Free Press imprint: 1019 books
State of Grace
A Memoir of Twilight Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Nightingale's Song ("An amazing piece of work...This is a stunning book" -- Boston Globe), comes an evocative, elegiac and rollicking portrait of America.
The Nightingale's Song was Robert Timberg's extraordinary tale of well-intentioned but ill-starred...
A Country Called Amreeka
Arab Roots, American Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Among the surfeit of narratives about Arabs that have been published in recent years, surprisingly little has been reported on Arabs in America -- an increasingly relevant issue. This book is the most powerful approach imaginable: it is the story of the last forty-plus years of American history, told...
The Nurture Assumption
Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they...
Bullseye!
Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
At last, in this book, the great paradox of measurement is resolved. According to the authors' original -- and revealing -- research companies that manage by measurement outperform less disciplined competitors by an average three-year return on investment of 80 percent versus an average ROI of 45...
Whale Done!
The Power of Positive Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2003
A compendium of straightforward techniques on how to accentuate the positive and redirect the negative, increasing productivity at work and at home.
What do your people at work and your spouse and kids at home have in common with a five-ton killer whale?
Probably a whole lot more than...
by Charles C. Snow, Raymond E. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
In this incisive analysis of corporate success and failure, the authors maintain that success is derived from a mix of ingredients--a company's strategy, its structure, and its processes working in concert. This book will supply managers with the fundamentals of achieving lasting success.
Capitalize on Merger Chaos
Six Ways to Profit from Your Competitors' Consolidation and Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
Merger mania is at an all-time peak. Yet up to 80 percent of mergers fail because of culture clashes, mismanagement, and the chaos that ensues. Taking this failure rate into account, merger experts Thomas M. Grubb and Robert B. Lamb have written the first book that arms managers with strategies to...
Kotler On Marketing
How To Create, Win, and Dominate Markets
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 1999
Philip Kotler's name is synonymous with marketing. His textbooks have sold more than 3 million copies in 20 languages and are read as the marketing gospel in 58 countries. Now Kotler on Marketing offers his long-awaited, essential guide to marketing for managers, freshly written based on his phenomenally...
The Sales Advantage
How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2003
Now, for the first time ever, the time-tested, proven techniques perfected by the world-famous Dale Carnegie® sales training program are available in book form.
The two crucial questions most often asked by salespeople are: "How can I close more sales?" and "What can I do to reduce objections?"...
BRAND sense
Sensory Secrets Behind the Stuff We Buy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
In perhaps the most creative and authoritative book on sensory branding ever written, international business legend Martin Lindstrom reveals what the world's most successful branding companies do differently -- integrating touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound -- with startling and measurable results.
Based...
Creating Wealth
Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
Popular speaker, multimillionaire, and author of the all-time bestselling real-estate book Nothing Down, Robert G. Allen knows how to bring you financial success. With his seminars sweeping the nation, Allen is at the cutting edge of strategic wealth creation now more than ever. And in this completely...
The Daily Carrot Principle
365 Ways to Enhance Your Career and Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
From the authors of the smash bestseller The Carrot Principle comes an inspiring and lively page-a-day guide to harnessing the remarkable power of the carrot—taking yourself and your team to new heights of success in work and life.
Based on their twenty years of experience teaching leaders...
by Harris Interactive, The Staff of the Wall Street Journal
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Most people return to business school for an M.B.A. degree to increase their marketability in a highly competitive business environment. How well they achieve their goal depends in large measure on how the business world views the schools they attended.
For the first time ever, The Wall Street Journal,...
How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything
More Than 550 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything From Buying Life Insurance to Selling Your Screenplay to Choosing a Thoroughbred Racehorse
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
How to Buy & Sell (Just About) Everything
The Ultimate Buyer's Guide for Daily Life
Don't make another purchase before you buy this ultimate buyer's guide. With more than 550 how-to solutions, these pages are packed with savvy strategies for choosing and locating (and unloading and liquidating)...