Free Press: 1051 books
Models.Behaving.Badly.
Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Now in paperback, “a compelling, accessible, and provocative piece of work that forces us to question many of our assumptions” (Gillian Tett, author of Fool’s Gold).
Quants, physicists working on Wall Street as quantitative analysts, have been widely blamed for triggering financial crises...
by Kelle Groom
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
At the age of fifteen, Kelle Groom found that alcohol allowed her to connect with people and explore intimacy in ways she’d never been able to experience before. She began drinking before class, often blacked out at bars, and fell into destructive relationships. At nineteen, already an out-of-control...
Glimpses of the Devil
A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
The legendary bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, whose books have sold over 14 million copies, reveals the amazing true story of his work as an exorcist -- kept secret for more than twenty-five years -- in two profoundly human stories of satanic possession.
In the tradition...
Supreme Command
Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show -- the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot Cohen examines four great democratic war statesmen -- Abraham...
Domestic Revolutions
A Social History Of American Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 1989
An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model.
Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and...
Yellow Dirt
An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD
Atop a craggy mesa in the northern reaches of the Navajo reservation lies what was once a world-class uranium mine called Monument No. 2. Discovered in the 1940s—during the government’s desperate press to build nuclear weapons—the...
Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?
An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Diets don't work. Why not? Because they focus on what foods we should and shouldn't eat but completely ignore everything else that makes us fat. Look at your own situation: You say you want to lose weight, but you just can't stop indulging. You say you'd exercise more if only you had the time, yet...
by Andrew Bushard
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
You can do anything even if you have Asperger's Syndrome! Nothing should stop you from living the life of your dreams! This short book of poems inspires, motivates, and encourages all Aspies to achieve their full potential.
The Butterfly Cabinet
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Vivid, mysterious and unforgettable, The Butterfly Cabinet is Bernie McGill’s engrossing portrayal of the dark history that intertwines two lives. Inspired by a true story of the death of the daughter of an aristocratic Irish family at the end of the nineteenth century, McGill powerfully tells this...
Times Two
Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
TO EVERY GOOD LOVE STORY, THERE IS A TWIST. Times Two is about two women meeting, falling madly in love, and realizing that they are so crazy about each other that they want to have a family together. The fact that they both get pregnant at the exact same time is where things start to get interesting.
Sarah...
by Anthony T. Kronman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy.
In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest...
Angela Sloan
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
In his latest novel, universally acclaimed author James Whorton, Jr., delivers a curious Nixon-era caper of broken men and stoic runaways who learn just how much there is to gain, and lose, when you go undercover. Angela Sloan, a seemingly average teenager living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.,...
by Andrew Bushard
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
18+ Adults only: The masses starve for cuntbusting, so Andrew Bushard created this work to provide erotic food. 26 pages; 25 poems.
by Andrew Bushard
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
18+ Adults only: This short sequel (27 pages) to The Seduction of Anita Sarkeesian gets even raunchier than the book it follows. This erotic short story describes the sexual relationship between Andrew and Anita. Our heroes have both vanilla and kinky sex. They also use their maverick politics skills...