Free Press: 1051 books
Travels with Barley
A Journey Through Beer Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Do beer yeast rustlers really exist? Who patented the Beer Goddess? How can you tell a Beer Geek from a Beer Nazi? Where exactly is Beervana? Does Big Beer hate Little Beer?
Ken Wells, a novelist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and longtime Wall Street Journal writer, answers these questions and more by...
Managing Strategic Relationships
The Key to Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Contrary to the gospel of a century of management thinkers, the primary job of the manager is no longer to plan, organize, direct, or control, asserts management expert Leonard Greenhalgh. Instead, he argues, today's successful managers are primarily negotiators who are judged on their ability to...
Bounce Back
Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Job loss. Foreclosure. Relationship woes. Health issues. Dire financial straits. If recent history has taught us anything, it's that nobody goes through life unscathed -- no matter how rich, how smart, how talented, or how fortunate they may be. White collar, blue collar, or no collar, there is an...
Great Projects
The Epic Story of the Building of America, from the Taming of the Mississippi to the Invention of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Since the earliest days of the republic, great engineering projects have shaped American landscapes and expressed American dreams. The ambition to build lies as close to the nation's heart as the belief in liberty. We live in a built civilization, connected one to another in an enormous web of technology....
America 1933
The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravaged.
During the harshest year of the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok,...
At Home in the World
Collected Writings from The Wall Street Journal
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2002
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl became the focus of international concern when he was kidnapped by Islamic extremists in Pakistan while investigating a story. News of his brutal murder in February 2002 was universally denounced, a tragic loss of a good man and a compassionate journalist...
Something in the Air
American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
In the tradition of Seabiscuit and The Summer of ’49, a gripping sports narrative that brilliantly tells the amazing individual stories of the unforgettable athletes who gathered in Mexico City in a year of dramatic upheaval.
The 1968 Mexico City Olympics reflected the spirit of their revolutionary...
The Pirate's Dilemma
How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
It started with punk. Hip-hop, rave, graffiti, and gaming took it to another level, and now modern technology has made the ideas and innovations of youth culture increasingly intimate and increasingly global at the same time.
In The Pirate's Dilemma, VICE magazine's Matt Mason -- poised to...
Stories Done
Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
The 1960s and 1970s represent a rare moment in our cultural history -- music was exploring unprecedented territories, literature was undergoing a radical reinvention, politics polarized the nation, and youth culture was at the zenith of its influence. There has never been, nor is there likely to be,...
Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada
Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
Here are the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Cuba, revealed in the evocative works of some of the finest Cuban and Cuban American poets of the twentieth century. In Burnt Sugar, bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos have created an intimate collection...
Piano Notes
The World of the Pianist
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists -- and one of music's most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals.
In Piano Notes, he...
by Emily Gould
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Essays by former editor of Gawker.com—and the new female voice of her generation. In And the Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould tells the truth about becoming an adult in New York City in the first decade of the twenty-first century, alongside bartenders, bounty hunters, bloggers, bohemians, socialites,...
by Mark Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Rock & roll has transformed American culture more profoundly than any other art form. During the 1960s, it defined a generation of young people as political and social idealists, helped end the Vietnam War, and ushered in the sexual revolution. In Dixie Lullaby, veteran music journalist Mark Kemp...
Forest Gate
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
A shattering, poetic and raw first novel set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London -- beginning with a double suicide and ending with a rebirth.
In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends, stand on top...