FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2015

[avantman42]

This was in my Kindle Daily Deals email this morning. I dare say plenty of people have very strong views on the subject matter. Feel free to discuss them in the politics forum

Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Author), Larry Siems (Editor, Introduction)

£0.99 at Amazon UK, $1.50 at Amazon.com

Since 2002, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered to be released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go.

Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody and daily life as a detainee. His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir - terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. Published now for the first time, Guantánamo Diary is a document of immense historical importance.

[itisbomb]

747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation
by Joe Sutter(Author), Jay Spenser(Author)

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/747-Creating-W...2&keywords=747

Below is the blurb:
747 is the thrilling story behind "the Queen of the Skies"—the Boeing 747—as told by Joe Sutter, one of the most celebrated engineers of the twentieth century, who spearheaded its design and construction. Sutter's vivid narrative takes us back to a time when American technology was cutting-edge and jet travel was still glamorous and new. With wit and warmth, he gives an insider's sense of the larger than life-size personalities—and the tensions—in the aeronautical world.

[itisbomb]

1492: The Year the World Began
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/1492-Year-Our-...&keywords=1492

Below is the blurb:
1492: The Year the World Began is a look at one of the most fascinating years in world history, the year when many believe the modern world was born. Historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of Millennium, covers such iconic figures as Christopher Columbus and Alexander Borgia and explores cultures as diverse as that of Spain, China, and Africa to tell the story of 1492, a momentous year whose lessons are still relevant today.

[Little.Egret]

Today, culture !

Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin Endeavour Press

It has been just over 50 years since Sylvia Plath committed suicide, and her place in American letters is secure.
Today she is widely recognized as one of the outstanding poets of the century.
When her Collected Poems was published it won the Pulitzer Prize. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, has become a modern classic.
Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to readers.
But, like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing.
In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Linda Wagner-Martin examines the ironies and contradictions of Sylvia Plath's life, as well as her achievements.

Linda Wagner-Martin has written biographies of Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Ellen Glasgow, Barbara Kingsolver, and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R63H5B6/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00R63H5B6/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00R63H5B6/

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Outspokin' Cyclist by Phillip Barron, a best-of collection of his columns on bicycling (and the ensuing local lifestyle/related issues commentary) from the Herald-Sun newspaper of Durham, North Carolina, which ran from 2004-2008. Here's an article from another newspaper giving more background and a mini-interview, if you're interested.

For four years, readers of The Herald-Sun newspaper (Durham, NC) enjoyed Phillip Barron’s monthly columns on bicycling. The Outspokin’ Cyclist gathers some of the best columns together in one volume. With insights into cold-weather bike commuting, urban design, the spiritual solitude of solo mountain biking, and the philosophical problems with drug use in competitive sports, Barron’s columns offer glimpses into the life of a cyclist and a small city’s biking community. The resulting book will appeal to residents of the Bull City as well as those unlucky enough not to know Durham, to cyclists as well as readers who simply enjoy a good story.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

BookShout! presently has "1,000's of free ebooks" listed at https://bookshout.com/ebooks/free_books.

I'm posting this on the non-fiction thread, but there are fiction titles, too.

They're saying that they are "free for a limited time." So, if you think that you might be interested, don't dilly-dally around.

Be careful: I noticed a book right away, on the webpage cited above, that was not free (it is $0.99). There might be more.

So many ebook bargains, so little time . . . .

Probably the one that is .99 was free at the time it was posted and the free period just ended.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation
by Joe Sutter(Author), Jay Spenser(Author)

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/747-Creating-W...2&keywords=747

Below is the blurb:
747 is the thrilling story behind "the Queen of the Skies"—the Boeing 747—as told by Joe Sutter, one of the most celebrated engineers of the twentieth century, who spearheaded its design and construction. Sutter's vivid narrative takes us back to a time when American technology was cutting-edge and jet travel was still glamorous and new. With wit and warmth, he gives an insider's sense of the larger than life-size personalities—and the tensions—in the aeronautical world.

For the audiophiles among you, I thought that I would mention that the Whispersync audio companion is only $3.99. I purchased the combo myself, but I can't comment on the quality of the audio, because I haven't had a chance to listen to any of it.

For those of us who were alive then, can you believe that it's been almost 50 years (it's been 45) since the plane first flew?

[GtrsRGr8]

You may remember that Francis Crick, along with James Watson, discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.

This is a book in the "Eminent Lives" series.

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. By Matt Ridley. Rated 4 1/2 stars, from 16 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $13.99; regular digital price $9.25; Kindle price now $0.99. Harper, publisher. 224 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Francis-Crick-...e+Genetic+Code.

