Several of the selections below are from today's Deal of the Day, so the pricing may only last until midnight on the west coast (USA). The first two may be aimed at college kids, but look like they would work for anyone cooking for one and who wants to eat healthy or save a bit of cash (or maybe do both).
30 Days to a More Powerful Memory (
$2.49), by Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.
Book Description
With phones ringing off the hook, constantly changing to-do lists, and increasingly complicated schedules, having a good memory has become more important than ever. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive experts and psychologists, "30 Days to a More Powerful Memory" provides hands-on, practical strategies and exercises that anyone, young or old, can use to sharpen their memory - fast! The book introduces readers to memory-boosting techniques such as mnemonic devices, visualization, chunking and clustering, and mental triggers, and also shows how to: effectively decrease anxiety levels and combat the negative emotions that can affect recall; create powerful backup systems to help trigger associations; exercise both body and mind, and improve overall health to improve memory; get the kind of restful sleep that will increase one's ability to retain information.The book discusses common myths about memory, clarifying what's true and what isn't. Packed with tips and memory-boosting activities, this guide provides readers with the simple but powerful methods they need to increase their mental agility.
Authorbio: Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.(Oakland, CA) is the founder and director of Changemakers and Creative Communications & Research. She is the author of over 40 books, including "A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses" (0-8144-7298-2), and "A Survival Guide to Working with Humans" (0-8144-7205-2). Frequently sought out by the media, she has been interviewed for "Good Morning America", "Oprah", "Geraldo at Large", "Montel Williams", "The O'Reilly Factor", "The New York Times", "Glamour", and "Cosmopolitan".
The Clutter-Busting Handbook: Clean It Up, Clear It Out, and Keep Your Life Clutter-Free (
$1.49), by Rita Emmett
Book Description
The Clutter Busting Handbook is a streamlined guide to uncluttering your life from the best-selling author of The Procrastinator's Handbook.We are the clutter generation, inundated by a seemingly daily or weekly influx of clothes, accessories, gadgets, catalogs, mail, and e-mail. Clutter crowds our lives, is a chief source of stress, contributes to sidetracked dreams and opportunities, and can cause guilt and anxiety. If clutter is a problem in your life, then Rita Emmett-herself a reformed clutterer-can help you tame it.
The Clutter-Busting Handbook is a concise, energizing guide giving readers insight and direction as well as proven tips, methods, and strategies that will change lives for the better.
As entertaining as she is helpful, Emmett offers practical advice on separating what you need or truly want from what you have been hanging onto for the wrong reasons. Her combination of experience and good humor-based on her hundreds of seminars and advice received from people all over the country-will win over the most reluctant convert.
The $5 a Meal College Cookbook: Good Cheap Food for When You Need to Eat (
$1.99), by Rhonda Lauret Parkinson and B. E. Horton
Book Description
Say goodbye to the dining hall!
Need a break from the monotony of your meal plan? Can't afford to waste money on lukewarm takeout? Well, now you can ditch the dining hall's soggy excuse for the Monday-night special thanks to this appetite-saving book packed with cheap, easy, and delicious recipes.
Offering up more than 300 hassle-free dishes, this cookbook will not only satisfy your hunger but your meager bank account, too! Whether you need a morning-after greasy breakfast, a cram-session snack, or date-night entree, here you'll find ideas for everything you crave, including: Western Omelet, Asian Lettuce Wraps, Easy Eggplant Parmesan, Simple Pepper Steak and Decadent Apple Crisp.
Saving you from overcooked, overpriced, and dull dishes, if you have to buy a book for college, this is required reading.
