Free Press imprint: 1019 books
Between Silk and Cyanide
A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2001
In 1942, with a black-market chicken tucked under his arm by his mother, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive...
by Alice Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Élysées. Yet liberation is a messy, complex affair, in which cultural understanding can be as...
Samuel Adams
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
In this stirring biography, Samuel Adams joins the first tier of founding fathers, a rank he has long deserved. With eloquence equal to that of Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine, and with a passionate love of God, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution's...
Seasteading
How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In these “thought-provoking visions of the future” (The Wall Street Journal), Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute explain how ocean cities can solve many of our environmental, technological, and civic problems, and introduce the visionaries and pioneers who are now making...
First Among Equals
How to Manage a Group of Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Professional service gurus David Maister and Patrick McKenna have created a practical handbook on how to lead professional colleagues or peers when you lack formal authority. Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge calls it “a timely, easy to read work leavened with action plans and examples.”
Whether...
Winning With the Market
Beat the Traders and Brokers In Good Times and Bad
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2001
Say good-bye to expensive brokers! Forget gambling on their latest "hot stock," or their junk-bond or high-cost mutual funds recommendations. The results can be disastrous. Instead, veteran Wall Street Journal editor and CNBC commentator Douglas R. Sease shows you how to take back control...
Y
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
“Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? . . . My life begins at the Y.” So opens Marjorie Celona’s highly acclaimed and exquisitely rendered debut about a wise-beyond-her-years foster child abandoned as a newborn on the...
Saving Monticello
The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826 -- the nation's fiftieth birthday -- he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final goodbye to Monticello itself. The house their illustrious...
by Thaddeus Russell
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the...
Money for Nothing
How CEOs and Boards Enrich Themselves While Bankrupting America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
**A Bank of America director questioned the CEO's $76 million pay package in a year when the bank was laying off 12,600 workers and found herself dropped from the board without notice a few months later.
According to their employment agreements -- approved by boards -- 96 percent of large company...
Planet Google
One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Based on unprecedented access he received to the highly secretive "Googleplex," acclaimed New York Times columnist Randall Stross takes readers deep inside Google, the most important, most innovative, and most ambitious company of the Internet Age. His revelations demystify the strategy behind the...
Rocket Dreams
How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2003
In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades...
by Judy Shelton
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
In this analysis, Shelton calls for a unified international monetary regime—a new Bretton Woods—to lay the foundation for worldwide stability and prosperity in the post-Cold War era.
Despite worldwide rhetoric about free trade and the global economy, the leading economic powers have done...
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book**” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst** is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives.
The water coming out of your kitchen...