FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - August 2014

[Difflugia]

A thread for August.

We point out free and bargain Non-Fiction titles to each other. Please don't post any self-published books*, and please do a search before posting to avoid duplicates.

In case no retailer is specifically mentioned in a post, it is safe to assume it's for Amazon US.

Be aware that many freebies are only free for a day, so grab them fast!

*Unless you have read them yourself, think they are excellent, and you're not connected to the author in any way.

[Difflugia]

The NOOK Free Friday book is Nobody Comes by Anthony Cleary.

It's still $8.99 at Amazon, but that may change.

This is the true story of the (ultimately successful) endeavour to find, extract and adopt an infant from an 'orphanage' in post revolutionary Romania despite the unhelpful and sometimes downright obstructive attitude of both the UK and the Romanian authorities.
The author describes the horrors of Orphanage Number One in Bucharest, the poverty and endemic corruption which he faced on a daily basis and his struggle to raise awareness in both jurisdictions of the damage inflicted upon the children by the general indifference to their plight.
The book also recounts the remarkable friendship which was forged with a Bucharest University graduate who became interpreter, guide and, ultimately, Godfather to the child who was rescued.

[Smartie]

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Amazon.ca is 2.99

From Amazon
On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia.

All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. A wave of fortune seekers descended on Panama from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking quick passage on California-bound ships in the Pacific, and the Panama Railroad, built to serve that traffic, was soon the highest-priced stock listed on the New York Exchange. To build a 51-mile-long ship canal to replace that railroad seemed an easy matter to some investors. But, as McCullough notes, the construction project came to involve the efforts of thousands of workers from many nations over four decades; eventually those workers, laboring in oppressive heat in a vast malarial swamp, removed enough soil and rock to build a pyramid a mile high. In the early years, they toiled under the direction of French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps, who went bankrupt while pursuing his dream of extending France's empire in the Americas. The United States then entered the picture, with President Theodore Roosevelt orchestrating the purchase of the canal--but not before helping foment a revolution that removed Panama from Colombian rule and placed it squarely in the American camp.

The story of the Panama Canal is complex, full of heroes, villains, and victims. McCullough's long, richly detailed, and eminently literate book pays homage to an immense undertaking. --Gregory McNamee

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

The NOOK Free Friday book is Nobody Comes by Anthony Cleary.

It's still $8.99 at Amazon, but that may change.

My experience is that Amazon doesn't match prices that they know to be good for just a day. I used to submit lower prices (links are on the books' webpages) on daily sales to Amazon, but to my knowledge they never changed one of their prices in response. Do any of you other Mobilereaders know for sure what Amazon's policies are on this?

Thanks for the post about the orphan in Romania. I used to read things like that, but I just got to the point that I couldn't bear to read or hear about people suffering. Maybe it was because I felt overwhelmed, already, by the bad stuff that I knew about in the world. Probably I was seeing too much news; I cut back on that, too.

[Brendan Moody]

I doubt Amazon has any formal policy on matching one-day sale prices. I've seen them do it and not do it in different situations. I suspect it's more a matter of whether their price-monitoring staff and/or software notices a given sale in time to make the change.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by Smartie

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Amazon.ca is 2.99

Thanks. An excellent book. Also at kobo Canada (how amazing is that?) for $CDN 2.99

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebo...tween-the-seas

If it is on sale there, it must be on sale globally

This month is the centennary of the Panama Canal opening (S.S. Ancon did the first official transit on Aug. 15, 1914). It is doubtful if there has been any other building project since that has brought so many benefits to the world.

[itisbomb]

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Network Marketing Professionals
by Stephen R. Covey

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:
In this book, Stephen R. Covey presents an integrated, principle-centered approach for becoming a highly effective network marketing professional. Including real-world examples of current, successful networkers, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for not only living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity, but applying principle-centered habits that will help you become truly effective in your networking business.

By following the principle-centered approach of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People network marketers learn principles of success to build their business, change their life, and be able to teach others how to build an effective network marketing business.

[Difflugia]

This month's free ebook from the University of Chicago Press is For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals by Wayne C. Booth.

The book this month is a PDF and requires Adobe Digital Editions.

[ucfgrad93]

Originally Posted by Smartie

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Amazon.ca is 2.99

From Amazon
On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia.

All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. A wave of fortune seekers descended on Panama from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking quick passage on California-bound ships in the Pacific, and the Panama Railroad, built to serve that traffic, was soon the highest-priced stock listed on the New York Exchange. To build a 51-mile-long ship canal to replace that railroad seemed an easy matter to some investors. But, as McCullough notes, the construction project came to involve the efforts of thousands of workers from many nations over four decades; eventually those workers, laboring in oppressive heat in a vast malarial swamp, removed enough soil and rock to build a pyramid a mile high. In the early years, they toiled under the direction of French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps, who went bankrupt while pursuing his dream of extending France's empire in the Americas. The United States then entered the picture, with President Theodore Roosevelt orchestrating the purchase of the canal--but not before helping foment a revolution that removed Panama from Colombian rule and placed it squarely in the American camp.

