Heinz Kohler's Blog, page 4
August 31, 2014
Kindle Countdown Deal
This is the time of year when schools open across America. It is also the time, some 75 years ago, when World War II began and scenes like the following could be seen in my school.
My World War II memoir tells that story and many more. And starting on September 2, the electronic version of MY NAME WAS FIVE: A Novel of the Second World War will be available at Amazon for an initial $ 0.99 in the U.S. and an initial ₤ 0.99 in the U.K. At the same time, the paperback version of the book is now available at my website, at
$ 7.95 (over 55% percent off the list price) plus $ 2.99 U.S. shipping.
Detail is available at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/MY-NAME-WAS-FIV...
and at my website:
www.mynamewasfive.com
Amazon also provides a free Kindle Reader for most electronic devices, as noted at my www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
My World War II memoir tells that story and many more. And starting on September 2, the electronic version of MY NAME WAS FIVE: A Novel of the Second World War will be available at Amazon for an initial $ 0.99 in the U.S. and an initial ₤ 0.99 in the U.K. At the same time, the paperback version of the book is now available at my website, at
$ 7.95 (over 55% percent off the list price) plus $ 2.99 U.S. shipping.
Detail is available at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/MY-NAME-WAS-FIV...
and at my website:
www.mynamewasfive.com
Amazon also provides a free Kindle Reader for most electronic devices, as noted at my www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
August 13, 2014
Unusual Plants--new Kindle book
Did you know that the manna that fell from heaven was most likely a desert plant? Read all about it and much more:
Unusual Plants, Book 3 of my SURFING A MAGICAL INTERNET series, has just been published as an eBook by Amazon. It presents over 100 pictures along with fascinating stories about all sorts of unusual plants that excited people during my grandmother’s youth and are bound to do the same for us. We meet medicinal plants that may or may not heal people and others that would definitely poison them. We learn of plants that are the source of beautiful paints and dyes and of others that have long been celebrated in works of art. We study spice plants and carnivorous plants and find out how some plants came to be sacred plants. We visit night-blooming plants and nightshade plants and marvel at the world’s most remarkable trees. We meet up with exotic food plants and encounter others still that manage to prosper in the driest of deserts or on the highest of mountains. And we come across intriguing stories about reeds and cane plants and all sorts of useful “industrial” plants that have supported a great variety of human endeavors for millennia. There are amazing stories associated with all of these.
Further detail can be found at www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
Unusual Plants, Book 3 of my SURFING A MAGICAL INTERNET series, has just been published as an eBook by Amazon. It presents over 100 pictures along with fascinating stories about all sorts of unusual plants that excited people during my grandmother’s youth and are bound to do the same for us. We meet medicinal plants that may or may not heal people and others that would definitely poison them. We learn of plants that are the source of beautiful paints and dyes and of others that have long been celebrated in works of art. We study spice plants and carnivorous plants and find out how some plants came to be sacred plants. We visit night-blooming plants and nightshade plants and marvel at the world’s most remarkable trees. We meet up with exotic food plants and encounter others still that manage to prosper in the driest of deserts or on the highest of mountains. And we come across intriguing stories about reeds and cane plants and all sorts of useful “industrial” plants that have supported a great variety of human endeavors for millennia. There are amazing stories associated with all of these.
Further detail can be found at www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
July 28, 2014
Kindle Countdown Deal
Did you know this:
On a sunny day in 455 B.C., while walking on a beach under blue sky, the Greek playwright Aeschylus was said to have been killed by what probably was a bearded vulture who mistook the writer’s bald head for a stone and dropped a tortoise on it!
This and many other stories appear in Extraordinary Birds, which is Book 1 of my series SURFING A MAGICAL INTERNET.
Starting on July 31, 2014 and lasting for a week, the Kindle edition of this book is available at a starting price of 99 cents in the U.S. and .99 pounds in the U.K.
For more detail and to read excerpts visit www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
On a sunny day in 455 B.C., while walking on a beach under blue sky, the Greek playwright Aeschylus was said to have been killed by what probably was a bearded vulture who mistook the writer’s bald head for a stone and dropped a tortoise on it!
