Free Press: 1051 books
More Sex Is Safer Sex
The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
A witty and razor-sharp look at the many ways our individually rational decisions can combine into some truly weird collective results—and some hilarious and serious ways to fix just about everything.
Economics is no longer the “dismal science” dreaded by college freshmen. In recent years,...
The Big Questions
Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex, Steven Landsburg uses concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: What is real? What can we know? What is the difference between right and wrong? And how...
Near a Thousand Tables
A History of Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
In Near a Thousand Tables, acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history -- a window on the history of mankind.
In this "appetizingly provocative" (Los Angeles Times) book, he guides readers through the eight great revolutions...
The Nature of Technology
What It Is and How It Evolves
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from?...
The Teaching Gap
Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Comparing math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with those in the United States, two leading researchers offer a surprising new view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom.
For years our schools and children have lagged behind international...
Futurework
Putting Knowledge To Work In the Knowledge Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A look at how IPS builds specific information and tools directly into business processes and systems, enabling workers to independently solve problems on the job.
A company's success ultimately depends on each worker's completion of an infinite series of little "now's." To achieve peak efficiency...
YOU(r) Teen: Losing Weight
The Owner's Manual to Simple and Healthy Weight Management at Any Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Every stage of life has its share of obstacles. But many folks would argue that the teen years—with all the ups, downs, and in-betweens of freaky friends and freaky and fiery hormones—can be more complex than rocket science. In YOU(R) Teen: Losing Weight, Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz offer...
The Metaknowledge Advantage
The Key to Success in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In the tradition of the bestselling Intellectual Capital, internationally recognized management and quality expert Rafael Aguayo shows how integrated mastery of many areas of knowledge --
MetaKnowledge -- can give corporate managers an edge, no matter what the future has in store.
In today's...
by Michael Lind
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
For nearly a decade, Michael Lind worked closely as a writer and editor with the intellectual leaders of American conservatism. Slowly, he came to believe that the many prominent intellectuals he worked with were not the leaders of the conservative movement but the followers and apologists for an...
The Libertarian Reader
Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The first collection of seminal writings on a movement that is rapidly changing the face of American politics, The Libertarian Reader links some of the most fertile minds of our time to a centuries-old commitment to freedom, self-determination, and opposition to intrusive government. A movement that...
If Only We Knew What We Know
The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practi
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
While companies search the world over to benchmark best practices, vast treasure troves of knowledge and know-how remain hidden right under their noses: in the minds of their own employees, in the often unique structure of their operations, and in the written history of their organizations. Now, acclaimed...
SIMSOC: Simulated Society, Participant's Manual
Fifth Edition (Participant's Manual)
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
The official guide to SIMSOC, the dynamic group simulation game whose “potential for stimulating the learning process is staggering” (Teaching Sociology), in which players grapple with the challenge of governing society.
In SIMSOC, players confront issues like abuse of power, justice, diversity,...
Omnipreneurship
An Organized Approach to Living A Life of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
An omnipreneur takes an entrepreneurial approach to every aspect of life—work, family, community, health, finances, spirituality, and more. CEO, past government official, and philanthropist Amr Al-Dabbagh shares his leadership model for using omnipreneurship to improve our lives and our world.
Moral Dimension
Toward a New Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni presents a bold new vision of the social sciences - one which proposes that broader moral, social and political concerns modify economic behaviour and shape individual decision-making. In establishing the necessitary...