Free Press: 1051 books
Vamped
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
Martin Kowalski is an eighty-year-old man stuck in a twenty-year-old body. He works the graveyard shift. He has a poster of Bela Lugosi on his wall and a box of uneaten Count Chocula in his pantry. He drinks stem-cell-derived blood from cleverly packaged and marketed juice boxes. He is, in short,...
Who Can Save Us Now?
Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Twenty-two of today's most talented writers (and comics fans) unite in Who Can Save Us Now?, an anthology featuring brand-new superheroes equipped for the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century -- with a few supervillains thrown in for good measure. Edited and with contributions by Owen...
by Carol Delaney
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
“One of the 100 best books of the year.” —The Times Literary Supplement
Christopher Columbus is reevaluated as a man of deep passion, patience, and religious conviction—on a mission to save Jerusalem from Islam.
Five hundred years after he set sail, Columbus is still a controversial...
Spellbound
Inside West Africa's Witch Camps
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
As I attempted to digest stories of spiritual cannibalism, of curses that could cost a student her eyesight or ignite the pages of the books she read, I knew I was not alone in my skepticism. And yet, when I caught sight of the waving arms of an industrious scarecrow, the hair on the back of my neck...
by Robert N. Bellah
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Robert N. Bellah's classic study, Tokugawa Religion does for Japan what Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism did for the West. One of the foremost authorities on Japanese history and culture, Bellah explains how religion in the Tokugawa period (160-1868) established the foundation...
Crashing the Borders
How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Unflinching, timely, and authoritative, Crashing the Borders is the beginning of a much-needed conversation about sport and American culture. For those who care about both, this book will be the must-read work of the season.
The game of basketball has gone global and is now the world’s fastest-growing...
Three Quarters, Two Dimes and a Nickel
A Memoir of Becoming Whole
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1999
What would you do if you were seventeen years old and broke your neck? It's tough enough to stand on the verge of adulthood without the extra burden of not being able to stand at all. Steve Fiffer had his whole life ahead of him in December 1967 when he fractured his fifth cervical vertebra in a wrestling...
Where They Ain't
The Fabled Life and Ultimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team that Gave Birth to Modern Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1999
Greedy owners, spoiled players, disillusioned fans -- all hallmarks of baseball in the 'nineties. Only in this case, it's the 1890s. We may think that business interests dominate the sport today, but baseball's early years were an even harsher and less sentimental age, when teams were wrenched from...
State of Grace
A Memoir of Twilight Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Nightingale's Song ("An amazing piece of work...This is a stunning book" -- Boston Globe), comes an evocative, elegiac and rollicking portrait of America.
The Nightingale's Song was Robert Timberg's extraordinary tale of well-intentioned but ill-starred...
A Country Called Amreeka
Arab Roots, American Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Among the surfeit of narratives about Arabs that have been published in recent years, surprisingly little has been reported on Arabs in America -- an increasingly relevant issue. This book is the most powerful approach imaginable: it is the story of the last forty-plus years of American history, told...
The Nurture Assumption
Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they...
Bullseye!
Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
At last, in this book, the great paradox of measurement is resolved. According to the authors' original -- and revealing -- research companies that manage by measurement outperform less disciplined competitors by an average three-year return on investment of 80 percent versus an average ROI of 45...
Whale Done!
The Power of Positive Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2003
A compendium of straightforward techniques on how to accentuate the positive and redirect the negative, increasing productivity at work and at home.
What do your people at work and your spouse and kids at home have in common with a five-ton killer whale?
Probably a whole lot more than...
by Charles C. Snow, Raymond E. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
In this incisive analysis of corporate success and failure, the authors maintain that success is derived from a mix of ingredients--a company's strategy, its structure, and its processes working in concert. This book will supply managers with the fundamentals of achieving lasting success.