FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2015

[bfisher]

Deals at amazon.ca today - so probably also at amazon.com. Generally, if it is discounted in Canada, you can expected it to be discounted everywhere else in the known universe

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild for $CDN 2.99
http://www.amazon.ca/End-All-Wars-Re.../dp/B004X7TKUM

The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin fot $CDN 1.99
http://www.amazon.ca/Last-Doughboys-.../dp/B008LQ1XII

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by bfisher

Deals at amazon.ca today - so probably also at amazon.com. Generally, if it is discounted in Canada, you can expected it to be discounted everywhere else in the known universe

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild for $CDN 2.99
http://www.amazon.ca/End-All-Wars-Re.../dp/B004X7TKUM

The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin fot $CDN 1.99
http://www.amazon.ca/Last-Doughboys-.../dp/B008LQ1XII

.com links...

The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

[Little.Egret]

First Sale Doctrine (Intellectual Property Law Series) by LandMark Publications

Free for a few days.

This casebook contains a selection of 35 of the most recent Federal Court of Appeals decisions that address the "first sale doctrine" in intellectual property law. In the area of patents, the concept is often referred to as the patent exhaustion doctrine. The selection of decisions spans from 2003 to the date of publication. For each circuit, the cases are listed in the order of frequency of citation.

A century ago, the Supreme Court held that a copyright owner's exclusive right to distribute a copyrighted product does not include the power to control a purchaser's subsequent disposition of the purchased copy.

Technical but may be of interest.

http://www.amazon.com/First-Sale-Doc...dp/B00BU92VQQ/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Sale-D...dp/B00BU92VQQ/
http://www.amazon.ca/First-Sale-Doct...dp/B00BU92VQQ/

[bfisher]

The Battle of Midway by Craig Symonds is $CDN 1.99 at amazon.ca today
http://www.amazon.ca/Battle-Pivotal-.../dp/B005G05WDO

The amazon.com link
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Pivotal.../dp/B005G05WDO

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by bfisher

The Battle of Midway by Craig Symonds is $CDN 1.99 at amazon.ca today
http://www.amazon.ca/Battle-Pivotal-.../dp/B005G05WDO

The amazon.com link
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Pivotal.../dp/B005G05WDO

Excellent deal.


If Midway is of interest, Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully is another one to look at (unfortunately not on sale).

[Apache]

Originally Posted by bfisher

The Battle of Midway by Craig Symonds is $CDN 1.99 at amazon.ca today
http://www.amazon.ca/Battle-Pivotal-.../dp/B005G05WDO

The amazon.com link
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Pivotal.../dp/B005G05WDO

I bought this one a couple of years ago and I think at this price it is a steal. A really excellent book on the Battle of Midway.
Apache

[AnemicOak]

Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family by Linda Wagner-Martin / FREE

The standard version of Gertrude Stein’s life — the story of the idiosyncratic art collector and writer, ruling the expatriates in Paris with her immense personal power — has been told so often that it has become a piece of Americana, burnished to a high gloss through repetition.

Inspired by extensive original research, Linda Wagner-Martin breaks with that tradition in this major new biography.

Here we find Gertrude Stein as we have never seen her before: as a member of her German-Jewish patriarchal family, as an undergraduate at Radcliffe, as an odd sort of feminist, as a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, as a lesbian and a lover, as an art collector, as a war survivor, and much more — as a person and not just a modernist icon.

Throughout, her relationship with two of her older brothers — Michael and Leo —shaped her emotional existence, just as her commitment to writing shaped her intellectual life.

This fascinating portrait of Gertrude Stein’s life (1874-1946) offers a rich history of “The Stein Corporation.”

Wagner-Martin provides new insight into the influence of Alice B.Toklas, a look into the economic side of the family’s existence, and the intimate story of the Steins’ relationships with Matisse, Picasso, Gris, and other painters; and later, of Gertrude Stein’s relationships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Virgil Thomson, Thornton Wilder, Janet Flanner, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and many other colorful modernist writers and artists in the rue de Fleurus salon.

This biography also gives us a previously untold but chilling account of Gertrude Stein’s and Alice Toklas’s survival during World War II in France, and Leo Stein’s in Italy.

“Favored Strangers” is a story of survival — creative, psychological, cultural, sexual — that opens our eyes to what being a female and an outsider at the turn of the century, and through much of its turbulent early years, truly meant. If you thought you knew the story of Gertrude Stein, this book proves you wrong.

Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina. She has written or edited more than thirty-five books, including Sylvia Math: A Biography and Telling Women’s Lives: The New Biography (Rutgers University Press).

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

.com links...

The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
. . . .

When I first saw the words "last of the doughboys," the other day, I was afraid that it meant that Pillsbury had gone out of business. hahah

[HarryT]

"Doughboy" was the name given to American soldiers in (and prior to) the First World War, just as British soldiers were called "Tommy" (or "Tommy Atkins"), although that usage is much older, being attributed at least as far back as 1743.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by HarryT

"Doughboy" was the name given to American soldiers in (and prior to) the First World War, just as British soldiers were called "Tommy" (or "Tommy Atkins"), although that usage is much older, being attributed at least as far back as 1743.

Yes, that was a joke, albeit a poor one. I was aware of the meaning of "doughboy" as it relates to WWI. However, I had forgotten that the British soldier was nicknamed "Tommy."

People overseas may not be familiar with the Pillsbury company (although I think that it is a multinational company), so some may not have gotten the joke for that reason, too. And, in some countries, Pillsbury may not use the doughboy as their corporate symbol for one reason or another--I know that AFLAC, a U.S.-based multinational, does not use the AFLAC duck as its symbol in Japan because it offends people there in some way.

This has piqued my interest in the reason for the nickname "doughboy." I'll have to look it up. My initial thought is that that nickname may have been used for the American soldiers because they may have been more prosperous and, therefore, healthier (evidenced by a larger waistline?). But that is just a guess. That was much the situation in WWII, at least, causing the Brits to complain about the American soldiers that they were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here."

[AnemicOak]

Doughboy actually goes back to the Mexican–American War

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Doughboy actually goes back to the Mexican–American War

That answers part of my question. Thanks.

[AnemicOak]

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd - $2.99
Amazon US | Google | Kobo | B&N

The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and the forthcoming Rebellion.

In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--and Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French.

With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes the wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.

The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester - $2.99
Amazon US | Google | Kobo | B&N

In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell—clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world—making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this unseen universe to create an epochal and remarkably beautiful hand-painted map. But instead of receiving accolades and honors, he ended up in debtors' prison, the victim of plagiarism, and virtually homeless for ten years more.

The Map That Changed the World is a very human tale of endurance and achievement, of one man's dedication in the face of ruin. With a keen eye and thoughtful detail, Simon Winchester unfolds the poignant sacrifice behind this world-changing discovery.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

People overseas may not be familiar with the Pillsbury company (although I think that it is a multinational company), so some may not have gotten the joke for that reason, too.

Pillsbury are owned by a multinational company (General Mills), but the "Pillsbury" brand name is not, to the best of my knowledge, used outside the US. I've only heard of it because I read American books. I doubt that either "Pillsbury" or "Doughboy" would be names that many British people would recognise.

[avantman42]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I doubt that either "Pillsbury" or "Doughboy" would be names that many British people would recognise.

I don't know the name "Pillsbury". I know "Doughboy" as a slang term for American infantrymen, but had no idea that it came from a brand name.