The story of the Panama Canal is complex, full of heroes, villains, and victims. McCullough's long, richly detailed, and eminently literate book pays homage to an immense undertaking. --Gregory McNamee

Thanks for the link.

[AnemicOak]

Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency by Saul David is free in various Amazon stores (possibly more than the ones linked)...
Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK | Amazon AU

Described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy and good feeling that I ever saw in one character in my life', George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, later George IV, was a highly controversial figure. He courted both Whigs and Tories in his attempts to establish the Regency during the 'madness' of his father, George III. Scandalous liaisons with prostitutes and duchesses, and his 'secret' marriage to the Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, tested his duty - to nation and to family. Yet his support for overseas campaigns against Napoleon, culminating in such historic victories as Trafalgar and Waterloo, consolidated Britain's status as the pre-eminent world power amid the great social and economic upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on a wealth of original accounts of life in Georgian Britain, Saul David has created a masterly portrait - of a flamboyant, opportunistic and influential figure, and of a nation in a time of great change.

Saul David is Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham and the author of several critically-acclaimed history books, including The Indian Mutiny: 1857 (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature), Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 (a Waterstone's Military History Book of the Year) and, most recently, Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire.

Saul David also writes acclaimed historical fiction. Zulu Hart, the first in the George Hart series, was a bestseller in 2009, and the sequel, Hart of Empire, will be published in August 2010.

An experienced broadcaster, Saul David has presented and appeared in history programmes for all the major TV channels and is a regular contributor to Radio 4.

Praise for Saul's books:

'Filled with swashbuckling derring-do, the reek of blood and gunpowder, combined with shrewd analysis of power, war and psychology' (Simon Sebag Montefiore on ALL THE KINGS MEN)

'Those wishing to immerse themselves in this golden age of British military success will relish David's fine piece of history' (Sunday Times on ALL THE KINGS MEN )

'A first-rate historian, now a masterly story-teller' (Bernard Cornwell on ZULU HART )

'David is a popular historian with a rare talent . . . An unashamed crowd-pleaser with a compelling, sexy hero who could give Cornwell's Sharpe a run for his money.' (The Times on ZULU HART )

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

[itisbomb]

Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
by John Ferling

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

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

Below is the blurb:
A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America.
From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible human drama even as it enriches our understanding of deep themes in our nation’s history.

The decade of the 1790s has been called the “age of passion.” Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic—each side convinced that the other’s goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won. All understood as well that what was at stake was not a moment’s political advantage, but the future course of the American experiment in democracy. In this epochal debate, no two figures loomed larger than Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.

Both men were visionaries, but their visions of what the United States should be were diametrically opposed. Jefferson, a true revolutionary, believed passionately in individual liberty and a more egalitarian society, with a weak central government and greater powers for the states. Hamilton, a brilliant organizer and tactician, feared chaos and social disorder. He sought to build a powerful national government that could ensure the young nation’s security and drive it toward economic greatness.

Jefferson and Hamilton is the story of the fierce struggle—both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal—between these two titans. It ended only with the death of Hamilton in a pistol duel, felled by Aaron Burr, Jefferson’s vice president. Their competing legacies, like the twin strands of DNA, continue to shape our country to this day. Their personalities, their passions, and their bold dreams for America leap from the page in this epic new work from one of our finest historians.

[Froide]

The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois

Overview:

Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls of Black Folk is an impassioned, at times searing, account of the situation of African Americans in the United States. Du Bois makes a forceful case for the access of African Americans to higher education, memorably extols the achievements of black culture (above all the spirituals or "sorrow songs"), and advances the provocative and influential argument that due to the inequalities and pressures of the "race problem", African American identity is characterized by "double consciousness".

This extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history, it helped to alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and studied in Berlin, these 14 essays contain both the academic language of sociology and the rich lyrics of African spirituals, which Du Bois called "sorrow songs."

Product Details:
ISBN-13: 9781480483842
ASIN: B00K5EBF8M
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication date: 5/27/2014

At BN.com US
At Amazon.com US

NOTE: This book is collection of short fiction and nonfiction, so I'm cross-posting it.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by Froide

The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois

...

Product Details:
ISBN-13: 9781480483842
ASIN: B00K5EBF8M
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication date: 5/27/2014

At Barnes & Noble
At Amazon.com US

NOTE: This book is collection of short fiction and nonfiction, so I'm cross-posting it.

That version isn't available to me in the Netherlands, but this one is, and although not free, it's very cheap ($1.15).

[Difflugia]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

That version isn't available to me in the Netherlands, but this one is, and although not free, it's very cheap ($1.15).

I don't know what the formatting's like, but it's also available at Project Gutenberg.

[koland]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

I don't know what the formatting's like, but it's also available at Project Gutenberg.

The one posted earlier is edited/formatted/published by Open Road. They have been having a new classic most days, recently, free for one day at Amazon and B&N.