Free Press imprint: 1019 books
by Stephen F. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
As America’s need for productive workers increases, Hamilton explains how apprenticeship would exploit workplaces as learning environments, helping young people to make the crucial connections between school learning, community participation, and a satisfying, constructive life’s work.
World Wide Mind
The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
What if digital communication felt as real as being touched?
This question led Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab research around the world, and the result is the book you now hold. Marvelous and momentous, World Wide Mind takes mind-to-mind communication out of...
by Anthony Storr
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should...
by Anthony Storr
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Originally published in 1988, Anthony Storr's bestselling meditation on the creative individual's need for solitude has become a classic.
A pre-eminent work in self-help and popular psychology literature, Solitude was seminal in challenging the psychological paradigm that “interpersonal relationships...
My Fathers' Daughter
A Story of Family and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
What do you wear to meet your father for the first time?
In 2004, Hannah Pool knew more about next season's lipstick colors than she did about Africa: a beauty editor for The Guardian newspaper, she juggled lattes and cocktails, handbags and hangouts through her twenties just like any other...
Three Empires on the Nile
The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall apart, and a runaway general makes policy in...
The Rules of Sociological Method
And Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Revised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim’s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes that puts Durkheim’s work into context for the twenty-first century...
In the Belly of the Green Bird
The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
Nir Rosen has been hailed by The New York Review of Books as the reporter who managed to get inside Fallujah "at a time when it was a death trap for Western reporters," and as one of the few Western reporters able to report the truth from Iraq. Still in his twenties, a freelancer who has written for...
Babel No More
The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review).
In Babel No...
by Ruth Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance.
Motherland
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Pamela Marin was fourteen when her mother died of breast cancer. After keeping her illness a secret from her daughter, Mildred Marin left her home in Evanston, Illinois, to spend her last months alone and without treatment in California. When she died in 1973, her husband buried the family's memories...
The Prostate Health Program
A Guide to Preventing and Controlling Prostate Can
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
What foods should you eat if you want to keep your prostate healthy? How does sexual activity affect the health of your prostate? What are ways you can prevent prostate cancer? What should African-American men know about prostate cancer? What are the best alternatives to radiation and surgery in treating...
by Robert L. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In this honest, sympathetic book, marital and family therapist Robert L. Barker offers real help for men and women suffering the emotional costs of a jealous partner's suspicion and rage. Based on his extensive work with troubled couples, "The Green-Eyed Marriage" answers these and many other questions...
Seeds of Terror
An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucial nodes in the al-Qaeda network since long...