ChrisSpera
09-19-2003, 04:18 PM
If you like eBooks and are into free stuff then make sure you don't miss this. Every week between now and at least the beginning/middle/end of November, Microsoft is giving away 3 eBooks every Friday.
This week, Microsoft is giving away the following titles (see the end of this post for the details):
*Make Yourself a Millionaire by Charles C. Zhang with Lynn L. Chen-Zhang
*Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella
*Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison
These eBooks require the latest version of MS Reader, version 2.2.2, and require you to activate Desktop Reader in order to download the eBooks. If you like reading on your PDA, then this is a great way to stock up your library with some great titles for free.
Due to licensing arangements, Microsoft is not permitted to retain the downloads from week to week, so if you miss a week, you're out 3 free eBooks. Updates to the MS Reader Free eBook Page are made every Friday at 12pm Eastern.
==================This Week's Free eBooks===========================
~~~ Make Yourself a Millionaire by Charles C. Zhang with Lynn L.
Chen-Zhang ~~~
Charles Zhang, American Express's #1-rated financial adviser, became
one of today's most nationally known and trusted financial advisers by
stressing sanity and sensible investing over dubious, get-rich-quick
tricks and schemes. In Make Yourself a Millionaire, Zhang transfers
his program to eBook form. Far from a confusing, all-or-nothing
approach, this eBook outlines a clear and rational approach to
organizing and planning all aspects of a financial life. How do
different investments work? How much insurance is too much? Zhang
answers these questions and more as he discusses recommended
investments for virtually any portfolio, asset allocation techniques
that work, actual examples of success and disaster, the role of
insurance as a key element in a portfolio and all major financial
instruments like stocks, bonds, funds, REITs and cash.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
------------------------------------------------
~~~ Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella ~~~
Ray Kinsella, sitting on the porch of his Iowa farm one evening, hears
the voice of a ghostly baseball announcer. It speaks to him the famous
line, "If you build it, he will come." Needing no further explanation,
Kinsella visualizes the ball field he is being asked to create in the
middle of his field of corn. The voice will speak only two more things
to Ray: "Ease his pain" and "Go the distance," and yet the dreaming,
idealistic man knows just what it is he has to do. Digging up his corn
to build a ballpark will inspire the return of baseball legend
Shoeless Joe Jackson, a man whose reputation was forever tarnished by
the scandalous 1919 World Series. Thus begins Shoeless Joe, the
award-winning novel by W. P. Kinsella, which also inspired Kevin
Costner's exceedingly popular film, Field of Dreams. W. P. Kinsella
has been called a great writer of baseball novels, but this is
misleading. While his works all evince a love for the game he grew up
watching, Kinsella doesn't merely treat baseball as a subject in
itself. Rather, he uses it as a metaphor, a way to talk about things
like innocence, belief and, perhaps above all, America.
Publisher: RosettaBooks
------------------------------------------------
~~~ Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison ~~~
Robert Heinlein says, "This book is raw corn liquor - you should serve
a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off
after he gets up from the floor." Perhaps a mooring cable might also
be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful
stories: They not only knock you down…they raise you to the stars.
Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis,
the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught
stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by
willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a
spaceship filled with hideous mutants rejected by the world that gave
them birth. These are touching, gentle and shocking stories from an
incomparable master of impossible dreams and troubling truths. In a
career spanning more than 40 years, Harlan Ellison has won more awards
for his 74 written or edited books, the more than 1700 stories,
essays, articles, and newspaper columns, the two dozen teleplays and a
dozen created motion pictures, than any other living fantasist.
Publisher: eReads.com
This week, Microsoft is giving away the following titles (see the end of this post for the details):
*Make Yourself a Millionaire by Charles C. Zhang with Lynn L. Chen-Zhang
*Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella
*Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison
These eBooks require the latest version of MS Reader, version 2.2.2, and require you to activate Desktop Reader in order to download the eBooks. If you like reading on your PDA, then this is a great way to stock up your library with some great titles for free.
Due to licensing arangements, Microsoft is not permitted to retain the downloads from week to week, so if you miss a week, you're out 3 free eBooks. Updates to the MS Reader Free eBook Page are made every Friday at 12pm Eastern.
==================This Week's Free eBooks===========================
~~~ Make Yourself a Millionaire by Charles C. Zhang with Lynn L.
Chen-Zhang ~~~
Charles Zhang, American Express's #1-rated financial adviser, became
one of today's most nationally known and trusted financial advisers by
stressing sanity and sensible investing over dubious, get-rich-quick
tricks and schemes. In Make Yourself a Millionaire, Zhang transfers
his program to eBook form. Far from a confusing, all-or-nothing
approach, this eBook outlines a clear and rational approach to
organizing and planning all aspects of a financial life. How do
different investments work? How much insurance is too much? Zhang
answers these questions and more as he discusses recommended
investments for virtually any portfolio, asset allocation techniques
that work, actual examples of success and disaster, the role of
insurance as a key element in a portfolio and all major financial
instruments like stocks, bonds, funds, REITs and cash.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
------------------------------------------------
~~~ Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella ~~~
Ray Kinsella, sitting on the porch of his Iowa farm one evening, hears
the voice of a ghostly baseball announcer. It speaks to him the famous
line, "If you build it, he will come." Needing no further explanation,
Kinsella visualizes the ball field he is being asked to create in the
middle of his field of corn. The voice will speak only two more things
to Ray: "Ease his pain" and "Go the distance," and yet the dreaming,
idealistic man knows just what it is he has to do. Digging up his corn
to build a ballpark will inspire the return of baseball legend
Shoeless Joe Jackson, a man whose reputation was forever tarnished by
the scandalous 1919 World Series. Thus begins Shoeless Joe, the
award-winning novel by W. P. Kinsella, which also inspired Kevin
Costner's exceedingly popular film, Field of Dreams. W. P. Kinsella
has been called a great writer of baseball novels, but this is
misleading. While his works all evince a love for the game he grew up
watching, Kinsella doesn't merely treat baseball as a subject in
itself. Rather, he uses it as a metaphor, a way to talk about things
like innocence, belief and, perhaps above all, America.
Publisher: RosettaBooks
------------------------------------------------
~~~ Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison ~~~
Robert Heinlein says, "This book is raw corn liquor - you should serve
a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off
after he gets up from the floor." Perhaps a mooring cable might also
be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful
stories: They not only knock you down…they raise you to the stars.
Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis,
the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught
stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by
willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a
spaceship filled with hideous mutants rejected by the world that gave
them birth. These are touching, gentle and shocking stories from an
incomparable master of impossible dreams and troubling truths. In a
career spanning more than 40 years, Harlan Ellison has won more awards
for his 74 written or edited books, the more than 1700 stories,
essays, articles, and newspaper columns, the two dozen teleplays and a
dozen created motion pictures, than any other living fantasist.
Publisher: eReads.com