positively, but it is my understanding that you cannot legally download them in the U.S. if the U.S. does not recognize the works as being out-of-copyright. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to read the ebooks, without downloading them (FYI--the one ebook that I tested was available only in ePub).

I don't know UK vs US copyright law, but I did see one book, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Door Through Space, which is out of copyright in the US because it didn't get renewed, but the author died less than 70 years ago, so I would have expected it to be in copyright in the UK unless they have some sort of clause that says that if it's public domain in the author's country, it's PD in the UK as well.

[GtrsRGr8]

Get the ebook, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, by Anthony Esolen, free.

This appears to be a really good book. It is rated 4.6 (29) at Amazon and 4.23 (613) at GoodReads (4.23 is a really high rating at GoodReads).

The Great Homeschool Conventions webpage offering the ebook free states that it is a $9.99 value. That might be on the conservative side, however, because I noticed that one store gave the retail price as $12.99. The least expensive copy at Amazon is a $9.57 paperback (Used--"Acceptable" condition). BTW--Amazon apparently does not offer a digital version at all.

The advertisement for the freebie states that it is for Great Homeschool Conventions subscribers. Unfortunately, they do enforce that. But subscribing is not very difficult at all. I suggest that you do that by going to the Great Homeschool Conventions homepage, scrolling down to the bottom on the lefthand side, and clicking on the link that says, "Subscribe to GHC."

Once you've done that, head to this webpage, where you can request the book and learn much more about the book. An email message will appear in your inbox shortly after you've submitted your request, giving you direct links to mobi and ePub versions of the book. An html version is also offered, but you have to purchase it through a third party store, that they will give a link to, using a coupon code in order to get it free.

People in the homeschooling crowd frequently are professing Christians, and they frequently bring in things, in the home teaching of their children, that are about their faith. So, there is a possibility that this book will have a religious overtone or even religious references and/or allusions in it.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

I don't know UK vs US copyright law, but I did see one book, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Door Through Space, which is out of copyright in the US because it didn't get renewed, but the author died less than 70 years ago, so I would have expected it to be in copyright in the UK unless they have some sort of clause that says that if it's public domain in the author's country, it's PD in the UK as well.

I just don't know.

What I do know is that U.S. copyright law is very complicated. I saw a flowchart recently of how to figure out whether or not a book is still in copyright in the U.S. It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to be able to understand it all and use it. However, what I have heard from several reliable (to one degree or another) sources is that anything copyrighted in the U.S. prior to 1923 is definitely out of copyright, no matter what.

I've heard that changes are being made to the U.S. copyright laws to simplify them and to shorten the maximum time that something can stay in copyright. That will be much welcome. But I don't see why countries can't get together and make treaties to have copyright laws consistent between them, so as to avoid the questions like the offer that I posted. After all, countries get together and make international treaties all of the time about other things, But maybe I'm pollyannaish.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I've heard that changes are being made to the U.S. copyright laws to simplify them and to shorten the maximum time that something can stay in copyright. That will be much welcome. But I don't see why countries can't get together and make treaties to have copyright laws consistent between them, so as to avoid the questions like the offer that I posted. After all, countries get together and make international treaties all of the time about other things, But maybe I'm pollyannaish.

There are no moves underway to shorten copyright length in the US that I'm aware of.

The countries of the world did get together and make a treaty to make copyright laws consistent between them. It's just that the US didn't sign up to it until 1989. It's called the Berne Convention, and dates back to 1886 (yes, over 100 years before the US joined).

The Berne convention says that literary copyright must be a minimum of life of author + 50 years.

Both the EU and the USA have now implemented longer a copyright term - life + 70 years.

[koland]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Title: A Day in the country: impressionism and the French landscape.
Format(s): Probably every one that you've ever heard of, and more.
Author(s): Andrea P.A. Belloli (editor).
Publishers: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Abradale Books.
Pages: 376.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 5.0 (3); 4.30 (10) at GoodReads.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there: $4.00 (Paperback, Used--"Good").
Book Description (from the book cover flap):
A Day in the Country, with its wealth of exquisite color-plates, is a glorious armchair excursion into the world of the French Impressionists. But it is also a newly opened window on what the great artists who created these masterpieces were trying to achieve.

This is the first volume to approach Impressionist landscapes not merely as exaltations of physical beauty but as modern statements of important principles--artistic and social. The great new network of railroads that expanded the horizons of even the poorest city dweller, and the resulting new interactions of city and country life, are part of this absorbing chronicle . . . .
Comments:
URL: https://archive.org/details/dayincountryimpr00bret.

Get the PDF - the EPUB and MOBI are kind of a mess