Free Press imprint: 1019 books
Primer on Decision Making
How Decisions Happen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1994
Building on lecture notes from his acclaimed course at Stanford University, James March provides a brilliant introduction to decision making, a central human activity fundamental to individual, group, organizational, and societal life. March draws on research from all the disciplines of social and...
by Francis Fukuyama
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists...
by J. Thomas Wren
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This book serves as a guided introduction to the richly diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world. Each of the selections, introduced by the editor, presents enlightening thoughts on a different aspect of leadership. Writings by Plato, Aristotle, Lao-tzu and others...
by Carlton E. Munson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1979
A comprehensive view of historical and current approaches to social work supervision, which includes one of the most extensive bibliographies ever compiled on the subject.
In this overview of historical and current approaches to social work supervision, topics range from the first documented...
by George A. Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In today's complex business world, strategic planning is indispensable to achieving superior management. George A. Steiner's classic work, known as the bible of business planning, provides practical advice for organizing the planning system, acquiring and using information, and translating strategic...
by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
According to leading education analyst Chester Finn, a paradox lies at the heart of our educational trouble. While Americans commonly acknowledge that public schools in general are a disaster, polls consistently show that most parents, teachers, and administrators think their local schools and their...
Self Matters
Creating Your Life from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2001
What if there is a You that has never seen the light of day, has never got to say, “Hey, what about me?”
What if there is a You that you have never even met and certainly never permitted to just be, without fear of judgment or condemnation?
What if you live your life on the sidelines in constant...
Telecosm
How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
The computer age is over.
After a cataclysmic global run of thirty years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm -- the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. Chips and software will continue to make great contributions to our lives, but the action is elsewhere. To seek...
Can't Buy My Love
How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
"When was the last time you felt this comfortable in a relationship?"
-- An ad for sneakers
"You can love it without getting your heart broken."
-- An ad for a car
"Until I find a real man, I'll settle for a real smoke."
-- A woman in a cigarette ad
Many advertisements...
Childhood Under Siege
How Big Business Targets Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Corporations have found a new resource to be mined for profit: our children. In this shocking and indelible behind-the-scenes journey, Joel Bakan, acclaimed author and award-winning maker of the renowned film and international bestselling book The Corporation, uncovers the astonishing degree to which...
The Fourth Part of the World
The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.
For millennia Europeans believed that the world...
by William I Zangwill
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
From a leading business scholar comes this analysis of strategies and practices for sparking innovation within several of the world’s major companies.
Willard Zangwill’s study of the innovation he addresses world-class practices of leading companies like General Electric, 3M, Canon, and...
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Social Networks and the Death of Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Hailed as “stunning” (New York Post), “authoritative” (Kirkus Reviews), and “comprehensively researched” (Shelf Awareness), a shocking exposé of the widespread abuses of our personal online data by a leading specialist on Web privacy.
Social networks, the defining cultural movement...
Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It)
A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of H
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
"You can't step in the same river twice."
"Dogs bark at what they don't understand."
"The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering."
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written,...