The Everything Healthy College Cookbook (
$2.49), by Nicole Cormier
Book Description
Forget fast food. Forget the dining hall. In this cookbook, you'll find 300 great-tasting, good-for-you recipes designed to help you eat well in and out of the dorm. Peanut Butter Banana Breakfast Wraps; Toasted Cheese and Turkey Sandwiches; Apricot Rice; Asian Chicken Salad; Fresh Tomato with Angel Hair Pasta; Mango Citrus Salsa; Triple Chocolate Cupcakes; and more. Chock full of money-saving tips, cooking techniques, and culinary shortcuts, this all-in-one cookbook is all you need to eat well on a budget. With full nutritional breakdowns as well as a wide range of low-fat, vegetarian, and vegan offerings, this college-proof collection of mouthwatering recipes gives you the tasty nutritional boost you need, even when you're stressed out and sleep deprived. So put down that take-out menu and prepare to eat well--on the cheap!
101 Things To Do With Popcorn (
$1.49), by Christina Dymock (I bought this the last time it was on sale).
Book Description
The world’s favorite snack just got tastier! These sweet and savory treats will turn this old-fashioned staple into Snickerdoodle Popcorn, Pumpkin Balls, Caramel Nut Bars, Sleepover Mix, Taco Spice, and A Taste of Asia. And for a popper of a surprise, give CinnaPop Cake, Popcorn Brownies, Rooster Snacks, Chicken Nuggets, and Swedish Meatballs a try.
Christina Dymock has written several Chicken Soup stories; been published in Woman’s World magazine; and wrote the Christmas booklet The Widow’s Mite. She loves spending time creating in the kitchen with her four children.
I also already own
Edible Wild Plants (The Wild Food Adventure) (
$1.49), by John Kallas Ph.D., which I don't recommend as your only source of identifying wild edibles, but is a good resource on utilizing plants you do know how to identify (or even grow in your garden).
Book Description
Edible wild plants have one or more parts that can be used for food if gathered at the appropriate stage of growth and properly prepared. Edible Wild Plants includes extensive information and recipes on plants from the four categories:
Foundation greens: wild spinach, chickweed, mallow, purslane; tart greens: curly dock, sheep sorrel, wood sorrel; pungent greens: wild mustard, wintercress, garlic mustard, shepherd’s purse; and bitter greens: dandelion, cat’s ear, sow thistle, nipplewort.
The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life (
$1.99), by Chelsea Cain and Lia Miternique
Book Description
Brothers and sisters! Here at last is a light-hearted, free-spirited, groovy guide to the timeless hippie skills and activities that make the world a better place, one macrame belt at a time. In illustrated, easy-to-follow instructions, author Chelsea Cain -- who grew up on an Iowa hippie commune -- provides practical and playful know-how for the hippie and hippie-at-heart. Learn how to milk a goat, build a compost pile, play "Kumbaya" on the guitar, teach a dog how to catch a Frisbee, and get your file from the FBI. Discover the finer points of caring for a fern, choosing a mantra, organizing a protest, naming your hippie baby, and making sand candles as holiday gifts. Including primers on cooking, dressing, driving, telling time, dancing, and celebrating your birthday in classic hippie style, and a righteous appendix of essential hippie books, movies, and slang, The Hippie Handbook knows the score. Right on.
98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive (
$1.49), by Cody Lundin and Russ Miller (Illustrator)
Book Description
Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. This is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body's core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees.
In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks and without water for about three days or so. But if the body's core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don't take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise.
Watch naturalist Cody Lundin on "Dual Survival" as he uses many of the same skills and techniques taught in his book: 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive.
Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.
On Silver Wings (
$0.99), the first novel in Evan Currie's
Warrior's Wings military sci-fi/space opera series, is one of five fiction titles hiding out in today's Kindle Daily Deal.
Book Description
Behind enemy lines.
Cut off from reinforcement.
Her only assets; Her rifle, power armour, basic kit... oh, and several hundred civilians looking to take back their home.
Luckily this is just what she was trained for. De Oppresso Liber.
A novel of both ground and space warfare set in the far flung future, On Silver WIngs tells the tale of a colony cut off from Earth's support when an alien assault severs their orbital tether and effectively maroons the colonists on a lush world where neither the flora nor fauna are edible by humans. Faced with frightening ghost-like aliens using technology nearly unfathomable to their knowledge, the colonists are forced to rely on the sole survivor of a military scouting mission as their best and possibly only chance of survival.
