Free Press imprint: 1019 books
Pistol
A Biography of Pete Maravich
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Pistol is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream -- and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete -- a basketball icon for baby boomers -- all the Maraviches paid a price. Now acclaimed...
The Greatest Game
The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of '78
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
In this spellbinding book, Richard Bradley tells the story of what was surely the greatest major league game of our lifetime and perhaps in the history of professional baseball. That game, played at Fenway Park on the afternoon of October 4, 1978, was the culmination of one of the most tense, emotionally...
Childhood Unbound
Saving Our Kids' Best Selves--Confident Parenting in a World of Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Dr. Ron Taffel, one of the country's most sought-after child-rearing experts, draws on decades of counseling experience and extensive conversations with parents nationwide to offer an original and inspiring analysis of the distinctive challenges parents face in raising children today. He also introduces...
Why Is It Always About You?
The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
In this groundbreaking book -- the first popular book on narcissism in more than a decade -- clinical social worker and psychotherapist Sandy Hotchkiss shows you how to cope with controlling, egotistical people who are incapable of the fundamental give-and-take that sustains healthy relationships....
Enough Already!
Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best You
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Does your life feel out of balance? Peter Walsh can help you tackle everything in your busy life.
Most of us are so overwhelmed by work, bills, and school and family commitments that we rush from person to person and place to place without ever feeling satisfied—sometimes giving one area...
The Next Great Bubble Boom
How to Profit from the Greatest Boom in History: 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
For over fifteen years, New York Times bestselling author Harry S. Dent, Jr., has been uncannily accurate in predicting the financial future. In his three previous works, Dent predicted the financial recession of the early nineties, the economic expansion of the mid-nineties, and the financial free-for-all...
by Steven E. Landsburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
With his witty and instructive book The Armchair Economist, Steven Landsburg won popularity and acclaim by using economics to illuminate the mysteries of daily life, and using daily life to illuminate the mysteries of economics.
Now Landsburg returns to address fundamental issues like fairness,...
by Jennifer James
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
“Much is said these days about building bridges to the 21st century, and savvy businesspeople are constantly on the lookout for ways to make this colorful metaphor into reality. Thinking in the Future Tense: Leadership Skills for a New Age, by author and business lecturer Jennifer James, clearly...
by David Boaz
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Tens of millions of Americans, from Generation X-ers to baby boomers and beyond, are rediscovering libertarianism, a visionary alternative to the tired party orthodoxies of left and right. In 1995 a Gallup poll found that 52 percent of Americans said "the federal government has become so large and...
Focus on Retirement
An e-Book Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2001
Several times a year, The Wall Street Journal publishes Special Reports about active living for those fifty-five and older. And with the number of older Americans at an estimated 45 million and growing, it's no wonder these reports are one of the most popular features of both the print and the interactive...
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...