Free Press imprint: 1019 books
Wet Mind
The New Cognitive Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
How do our brains allow us to recognize objects and locate them accurately in space, use mental imagery to remember yesterday's breakfast, read, understand speech, learn to dance, and recall a new telephone number? Recent breakthroughs in brain scanning and computing techniques have allowed researchers...
The Population of the United States
3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
This third edition, written with two new coauthors, combines 1990 census data with information from the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and numerous other sources, even including demographic data not available in any other published source.
La Dieta de 17 Dias
Un plan del doctor para resultados rápidos
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Now available in Spanish, the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon The 17 Day Diet is an incredible weight loss plan designed to fit into any diet’s habits.
Si necesitas perder peso rápido y de manera segura, eficaz y duradera, ¡este es el libro para ti! La Dieta de 17 Días del Dr....
Here Comes Another Lesson
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
STEPHEN O’CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY’S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL WRITERS. In Here Comes Another Lesson, O’Connor, whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and many other places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the...
AIDS Trauma and Support Group Therapy
Mutual Aid, Empowerment, Connection
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An empowering guidebook which comprehensively addresses issues related to planning, implementing, and facilitating support groups for people with AIDS.
Unveiled
How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love, and Obedience in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
In the early 1980s, Deborah Jacobs was an ordinary Lebanese American college student from Long Island, New York. By the end of the decade, she would bear witness to the making of international history. Her story begins in graduate school: through a series of chance encounters, young Deborah was introduced...
Hidden
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
As unnerving as it is mesmerizing, Hidden is an evocative, emotionally charged domestic drama -- a willful and traumatized woman's painful search for the truth about the man who assaulted her one summer night.
Six years after the attack, Maggie Wilson receives a call from the prosecutor who...
The Other Half of Me
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
“What good can the past do the living? What harm?” Growing up in their family’s ancestral home in Wales, Jonathan Anthony and his little sister, Theo, are inseparable. Together they explore the wild acres of Evendon, inventing magical worlds and buttressing each other against the loneliness...
Approximately Heaven
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Enter the distinctly off-kilter world of Don "Wendell" Brush, an unemployed Tennessee electrician with a penchant for throwing back a few beers before lunch. Mary, his long-suffering wife of seven years, has left him -- or is trying to. Heartsick at the thought of losing her, Don beats her out the...
Elijah's Cup
A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
Faced with her two-year-old toddler's precipitous bout with epilepsy and his puzzling behaviors, Valerie Paradiz took a bold and unusual path, coming to terms with and ultimately embracing the strange beauty of her son Elijah's special neurological disorder, which was diagnosed as Asperger's syndrome,...
The Pretender
How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2002
How could a two-bit investor, too paralyzed with fear to trade stocks, bilk insurance companies out of $200 million?
How could a gawky misfit with an obsessive terror of germs induce a harem of attractive young women to feud over him?
How could a recluse from Toledo, Ohio, penetrate the circles of...
Magnetic Partners
Discover How the Hidden Conflict That Once Attracted You to Each Other Is Now Driving You Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Do you and your partner argue about the same things over and over again? Are you often confused about why your partner is so angry with you? Are things getting worse and worse even though you’ve tried everything you can think of to make them better?
In this breakthrough guide to repairing...
Willem's Field
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
What are the limitations of what we do and don't know about our hearts? Oprah Book Club author Melinda Haynes, hailed as "the real thing, a true artist, a genuine writer" (the Cleveland Plain Dealer) for her bestselling debut, Mother of Pearl, returns with a tender, heartbreaking, and occasionally...
by Claudia Bepko
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Bepko and Krestan integrate theory and practice in describing the treatment of families with alcohol problems.
“This book is the outgrowth of seven years of work in which we have made an attempt to integrate our own understanding of alcoholic dynamics within the framework of systemic family...