Month: October 2012
Daily Deals: Six Days of War, Little Hoot and Total Pool
Today Amazon offers Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren just for $1.99. This is the most complete history to date of the Six Day War of 1967, in which Israel…
Daily Deals: 13 Compelling Nonfiction Singles by TED Books, Larklight and Manic Math
Today Amazon offers 13 Compelling Nonfiction Singles by TED Books. From Gever Tulley’s insightful “Beware Dangerism!” to Nic Marks’s uplifting essay “The Happiness Manifesto,” this collection of essays is designed to deliver…
Nook HD Profile Feature Capitalizes on Common Kindle Fire Privacy Complaints
There were few things about the Kindle Fire’s release that sparked more attention than the Carrousel home screen. This approach set the Kindle Fire apart from other Android tablets by…
Daily Deals: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box, Chicken Big and Final Freeway
Today Amazon offers Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute just for $1.99. Leadership and Self-Deception uses an entertaining story about an executive facing challenges at work and at…
Barnes & Noble’s Response to Kindle HD Keeps Them in the Tablet Market
Obviously the Nook Tablet hasn’t done quite as well as Barnes & Noble hoped it would. While the hardware was a definite step up from the Kindle Fire from the…
Daily Deals: Dawn, Sean Griswold’s Head and Tumble Eggs
Today Amazon offers Dawn (Xenogenesis Trilogy) by Octavia E. Butler just for $1.99. Rescued from Earth’s destruction, one woman is called upon to revive mankind. Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband…
Daily Deals: The Spy Lover, The One and Only Ivan and Magic Coral
Today Amazon offers The Spy Lover by Kiana Davenport just for $1.99. Thrust into the savagery of the Civil War, a Chinese immigrant serving in the Union Army, a nurse doubling as…
Kindle Paperwhite First Impressions
The Kindle Paperwhite has finally shipped out and reactions are coming in quite rapidly. While there are many customers who will be unable to get their orders until later this…
Daily Deals: Hell on Wheels, Hooray for Fish! and Speed Math Trainer
Today Amazon offers Hell on Wheels: Black Knights Inc. by Julie Ann Walker just for $1.99 Black Knights Inc.—Behind the facade of their tricked–out motorcycle shop is an elite special ops team…
Daily Deals: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, Stupid Fast and Bejazzled
Today Amazon offers Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers just for $1.99 No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better…