FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2016

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Thank you

To list all and only Hourly History freebies as I do with Charles River Editors


https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...Hourly+History
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Do you save the URL somewhere?

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Do you save the URL somewhere?

I do copy/paste to a text file using Notepad but nearly always use my browser once I noticed that typing say 'edit' in the URL/ Address field brings up a selection of all URLs I have ever used that contain 'edit'

I select one
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...+river+editors

and then modify as required

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...publisher=Xist
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...itle=microwave

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

I do copy/paste to a text file using Notepad but nearly always use my browser once I noticed that typing say 'edit' in the URL/ Address field brings up a selection of all URLs I have ever used that contain 'edit'

I select one
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...+river+editors

and then modify as required

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...publisher=Xist
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...itle=microwave

Nice tip. Thanks.

[GtrsRGr8]

Ten Hut!

WarGameVault's "Deal of the Day" is A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military.

The blurb:
A comprehensive reference to the customs, language and structure of the Armed Forces

Attention! Learn more about your military now!

Does a corporal have to salute a lieutenant or is it the other way around? What are forward-deployed units? Is an "armored cow" a type of tank or something soldiers eat? Are Polaris missiles dropped from the air or launched from a submarine? If someone calls you a "Cat 4" should you be honored or offended?

Do you feel lost when it comes to all things military? Sure, you hear things on the news and maybe you know someone who is in the military, but you probably have a hard time fully grasping the acronyms, equipment, and protocol they discuss. That's where A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military can help. Author Barbara Schading decodes all things military for you. She discusses each branch--Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and the Coast Guard--in simple terms you can understand. You'll get the background information, an easy-to-read chart showing rank and insignia, and an explanation of the organization of each branch.

In addition, the book has extensive glossaries that cover terms, acronyms, slang, and equipment. You'll find an entire chapter that covers special operations forces like the Green Berets, Force Recons, Army Rangers, and more. You'll learn about their specific training, missions, and history. The book also covers other important aspects of the military like:

flag and saluting etiquette

military funerals

the Tombs of the Unknown

the American Legion, USO, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and other groups

military law

military academies

medals and decorations

official military music

an explanation of the Geneva Convention

and a list of resources to help you find more information

So the next time you read the paper or talk with a new recruit, you don't have to feel lost. Become a knowledgeable civilian with the help of A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military.

The list price is $16.99. The sale price is $6.99. The deal price is only $3.49. It is available at Amazon for $9.99 in the Kindle edition.

It is rated 4.3 stars (32) at Amazon.

This is an ebook, but the only information that I could find out about the format is that it is in "original electronic format." They say about that that
"These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality."

It is a deal of the day; however, I'm just now finding out about it and there are a little less than 11 1/2 hours left for the deal at this moment.

http://www.wargamevault.com/product/...he-US-Military.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free thread for the new Humble Bundle:

Humble Book Bundle The Joy of Coding presented by No Starch Press contains programming books which cover both common and obscure languages, as well as best practices/coding philosophy and some computer programmer humour. Haskell, Erlang, F#, Lisp, Racket, Clojure, and R are among the languages which have introductory titles, with the Lisp and Racket books being kid-friendly as well.

[Froide]

At Risk: An innocent boy. A sinister secret. Is there no one to save him from danger?
by Casey Watson

About the Book

Adam is a fragile and anxious boy whose relationship with his mother starts to unravel. His mother is seen as ‘wonderful’ and ‘devoted’ to Adam who she works hard for, but all isn’t as it seems.

Eleven year old Adam is taken in by Casey, following his mother’s car accident which left her with a broken pelvis. Casey is told that Adam is not in the best of health and he attends regular medical appointments for an unknown sickness', but isn’t fazed. Casey takes Adam in, believing all will be well and back to normal, reassuring him as well as herself.

Every evening Adam visits his mother and Casey gives them private time’ respecting his and his mother’s time to be alone. Soon enough a pattern begins to emerge as Adam’s health continuously deteriorates after every visit. The level of distress worries Casey who ends up stumbling across the real relationship Adam has with his mother, and Casey finds it’s more sinister than she had known.

Genre: Biography
ISBN-13: 9780008142728
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 03/23/2017

• BN US: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/at-r...=9780008142728
• HarperCollins UK: https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008142728/at-risk

[GtrsRGr8]

Someone, in a post above, posted all of the freebies by a company which publishes under the name "Hourly History."

Turns out that they post a "Free-Book Friday" deal every, well, Friday. Today's is Thomas Jefferson: A Life From Beginning to End. It's 50 pages long and is so new that there are no reviews at Amazon yet; however, GoodReads raters give it an average of 4.50 from 4 ratings.

Now, this free book on Fridays promotion is so new to me that I don't know if the free deal lasts only through Friday, or if Hourly History just adds the title to the other freebies that they have at the present time.