This and many other stories appear in Extraordinary Birds, which is Book 1 of my series SURFING A MAGICAL INTERNET.
Starting on July 31, 2014 and lasting for a week, the Kindle edition of this book is available at a starting price of 99 cents in the U.S. and .99 pounds in the U.K.
For more detail and to read excerpts visit www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
July 4, 2014
Two Kindle Countdown Deals
Starting on July 6, 2014 and lasting for a week, the Kindle edition of one of my books is available at a starting price of 99 cents in the U.S. and .99 pounds in the U.K. Check out CAUTION: SNAKE OIL! How Statistical Thinking Can Help Us Expose Misinformation About Our Health.
In addition, the book's paperback edition is also on sale at my website, along with free U.S. shipping. See www.cautionsnakeoil.com for more detail.
At the same time, the Kindle edition of Book 2: Brainteasers of my series SURFING A MAGICAL INTERNET is also available at the same prices. Over 150 pictures confront readers with riddles they can try to solve, illustrate proverbs they must identify, or depict scenes in which something is missing that they are urged to find. There are new conundrums on every page and there is fun for children of all ages. Even the book cover contains a mental challenge; can you see it?
For more detail and to read excerpts visit www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
In addition, the book's paperback edition is also on sale at my website, along with free U.S. shipping. See www.cautionsnakeoil.com for more detail.
At the same time, the Kindle edition of Book 2: Brainteasers of my series SURFING A MAGICAL INTERNET is also available at the same prices. Over 150 pictures confront readers with riddles they can try to solve, illustrate proverbs they must identify, or depict scenes in which something is missing that they are urged to find. There are new conundrums on every page and there is fun for children of all ages. Even the book cover contains a mental challenge; can you see it?
For more detail and to read excerpts visit www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
June 5, 2014
Kindle Countdown Deal
Starting on June 7, the electronic version of MY NAME WAS FIVE: A Novel of the Second World War will be available at Amazon for an initial 99 cents. At the same time, the paperback version will be available at my website, at $13 (28 percent off the $17.95 list price) with free U.S. shipping.
Detail is available at Amazon and at www.mynamewasfive.com
Amazon also provides a free Kindle Reader for most electronic devices, as noted at my www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
Detail is available at Amazon and at www.mynamewasfive.com
Amazon also provides a free Kindle Reader for most electronic devices, as noted at my www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
May 31, 2014
Brainteasers
Book 2: Brainteasers of my series SURFING A MAGICAL INTERNET has just been published at Amazon. Over 150 pictures confront readers with riddles they can try to solve, illustrate proverbs they must identify, or depict scenes in which something is missing that they are urged to find. There are new conundrums on every page and there is fun for children of all ages. Even the book cover contains a mental challenge; can you see it?
To find detail and read excerpts visit www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
To find detail and read excerpts visit www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
May 9, 2014
Kindle Countdown Deal
Starting on May 11, the recently published first volume of my SURFING A MAGICAL INTERNET, Book 1: Extraordinary Birds will be available for an initial 99 cents. More detail on this venture is available at a new website, www.surfingamagicalinternet.com
The second volumeof the series, called Book 2: Brainteasers, will appear soon.
The second volumeof the series, called Book 2: Brainteasers, will appear soon.
April 9, 2014
SURFING A MAGICAL INTERNET, a new Kindle book
Heinz KohlerAs of today, I have published a new Kindle book in my Grandmother's World series, entitled Surfing a Magical Internet, Book 1: Extraordinary Birds. The synopsis explains what it is all about:
About 150 years ago, the newly formed Liebig’s Extract of Meat Company decided to advertise its product by rewarding loyal customers with gifts of colorful and ever so beautiful picture cards. Each card was a little work of art; no wonder the images and their associated commentary captivated and mesmerized people. Before long, thousands of these cards were circulating. They told fascinating stories about every conceivable aspect of life on earth and, as a group, similar to what the Internet might do in our time, came to embody the sum total of human knowledge. Collectors could travel the globe, meet people from any country on earth, and learn about their customs. They could visit lost civilizations, too, or view the world’s natural wonders of the day. They could study plants or animals or the evolution of commerce and transport. They could discover the secrets of agriculture, forestry, and fishing or find out how new inventions were transforming industry. They could familiarize themselves with music and literature, great art and architecture, with famous men and women of all ages, and, most importantly for children no doubt, with giants and dwarfs, elves and gnomes, riddles and fairy tales! In hindsight, strange as it may sound, the company’s most important contribution was not to the kitchens of the world, but to the education of millions of people of all ages who could not go to school or afford books! The author’s grandmother was one of these people and, many years later, when he was a child, she used her large collection of Liebig cards, as one would the modern-day Internet, to satisfy his urge to find out everything about the big wide world.
