Free Press: 1051 books
by Reuben Abel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An intelligently truthful book that explores the uneven landscape of the human intellect.
An accessible introduction to philosophy, this book narrows the gap between the general reader and intellectual inquiry. Its points are illustrated with concrete examples that should call the reader to a higher level of critical thinking and self-perception.
Civilization and Its Enemies
The Next Stage of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2004
Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe....They forget that in time of danger, in the...
No Peace, No Honor
Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2001
In 1973, Henry Kissinger shared the Nobel Peace Prize for the secret negotiations that led to the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam. Nixon famously declared the 1973 agreement to be "peace with honor"; America was disengaging, yet South Vietnam still stood to fight its own...
by Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Originally published in The Hafner Library of Classics in 1953, The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas provides important insights into the human side of one of the most influential medieval philosophers. St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1226–1274) is recognized for having synthesized Christian theology...
Liberty's Surest Guardian
American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Americans are a nation-building people, and in Liberty’s Surest Guardian, Jeremi Suri—Nobel Fellow and leading light in the next generation of policy makers—looks to America’s history to see both what it has to offer failed states around the world and what it should avoid. Far from being cold...
Shelter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A gorgeous, poetic literary debut from award-winning author Frances Greenslade, Shelter is a brilliant coming-of-age story of two strong, brave sisters searching for their mother.
For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect....
What You Have Left
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
What You Have Left is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and, most of all, longing.
In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie tells her he just...
The End of Days
Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
The new millennium dawned quietly, defying modern-day prophets of apocalypse. Yet for countless believers around the globe - Christians, Jews and Muslims -- anticipation that the world is about to end burns more intensely than ever. God's kingdom is near, they believe, and the key to salvation is...
Much Ado About Loving
What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
“A treat for any book lover, happily mated or cheerfully single” (USA TODAY)—two popular journalists give hilarious relationship advice borrowed from the most famous characters in literature.
Finding love should be easier than ever before, given all the freedoms we enjoy. But as it turns...
A Return to Modesty
Discovering the Lost Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty.
When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion...
by Alfred North Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.
Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds...
On the Eve of the Millenium
The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
"All my life," writes Conor Cruise O'Brien, "I have been fascinated and puzzled by nationalism and religion; by the interaction of the two forces, sometimes in unison, sometimes antagonistic." In these wide-ranging and penetrating essays, O'Brien examines how throughout the world today these age-old...
Touching History
The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
On the azure blue morning of 9/11 the skies were pronounced "severe clear," in the parlance of airline pilots; a gorgeous day for flying. Nearly 5,000 flights were cruising the skies over America when FAA Operations Manager Ben Sliney arrived at the Command Center for his first day on that job. He...
Hurricane Season
A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
"There's always a point in the season when you're faced with a challenge and you see what you're capable of. And you grow up."
-- J.T. Curtis, head coach, John Curtis Christian School Patriots
On Saturday, August 27, 2005, the John Curtis Patriots met for a grueling practice in the late...