How fitting that this bio on Jefferson is the first of the Hourly History Friday freebies to be posted (to my knowledge). Jefferson was an avid bibliophile. In fact, when the mean ole British burned down the Library of Congress in 1814, Jefferson sold more than 6,000 (an enormous library of that day for someone to personally own) to U.S. of his own personal books to help get a new Library of Congress started.

Anyway, here is the direct link to get the free book.

[itisbomb]

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur Herman

is $1.99 at

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...ndhi-churchill

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gandhi-Church...ill#nav-subnav

Below is the blurb:
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.

They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Arthur Herman reveals how their lives and careers became intertwined as the twentieth century unfolded. Both men would go on to lead their nations through harrowing trials and two world wars—and become locked in a fierce contest of wills that would decide the fate of countries, continents, and ultimately an empire.

Gandhi & Churchill reveals how both men were more alike than different, and yet became bitter enemies over the future of India, a land of 250 million people with 147 languages and dialects and 15 distinct religions—the jewel in the crown of Britain’s overseas empire for 200 years.

Over the course of a long career, Churchill would do whatever was necessary to ensure that India remain British—including a fateful redrawing of the entire map of the Middle East and even risking his alliance with the United States during World War Two.

Mohandas Gandhi, by contrast, would dedicate his life to India’s liberation, defy death and imprisonment, and create an entirely new kind of political movement: satyagraha, or civil disobedience. His campaigns of nonviolence in defiance of Churchill and the British, including his famous Salt March, would become the blueprint not only for the independence of India but for the civil rights movement in the U.S. and struggles for freedom across the world.

Now master storyteller Arthur Herman cuts through the legends and myths about these two powerful, charismatic figures and reveals their flaws as well as their strengths. The result is a sweeping epic of empire and insurrection, war and political intrigue, with a fascinating supporting cast, including General Kitchener, Rabindranath Tagore, Franklin Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. It is also a brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were always haunted by personal failure, and whose final moments of triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear.

[Little.Egret]

Charles River Editors, free

Erwin Rommel: The Life and Career of the Desert Fox

And still Free

The Al-Nusra Front: The History of the Syrian Rebel Group Formerly Affiliated with Al-Qaeda


https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...+river+editors

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...+river+editors
https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...+river+editors

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new Humble Bundle:

Humble Book Bundle True Murder and Madness presented by The Lineup is chock-full of true crime backlist titles selected by the eponymous website from Open Road Media's catalogue.

There's an Edgar Award-winning book on The Boston Strangler in the lot, and many other high-profile cases, as well as less well-known ones such as the unsolved case of what happened to the daughter of the late popular YA thriller writer Lois Duncan (Wikipedia), whose novels I have fond memories of. In addition to titles focusing specific individual criminals, there are also more general titles written from a coroner's viewpoint and whether or not certain infamous reputed historical murderers really did it or not.

Also, I'm going to mention that I've had a look through the books in HB's Joy of Coding Bundle which I bought last week and they're pretty nifty: both informative and entertaining, and I'd cheerfully recommend them to beginners looking to get into learning programming on a more intermediate level, or more experienced persons wanting to get acquainted with some less-common languages.

[Little.Egret]

Charles River Editors, free

The Ancient Canaanites: The History of the Civilizations That Lived in Canaan Before the Israelites

The SS Baychimo: The History and Mystery of the Famous Arctic Ghost Ship

The Battle of Wake Island: The History of the Japanese Invasion Launched in Conjunction with the Attack on Pearl Harbor

The Mariana and Palau Islands Campaign: The History of the Allied Victory That Preceded the Invasion of the Philippines


And still Free

Erwin Rommel: The Life and Career of the Desert Fox


The Al-Nusra Front: The History of the Syrian Rebel Group Formerly Affiliated with Al-Qaeda


https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...+river+editors

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...+river+editors
https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...+river+editors

[elaysee]

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution, by Rebecca Stott, is $1.99 at Amazon US, Kobo, and likely other US at the moment.

Synopsis

Spoiler:

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)

Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Darwin realized that he had made an error in omitting from Origin of Species any mention of his intellectual forebears. Yet when he tried to trace all of the natural philosophers who had laid the groundwork for his theory, he found that history had already forgotten many of them.

Darwin’s Ghosts tells the story of the collective discovery of evolution, from Aristotle, walking the shores of Lesbos with his pupils, to Al-Jahiz, an Arab writer in the first century, from Leonardo da Vinci, searching for fossils in the mine shafts of the Tuscan hills, to Denis Diderot in Paris, exploring the origins of species while under the surveillance of the secret police, and the brilliant naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes, finding evidence for evolutionary change in the natural history collections stolen during the Napoleonic wars. Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature’s extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.

