FREE/BARGAIN — Non-Fiction

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

60 minutes Agro Mafia segment...
https://vimeo.com/168258014

Thank you. Saved me a few minutes searching.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Whole Foods is great about getting the word out about stuff like that and food with potential dangers, even minor, that they sell. I don't remember where I see those announcements, but I see them quite often. I doubt that the problems are worse than the other companies, I just think that they are more consumer-conscious and more transparent.

I think of them as a very high quality company, and their high prices reflect that. Alas, Walmart has purchased them, though. It remains to be seen how much damage that they will do to Whole Foods.

Walmart did not purchase them. Amazon did.
Here is what they are going to do. They are gonna slaughter the cow and wring the goose's neck.
Because you know billionaires have no financial sense.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Scroll down to close to the bottom of the page.
It will show something like this
Kindle books> history> American history> revolution> founding fathers
If the book is in the top 20 you will see #5 in Kindle books> history> American history> revolution> founding fathers
There can be up to 4 listings<snip>

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

The ratings in the paid best seller list are a fairly accurate gauge of how good a book might be.

The ratings in the free list don't mean a
<snip>

I hope that you realize that you are throwing around a lot of numbers to someone who is mathematically-challenged (moi)

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Walmart did not purchase them. Amazon did.

mea culpa.

Amazon probably won't ruin them, from looking at their past acquisitions. In fact, they'll probably leave them much alone. Consider Zappos, for example.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Gudy

*snort*
While the EU is a stickler especially when it comes to claiming an area of origin or using a food name which implies such a thing, like, e.g. Champagne, or Italian Olive Oil, the US generally doesn't care about such things. Which is why in the US, "Italian extra virgin olive oil" can be basically any vaguely fatty substance from anywhere in the world as long as it doesn't immediately kill you, while in the EU chances are much better that most of the stuff in the container is actually olive oil, and that at least some of it might actually be from Italy. (I have no illusions about how tightly those regulations are followed or enforced, but they do tend to have some effect.)

I personally think that Italian Olive Oil is a great exercise in marketing and a much lesser effort in actual food quality. I prefer Spanish olive oil anyway, since it tastes better in my experience.

Try explaining American pork n beans to a European. That was a fun discussion. Over there, they are called baked beans.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I hope that you realize that you are throwing around a lot of numbers to someone who is mathematically-challenged (moi)

I loved where you snipped.
And here I thought you could count to 21.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Try explaining American pork n beans to a European. That was a fun discussion. Over there, they are called baked beans.

"Pork n beans" may be a regional things. "Baked beans" is far more common around here. I doubt that most of the varieties of baked beans around here even have any pork in them (possibly because of government regulations against so labeling a pork-less product).

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

"Pork n beans" may be a regional things. "Baked beans" is far more common around here. I doubt that most of the varieties of baked beans around here even have any pork in them (possibly because of government regulations against so labeling a pork-less product).

You do not have Van Camps Pork n beans? I have seen them in grocery stores in California, New Mexico, Nebraska. I am not referring to Bush's baked beans.
Let me guess the wife does most of the shopping.
Hold on. Just checked the website.
They are available at Walmart, Walgreens, Dollar General, CVS, Big Kmart, Winn Dixie and Publix in Florida.
Do you shop at any of those locations?

[KyBunnies]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

You do not have Van Camps Pork n beans? I have seen them in grocery stores in California, New Mexico, Nebraska. I am not referring to Bush's baked beans.
Let me guess the wife does most of the shopping.
Hold on. Just checked the website.
They are available at Walmart, Walgreens, Dollar General, CVS, Big Kmart, Winn Dixie and Publix in Florida.
Do you shop at any of those locations?

Well I have seen pork n' beans in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. And as Cinisajoy probably knows the pork is nothing but a piece of fat. It is not an actually piece of pork meat.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

Well I have seen pork n' beans in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. And as Cinisajoy probably knows the pork is nothing but a piece of fat. It is not an actually piece of pork meat.

That you are lucky if you can even find now.
Growing up there were typically 1-3 small cubes.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

You do not have Van Camps Pork n beans? I have seen them in grocery stores in California, New Mexico, Nebraska. I am not referring to Bush's baked beans.
Let me guess the wife does most of the shopping.
Hold on. Just checked the website.
They are available at Walmart, Walgreens, Dollar General, CVS, Big Kmart, Winn Dixie and Publix in Florida.
Do you shop at any of those locations?

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

Well I have seen pork n' beans in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. And as Cinisajoy probably knows the pork is nothing but a piece of fat. It is not an actually piece of pork meat.

Note that I said, "'Baked beans" is far more common around here." I stand by that statement. The next time that I'm in the pork n beans and baked beans aisle, I'll do a quick survey.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Note that I said, "'Baked beans" is far more common around here." I stand by that statement. The next time that I'm in the pork n beans and baked beans aisle, I'll do a quick survey.

No need. There are usually 2 brands of pork n beans. Bush's pays for more space.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

No need. There are usually 2 brands of pork n beans. Bush's pays for more space.

You don't know beans!

[sufue]

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? is a 2012 title by Jared Diamond, who is perhaps better known as the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Collapse, both of which I have read, and re-read. And re-reading non-fiction is pretty rare for me, so this tells you how much I liked them. I have not read World, but am happy to see that it has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, so now I will have a chance to!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/World-Until-Y...dp/B008EKOO46/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...il-yesterday-1

Spoiler:

The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us?

“As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage


Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions. The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.

This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.

[Little.Egret]

Charles River Editors, free

The Mycenaeans: The History and Culture of Ancient Greece's First Advanced Civilization

Uxmal: The History of the Ancient Mayan City

The True Cross and the Spear of Destiny: The History and Legacy of the Most Important Relics of Christianity

The Red Baron: The Life and Legacy of Manfred von Richthofen

The West Virginia Coal Wars: The History of the 20th Century Conflict Between Coal Companies and Miners

The Kamikazes: The History of Japan's World War II Suicide Pilots


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