FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2016

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Froide

Of course, if you're not hell-bent on owning the book, you might borrow it. FYI, the book's listed in Worldcat.

(How to save big bucks and loads of storage space by borrowing more books than one buys - heed Dr. Melfi's advice to Tony Soprano: "You don't have to eat every dish of rigatoni you see.")

WorldCat . . . . Well, I have obtained an interlibrary loan a few times, but I really hate to do it. Reason being, while it is "free" for me, it does cost the local (and maybe the sending, I don't know everything about how these things work) libary postage both ways. And I know that the library here locally, at least, historically and generally has been way underfunded (imho) over the years. Yes, I know that the libraries can use the Post Office's "Library Rate," but it's not all that much cheaper than the low, "Media Mail" rate. Imho, it's just too much money for a library to spend on one patron for one item. Sometimes when I feel like I really, really need a book that they don't have, I'll request an interlibrary loan, though. And when I do, I try not to feel guilty about it.

I've seen bits and pieces here and there about how libraries now are experimenting with ebook interlibrary loans. Now the potential and possibilities of that are exciting to think about!

Concerning the bowl of rigatoni, my advice to Mr. Soprano would be, "and, whatever you do, be sure not to eat the dish of rigatoni that your mafia enemies have poisoned." ha

[LJJohnson]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I literally don't, in any reasonable way! NOT !!! I'm trying to replace as many physical books as I can with digital ones.

I hear you. Full-time in an RV means *no* room for physical books (other than a few dealing with travel). Certainly, not for the totally ridiculous # of books that I have. 8500 in SF, also heavy in cooking, history, and travel. I haven't met too many cookbooks I don't like, since (except for baking) I consider recipes as suggestions only.

[Difflugia]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks for letting all of us know the "lowest" price.

There's a question that your post prompts me to ask of Mobilereaders who are monitoring this thread: Mobilereaders, if the price of a digital book is the same as the physical book, which one (all other things being equal) will you buy? Why?

I don't read paper books anymore.

I occasionally buy paper books at the Dollar Tree because new hardcover books for a dollar are really hard for me to pass up. I convince myself each time that I'll make an exception and read it, but I don't.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

I don't read paper books anymore.

I occasionally buy paper books at the Dollar Tree because new hardcover books for a dollar are really hard for me to pass up. I convince myself each time that I'll make an exception and read it, but I don't.

Ha!

On rare occasions I'll find a good one at Dollar Tree.

I buy them, though, to put on a bookshelf behind me when I take selfies. It makes me look more intelligent. I just hope people don't look too closely at the titles on the spines. <----All lies. ha

[GA Russell]

Gtrs, we had this discussion in maybe 2010. Many people preferred taking the one eBook reader along when they travelled.

My preference is for the print book. Of course, when the print book is $8.99 and the eBook is 99 cents, you know what I'm going to choose.

[avantman42]

Originally Posted by issybird

I'll buy the digital book. I'll even pay a premium, albeit not a huge premium, for the ebook. Not only is it far more convenient (easier to hold, adjustable fonts, fits my purse) to read on an ereader, it also doesn't add to the pbook clutter which I'm trying to reduce.

Same here, though I get the impression that those of us willing to pay more for an ebook are in the minority.

[Little.Egret]

Charles River Editors

The Night of the Long Knives: The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler's Notorious Purge of the SA

The Zoot Suit Riots: The History of the Racial Attacks in Los Angeles during World War II

ODESSA: The Controversial History of the Mysterious Network that Helped Nazis Escape Germany after World War II

American Legends: The Life of Charles Bronson


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[GtrsRGr8]

The design and other aspects of the appearance of this ebook look like they would be very engaging to teens (so does the Foundation's website, drugfreeworld.org).

Title: The Truth about Drugs.
Format: Pdf.
Author(s): Foundation for a Drug-Free World.
Publisher: Foundation for a Drug-Free World.
Pages: 32.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): N/A.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at Amazon if available there: N/A.
Book Description:

Why This Booklet Was Produced

There is a lot of talk about drugs in the world--on the streets, at school, on the internet and TV. Some of it is true, some not.

Much of what you hear about drugs actually comes from those selling them. Reformed drug dealers have confessed they would have said anything to get others to buy drugs.