With each chapter focusing on an early evolutionary thinker, Darwin’s Ghosts is a fascinating account of a diverse group of individuals who, despite the very real dangers of challenging a system in which everything was presumed to have been created perfectly by God, felt compelled to understand where we came from. Ultimately, Stott demonstrates, ideas—including evolution itself—evolve just as animals and plants do, by intermingling, toppling weaker notions, and developing over stretches of time. Darwin’s Ghosts presents a groundbreaking new theory of an idea that has changed our very understanding of who we are.

Praise for Darwin’s Ghosts

“Absorbing . . . Stott captures the breathless excitement of an investigation on the cusp of the unknown. . . . A lively, original book.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Stott’s research is broad and unerring; her book is wonderful. . . . An exhilarating romp through 2,000 years of fascinating scientific history.”—Nature

“Stott brings Darwin himself to life. . . . [She] writes with a novelist’s flair. . . . Darwin and the ‘ghosts’ so richly described in Ms. Stott’s enjoyable book are the descendants of Aristotle and Bacon and the ancestors of today’s scientists.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Riveting . . . Stott has done a wonderful job in showing just how many extraordinary people had speculated on where we came from before the great theorist dispelled all doubts.”—The Guardian (U.K.)

[elaysee]

Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan
by (I'm going to go out on a limb and guess "not that") Bruce Lee is $1.99 at Amazon US, Kobo, and likely other US right now. From Open Road, if they're Kobo couponable.

Synopsis

Spoiler:

The “extraordinarily informed” account of how US cryptographers broke Japan’s Purple cipher to change the course of World War II (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Marching Orders tells the story of how the American military’s breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes during World War II led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and hastened the end of the devastating conflict. With unprecedented access to over one million pages of US Army documents and thousands of pages of top-secret messages dispatched to Tokyo from the Japanese embassy in Berlin, author Bruce Lee offers a series of fascinating revelations about pivotal moments in the war.

Challenging conventional wisdom, Marching Orders demonstrates how an American invasion of Japan would have resulted in massive casualties for both forces. Lee presents a thrilling day-by-day chronicle of the difficult choices faced by the American military brain trust and how, aware of Japan’s adamant refusal to surrender, the United States made the fateful decision to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hailed as “one of the most important books ever published on World War II” by Robert T. Crowley, an intelligence officer who later became a senior executive at the CIA, Marching Orders unveils the untold stories behind some of the Second World War’s most critical events, bringing them to vivid life. With this book, “many of the mysteries that have eluded historians since the end of the war are much clarified: the Pearl Harbor fiasco, D-Day, why the Americans let the Russians capture Berlin, and why the decision to drop the atomic bomb was made. This is the most significant publication about World War II since the recent series of books on the Ultra revelations” (Library Journal). It’s a story that, as historian Robin W. Winks said, “no one with the slightest interest in World War II or in the origins of the Cold War can afford to ignore.”

[Little.Egret]

Charles River Editors, free

The Election of 1800 and the Election of 1876: The History and Legacy of the Only Presidential Elections Decided by Congress

The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850: The History of America's Failed Attempts to Settle the Issue of Slavery Before the Civil War

Pancho Villa: The Legendary Life of the Mexican Revolution's Most Famous General

The Most Controversial Cases of the Early 20th Century: The Murder of Stanford White, Sacco & Vanzetti, Leopold & Loeb, and the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping

The Italian Campaign of World War II: The History of the Allied Operations that Knocked Fascist Italy Out of the War

See all (also some interactives)

https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...+river+editors

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...+river+editors
https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...+river+editors

[sufue]

Another Ross King title, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism, has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. I still haven't gotten to Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, but definitely did read and really like Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, so I'm going to get this one too, and now I'll have two Ross King titles in my TBR list.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Pari.../dp/B00480O9LO

Spoiler:

The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade between two famous exhibitions-the scandalous Salon des Refuses in 1863 and the first Impressionist showing in 1874-set against the rise and dramatic fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War. A tale of many artists, it revolves around the lives of two, described as "the two poles of art"-Ernest Meissonier, the most famous and successful painter of the 19th century, hailed for his precision and devotion to history; and Edouard Manet, reviled in his time, who nonetheless heralded the most radical change in the history of art since the Renaissance. Out of the fascinating story of their parallel lives, illuminated by their legendary supporters and critics-Zola, Delacroix, Courbet, Baudelaire, Whistler, Monet, Hugo, Degas, and many more-Ross King shows that their contest was not just about Art, it was about competing visions of a rapidly changing world.

With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and a revolutionary movement had the power to electrify and divide a nation.

Originally Posted by sufue

I read Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King a long time ago in DTB and loved it. So I'm excited to see that King's Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. This one will float to the top of my TBR list pretty fast, like right now!

link: https://www.amazon.com/Michelangelo-.../dp/B00N8LIIH0