Free Press: 1051 books
Ship of Fools
How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The host of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight offers a blistering critique of the new American ruling class, the elites of both parties, who have taken over the ship of state, leaving the rest of us, the citizen-passengers, to wonder: How do we put the country back on course?
Excellent Sheep
The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People).
As a professor at Yale,...
Learning From Strangers
The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1995
Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between...
by Sumiko Iwao
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Westerners and Japanese men have a vivid mental image of Japanese women as dependent, deferential, and devoted to their families--anything but ambitious. In fact, the author shows, Japanese women hold equal and sometimes even more powerful positions than men in many spheres.
When the Tea Party Came to Town
Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
When the Tea Party Came to Towndemonstrates Robert Draper’s uncanny ability to ferret out news-making tidbits and provides us with the first look at this game-changing Congress—sure to be a classic work.
In When the Tea Party Came to Town, Robert Draper delivers the definitive account of...
Tell Your Children
The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
An eye-opening report from an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug—facts the media have ignored as the United States rushes to legalize cannabis.
Recreational...
Chinese Civilization
A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture.
Crazy Like Us
The Globalization of the American Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters...
Kook
What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars
With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The Whale Warriors recounts his remarkable journey of discovery—of surfing, an entirely new challenge; of the ocean’s beauty and power; of the strange surf subculture;...
Sundays Will Never Be the Same
Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption--My Life in America's Fastest Sport
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
From the former NASCAR champion and current Fox Sports announcer, an intimate account of one of the most dramatic and tragic days in the history of NASCAR: the 2001 Daytona 500—the day that racing legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr. died.
In Sundays Will Never Be the Same, former NASCAR champion and...
by Dr. Bob Rotella
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
This old adage is familiar to all golfers but is especially resonant with Dr. Bob Rotella, the bestselling author of Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and one of the foremost golf authorities today. In Putting Out of Your Mind, Rotella offers entertaining and instructive insight into the key element of...
No Limits
The Will to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Fresh from his triumphant and extraordinary achievement at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Michael Phelps—up from working-class, born-in-the-USA roots—shows us the secrets to his remarkable success—from training to execution.
For years the world has followed Michael Phelps’s progress...
by Bill James
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the...
The Good Son
The Life of Ray ',Boom Boom', Mancini
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
FRANK SINATRA FAWNED OVER HIM. WARREN ZEVON WROTE A TRIBUTE SONG. Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week. In the 1980s, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini wasn’t merely the lightweight champ. An adoring public considered him a national hero, the real Rocky.
From the mobbed-up...