Book Description
Francis Crick—the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life—will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code—the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things—acclaimed bestselling science writer Matt Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity in the English Midlands through a lackluster education and six years designing magnetic mines for the Royal Navy to his leap into biology at the age of thirty-one and its astonishing consequences. In the process, Ridley sheds a brilliant light on the man who forever changed our world and how we understand it.

[itisbomb]

Life in a Medieval Village
by Frances Gies and Joseph Gies

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Medieval-...dieval+village

[pendragginp]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

You may remember that Francis Crick, along with James Watson, discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.

This is a book in the "Eminent Lives" series.

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. By Matt Ridley. Rated 4 1/2 stars, from 16 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $13.99; regular digital price $9.25; Kindle price now $0.99. Harper, publisher. 224 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Francis-Crick-...e+Genetic+Code.

Book Description
Francis Crick—the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life—will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code—the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things—acclaimed bestselling science writer Matt Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity in the English Midlands through a lackluster education and six years designing magnetic mines for the Royal Navy to his leap into biology at the age of thirty-one and its astonishing consequences. In the process, Ridley sheds a brilliant light on the man who forever changed our world and how we understand it.

When I click on the link the price is $9.25 - ?

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by pendragginp

When I click on the link the price is $9.25 - ?

It was 99 cents when I posted it. Sorry.

Yesterday, HarperCollins Publishers (or whoever was responsible--HarperCollins is the publisher of the title) flooded the system with markdowns. There could have been 300-400 markdowns, easily. It usually takes minutes for me to review the better markdowns of a day; yesterday it took hours.

Pretty much unexpectedly, for me at least, many, if not all, of the markdowns didn't last very long at all. There is one that I posted in the "Christian Interest" thread that I estimate couldn't have lasted more than half of a day! By the time that I got to the end of the list (so to speak), many of the titles, to my annoyance, had jumped back up in price.

When a publisher or retailer (whoever is the entity that makes the decision) makes a markdown, it usually takes me several hours, at least, to see it. If I post it on MobileRead immediately, it then still usually takes several hours, at least, on average, for an interested person to see it. With markdowns like this one by HarperCollins yesterday, that may make it too late for the person to get the ebook at the marked-down price.

If HarperCollins Publishers thinks that they are endearing themselves to us by dumping this huge number of markdowns on us, for only a brief amount of time, they are mistaken.

Because of this issue with one title recently (the one that I mentioned that the post was in the "Christian Interest" thread), I have been trying to review the "list" earlier in the day. I wasn't able to yesterday, however.

In case you're wondering, it is frustrating not just to people who see my posts of markdowns and try to take advantage of them, only to find that they have already ended, but also to me. It does take some effort on my part (and on the part of all who make posts of ebooks--thank you to them) to make the posts and it's frustrating when I've made a post only to find that no one was able to take advantage of it.

I rarely know how long a markdown will last. I've noticed that ATDrake knows a lot of times. I need to talk with him and find out his secret(s).

I've written the above not just for your sake concerning the title that you mentioned, but also to use in future situations and so that the information can be archived by Mobileread for reference purposes.

[KyBunnies]

It was 99 cents for a very, very short time. I picked it up because it sounded interesting.

Sometimes publishers or Amazon do play around with the price. They will drop the price for a few hours to increase sales. I think they do this to see how many people click without looking at the price and people buying at full price rather than the discounted price. Just my opinion

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

It was 99 cents for a very, very short time. I picked it up because it sounded interesting.

Sometimes publishers or Amazon do play around with the price. They will drop the price for a few hours to increase sales. I think they do this to see how many people click without looking at the price and people buying at full price rather than the discounted price. Just my opinion

Good suggestion. It's probably well worth the money that they lose, in order that they might have that information.

[Little.Egret]

Jimmie (I & VI) thought that witches were a real threat so he wrote a book.


Demonology, by King James I

The Squire in _Mist Over Pendle_ by Robert Neill had bought a copy.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S5EAR60/


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00S5EAR60/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00S5EAR60/

[Little.Egret]

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Author of Xanadu

"The first - and still is the finest - literary dope fiend" (Guardian)

"It is one of the classics of 19th-century life writing and its influence is still felt" (Observer)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RUQAY3U/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00RUQAY3U/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00RUQAY3U/

These are from the 56 freebie reprints from Waxkeep I will post some more as I can organise them

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=waxkeep

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...lisher=waxkeep
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...lisher=waxkeep