FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2015

[issybird]

On an Android tablet, a long press on "L" brings up various options including £.

[TrevorViking]

On iOS you long press $.

[Cinisajoy]

£. On my android, tap the sym key then the £ € ¥ ₩
I am not sure what those last two are.
♤♡♢♧☆《》¤`~•° ¿ Those are all Sym 2/2.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Pull down Charmap (if you are using Windows)

All good Brits have it on their English (UK) keyboard and the others can copy paste from your post.

Got it. Thx. £

Hey I can type all kinds of cool things ¥ףּ♥﴿ڑگמ֍₭. I don't know what 99% of them are . . . .

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by issybird

On an Android tablet, a long press on "L" brings up various options including £.

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

On iOS you long press $.

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

£. On my android, tap the sym key then the £ € ¥ ₩
I am not sure what those last two are.
♤♡♢♧☆《》¤`~•° ¿ Those are all Sym 2/2.

Have no IOS.

Have no Android.

But thanks.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Have no IOS.

Have no Android.

But thanks.

Then how do you keep track of anything? Should we start a kick starter campaign to get you an Android?

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Then how do you keep track of anything? Should we start a kick starter campaign to get you an Android?

I'm trying to be the last person in the world to buy a smartphone. I hear that there's a prize for being the last. ha

How do I keep track of anything? It's called a brain. You know, what people from time immemorial used to use, before computers and smartphones came around. Oh, and sometimes I use paper, and a pen or pencil. It's not all that bad using the brain--the battery never goes dead (well, it will one day, but then I'll have no use for a smartphone anymore, either), no one ever has tried to steal it, and I'm not likely to misplace it anywhere.

Kickstarter campaign, passing around the hat, whatever. Sure you can do that for me. I'm gonna buy a smartphone one of these days and I would be glad to have some free money to pay for it. And since someone else is paying for it, I want an Apple, not an Android-based phone. Thanks.

[GtrsRGr8]

The term "feel-good" came to the fore of common parlance in the United States sometime in the late 70's or so (one of the few good things that came out of the era of such things as leisure suits and disco! But I digress . . . .). Usually, of course, it's applied to movies, and some would even consider "feel-good" movies to be a genre of its own.

Well, this is a feel-good ebook post (I think that I've just coined the phrase; you're welcome to use it. ha). Why? First, the ebook contains a heartwarming story. Second, you'll feel good about saving a bundle of money on this ebook, because it's currently marked down 92% from the digital list price!

The Late Starters Orchestra. By Ari L. Goldman. Rated 4.5 stars from 44 reviews, at Amazon at the present moment. Print list price $23.95; digital list price $18.95; Kindle price now $1.99. Algonquin Books, publisher. 305 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Late-Starters-...ters+Orchestra.

Book Description
In a cluttered room in an abandoned coat factory in lower Manhattan, a group of musicians comes together each week to make music. Some are old, some are young, all have come late to music or come back to it after a long absence. This is the Late Starters Orchestra--the bona fide amateur string orchestra where Ari Goldman pursues his lifelong dream of playing the cello.

Goldman hadn’t seriously picked up his cello in twenty-five years, but the Late Starters (its motto, If you think you can play, you can) seemed just the right orchestra for this music lover whose busy life had always gotten in the way of its pursuit.

In The Late Starters Orchestra, Goldman takes us along to LSO rehearsals and lets us sit in on his son’s Suzuki lessons, where we find out that children do indeed learn differently from adults. He explores history’s greatest cellists and also attempts to understand what motivates his fellow late starters, amateurs all, whose quest is for joy, not greatness. And when Goldman commits to playing at his upcoming birthday party we wonder with him whether he’ll be good enough to perform in public. To the rescue comes the ghost of Goldman’s first cello teacher, the wise and eccentric Mr. J, who continues to inspire and guide him--about music and more--through this well-tuned journey.

With enchanting illustrations by Eric Hanson, The Late Starters Orchestra is about teachers and students, fathers and sons, courage and creativity, individual perseverance and the power of community. And Ari Goldman has a message for anyone who has ever had a dream deferred: it’s never too late to find happiness on one’s own terms.

[GtrsRGr8]

. . . . for a fantastic price--only 99 cents, a 93% markdown from the digital list price! Wow.

Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. By Patricia T. O'Conner. Rated 4.6 stars from 55 reviews, at the present moment. Print list price $16.00; digital list price $13.99; Kindle price now $0.99. Random House, publisher. 266 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Specio...glish+Language.

Book Description
Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces “niche” as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with “and”? Do you think British spellings are more “civilised” than the American versions? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’re myth-informed.

