FREE/BARGAIN — Non-Fiction

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour, free

Odd Man Out: James Mason - A Biography by Sheridan Morley

The reason for watching a James Mason film, as the film critic Pauline Kael once noted, was usually only James Mason himself.

Mason was actually pointed toward a career in architecture before acting overtook him during his third year at Cambridge. He went on to make an indelible impression playing emotionally haunted characters on stage and screen, such as one early stand-out role, Johnny McQueen in Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out (1947).

Sheridan Morley (1941-2007) was the author of a number of books including A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward (1969); Gladys Cooper (1979); The Hollywood Raj (1983), The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven (1985), Odd Man Out: James Mason (1989) and Robert: My Father (1993). These are now all republished by Dean Street Press.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KU3827O/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01KU3827O/

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01KU3827O/

[sufue]

Under the Red Sea Sun, previously on sale in Canada, is $1.99 for today (Sept 11) only at Kindle US.

A Navy admiral’s firsthand account of the Allied salvage operation that played a key role in recovering North Africa from the Nazis during World War II.

more book info in this link to bfisher's previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3517158

and Kindle US link for today's sale: https://www.amazon.com/Under-Red-Sea...dp/B00KQ6PK9O/

[Avice]

How to Get a Job: Secrets of a Hiring Manager by Alison Green of the popular workplace blog Ask A Manager is 40% off this week with the discount code newjob. That brings the $24.95 price down to $14.97.

I'm not sure what ebook format the book is in. ETA from the writer: "It’s an ePub file (so you can easily read it on a Kindle or iPad), but I also include a PDF version for people who find that easier." Email her to get a MOBI file.

The book is self-published, but Alison Green is a well-known writer in the field who writes employment advice columns for several publications. You can likely get the same job-search help for free by reading through Ask A Manager archives, but How to Get a Job packages it helpfully together into one book.

Spoiler:

If you’ve ever wished that you could look into the brain of a hiring manager to find out what you need to do to get hired, How to Get a Job: Secrets of a Hiring Manager is for you.

Written from my perspective as a long-time hiring manager, this e-book gives you step-by-step guidance through every stage of your job search … explaining at each step what a hiring manager is thinking and what they want to see from you … from getting noticed initially, to nailing the interview, to navigating the tricky post-interview period, all the way through your offer.

In this e-book, you’ll learn things like:

what hiring managers are looking for when they ask common interview questions
how to talk about sensitive issues when you interview — firings, bad bosses, and more
how to avoid companies that aren’t a good fit
6 ways you might be sabotaging your job search
2 ways you can turn rejection to your advantage

I wrote this guide because I want you to stop feeling like you’re at the mercy of faceless employers, and to understand how you can really click with a hiring manager.

[quotes snipped for length]

And, you’ll also get two free bonus items: two webinars, each an hour long, of me offering job search advice and doing Q&A. (These are audio files.)

Still not sure? I’m offering a 30-day money-back guarantee, because I don’t want you to feel any risk.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ 99 cents from HarperCollins in Canada & the US (non-couponable, price should be the same at all the usual retailers):

Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist by Donald P. Ryan, PhD (Wikipedia), a memoir of his scientific experiences which include several important excavations. The full blurb for this has an endorsement by the late Egyptologist Barbara Mertz aka mystery author Elizabeth Peters (Wikipedia) of Amelia Peabody series fame. (He in turn gave part-dedication to her in a humorous history-lite faux travel book, Ancient Egypt on Seven Deben A Day, which I quite enjoyed when I read it several years back while I was reading assorted Peters mysteries.)

A real-life “Indiana Jones,” Donald P. Ryan, Ph.D., offers a breathtaking personal account of his adventures in archaeology in Beneath the Sands of Egypt. Fans of The Lost City of Z will thrill to the exploits of this “unconventional archaeologist” as he retrieves the remains of Egypt’s past—including his breakthrough discovery in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt’s famous female pharaoh, Hatshepsut.