The Solar Fleet isn't sitting this one out, however, and back home a massive effort is marshalled to send support and reinforcements to the stricken colony world... but will any of it be in time?
Gift (
$1.49), by Andrea J. Buchanan, says it is an "Open Road E-riginal", looks to be of novel length and includes some extras such as a short graphic novel, a journal and lyrics and links to the music.
Book Description
Daisy has an electrifying secret that could save her life—or kill her
High school sophomore Daisy Jones is just trying to get by unnoticed. It doesn’t help that she’s the new girl at school, lives in a trailer park, and doesn’t even own a cell phone. But there’s a good reason for all that: Daisy has a secret, unpredictable power—one only her best friend, Danielle, knows about.
Despite her “gift” (or is it a curse?), Daisy’s doing a good job of fitting in, and a gorgeous senior named Kevin even seems interested in her! But when Daisy tries to help Vivi, a mysterious classmate in a crisis, she soon discovers that her new friend has a secret of her own. Now Daisy and her friends must deal with chilling dreams and messages from the beyond. Can Daisy channel the power she’s always tried to hide, before it’s too late?
Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. (
$1.49), the first in the The Philip Hall Trilogy by Bette Greene, is published by Open Road Young Readers.
Book Description
Beth Lambert has a crush on Philip Hall, who is better than she is at just about everything—or is he?
Philip Hall is the handsomest, smartest, fastest boy in Miss Johnson’s class. He beats Beth Lambert in math, spelling, reading, sports . . . and she adores him. Beth suspects Philip likes her too, only she can’t quite get him to admit it. In fact, he won’t even invite her to his birthday party because he’s afraid the other boys will call him a sissy.
But then Beth begins to wonder: Maybe Philip only wins because she’s letting him. Maybe she could beat him at everything. That would show Philip Hall! Because if being friends with a girl is bad . . . getting beaten by a girl is much, much worse.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Bette Greene including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
The Kid from Tomkinsville (
$1.49), by John R. Tunis, is also published by Open Road Young Readers.
Book Description
Rookie pitcher Roy Tucker is full of hope for his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers—and hope might be what the team needs most
Roy Tucker—a small-town kid from Tomkinsville, Connecticut—has quit his job at the drugstore and packed up for Dodgers training camp in Clearwater, Florida, hoping to make the team as a rookie pitcher. He expects the field to be competitive and realizes he might not pass muster, but after just one practice, he discovers just how difficult a goal he has set.
But the Dodgers are an aging team, and owner Jack MacManus is getting tired of the smart remarks from sports reporters and the manager of the rival Giants, Bill Murphy. With a little coaching and encouragement from Dave Leonard, the oldest catcher in the big leagues, this kid from Tomkinsville might be just what the team needs.
Easy (
$0.99), a self-published entry by Tammara Webber in today's Kindle Deal sale, has nearly 500 reviews and a near 5-star rating (and is a New York Times Bestseller).
Book Description
A girl who believes trust can be misplaced, promises are made to be broken, and loyalty is an illusion. A boy who believes truth is relative, lies can mask unbearable pain, and guilt is eternal. Will what they find in each other validate their conclusions, or disprove them all?
When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup two months into sophomore year. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she's single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, and failing a class for the first time in her life.
Leaving a party alone, Jacqueline is assaulted by her ex's frat brother. Rescued by a stranger who seems to be in the right place at the right time, she wants nothing more than to forget the attack and that night--but her savior, Lucas, sits on the back row of her econ class, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. Her friends nominate him to be the perfect rebound.
When her attacker turns stalker, Jacqueline has a choice: crumple in defeat or learn to fight back. Lucas remains protective, but he's hiding secrets of his own. Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but easy.
Untouchables: Dirty cops, bent justice and racism in Scotland Yard (
$1.99), by Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynn
Book Description
With Scotland Yard in the dock, now more than ever the public needs to know why the police cannot be trusted to investigate their own corruption.
