Free Press: 1051 books
The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes On Alzheimer's
A Groundbreaking Look At This Mind-Blowing Disease And Its Effect On Women As Patients, Caregivers, And Advocates
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s will be the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary look at these questions at this transformational moment. The Report will digest the current trends in thinking about Alzheimer’s, examine cutting-edge medical research, look at societal...
by Leon R. Kass
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Kass shows how the promise and the peril of our time are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science.
The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated...
The Boy on the Bus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Meg Landry expected it to be a day like any other -- her asthmatic eight-year-old son would step off the bus, home from school. But on this day, the boy on the bus is not Meg's son -- or at least doesn't appear to be. This new boy shares Charlie's copper hair, tea-brown eyes, and slight frame. But...
State of War
The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we still might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies...
Fallout
The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
More than a high-stakes espionage thriller, Fallout painstakingly examines the huge costs of the CIA’s errors and the lost opportunities to halt the spread of nuclear weapons technology long before it was made available to some of the most dangerous and reckless adversaries of the United States...
by Robert H. Bork
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Judge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law.
In The Tempting of America, one of our most distinguished legal minds offers a brilliant argument for the wisdom and necessity of interpreting the...
Remembered Self
Emotion and Memory in Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A theory for psychologists on the role of memory in personality psychology.
In The Remembered Self, Jefferson A. Singer and Peter Salovey persuasively argue that memories are an important window into one's life story, revealing characteristic moods, motives, and thinking patterns. Through experimental...
A Grand and Bold Thing
An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
LATE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, what had been a fevered pace of discovery in astronomy for many years had slowed. The Hubble Space Telescope continued to produce an astonishing array of images, but the study of the universe was still fractured into domains: measuring the universe’s expansion rate,...
The Jive Talker
An Artist's Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
What do you do when it looks like the odds were stacked against you before you were even born, when you're having trouble feeding a family that just keeps growing, when you've got a little too much of an affection for Carlsberg Brown and when the life president of your country, Malawi, keeps shuffling...
by Geoffrey L. Greif, Rebecca L. Hegar
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
What happens when a child is kidnapped from home by his or her own parent? What are the emotional and psychological consequences of living in hiding for weeks, months, or even years for a child? How does the parent left behind cope with having no knowledge of the child’s whereabouts or well-being? And what could lead a parent to inflict such a painful existence on his or her own child?
The Goddess and the Bull
Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of human cultural evolution at this huge, spectacularly...
A Letter in the Scroll
Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001
For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. And it is true that, many times in the course of history, they have been nearly decimated: when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, when Hitler proposed...
Closing the Gap
A Strategy for Bringing Parents and Teens Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Parents: Does your teen withdraw to his or her room at every opportunity? Does she talk with you about her friends? Does he participate in discussions at meals? Does your teen want you to see projects from school? When is the last time you actually went into your teen's room and looked at what's hanging...
And Words Can Hurt Forever
How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2002
As a society, we are only just beginning to understand the degree of damage that bullying inflicts on individual teenagers and on their relationships later in life. In this groundbreaking work, James Garbarino and Ellen deLara uncover the staggering extent of emotional cruelty and its ramifications...