Free Press: 1051 books
by Milton Rokeach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This volume presents theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in understanding, and also in the effects of understanding, individual and societal values.
The Drama Years
Real Girls Talk About Surviving Middle School -- Bullies, Brands, Body Image, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Today’s middle school girls have it rough.
In a few short years, they go through an incredible number of biological and emotional changes, making this the most formative—and riskiest—time in their lives. Groups turn on each other, a trusted childhood friend can reveal secrets by sending...
Big Cats
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away from Me, David," a bank manager tries to overcome...
A Vanished World
Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney's vividly written book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture.
In 711, a ragtag army...
Candy and Me
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, launching the epic love affair between Hilary and all things sweet. In Candy and Me: A Love Story, Liftin...
The Bitter Road to Freedom
A New History of the Liberation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest...
The Dangerous Passion
Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2000
Why do men and women cheat on each other? How do men really feel when their partners have sex with other men? What worries women more -- men who turn to other women for love or men who simply want sexual variety in their lives? Can the jealousy husbands and wives experience over real or imagined infidelities...
by David Finkelhor
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Based on a large-scale survey and in light of demographic and cultural factors, the author examines why children are sexually victimized, the sources of trauma, differences between reported and unreported cases of assault, and possible increases in sexual victimization.
Long Way Home
A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Nineteen-year-old Jovan Mosley, a good kid from one of Chicago’s very bad neighborhoods, was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn’t commit. Charged with murder, he spent five years and eight months in a prison for violent criminals. Without a trial.
Jovan grew up on the rough streets...
by Donald T. Dickson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Professor Dickson provides students with examples of a legal way of thinking about significant issues in social policy. This book can be used in policy and practice courses in the fields of mental health, child welfare, the family, developmental and physical disabilities, and professional ethics....
A Line in the Sand
The Alamo in Blood and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2001
In late February and early March of 1836, the Mexican Army under the command of General Antonio López de Santa Anna besieged a small force of Anglo and Tejano rebels at a mission known as the Alamo. The defenders of the Alamo were in an impossible situation. They knew very little of the events taking...
The Visibles
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
The only piece of information that Summer Davis takes away from her years at Peninsula Upper School -- one of the finest in the Brooklyn Heights-to-Park Slope radius, to quote the promotional materials -- is the concept that DNA defines who we are and forever ties us to our relatives. A loner by circumstance,...
by Anne Colby, William Damon
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A look at the lives of twenty-three American moral leaders shows how these hometown heroes acquired their moral goals and sustained them in the face of grave risk and sacrifice, working for everything from civil rights to the poor.
The Mother Who Stayed
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In nine strikingly perceptive stories set miles and decades apart, Laura Furman mines the intricate, elusive lives of mothers and daughters—and of women who long for someone to nurture. Meet Rachel, a young girl desperate for her mother’s unbridled attention, knowing that soon she’ll have to...