Untouchables, a five year investigation which the Yard tried to stop, provides the essential context to the phone hacking and other scandals currently engulfing Britain’s most powerful police force.
Republished after seven years, it was the first book to question the cosy relationship between the Yard and sections of the media, to explain why cops are incapable of investigating themselves and to expose the lack of independence in the new police watchdog.
From the 1983 Brinks Matt robbery, through the murders of Daniel Morgan, David Norris, Stephen Lawrence, Jill Dando and Damilola Taylor to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, Untouchables reveals the cover ups, double standards and miscarriages of justice during the Yard’s phoney war on corruption.
Sunday Times journalist Michael Gillard and TV producer Laurie Flynn expose how the discredited use of supergrasses in the war on corruption has re-emerged in the new wars on terror and crime, with the same disastrous effects: prosecution misconduct, collapsed trials, huge bills for the taxpayer, victims left without justice and the guilty walking free.
Jeremy Lin: From the End of the Bench to Stardom (
$1.49), by Bill Davis
Book Description
This true story is truly “Lin-sane!”
The world is exposed to an individual like Jeremy Lin only once in a generation. His journey has taken him from practicing lay-ups on the court at the local YMCA to hitting last minute game-winners on the grand stage at Madison Square Garden. This book charts Jeremy’s life story, from the streets of Palo Alto to the dormitories of Harvard to the major arenas throughout the country. Through exclusive interviews, play-by-plays, and colorful recollections, we get an intimate look at Jeremy’s story. It is one of unyielding determination, true faith, and unimaginable success.
What the Best College Students Do (
$4.49), by Ken Bain (Harvard University Press), might be one you want to gift to any new or upcoming high school grads in your family.
Book Description
The author of the best-selling book What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college—and every other educational enterprise, too.
The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. The creative, successful people profiled in this book—college graduates who went on to change the world we live in—aimed higher than straight A’s. They used their four years to cultivate habits of thought that would enable them to grow and adapt throughout their lives.
Combining academic research on learning and motivation with insights drawn from interviews with people who have won Nobel Prizes, Emmys, fame, or the admiration of people in their field, Ken Bain identifies the key attitudes that distinguished the best college students from their peers. These individuals started out with the belief that intelligence and ability are expandable, not fixed. This led them to make connections across disciplines, to develop a “meta-cognitive” understanding of their own ways of thinking, and to find ways to negotiate ill-structured problems rather than simply looking for right answers. Intrinsically motivated by their own sense of purpose, they were not demoralized by failure nor overly impressed with conventional notions of success. These movers and shakers didn’t achieve success by making success their goal. For them, it was a byproduct of following their intellectual curiosity, solving useful problems, and taking risks in order to learn and grow.
I Got My Dream Job and So Can You: 7 Steps to Creating Your Ideal Career After College (
$1.99), by Pete Leibman
Book Description
Recent graduates looking to enter the workforce face a discouraging job market and stiff competition for even the most entry-level positions. Yet with the right attitude and strategies, they can break into any organization in any industry and start climbing the ladder to success. When he was only 21 years old, Pete Leibman landed his "dream job," working in the front office of the NBA's Washington Wizards. He went on to be their #1 salesperson for three straight seasons and was promoted to management in under two years. In "I Got My Dream Job and So Can You", Leibman shares his proven and simple system for career success. He shows readers how to: think big and identify what they want from their career; network their way past corporate gatekeepers; impress highly influential people in any field; land interviews for "hidden" jobs; and sell themselves on paper, online, and in person. Get hired faster and with less effort than they thought possible. Career hopefuls will also find inspiring stories of other young professionals, creative strategies for leveraging social media in the job-search process, and the 5 secrets that will skyrocket their earning potential once they are hired. In short, all the information they need to land the job of their dreams-in any economy.
Click Millionaires: Work Less, Live More with an Internet Business You Love (
$1.99), by Scott Fox (I've only read the sample, but this looks pretty good; I definitely would not object to having my office in the same place as the cover image).
