University of Chicago Press offers you 12 free eBooks per year. No strings at all, just some great reads.

I first shared this tip about 5 years ago. It’s a valuable one for readers and learners and worth repeating:

You can get a free ebook to download each month
from the University of Chicago Press. 

The University of Chicago Press (UCP) has an outstanding and always growing catalog of top-notch publications—we writers know the press as a respected institution, the home of the Chicago Manual of Style.

Their ebooks program is excellent—no tricks, no surprises, no unwanted email. Just the offer of one free book to download each month. I’ve been reading their selections since 2011.

The books’ subjects tend to vary widely and are sometimes controversial. September’s selection is:

Wasted World: How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet
by Rob Hengeveld.

 

Describing the book, (currently $24. on Amazon for the Kindle edition) UCP says,

All systems produce waste as part of a cycle—bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled—though never completely. In Wasted World, Rob Hengeveld reveals how a long history of human consumption has left our world drowning in this waste.

Reviews include,
Rob Hengeveld provides a broad history of humanity’s impacts on Earth’s life support systems, leading to today’s pivotal and dangerous moment. Wasted World is a sobering read that provides us with an understanding of how this urgent situation came to be. It is possible to pull Earth back from the brink—if we act on Hengeveld’s message.

(Gretchen Daily, Stanford University)

In this detailed study, biogeographer Hengeveld tackles the dilemma of reconciling the way we live with the future affect our habits will have on the planet. Tracing our origins from the first reproducing cells to today’s massive global economy, Hengeveld describes how all life depends on energy to thrive.

(Publishers Weekly)

Simply follow this link, enter your email, and UCP will send you the free download link. Enjoy—and feel free to share!

By Stephen Brockelman

As a Sr. Writer at T. Rowe Price, I work with a group of the best copywriters around. We belong to the broader creative team within Enterprise Creative, a part of Corporate Marketing Services. _____________________________________________ A long and winding road: My path to T. Rowe Price was more twisted than Fidelity’s green line. With scholarship in hand, I left Kansas at 18 to study theatre in New York. When my soap opera paychecks stopped coming from CBS and started coming from the show’s sponsor, Proctor & Gamble, I discovered the power of advertising and switched careers. Over the years I’ve owned an ad agency in San Francisco; worked for Norman Lear on All in the Family, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and the rest of his hit shows; and as a member of Directors Guild of America, I directed Desi Arnaz in his last television appearance— we remained friends until his death. In 1988 I began freelancing full time didn’t look back. In January 2012 my rep at Boss Group called and said, “I know you don’t want to commute and writing for the financial industry isn’t high on your wish list, but I have a gig with T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills…” I was a contractor for eight months, drank the corporate Kool-Aid, became a TRP associate that August, and today I find myself smiling more often than not.

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