Free and Bargain Non-Fiction in May 2014

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Originally Posted by koland

Most christian publisher's deals last one day (but not all). Most stores change prices at midnight in "their" timezone.

A few are eastern and central; Amazon is later (pacific). Google? I can never tell, but I think they have theirs from the "first timezone" to the "last timezone" instead of a strict 24 hour day - that puts the end of the sale in Hawaii's timezone, I think, which is..?

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

Hawaii timezone is -6 Eastern or -11 London (GMT) time.

or - 5 Central, -4 Mountain, -3 Pacific

So if it is 3 pm in Eastern time it would be 9 am Hawaii time

Thanks. That's helpful.

I'm a day sleeper, so maybe I'll need to do my exploring for books in the early a.m.

[GtrsRGr8]

Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live your Best Life Now! By Jack Canfield, et al. Print list price $23.95; Kindle price $0.99. Four and 1/2 stars from 26 reviews at the present moment. http://www.amazon.com/Pearls-Wisdom-...+Inspirational.

An oyster can’t produce pearls without first suffering with a grain of sand. Each of the chapters in Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Lead Your Best Life Now gives guidance to readers on how to turn their own grains of sand into pearls.

With four New York Times bestselling authors, including Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Jack Canfield, Chris and Janet Attwood, and Marci Shimoff plus 25 of the best up and coming self-help authors, each chapter contains a fresh idea for a positive life change. With each chapter as diverse as the cast of authors who have come together to create this unique book, there is certain to be an idea to help transform anyone’s life.

Pearls of Wisdom contains the greatest ideas of today’s top self-help authors, combining traditional and new techniques, affirmations, theories, meditations and practices to lead readers from the struggles they deal with in their current situations to a higher, enlightened life; not merely an existence.

For anyone who has thought, “am I really living the best possible life I could be?”, Pearls of Wisdom grants the answers for any of life’s questions, straight from the words of the masters of self-help themselves.

[AnemicOak]

Freebie - Charles Dickens: Compassion and Contradiction by Karen Kenyon
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon CA

Charles Dickens was one of the greatest novelists in English Literature.

But who was the man behind the novels?

And how did his turbulent personal life contribute to his literary genius?

By the age of 12 Dickens was separated from his family when his father was sent to debtors’ prison. He was sent to work in a boot blacking factory, and had to live and walk the London streets alone.

He never recovered from the emotional wounds of those years, and when he began to write stories of the poor in London he included especially poignant characterizations of children.

He worked hard to change the way society viewed and emphasized with the poor, and yet, despite these displays of kindheartedness, he could be heartless in his personal life.

He had strained relationships with his children and showed very little sympathy towards his depressed and lonely wife.

He was full of compassion, yet also could be a mass of contradictions.

‘Charles Dickens: Compassion and Contradiction’ examines the man behind the novels, and seeks to understand all these different aspects of his character.

Karen Kenyon is a journalist and author. She teaches Creative Writing at MiraCosta College in Cardiff, California. Her books include ‘Sunshower’ and ‘The Bronte Family: Passionate Literary Geniuses’.

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

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Originally Posted by KyBunnies

Hawaii timezone is -6 Eastern or -11 London (GMT) time.

or - 5 Central, -4 Mountain, -3 Pacific

So if it is 3 pm in Eastern time it would be 9 am Hawaii time

Just FYI, that is only valid during daylight savings time in the US. Hawaii doesn't observe daylight savings time so during standard time Hawaii is one hour closer, -5 Eastern, -4 Central, -3 Mountain and -2 Pacific.

[koland]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

Hawaii timezone is -6 Eastern or -11 London (GMT) time.

or - 5 Central, -4 Mountain, -3 Pacific

So if it is 3 pm in Eastern time it would be 9 am Hawaii time

Thanks. That seems to correspond to about the extra time I see on freebies at Google (but it could be a complete coincidence).

Kobo is always weird - they list them as free a couple of ours before they actually are (so, the search shows them as 'free book', but you click to the book and it isn't free). they must have the two pages coming off of servers in different time zones...

[Little.Egret]

Understanding Patient Safety, Second Edition by Robert Wachter ( McGraw-Hill ) 62.9 MB
Print Length: 478 pages

For anyone interested in patient safety. Wachter breaks down a wide-ranging field into 22 topic-driven chapters and opens each with a real case that illustrates the issues to be discussed. Includes many useful charts and graphs.

Free in UK and probably elsewhere

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DZNIBIM/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DZNIBIM/

[GtrsRGr8]

YOU BRANDING: Reinventing Your Personal Identity as a Successful Brand. By Mark Cijo. Print list price $29.95; Digital list price $4.99; Kindle price $0.00. Five stars from 33 reviews at the present moment. http://www.amazon.com/YOU-BRANDING-R...ccessful+Brand.

From the Author:
Discover the Secrets of Personal Branding.

Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device.

Hi, my name is Mark and I am going to reveal to you my proven, step-by-step method of Personal Branding. In this book, I am going to outline many of the methods and secrets that I've used to create a successful personal brand.

Have you ever used Google to look yourself up? Go ahead and take a moment to enter your name into the search engine. I’ll wait.

Are you back? Great!

What pops up first? Do you even show up at all? What does the world have to say about you? What do your social networks have to say to anyone else who might Google you? For a lot of us the result is an uncontrolled mess of descriptors and identifiers that lacks the necessary cohesion to arrest an audience. Others of us find that we are invisible.

This is just one example I use to convey to you the necessity of personal branding. It might seem daunting. It may seem downright terrifying. But I know that if you are willing to trust yourself to me, I can lead you on your journey to reinventing your personal identity and transforming it into a strong and memorable personal brand.

Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...