Book Description
The rules have changed. The American Dream is no longer the corner office.It's a successful business you can run from your home office, the beach, or wherever you desire. It's work you love that still allows you the freedom and income to live the life you truly want. Sound like a tall order? Well, thanks to the Internet, anyone can launch a business with little or no start-up capital or technical expertise. And in Click Millionaires, e-commerce expert Scott Fox teaches weary corporate warriors and aspiring entrepreneurs how to trade the 9รป5 job they hate for an online business they love. The book explains how to combine outsourcing, software, and automated online marketing to build recurring revenues, all while working less and making fewer of the lifestyle compromises that corporate success requires.
Readers will learn how to: Find a lucrative niche on the Internet that matches their interests and skills; Choose an online businessmodel: fromblogs, noozles, and audience communities to digital delivery, online services, affiliate marketing - even physical products; Position themselves as a experts Build their audience; Design the lifestyle they want; Balance passion and profits to realize their personal definition of success.
Featuring stories of dozens of regular folks who have reinvented themselves as Click Millionaires, this inspiring and practical guide shows readers how to stop dreaming of a better life and start living it!
Just reading the synopsis on
Leading at The Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition (
$2.99), by Dennis N. T Perkins, Margaret P. Holtman, Jillian B. Murphy and Margaret P. Holtman, puts a little perspective on the bad business trips I've been. Getting stuck on runways for 12+ hours, routed thru deserted & closed terminals (to get a replacement plane) in states we aren't even supposed to be flying over or dumped into the Detroit airport and left for a 24 hour delay (they did relent and bring out some free water and soft drinks after about 8 hours) all pale in comparison to a 2 year layover in the Antartic sea.
Book Description
Stranded in the frozen Antarctic sea for nearly two years, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team of 27 polar explorers endured extreme temperatures, hazardous ice, dwindling food, and complete isolation. Despite these seemingly insurmountable obstacles, the group remained cohesive, congenial, and mercifully alive-a fact that speaks not just to luck but to an unparalleled feat of leadership. Drawing on this amazing story, "Leading at The Edge" demonstrates the importance of a strong leader in times of adversity, uncertainty, and change. The book reveals 10 timeless leadership lessons that show readers how to: instill optimism while staying grounded in reality; have the courage to step up to risks worth taking; consistently reinforce the team message; set a personal example; find something to celebrate and something to laugh about; and, never give up. Part adventure tale, part leadership guide, the second edition features additional lessons, new case studies of the strategies in action, tools to uncover and resolve conflicts, and expanded resources. An updated epilogue compares the leadership styles of the famous polar explorers Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott. Today's leaders have much to learn from this gripping account of survival against all odds. "Leading at The Edge" will help them bring order to chaos-and achieve success in the face of adversity.
The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie (
$1.99), by Krickitt Carpenter and Kim Carpenter
Book Description
Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition on November 24, 1993. Two months after their marriage, a devastating car wreck left Krickitt with a massive head injury and in a coma for weeks.
When she finally awoke, she had no idea who Kim was. With no recollection of their relationship and while Krickitt experienced personality changes common to those who suffer head injuries, Kim realized the woman he had married essentially died in the accident.
And yet, against all odds, but through the common faith in Christ that sustained them, Kim and Krickitt fell in love all over again. Even though Kim stood by Krickitt through the darkest times a husband can ever imagine, he insists, “I’m no hero. I made a vow.”
The Fate of Your Date: Divination for Dating, Mating, and Relating (
$1.99), by Stefanie Iris Weiss, Sherene Schostak and IRMA
Book Description
Dating can be a bewildering business. Sometimes we all need a little help, a little divine intervention, if you will. Enter The Fate of Your Date. Using the time-tested arts of astrology, spell craft, tarot, and more, this handy guide shows you how to divine whether he's a loser or a keeper. It's easy. Before the date, work some numerology on his phone number; during the date, perform a little palmistry as you hold his hand; and after the date, cast a bit of white magic to get exactly what you want. Covering all the essential arts and organized into a date timeline (before the date, during, and after), The Fate of Your Date makes it a cinch to divine and conquer!
