FREE/BARGAIN — Non-Fiction

[Sumanuil]

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte is $1.99 on Amazon US.

[DNSB]

The Best-Selling ChatGPT Author for $0.99 on Amazon CA. A bit of an interesting read which—in places—is rather honest about the limitations of using ChatGPT. It's an assistant not a replacement. OTOH, the idea that using ChatGPT will enable you to churn out bestsellers does not seem to match up with reality.

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Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons by Ben Riggs published by ‎ St. Martin's Press is on sale for $2.99.

There are a number of histories of Dungeons & Dragons. To be honest, I'm not sure how this one compares.

[sufue]

I get an embarrassing amount of the history I know from the "Historical Notes" at the ends of historical murder mysteries . With that said, I do read some regular old non-fiction history from time to time, and I spotted London, A Fourteenth-Century City and its People, by Kathryn Warner, a while back, while looking for something else. And thought it looked interesting. And put it on my eReaderIQ list. And now it is on sale in both the US ($1.99, discountable at Kobo) and the UK (£1.99). Woo-hoo...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6GP8T94
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lon...d-its-people-1
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B6GP8T94

Spoiler:

A resource of information about the cultural, political and social conditions of urban life in the capital of medieval England during the 1300s.

For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was transformative.

Peering through the looking-glass to focus on one of Europe’s largest medieval cities, and centre of an international melting pot on the global stage, this is a social history of England’s (in)famous capital and its multi-cultural residents in the first half of the fourteenth century.

Using a rich variety of important sources that provide first-hand accounts of everyday life and personal interactions between loved ones, friends, foreigners and foes alike, such as the Assize of Nuisance, Coroners’ Rolls, wills, household accounts, inquisitions post mortem and many more, this chronicle begins at the start of the fourteenth century and works its way up to the first mass outbreak of the Black Death at the end of the 1340s. It is a narrative that builds a vivid, multi-layered picture of London’s inhabitants who lived in one of the most turbulent and exciting periods in European history.