-Why Personal Branding is very important?
-How to improve your personal brand by observing corporate brands
-Personal Branding success stories
-Understanding your targets
-How to become the master of your niche
-Personal Branding Blueprint
-How to define what makes your special
-How to tell your story
-How to avoid personal branding mistakes
-Building your personal brand in your current job for more success
-Online and Offline Tips, Tools and Techniques for building your personal brand
-Killer Social Networking Mistakes
-Much, much more!

Download your copy today!

[GtrsRGr8]

Here's another ebook (and free as a Kindle/mobi, at least) in the popular, well-written "On Target Photo Training" series.

If you've already got the first edition of this book, you will want to pick up this edition, too (especially since it is free), as this is a revised edition.

How To Pose... Legs (On Target Photo Training). By Dan Eitreim. Four and 1/2 stars out of 50 reviews at the present moment. Digital list price $8.97; Kindle price $0.00. http://www.amazon.com/Pose-Legs-Targ...to+Training%29.

Revised Edition! This edition includes more material and a lot more illustrations demonstrating the poses!

This simply written - easy to read - easy to understand course volume will have you posing your models legs like a master in no time! It is written for the newest of beginners and progresses through concepts that the most advanced of us will appreciate!

Roll the ankle the wrong way and you can make even the most masculine man look effeminate..or the sexiest woman look like a trucker!

It's surprising how easy it is to ruin a good portrait by mismanaging the subject's legs! On the other hand, once you've gone through this easy to understand lesson, you will have more posing ideas than EVER before!

Posing The Legs - The Posing The Legs section involves the upper leg, the lower leg, the foot and the toes...all of them matter!

The Stance - How are they standing? weight evenly distributed? More weight on one of the legs? This is an important consideration.

The Base Leg and the Show Leg - Do you know the clock system? You should.

Building the Pose - How to build you pose from the ground up...Good stuff!

Get this course volume and In just a few minutes time, you can easily master leg placement. People will notice that your photos are better than theirs...but they won't have any idea why! Photo contest wins ARE in YOUR future!

[Little.Egret]

Free

Fighting Times IV: Military Matters Past and Present by Spencer Jones with A J P Taylor,
Jan Needle and Richard Freeman and others

This issue features contributions from bestselling historians and well-known authors on a wide range of subjects, including an article on Carasius, Britain's forgotten emperor, and potentially the original King Arthur, a piece on The Crimean War by AJP Taylor, and an interview with Patrick Mercer, OBE.

It also includes works of fiction by P.C. Wren.

Fighting Times aims to capture both grand strategy and life on the frontline of conflicts past and present in an entertaining and informative manner.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JLRNJII/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JLRNJII/

Spies on the Eastern Front: The British Offensive in Palestine, 1917 by Colin Smith
Learning from Brother Boer: Marksmanship in the British Army 1914 by Spencer Jones
The True Origin of the Dardanelles by Richard Freeman
David Lloyd George: The Man who Won the War by George Chamier
Adventures of a Despatch Rider: The Journey to the Front by Captain W.H.L. Watson
Carausius: Britain’s Forgotten Emperor by Paul Bannister
Mark Antony Re-examined: A Pivotal and Visionary Leader by Paolo de Ruggiero
Admiral Nelson: Death and Disease on Mosquito Shore by Jan Needle
How Wars Begin: The Crimean War by AJP Taylor
The English Civil War: Skirmishes, Starves and Plunders by John Lewis-Stempel
An Interview with Patrick Mercer, OBE by Robin Carter.
Stories of the Foreign Legion: The Coward of the Legion by P. C. Wren

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Free

Fighting Times IV: Military Matters Past and Present by Spencer Jones with . . . .

Great find, LG.

I hope that you will let us know about future free issues. I've got all of the previous issues, except for Vol. I. I got all of them free, probably because of your posts.

[shootist]

I've got volume 1, but need two and three.

[GtrsRGr8]

There may not be anyone who would want this book, but I'm posting this because, if there is someone who wants this book, he or she will save a ton of money--the retail price is $150.00, but it's free now.

The mobi/Kindle version (free) is mentioned at the beginning. Read the description, following that, to learn how to get the book free in other formats.

Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics). Print list price $150.00; Kindle $0.00. No ratings at the current moment (could it be because there are only three people in the world who know what the book is talking about?). http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Tradit...eral+Tradition.

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.

This book considers the relationship between Hayek and Mill, taking issues with Hayek’s criticism of Mill and providing a broader perspective of the liberal tradition. Featuring contributions from the likes of Ross Emmett, Leon Montes and Robert Garnett, these chapters ask whether Hayek had an accurate reading of the ideas of Mill and Smith, as well as considering themes such as sympathy and analytical egalitarianism that play a large part in the liberal tradition, but less in work of Hayek These chapters argue that addition of these key ideas to the Hayekian corpus leads to a far broader understanding of the liberal tradition than that provided by Hayek.

[shootist]

I can sum up liberal economics very easily.... Take money from someone and give to someone else.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Free

Fighting Times IV: Military Matters Past and Present by Spencer Jones with A J P Taylor,
Jan Needle and Richard Freeman and others


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JLRNJII/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JLRNJII/

Thanks, also at amazon.ca
http://www.amazon.ca/Fighting-Times-.../dp/B00JLRNJII

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Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel

is today's Kindle Daily Deal. It can be downloaded for $1.99.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_i=1000677541

Below is the blurb:
Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me." Galileo's Daughter dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's grand public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during the pivotal era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was about to be overturned. In that same time, while the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and the Thirty Years' War tipped fortunes across Europe, one man sought to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens he revealed through his telescope. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Dava Sobel's previous book Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is an unforgettable story