Free Press: 1051 books
Self Matters
Creating Your Life from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2001
What if there is a You that has never seen the light of day, has never got to say, “Hey, what about me?”
What if there is a You that you have never even met and certainly never permitted to just be, without fear of judgment or condemnation?
What if you live your life on the sidelines in constant...
Telecosm
How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
The computer age is over.
After a cataclysmic global run of thirty years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm -- the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. Chips and software will continue to make great contributions to our lives, but the action is elsewhere. To seek...
Can't Buy My Love
How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
"When was the last time you felt this comfortable in a relationship?"
-- An ad for sneakers
"You can love it without getting your heart broken."
-- An ad for a car
"Until I find a real man, I'll settle for a real smoke."
-- A woman in a cigarette ad
Many advertisements...
Childhood Under Siege
How Big Business Targets Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Corporations have found a new resource to be mined for profit: our children. In this shocking and indelible behind-the-scenes journey, Joel Bakan, acclaimed author and award-winning maker of the renowned film and international bestselling book The Corporation, uncovers the astonishing degree to which...
The Fourth Part of the World
The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.
For millennia Europeans believed that the world...
by William I Zangwill
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
From a leading business scholar comes this analysis of strategies and practices for sparking innovation within several of the world’s major companies.
Willard Zangwill’s study of the innovation he addresses world-class practices of leading companies like General Electric, 3M, Canon, and...
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Social Networks and the Death of Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Hailed as “stunning” (New York Post), “authoritative” (Kirkus Reviews), and “comprehensively researched” (Shelf Awareness), a shocking exposé of the widespread abuses of our personal online data by a leading specialist on Web privacy.
Social networks, the defining cultural movement...
Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It)
A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of H
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
"You can't step in the same river twice."
"Dogs bark at what they don't understand."
"The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering."
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written,...
The Path to Purpose
Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Drawing on the revelatory results of a landmark study, William Damon -- one of the country's leading writers on the lives of young people, whose book Greater Expectations won the Parents' Choice Award -- brilliantly investigates the most pressing issue in the lives of youth today: why so many young...
Pieces of Intelligence
The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Donald Rumsfeld is not just a two-time Secretary of Defence, former CEO, former White House Chief of Staff, and the most outspoken and forceful civilian military leader in recent American history. He is also, intentionally or not, a poet. At last, the ubiquitous and at times unintelligible U.S. Secretary...
by Jay Luvaas
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2001
Napoleon. The passage of time has not dimmed the power of his name. A century and a half after his death, Napoleon remains the greatest military genius of the modern world. Yet unlike Machiavelli, Clausewitz, or Sun Tzu, his name has not crowned any single literary work. The subject of thousands of...
Shame
The Exposed Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1995
Shame, the quintessential human emotion, received little attention during the years in which the central forces believed to be motivating us were identified as primitive instincts like sex and aggression. Now, redressing the balance, there is an explosion of interest in the self-conscious emotion....
What Kids Buy
The Psychology of Marketing to Kids
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
If you're in the business of marketing or developing products and programs for kids, What Kids Buy and Why belongs in your office.
How can you create outstanding products and programs that will win in the marketplace and in the hearts of kids and parents? Dan S. Acuff and Robert H. Reiher have...
The Way of Go
8 Ancient Strategy Secrets for Success in Business and Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
For centuries, business, political, and military leaders throughout Asia have had a secret weapon for success -- the philosophies and strategies found in an ancient game called Go.
Now, Troy Anderson, an entrepreneur, knowledge management expert, Fortune 500 management consultant, and one of only...