In Origins of the Specious, word mavens Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman reveal why some of grammar’s best-known “rules” aren’t—and never were—rules at all. This playfully witty, rigorously researched book sets the record straight about bogus word origins, politically correct fictions, phony français, fake acronyms, and more. Here are some shockers: “They” was once commonly used for both singular and plural, much the way “you” is today. And an eighteenth-century female grammarian, of all people, is largely responsible for the all-purpose “he.” From the Queen’s English to street slang, this eye-opening romp will be the toast of grammarphiles and the salvation of grammarphobes. Take our word for it.

[GtrsRGr8]

88% of the digital list price.

This is one that I certainly wish had an (inexpensive) Whispersync companion. It neither has that, nor is it available at Audible apparently. C'est la vie.

The book was named as one of the best books of the year by both the Kansas City Star and Bloomberg. But please consider purchasing it anyway. ha

Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel. By John Guy. Rated 4.2 stars from 47 reviews, at the present moment. Print list price $35.00; digital list price $16.99; Kindle price now $1.99. Random House, publisher. 449 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Becket-...riest%2C+Rebel.

Book Description
A revisionist new biography reintroducing readers to one of the most subversive figures in English history—the man who sought to reform a nation, dared to defy his king, and laid down his life to defend his sacred honor

Becket’s life story has been often told but never so incisively reexamined and vividly rendered as it is in John Guy’s hands. The son of middle-class Norman parents, Becket rose against all odds to become the second most powerful man in England. As King Henry II’s chancellor, Becket charmed potentates and popes, tamed overmighty barons, and even personally led knights into battle. After his royal patron elevated him to archbishop of Canterbury in 1162, however, Becket clashed with the King. Forced to choose between fealty to the crown and the values of his faith, he repeatedly challenged Henry’s authority to bring the church to heel. Drawing on the full panoply of medieval sources, Guy sheds new light on the relationship between the two men, separates truth from centuries of mythmaking, and casts doubt on the long-held assumption that the headstrong rivals were once close friends. He also provides the fullest accounting yet for Becket’s seemingly radical transformation from worldly bureaucrat to devout man of God.

Here is a Becket seldom glimpsed in any previous biography, a man of many facets and faces: the skilled warrior as comfortable unhorsing an opponent in single combat as he was negotiating terms of surrender; the canny diplomat “with the appetite of a wolf” who unexpectedly became the spiritual paragon of the English church; and the ascetic rebel who waged a high-stakes contest of wills with one of the most volcanic monarchs of the Middle Ages. Driven into exile, derided by his enemies as an ungrateful upstart, Becket returned to Canterbury in the unlikeliest guise of all: as an avenging angel of God, wielding his power of excommunication like a sword. It is this last apparition, the one for which history remembers him best, that will lead to his martyrdom at the hands of the king’s minions—a grisly episode that Guy recounts in chilling and dramatic detail.

An uncommonly intimate portrait of one of the medieval world’s most magnetic figures, Thomas Becket breathes new life into its subject—cementing for all time his place as an enduring icon of resistance to the abuse of power.

[pendragginp]

All of these are great,

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by pendragginp

All of these are great,

Thanks to YOU, too. It's always nice to know when someone likes a book that I've posted.

[Little.Egret]

Copy Editing !

Moonlight Blogger by Carol Fisher Saller



In encouraging copy editors to resist compulsions, banish insecurities, and develop habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, Carol Saller's mission is to show them not how to copyedit, but how to survive while doing so.

This collection of 88 essays appeared between May 2010 and August 2011 at The Subversive Copy Editor blog (www.subversivecopyeditor.com).

CAROL FISHER SALLER is a senior manuscript editor at the University of the Chicago Press and an editor of The Chicago Manual of Style. She is the author of The Subversive Copy Editor (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Currently a writer for the Lingua Franca blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education, she is also the author of Eddie's War (namelos, 2011), a historical novel for readers 10 and up.


http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073XM668/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0073XM668/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0073XM668/

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Copy Editing !
. . . .
Moonlight Blogger by Carol Fisher Saller
. . . .

Thanks. You always have good finds.

[GtrsRGr8]

Anyway, it's the #1 selling Kindle ebook in both History Reference and Southwest United States History. And, it's as big (794 pages) as Texas. ha

$1.99 represents an 80% markdown from the digital list price.

Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. By T.R. Fehrenbach. Rated 4.5 stars, from 165 reviews at the present moment, at Amazon. Print list price $26.00; digital list price $9.99; Kindle price $1.99. Open Road Media, publisher. 794 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Lone-Star-Hist...and+the+Texans.

Book Description
T.R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an insider could capture. From the native tribes who lived there to the Spanish and French soldiers who wrested the territory for themselves, then to the dramatic ascension of the republic of Texas and the saga of the Civil War years. Fehrenbach describes the changes that disturbed the state as it forged its unique character. Most compelling is the one quality that would remain forever unchanged through centuries of upheaval: the courage of the men and women who struggled to realize their dreams in The Lone Star State.