Questia offers 15 free books

Questia, well known scientific and popular knowledge source, offers 15 free books this month. These are:

1. Why Dick Fosbury Flopped and Answers to Other Big Sporting Questions (Damian Farrow, Justin Kemp)
2. The Practice of Persuasion: Paradox and Power in Art History (Keith Moxey)
3. The Enigma of Globalisation: A Journey to a New Stage of Capitalism (Robert Went)
4. The Evolution of American Investigative Journalism (James L. Aucoin)
5. 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City  (Shirley R. Steinberg, Joe L. Kincheloe)
6. More Unsolved Mysteries of American History (Paul Aron)
7. A Question of Evidence: A Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies, from Napoleon to O.J. (Colin Evans)
8. The Literary Detective: 100 Puzzles in Classic Fiction (John Sutherland)
9. Henry V, War Criminal? And Other Shakespeare Puzzles (John Sutherland, Cedric Watts)
10. What's It All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (Julian Baggini)
11. Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? Understanding Historical Change (Robert Strayer)
12. The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal (Lynne Kelly)
13. Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology (Andrew Louth)
14. The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science (Arthur W. Wiggins, Charles M. Wynn)
15. Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination, and Conjecture (Wiktor Stoczkowski)

Reading is realized by Questias own reading engine, similar to the one in Google Book os Adobe Acrobat Reader. Unfortunatelly, you cannot go through pages by scrolling with your mouse (this works only inside individual pages), rather you need to click on "next" button. The search function works but it would need some polishing, like offering excerpts and highlights. Overall, it is clear this is a beta version and that also explains why Questia, generally pretty pricey, gave this source away for free.