The Alps (
$1.49), by Ronald Clark
Book Description
The unrivalled scenery of the Alps attracts increasing numbers of visitors every year, while for those who seek the more active and dangerous pursuits of climbing and skiing, the region offers unique opportunities. Ronald Clark, a distinguished historian of mountaineering, who knows the Alps fromend to end, describes the history of the mountains and their most famous peaks. The heroic story of their exploration, first by scientists, then by such early mountaineers as Whymper, Coolidge, Miss Brevoort and their guides, is related with extensive quotations from letters, diaries and contemporary records. With the mountaineers came the pioneer photographers whose cumbersome but fragile equipment had to be manhandled up ice-slopes and across glaciers to enable them to take their photographs, a procedure which necessitated hours of intricate manoeuvring, in freezing weather, to obtain one successful shot. Other chapters discuss the development of the Alps as a mountain health centre, the coming of roads and railways and the growth of the winter sports industry and Mr Clark warns that the mountains, like a Highland deer forest, can carry only a certain number of living creatures without facing disaster.
What's the Economy For, Anyway?: Why It's Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness (
$2.49), by John de Graaf and David K Batker
Book Description
In this funny, readable, and thought-provoking book based on the popular film of the same name, activists John de Graaf (coauthor of the bestselling Affluenza) and David Batker tackle thirteen economic issues, challenging the reader to consider the point of our economy. Emphasizing powerful American ideals, including teamwork, pragmatism, and equality, de Graaf and Batker set forth a simple goal for any economic system: The greatest good for the greatest number over the longest run. Drawing from history and current enterprises, we see how the good life is achieved when people and markets work together with an active government to create a more perfect economy-one that works for everyone.
Beginning by shattering our fetish for GDP, What's the Economy For, Anyway? offers a fresh perspective on quality of life, health, security, work-life balance, leisure, social justice, and perhaps most important, sustainability. This sparkling, message-driven book is exactly what those lost in the doldrums of partisan sniping and a sluggish economy need: a guide to what really matters, and a map to using America's resources to make the world a better place.
ESV Student Study Bible (
$3.49), by Crossway
Book Description
The ESV Student Study Bible is ideally suited for students who are serious about God’s Word—who want to learn more about what the Bible teaches and how the Bible applies to all of life.
With 12,000 clear, concise study notes, the ESV Student Study Bible provides numerous new features—including nearly 900 “Did You Know?” facts, 120 new Bible character profiles, and 15 new topical articles. It also features a new glossary of key terms, more than 80 full-color maps and illustrations, an extensive concordance, and 80,000 cross-references. These and many other features make it the most comprehensive, colorful, and content-rich student Bible available today. Suited to high school and college students, the ESV Student Study Bible is also a versatile resource for anyone engaged in serious study of God’s Word.
Created by an outstanding team of more than 100 evangelical Christian scholars, teachers, and pastors, the ESV Student Study Bible is adapted from the highly acclaimed and best-selling ESV Study Bible. With numerous new features, the ESV Student Study Bible is an invaluable resource. For high school and college students, but equally for all students of the Bible—for everyone who loves to read and learn more about God’s Word.
From Merriam-Webster, be sure to check out
Book of Word Histories (
$2.49),
Guide to Punctuation and Style (
$2.49),
Intermediate Dictionary (
$2.99),
Vocabulary Builder (
$2.49),
Collegiate Thesaurus, Second Edition (
$2.99),
Dictionary of Law (
$2.99),
Dictionary and Thesaurus (
$2.49) and
Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (
$4.99). The latter two can be used as your Kindle dictionary, instead of the default
New Oxford American Dictionary.