Don't be fooled. You need facts to avoid becoming hooked on drugs and to help your friends stay off them. That is why we have prepared this booklet--for you.
Comments: This book is apparently not available for sale, either in digital or physical formats.
URL: http://f.edgesuite.net/data/www.drug...booklet-en.pdf (direct link).

[Little.Egret]

Charles River Editors

The Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War

And this is why the Chinese regard World War 2 as having started in 1937

See all

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[issybird]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Charles River Editors

The Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War

And this is why the Chinese regard World War 2 as having started in 1937

See all

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For those who are interested in the Nanking Massacre, the Yale Divinity School library has made available online a few of its digitized images and film clips from donated files. Nanking Massacre Project

[GtrsRGr8]

"As of 2014, it holds over 8 million printed volumes and over a million ebooks. . . . . It is the sixteenth largest library in North America, ranked by number of volumes held." So says Wikipedia concerning the Cornell University Library.

Probably all of us, regardless of how committed that we are to ebooks, have a substantial number of physical books still lying around. With 8 million physical books in its collection, the Cornell Library certainly would know about how to take care of those books, if anyone does. Wouldn't they? Wouldn't you love to tap into that expertise?

Well, thankfully, the Cornell Library wants to help us to do just that. They have published a booklet of some 35 pages in length, written by their own book conservator, called Preserving Books in Your Home Library. And they're making it available to everyone, free, as an ebook (the irony of that hasn't gotten lost on me. ha).

Thirty-five pages doesn't sound like much, and it isn't, but the author uses great economy of words, and gets right to the point of each topic. And what she writes is very clear, so that makes it easy to understand. The booklet is chock-full of beautiful color images--some for instructive purposes, but perhaps most for visual interest. They certainly draw you into the book.

Grab the ebooklet from this direct link.

[itisbomb]

Geometry: A Comprehensive Course (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Dan Pedoe

is $3.79 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Compr...+comprehensive

Below is the blurb:
"A lucid and masterly survey." — Mathematics Gazette

Professor Pedoe is widely known as a fine teacher and a fine geometer. His abilities in both areas are clearly evident in this self-contained, well-written, and lucid introduction to the scope and methods of elementary geometry. It covers the geometry usually included in undergraduate courses in mathematics, except for the theory of convex sets. Based on a course given by the author for several years at the University of Minnesota, the main purpose of the book is to increase geometrical, and therefore mathematical, understanding and to help students enjoy geometry.
Among the topics discussed: the use of vectors and their products in work on Desargues' and Pappus' theorem and the nine-point circle; circles and coaxal systems; the representation of circles by points in three dimensions; mappings of the Euclidean plane, similitudes, isometries, mappings of the inversive plane, and Moebius transformations; projective geometry of the plane, space, and n dimensions; the projective generation of conics and quadrics; Moebius tetrahedra; the tetrahedral complex; the twisted cubic curve; the cubic surface; oriented circles; and introduction to algebraic geometry.

In addition, three appendices deal with Euclidean definitions, postulates, and propositions; the Grassmann-Pluecker coordinates of lines in S3, and the group of circular transformations. Among the outstanding features of this book are its many worked examples and over 500 exercises to test geometrical understanding.

[Phogg]

Originally Posted by issybird

For those who are interested in the Nanking Massacre, the Yale Divinity School library has made available online a few of its digitized images and film clips from donated files. Nanking Massacre Project

I have Iris Chang's book.
It's well laid out.

In the 1982 I had a couple in the Philippines tell me of the deaths and rapes their families had suffered at the hands of the Japanese. Then the same thing happened in South Korea in 1984.

I had read a lot about the Holocaust and about the battles of the war growing up, but very little about Japanese atrocities outside of the Bataan Death March and POWERADE camps.

Iris Chang's book was pretty much like what the people who I met in the early eighties described.

[Little.Egret]

Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Casebook (Cyber Law Series) by LandMark Publications

Free for a day or so


This casebook contains 57 federal court of appeals decisions that analyze, interpret and apply the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. The decisions are organized by federal circuit.

