Free Press: 1051 books
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...
by William C. Fuller Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” —Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard University
by Peter M. Karsten
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1986
In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq.
From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen...
Standing in the Need of Prayer
A Celebration of Black Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Striking photographs and powerful prayers drawn from the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture span the broad spectrum of black religious traditions through the ages.
From the darkest days on slave ships to the defiant times of the Civil Rights Movement, prayer has...
The Source of All Things
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Tracy Ross never knew her biological father, who died after a brain aneurysm when she was still an infant. So when her mother married Donnie, a gregarious man with an all-wheel-drive jeep and a love of hiking, four-year-old Tracy was ecstatic to have a father figure in her life. A loving and devoted...
Handbook for Treatment of Attachment Problems in C
An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, an
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 1994
Attachment Disorder occurs when a child has difficulty establishing new attachments if old ones are severely disrupted, and it is typically seen in victims of various types of trauma. This text seeks to explain how best to treat these children so that they can love and trust again and form lasting relationships.