[Little.Egret]

Thistle, free

Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil by Leo McKinstry

First published 2005 by John Murray

With a story full of colour, contradictions and controversy, the Fifth Earl of Rosebery is the ideal subject for a biography. Gifted with dazzling charisma, oratorical power, intellectual brilliance and fabulous wealth, he was the last Liberal peer to become Prime Minister, succeeding William Gladstone in 1895. But his career was undermined by his erratic character, which featured chronic self-doubts and bleak melancholia. Neither his celebrity nor his fortune brought him happiness. Thrust into the public realm by his aristocratic stature and vast popularity, he constantly yearned for solitude. His insecurities were made all the worse by dark whispers about his private life which reached their climax during the trials of Oscar Wilde at the very time of his Premiership.

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This is the guy who, at Eton, stated his ambitions were to become Prime Minister, marry an heiress and win the Derby.

3 out of 3.


The Mad Bad Line: The Family of Lord Alfred Douglas by Brian Roberts

Wilde’s tragic involvement with Lord Alfred Douglas’s family led him to believe anything he was told about the ‘mad, bad line.’ The truth was even stranger than he imagined.


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[bartveld]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Thistle, free

Nice, thanks!

[bfisher]

On Trails by Robert Moor is on sale today at amazon.ca for $CDN 1.99
https://www.amazon.ca/Trails-Explora.../dp/1476739218

The Goodreas entry:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276431-on-trails

[issybird]

Originally Posted by bfisher

On Trails by Robert Moor is on sale today at amazon.ca for $CDN 1.99
https://www.amazon.ca/Trails-Explora.../dp/1476739218

The Goodreas entry:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276431-on-trails

Thank you. US Kindle also and no doubt other vendors, since it's S&S.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0176M3ZG0/

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by issybird

Thank you. US Kindle also and no doubt other vendors, since it's S&S.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0176M3ZG0/

One of those intensely irritating books whose Amazon description consists of nothing both snippets of what people have said about it. Nowhere does it tell me what the book's actually about!

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by HarryT

One of those intensely irritating books whose Amazon description consists of nothing both snippets of what people have said about it. Nowhere does it tell me what the book's actually about!

You don't see all this?

From a debut talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world—from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet.

In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own? Over the course of the next seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of master trail-builders, hunted down long-lost Cherokee trails, and traced the origins of our road networks and the Internet. In each chapter, Moor interweaves his adventures with findings from science, history, philosophy, and nature writing—combining the nomadic joys of Peter Matthiessen with the eclectic wisdom of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift.

Throughout, Moor reveals how this single topic—the oft-overlooked trail—sheds new light on a wealth of age-old questions: How does order emerge out of chaos? How did animals first crawl forth from the seas and spread across continents? How has humanity’s relationship with nature and technology shaped world around us? And, ultimately, how does each of us pick a path through life?

Moor has the essayist’s gift for making new connections, the adventurer’s love for paths untaken, and the philosopher’s knack for asking big questions. With a breathtaking arc that spans from the dawn of animal life to the digital era, On Trails is a book that makes us see our world, our history, our species, and our ways of life anew.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

You don't see all this?

Very odd. I see it now when I click on the link, but I could have sworn it wasn't there earlier on my PC. Perhaps it just got lost in the 10,000 lines of "reviews".

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Very odd. I see it now when I click on the link, but I could have sworn it wasn't there earlier on my PC. Perhaps it just got lost in the 10,000 lines of "reviews".

The "editorial reviews" section is quite huge.

[HarryT]

It has a different publisher in the UK, so not on sale here .

[bfisher]

On sale today at amazon.ca

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt for $CDN 2.99

https://www.amazon.ca/Origins-Totali.../dp/B004Q9TLJW

Having read this recently as a paper book, I was thrilled by the opportunity to get this as an ebook at such a great price

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by bfisher

On sale today at amazon.ca

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt for $CDN 2.99

https://www.amazon.ca/Origins-Totali.../dp/B004Q9TLJW

Having read this recently as a paper book, I was thrilled by the opportunity to get this as an ebook at such a great price

£5.49 in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Origins-Tot...dp/B06XCPY2BL/