The DMCA was passed in 1998 to address the perceived need of copyright owners for "legal sanctions" to enforce various technological measures they had adopted to prevent the unauthorized reproduction of their works. See Microsoft Corp. v. AT & T Corp., 550 U.S. 437, 458 (2007). It also served "to conform United States copyright law to its obligations under two World Intellectual Property Organization ('WIPO') treaties, which require contracting parties to provide effective legal remedies against the circumvention of protective technological measures used by copyright owners." Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC, (3rd Cir. 2011), citing MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, 629 F. 3d 928 (9th Cir. 2010).

The most well-known provision of the DMCA, § 1201, grants a cause of action to copyright owners for the "circumvent[ion of] a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work." Ibid.

In Apple Inc. v. Psystar Corporation, (9th Cir. 2011), Apple brought suit against Pystar for violating the copyright in its operating system software, Mac OS X. Pystar purchased copies of Mac OS X and and sold computers with it as the operating system. Pystar argued that the Copyright Act affords Apple protection only against unauthorized copying and distribution of the operating software, but not on its use once it is purchased.

The facts in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Google Inc., (9th Cir. 2011) involve Perfect 10's complaint against Google for its search engine's role in facilitating access to copyrighted photographs of nude models on Perfect 10's website.


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Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC, (3rd Cir. 2011) held that copying an image while removing the author's name was a breach of the DMCA.

[ATDrake]

Some couponable non-fiction sale bargains, if you're looking to use that Kobo 50% off unlimited weekend code (presumably also matched in the other stores in North America, at least).

@ $1.99 from Steerforth Press, which specializes in publishing international literary fiction in translation and accompanying local interest works:

• Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History by Sandra Benjamin, a moderately comprehensive overview which has favourable editorial reviews
• Red Love: The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo, translated by Shaun Whiteside, a memoir
• The Essential Guide to Being Polish by Anna Spysz & Marta Turek, a humorous culture guide meant for travelers and armchair historians

Also @ $1.99 from Algonquin Press, a few pages of their non-fiction mixed in with their literary stuff: linkage for the lot and some interesting-looking picks:

• Find the Good: Unexpected Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer by Alaskan columnist Heather Lende (TravelAlaska sample article), another collection of her reminisces and insights, of which her previous bestselling ones have also been on sale, in case you got and enjoyed them earlier
• The Late Starters Orchestra by Ari L. Goldman, a memoir about becoming a musician late in life, and the experiences of the profession
• Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing With Others by Stacy Horn, a similar memoir about becoming involved in a choir and the experiences of working with one, with additional history/trivia tidbits about choral music
• The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story by Ashok Rajamani, a memoir about the process of recovery from a brain bleed, where the author had to relearn how to do a whole bunch of things from scratch

Chronicle Books has a number of items both fiction and non- (including a whole bunch of cookbooks) from $0.99-$2.99 (some of them on the short pamphlet-y side): linkage for the lot. Interesting-looking ones include:

• No Plot? No Problem! Revised and Expanded Edition: A Low-stress, High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty, founder of the NaNoWriMo annual DIY phenomenon (Wikipedia)
• Mandela: A Film and Historical Companion by Keith Bernstein, to go with the recent box office success about the titular South African leader (Wikipedia)
• Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patrica Hruby Powell & Christian Robinson, an illustrated children's book which is also multiple award-winning look at the famous Jazz Age performer (Wikipedia)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who are couponable in Canada, have quite a lot of biographies and science/nature-related books at the $1.99-$2.99 (and a lot of short pamphlet cookbooks to skip through): linkage for the lot. Interesting ones at the $2.99 mark include:

• Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson, a true crime case about the time that Isaac Newton a Warden of His Majesty's Mint.
• Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders, a collection of humorous essays by notable birdwatchers
• The Culinarian: A Kitchen Desk Reference by Barbara Ann Kipfer, with both practical food facts and trivial food history
• What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World & The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration, somewhat more scientifically-inclined nature books
• Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis & Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance, biographies about people who strongly influenced assorted creators/artists (the 2nd is for some socialites in a John Singer Sargent painting)
• Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America & Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel & Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer, more specialty-subject micro-histories

Workman Publishing has just over a page's worth of $2.99 full-length-looking mostly cookbooks & personal health/lifestyle works in Canada, at least, including some cookbook classics by Sheila Lukins (Wikipedia) of the Silver Palate brand: linkage for the lot.