Free Press: 1051 books
From Paralysis to Fatigue
A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The first book to put the physical symptoms of stress in their historical and cultural context.
This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized...
Shadows Bright as Glass
The Remarkable Story of One Man's Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
On a sunny fall afternoon in 1988, Jon Sarkin was playing golf when, without a whisper of warning, his life changed forever. As he bent down to pick up his golf ball, something strange and massive happened inside his head; part of his brain seemed to unhinge, to split apart and float away. For an...
The Great Starvation Experiment
The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
What does it feel like to starve? To feel your body cry out for nourishment, to think only of food? How many fitful, hungry nights must pass before dreams of home-cooked meals metastasize into nightmares of cannibalism? Why would anyone volunteer to find out?
In The Great Starvation Experiment,...
Safe Blood
Purifying the Nations Blood Supply in the Age of A
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Thousands of hemophiliac children have contracted hepatitis and aids from transfusion with infected blood. Ninety-five percent of all Americans will need transfusions at some point in their lives; yet it has taken the terrifying emergence of AIDS to alert an unsuspecting public to the actual risks...
by Eugene Hickok, Gary L. Macdowell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A detailed analysis of a child-abuse case reveals all of the aspects of the judicial system, including the limits of justice, and makes an argument for judicial restraint.
by Gabriel Kolko
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
A radically new interpretation of the Progressive Era which argues that business leaders, and not the reformers, inspired the era’s legislation regarding business.
The Ravaging Tide
Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
If, like many Americans, you believe the ongoing tragedy of Hurricane Katrina was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke, you need to read this book. In the coming years and decades, the safety of your region, your town, your home may depend on the warnings you'll encounter on these pages. That's because the...
The Woman Who Can't Forget
The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was,...
The Things Between Us
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006
The Montgomerys of Framingham, Massachusetts, are among the last of a dying breed -- New England WASPs who effortlessly combine repression, flamboyant eccentricity, and alcoholism. Fragmented by drink and dysfunction, the family had avoided assembling under one roof for more than a decade. But when...
The Measure of All Things
The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their...
Wildwood
A Journey Through Trees
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element" -- as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls -- the reader accompanies...
Primalbranding
Create Zealots for Your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
In one of the most original books of its kind ever written, Patrick Hanlon explains how the most powerful brands create a community of believers around the brand, revealing the seven components that will help every company and marketer capture the public imagination -- and seize a bigger slice of...
by David B. Agus, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Can we live robustly until our last breath?
Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? Is it possible to add more vibrant years to our lives? In the #1 New York Times bestselling The End of Illness, Dr. David Agus tackles these fundamental questions and dismantles misperceptions...
About Time
Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe’s “beginning” is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine,...