Free Press: 1051 books
by John R. Searle
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.
In The Construction of Social Reality,...
by Ernest Becker
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.
Darwin's Black Box
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2001
The groundbreaking, "seminal work" (Time) on intelligent design that dares to ask, was Darwin wrong?
In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. It sparked a national debate...
Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees
The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1999
Cooperation is the fabric that keeps society together. Civilization could not have been achieved -- and will not be sustained -- without it. But what is it? How and why does it work? Could the secret of enhancing human cooperation lie in an investigation of the animal kingdom?
In Cheating Monkeys...
by Robert Zubrin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream-the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit.
Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading...
Embracing the Wide Sky
A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Owner of "the most remarkable mind on the planet," (according to Entertainment Weekly) Daniel Tammet captivated readers and won worldwide critical acclaim with the 2007 New York Times bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating...
by Suzanne Slater
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
Until now, lesbian families have had little help in identifying the stages of their couple relationships or recognizing the often stressful periods of relational transition. In this first-of-its-kind book, psychotherapist Suzanne Slater describes the joys and stresses common to lesbian families and...
Marching Toward Hell
America and Islam After Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
When Michael Scheuer first questioned the goals of the Iraq War in his 2004 bestseller Imperial Hubris, policymakers and ordinary citizens alike stood up and took notice. Now, Scheuer offers a scathing and frightening look at how the Iraq War has been a huge setback to America's War on Terror, making...
The Doubter's Companion
A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire wrote a sharply humorous "Philosophical Dictionary," while Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language was derisive and opinionated. These early...
by Michael Maren
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
A stunning personal narrative of best intentions gone awry, Michael Maren, at one time an aid worker and journalist in Somalia, writes of the failure of international charities.
Michael Maren spent years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist, where he witnessed at a harrowing...
Pig Candy
Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home--A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Pig Candy is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed Black, White, Other, comes to...
Peace Meals
Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Travel books bring us to places. War books bring us to tragedy. This book brings us to one woman’s travels in war zones: the locals she met, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate.
Peace Meals is a true story about conflict and food. It illustrates the most important...
On the Origin of Tepees
The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Why do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very own “survival of the fittest”? And if so, does that explain why our species is so different from the rest of life on Earth?
Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas,...
The Itch
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
From the author of the smashing debut bestseller Good Hair comes The Itch, the stirring story of a crisis-torn woman who discovers a depth of character and a sense of self she never knew she possessed.
Abra Lewis Dixon is the envy of the fashionable, professional women of her well-heeled social circle....