Free Press: 1051 books
Planet Google
One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Based on unprecedented access he received to the highly secretive "Googleplex," acclaimed New York Times columnist Randall Stross takes readers deep inside Google, the most important, most innovative, and most ambitious company of the Internet Age. His revelations demystify the strategy behind the...
Rocket Dreams
How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2003
In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades...
by Judy Shelton
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
In this analysis, Shelton calls for a unified international monetary regime—a new Bretton Woods—to lay the foundation for worldwide stability and prosperity in the post-Cold War era.
Despite worldwide rhetoric about free trade and the global economy, the leading economic powers have done...
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book**” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst** is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives.
The water coming out of your kitchen...
Life After Life
A Story of Rage and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Life After Life is the haunting and gloriously redemptive tale of Evans D. Hopkins's many lives, a sweeping journey from promising middle-class youth to civil rights militant, from criminal and convict to celebrated writer and enlightened man.
Evans D. Hopkins was born during the Jim Crow era...
One Scandalous Story
Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnishe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In 1963 Marvin Kalb observed the Secret Service escorting an attractive woman into a hotel for what was most likely a rendezvous with President Kennedy. Kalb, then a news correspondent for CBS, didn't consider the incident newsworthy. Thirty-five years later, Kalb watched in dismay as the press dove...
The Right Moment
Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Ronald Reagan's first great victory, in the 1966 California governor's race, seemed to come from nowhere and has long since confounded his critics. Just two years earlier, when Barry Goldwater lost to Lyndon Johnson by a landslide, the conservative movement was pronounced dead. In California, Governor...
Other Greeks
The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
Everyone has been taught that the Greek city-state is the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture. Now Victor Hanson, the author of several studies...
A Magnificent Catastrophe
The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election—an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy...
Atomic America
How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men: John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg. The Army blamed "human error" and a sordid love triangle. Though it has been overshadowed by the accident...
by Daniel E. Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The story of Culpeper County, Virginia, is a unique one in Civil War history. Nestled in one of the South’s most strategically important locations, it was occupied by the Northern army, recaptured by the Confederacy, and finally ceded to the North. Told largely through diaries, papers, and correspondence...
Acting Out
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
From the bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch comes a novel about a modern woman living in -- and acting out -- her role as an upper-class African-American suburban wife.
Ina West is caught between the life she thought she was supposed to lead and the dreams she gave up long ago. Raised...
The Presidential Difference
Leadership Style from Roosevelt to Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
As Americans choose and install a new president for a new century they could do no better than to read this work by one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. Drawing on a quarter-century's immersion in the presidential record and scores of interviews, Fred I. Greenstein provides a fascinating...
Justice on the Grass
Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
The 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred in just 100 days, was an unparalleled modern-day slaughter. How does a nation pick up the pieces after the killing has stopped?
In a gripping narrative that examines the power of the press and sheds light...