Book Description
Since 1937. Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition – America's best-selling desk dictionary – and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster can be considered the direct lexicographical heir of Noah Webster. In 1843, the company bought the rights to the 1841 edition of Webster's magnum opus, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Corrected and Enlarged. At the same time, they secured the rights to create revised editions of the work. Since that time, Merriam-Webster editors have carried forward Noah Webster's work, creating some of the most widely used and respected dictionaries and reference books in the world.
Water: Asia's New Battleground (
$4.99), by Brahma Chellaney
Book Description
The battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in water-distressed Asia.
Water stress is set to become Asia's defining crisis of the twenty-first century, creating obstacles to continued rapid economic growth, stoking interstate tensions over shared resources, exacerbating long-time territorial disputes, and imposing further hardships on the poor. Asia is home to many of the world's great rivers and lakes, but its huge population and exploding economic and agricultural demand for water make it the most water-scarce continent on a per capita basis. Many of Asia's water sources cross national boundaries, and as less and less water is available, international tensions will rise. The potential for conflict is further underscored by China's unrivaled global status as the source of transboundary river flows to the largest number of countries, ranging from India and Vietnam to Russia and Kazakhstan; yet a fast-rising China has declined to enter into water-sharing or cooperative treaties with these states, even as it taps the resources of international rivers.
Water: Asia's New Battleground is a pioneering study of Asia's murky water politics and the relationships between freshwater, peace, and security. In this unique and highly readable book, Brahma Chellaney expertly paints a larger picture of water across Asia, highlights the security implications of resource-linked territorial disputes, and proposes real strategies to avoid conflict and more equitably share Asia's water resources.
The Everything Guide to Study Skills: Strategies, tips, and tools you need to succeed in school! (
$1.99), by Cynthia C. Muchnick
Book Description
Here's something worth learning: Studying doesn't have to be a chore! This fun and accessible resource provides the tools you need to develop better study habits, boost your grades, and position yourself for academic success.
Educational consultant Cynthia Clumeck Muchnick uses a wide range of ideas taken from hundreds of students to help you find a unique, effective method suited for your individual learning style. You'll improve transcripts for college applications, ace standardized tests, and become a better student at any level of education.
This indispensable guide shows you how to: Get the most out of class time; Use the best strategies for note-taking and memorizing; Improve writing skills; Prepare completely for tests; Safely and effectively conduct online research and Use Skype, iChat, or social media to form study groups.
With this guide in your backpack, you'll be able to balance school and activities, avoid pre-test panic, and achieve consistently better results.
Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference: The Definitive Source for Clear and Concise Writing (
$2.49), by Gary Lutz
Book Description
The Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference is the comprehensive resource on grammar and usage, a necessity for every writer's desk. It presents balanced instruction and real-world examples that will ensure professional and flawless work on every occasion.
The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2012 (
$20.49), by Frank J Domino MD, may be a bit above my usual bargain cutoff, but it is priced at not much more than the co-pay for most doctor visits. Some of the images are a bit difficult to read on Kindle, but you should be able to get those on the website (or view on a larger screen). If you were lucky enough to snag a $10 off $20 textbook credit from AmazonLocal (no longer available), you get it for almost half off the current sale price (if you apply the promo code first). The intended audience is medical students, but might be worth picking up just for the health maintenance guidelines for kids and others.
Book Description
The 5-Minute Clinical Consult continues to provide our users with instant, up-to-date answers, at the point of need in print, online, or remotely on mobile. The 2012 edition has had every topic reviewed and updated, new topics have been added and updated with ICD-9 and Snomed codes, and more evidence-based medicine ratings have been added to references. Purchasers of the book will receive access to Clinical Consult topics on the website 5minuteconsult.com (both those in print and those only published online) where they can also view hundreds of new clinical and radiologic (x-rays, CTs, etc.) images. Also on the standard website: New procedure and physical therapy videos; patient education handouts from the AAFP in English and Spanish; new and revised diagnostic and treatment algorithms (also in the book); and updated drugs from the A – Z Drug Guide from Facts and Comparisons. Plus, all the content is accessible from your web-enabled mobile device and is updated regularly.
