FREE/BARGAIN — Non-Fiction

[Little.Egret]

Free

Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938 by Lynn Mally

During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov.

Lynn Mally reconstructs the history of the amateur stage in Soviet Russia from 1917 to the height of the Stalinist purges. Her book illustrates in fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power.

She shows that by the late 1920s, Soviet leaders had come to distrust the initiatives of the lower classes, and the amateur theaters fell increasingly under the guidance of artistic professionals. Within a few years, state agencies intervened to homogenize repertoire and performance style, and with the institutionalization of Socialist Realist principles, only those works in a unified Soviet canon were presented.


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MTW2B4J

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MTW2B4J

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01MTW2B4J

Lynn Mally is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia.

[Little.Egret]

Free

THE CHESAPEAKE: A Man Born to Hang, Can Never Drown by Ken Rossignol and Stephen Uhler

Book 4 of 6 in The Chesapeake (6 Book Series)

short stories of the Chesapeake region - with a few excursions to other lands.


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078GH73WL

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B078GH73WL

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B078GH73WL

[GtrsRGr8]

Here are a couple of websites, that I've run across recently, that have open access (free) ebooks:
https://www.openbookpublishers.com.
http://www.cornellopen.org.

Even though there are one or more websites which claim to list all open access websites, and one or more websites that even claim to list websites which have open access titles on particular subjects, I'm a little bit skeptical of their claims. I stiil like to peruse individual websites with open access titles, just to see what they have.

Keep in mind that open access books tend to be academic, very narrowly focused, and esoteric.

[Kieran Seymour]

Connecting Who: Artifical Beings by Peter Grehan is free again for this weekend only.

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

The Cybermen, the Weeping Angels, the Daleks… the artificial beings of Doctor Who are some of the most iconic in science fiction. But what inspired them?

Connecting Who traces their origins back to the myths, folktales and real events of history; the teachings of religion; not to mention the wealth of other sci-fi writing from which Doctor Who has drawn.

Peter Grehan has been an avid fan since Doctor Who’s very first broadcast. With him as your guide, explore the wealth of material which lies behind the longest running science fiction series of all time.

[bartveld]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Connecting Who: Artifical Beings by Peter Grehan is free again for this weekend only.

Thanks for this! I won't read it but my daughter will be devouring it.

[mitford13]

Life Lines: Australian Women's Letters and Diaries 1788-1840, edited by Patricia Clarke and Dale Spender, is free on Amazon.com

https://smile.amazon.com/LIfe-Lines-...dp/B0754GXZ1G/

Women did not always travel willingly to colonial Australia and whether they wanted to or not, they had to work. Isolated from family and friends and from all that was familiar, confronted with difficulties and dangers, life for them was often hard and painful. But there were always letters and journals to turn to. It is surprising just how many women were literate; no doubt the compelling need to write made a difference. It is also surprising just how much they wrote. Despite all the demands they had to meet, women made the time to write lengthy letters to those "back home". They wrote to keep in touch, to place orders for goods they required, and to report on what was happening to them in their new land. Many of their narratives were adventure stories in which they were the stars, but if they wrote for others, they also wrote for themselves. In their letters and diaries these women reflected on their roles and the new identities they forged in their new environment. They even found that hard work could have its compensations. When so many women "back home" were not allowed to engage in meaningful work, their accounts show that many colonial women found a form of liberation in having their work needed and valued. The words of the women collected in "Lifelines" reveal some of the pressures and pains of the early years of white migration, and some of the joys of women's lives. This book is intended for students and researchers in women's studies and Australian history.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by mitford13

Life Lines: Australian Women's Letters and Diaries 1788-1840, edited by Patricia Clarke and Dale Spender, is free on Amazon.com

Not free in the UK, to save anyone looking.

[Fluribus]

The world's greates sash maker lived in Japan. He was given the name Miyamoto (totally awesome) Musashi (maker of many sashes). His biography is available at amazon.com.

William Scott Wilson The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi for $1.99.

[AnotherCat]

Originally Posted by mitford13

Life Lines: Australian Women's Letters and Diaries 1788-1840, edited by Patricia Clarke and Dale Spender, is free on Amazon.com

https://smile.amazon.com/LIfe-Lines-...dp/B0754GXZ1G/...

Those interested in the above book may also be interested in The Letters of Rachel Henning. Womens' letters and diaries are normally way down in my reading interests but I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

Shows as free for me at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Rache.../dp/1849025150 .

Otherwise it is available free at Project Gutenburg Australia (txt only) and at University of Adelaide (www.ebooks.adelaide.edu.au) and for a small cost at Kobo.

{Acknowledgement: I was originally led to this book some years ago by another mobileread forumite, if I recall correctly it was LynxLynx}

[Little.Egret]

free


Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904 - 1907 1st Edition by Robert E. Blobaum

Cornell University Press, 2016

The revolution of 1905 in the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland marked the consolidation of major new influences on the political scene. As he examines the emergence of a mass political culture in Poland, Robert E. Blobaum offers the first history in any Western language of this watershed period.

Drawing on extensive archival research to explore the history of Poland's revolutionary upheavals, Blobaum departs from traditional interpretations of these events as peripheral to an essentially Russian movement that reached a climax in the Russian Revolution of 1917. He demonstrates that, although Polish independence was not formally recognized until after World War I, the social and political conditions necessary for nationhood were established in the years around 1905.

Robert E. Blobaum is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MUGSZTJ

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MUGSZTJ

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01MUGSZTJ

[Little.Egret]

Charles River Editors, free

The Long Range Desert Group: The History of the Elite British Army Unit during World War II

A History of Ancient Egypt’s Most Famous Sites

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

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

free


Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904 - 1907 1st Edition by Robert E. Blobaum

Cornell University Press, 2016

I hope that you don't mind me using your post to "plug" some other ebooks . . . .

This is one of a good number of great, _free_ titles available from www.cornellopen.org, that I mentioned in post #753. Check into these books; there's a lot of great reading to be had for free!

[GtrsRGr8]

Get _A Journey through Tudor England_, by Suzanah Lipscomb, if you sign up for Early Bird Books' daily emails telling subcribers about specials on ebooks (you get to choose what categories you want to know about).

Early Bird states that the ebook is rated 5 stars, but I don't know from whence they get that figure. I'll try to do some more vetting of the book tomorrow.

Here's where you can sign up: https://earlybirdbooks.com/a-journey...eeBookAJourney.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Early Bird states that the ebook is rated 5 stars, but I don't know from whence they get that figure. I'll try to do some more vetting of the book tomorrow.

Permit me to point out that the word "whence" means "from where". One can say either "from where", or just "whence", but not "from whence"!

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Permit me to point out that the word "whence" means "from where". One can say either "from where", or just "whence", but not "from whence"!

Thank you for the correction.

I rarely use the word "whence" (isn't it used more by the English than those of us in the Colonies?). When I have heard it used, I seem to recall the speakers thereof to have said, "from whence," thus the reason, I think, for my faux pas.