01-19-2019, 08:15 AM | #1366 |
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2 Santa Monica guidebooks on FREE
Santa Monica Main Street / Venice: California US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GZ47NFB/ UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GZ47NFB Santa Monica Third Street Promenade: California US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H1D4QXN UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H1D4QXN |
01-19-2019, 11:49 AM | #1367 |
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
by William Manchester and Paul Reid - Kindle edition Final final volume of William Manchester's biographic trilogy of Winston Churchill. US$ 3.99 https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lion-Chu.../dp/B0076DEPUK CDN$ 3.99 https://www.amazon.ca/Last-Lion-Chur.../dp/B0076DEPUK Review ''Before his death in 2004, an ill Manchester asked former Cox newspapers journalist Reid to take his research notes and finish writing the final volume of his trilogy. The long-delayed majestic account of Winston Churchill's last twenty-five years is worth the wait . . . Manchester (and Reid) matches the outstanding quality of biographers such as Robert Caro and Edmund Morris, joining this elite bank of writers who devote their lives to one subject.'' --Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
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01-19-2019, 03:43 PM | #1368 |
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The Golden State: The History of California’s Growth into the Largest State in the Union 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 |
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01-20-2019, 04:44 PM | #1370 | |
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Quite a few of the maps and figures are quite good for a contemporary e-book and quite a few are at least OK. The first few maps aren't all that good, but the rest are above average for e-books and are reasonably decent. The multi-page "Chronology" and "List of Consuls" tables are margin cropped scanned images with poor contrast making them more uncomfortable to read than necessary. The family tree diagram is much better than the tables, but could have been better. I haven't seen other Pen & Sword books, but I'm guessing this is more than a step up. |
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01-20-2019, 06:04 PM | #1371 | |
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marcus-Agri...dp/B00TOXQLDY/ Marcus Agrippa: Right-hand Man of Caesar Augustus by Lindsay Powell |
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01-21-2019, 07:05 AM | #1372 |
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman is $1.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. I haven't read any of her books, but the blurb indicates that one of her other titles, The Guns of August, won a Pulitzer Prize, so I'd expect good things from this one too. Note: the blurb also indicates that this version does not have color images.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Distant-Mirro...dp/B004R1Q296/ Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-distant-mirror Spoiler:
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01-21-2019, 10:20 AM | #1373 | |
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https://www.amazon.ca/Distant-Mirror.../dp/B004R1Q296 It's one of her best books. Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...Distant_Mirror Last edited by bfisher; 01-21-2019 at 10:22 AM. |
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01-21-2019, 07:22 PM | #1375 | |
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The Battle of Fort Henry: The History of General Ulysses S. Grant’s Victory that Captured the Tennessee River for the Union Andersonville and Camp Douglas: The History of the Civil War’s Deadliest Prison Camps America’s Most Influential Editors: The History of the Newspaper Publishers Who Changed American Journalism and Politics The Civil Rights Movement in the Early 20th Century: The History and Legacy of the Fight for Equality in America after Reconstruction |
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01-21-2019, 11:20 PM | #1376 | |
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Weird mix of free academic titles
Academic publisher De Gruyter has a strange set of academic books available for free at Barnes & Noble, Google and eBooks.com. The copyright page says they're under a Creative Commons license:
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Unfortunately, eBooks.com doesn't allow ordering a search by price, but Barnes &Noble does. Google Books allows setting the search to specifically return free Google ebooks. eBooks.com does have the books available as typeset PDFs. If you want the books in PDF and it's worth the effort to you, you can browse one of the other searches and copy-paste the ISBN into the eBooks.com search bar. Google has PDF ("scanned pages") listed for the books, but for some reason, the ones I checked are just epub conversions like you'd get out of Calibre. I spot-checked five at Amazon. Three were regular price, one was free and one wasn't available as an ebook. |
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01-24-2019, 12:05 PM | #1377 |
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby A. H. Wilkinson has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US as part of the Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. I'm a big Egyptophile, so this looks pretty interesting. It gets 4.2 starts on Kindle, which is not too bad.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Anc...dp/B004FGMZAI/ Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-ancient-egypt Spoiler:
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01-24-2019, 07:13 PM | #1378 | |
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01-26-2019, 07:01 PM | #1379 |
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The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island Marquis de Lafayette and Baron de Kalb: The Lives of the Legendary Foreign Soldiers Who Sailed to America Together to Fight in the Revolutionary War Machine Gun Kelly: The Notorious Life and Crimes of the Depression Era Gangster Modern Ireland: The History of the Emerald Isle from the Middle Ages to Today 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 |
01-26-2019, 07:43 PM | #1380 |
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A few Harper-Collins titles on sale at amazon.ca :
by James Gleick for $CDN 1.99 Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman https://www.amazon.ca/Genius-Life-Sc.../dp/B004LRPQIO Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98685.Genius by James Gleick for $CDN 1.99 Chaos: Making a New Science https://www.amazon.ca/Chaos-Making-S.../dp/B003YL4KOO Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64582.Chaos By Bernd Heinrich for $CDN 1.99 Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Raven-Inv.../dp/B000V507ES Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...d_of_the_Raven |
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