This book is the first of a series that resurrects grandmother’s magical Internet and seeks to pass on the joy that her wonderful lessons brought. It is all about birds: We meet the most beautiful, the fastest, the largest, and the most powerful birds in the world; we come across magnificent bird’s nests unlike any we have ever known; we encounter birds that once carried the mail in peace and in war; we discover the role of birds in history; we marvel at the amazing patterns of migrating birds in the sky; we learn of birds that can’t fly at all and of birds inspiring poetry. We even go up in the sky and get a bird’s eye view of the earth at a time long before airplanes and satellites existed. And that’s not all. There are surprises on every page and there is fun for children of all ages.
About 150 years ago, the newly formed Liebig’s Extract of Meat Company decided to advertise its product by rewarding loyal customers with gifts of colorful and ever so beautiful picture cards. Each card was a little work of art; no wonder the images and their associated commentary captivated and mesmerized people. Before long, thousands of these cards were circulating. They told fascinating stories about every conceivable aspect of life on earth and, as a group, similar to what the Internet might do in our time, came to embody the sum total of human knowledge. Collectors could travel the globe, meet people from any country on earth, and learn about their customs. They could visit lost civilizations, too, or view the world’s natural wonders of the day. They could study plants or animals or the evolution of commerce and transport. They could discover the secrets of agriculture, forestry, and fishing or find out how new inventions were transforming industry. They could familiarize themselves with music and literature, great art and architecture, with famous men and women of all ages, and, most importantly for children no doubt, with giants and dwarfs, elves and gnomes, riddles and fairy tales! In hindsight, strange as it may sound, the company’s most important contribution was not to the kitchens of the world, but to the education of millions of people of all ages who could not go to school or afford books! The author’s grandmother was one of these people and, many years later, when he was a child, she used her large collection of Liebig cards, as one would the modern-day Internet, to satisfy his urge to find out everything about the big wide world.
This book is the first of a series that resurrects grandmother’s magical Internet and seeks to pass on the joy that her wonderful lessons brought. It is all about birds: We meet the most beautiful, the fastest, the largest, and the most powerful birds in the world; we come across magnificent bird’s nests unlike any we have ever known; we encounter birds that once carried the mail in peace and in war; we discover the role of birds in history; we marvel at the amazing patterns of migrating birds in the sky; we learn of birds that can’t fly at all and of birds inspiring poetry. We even go up in the sky and get a bird’s eye view of the earth at a time long before airplanes and satellites existed. And that’s not all. There are surprises on every page and there is fun for children of all ages.
March 31, 2014
Kindle Countdown Deal
Starting April 2, 2014 and lasting for a week, the Kindle edition of one of my books is available at a starting price of 99 cents. Check out CAUTION: SNAKE OIL! How Statistical Thinking Can Help Us Expose Misinformation About Our Health.
In addition, the book's paperback edition is also on sale at my website, along with free U.S. shipping. See www.cautionsnakeoil.com
In addition, the book's paperback edition is also on sale at my website, along with free U.S. shipping. See www.cautionsnakeoil.com
February 28, 2014
Kindle Countdown Deal
Starting March 1 and lasting for a week, the Kindle edition of one of my books is available at a starting price of $1.99. Check out My Name Was Five: A Novel of the Second World War.
In addition, the book's paperback edition is also on sale at my website, along with free U.S. shipping. See www.mynamewasfive.com
In addition, the book's paperback edition is also on sale at my website, along with free U.S. shipping. See www.mynamewasfive.com
