Free Press: 1051 books
Search For The Real Self
Unmasking The Personality Disorders Of Our Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
From the authoritative expert in personality disorders, Search for the Real Self is a thorough dissection of how one’s real self is developed, how it relates to the outer world, and how personality disorders are understood and treated in our modern society.
Personality disorders—borderline,...
The Hidden Face of God
How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2001
Gerald Schroeder, an MIT-trained scientist who has worked in both physics and biology, has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular and accessible apostles for the melding of science and religion. He first reconciled science and faith as different perspectives on a single whole in The Science...
by Lawrence M. Mead
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Mead's timely and closely reasoned analysis makes a strong intellectual and moral case for a more authoritative welfare policy.
by H. Thomas Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Building on his pathbreaking, award-winning bestseller, Relevance Lost, H. Thomas Johnson presents a devastating critique of the top-down hierarchical accounting systems that have dominated American corporations since the 1950s.
In Relevance Regained, Johnson shows exactly how "managing by...
Origins of Existence
How Life Emerged in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In Origins of Existence astrophysicist Fred Adams takes a radically different approach from the long tradition of biologists and spiritual leaders who have tried to explain how the universe supports the development of life. He argues that life followed naturally from the laws of physics -- which were...
by Raymond Arsenault
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791 marked the creation of a uniquely innovative mechanism for constitutional change by which Americans have continued to renew and redefine their governance over a two-hundred-year period. Now, in time for the bicentennial celebration of this great document,...
The Mistress's Revenge
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
There’s a fine line between love and hate.
For five years, Sally and Clive have been lost in a passionate affair. Now he has dumped her to devote himself to his wife and family, and Sally is left in freefall.
It starts with a casual stroll past his house, and popping into the brasserie...
by Eda Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Object Relations and Self Psychology are two leading schools of psychological thought discussed in social work classrooms and applied by practitioners to a variety of social work populations. Yet both groups have lacked a basic manual for teaching and reference -- until now. For them, Dr. Eda G. Goldstein's...
Unhinged
The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
IN THIS STIRRING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WAKE-UP CALL, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat exposes deeply disturbing problems plaguing his profession, revealing the ways it has abandoned its essential purpose: to understand the mind, so that psychiatrists can heal mental illness and not just treat symptoms....
The Five Ages of the Universe
Inside the Physics of Eternity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
As the twentieth century closed, Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin captured the attention of the world by identifying the five ages of time. In The Five Ages of the Universe, Adams and Laughlin demonstrate that we can now understand the complete life story of the cosmos from beginning to end.
Adams...
After the Death of a Child
Living with the Loss Through the Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
For a parent, losing a child is the most devastating event that can occur. Most books on the subject focus on grieving and recovery, but as most parents agree, there is no recovery from such a loss. This book examines the continued love parents feel for their child and the many poignant and ingenious...
The Question of God
C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
"This elegantly written and compelling comparison of the worldviews of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis provides a riveting opportunity to consider the most important questions mankind has ever asked: Is there a God? Does he care about me? This profound book is for anyone who is earnestly seeking answers...
From Plato to NATO
The Idea of the West and Its Opponents
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, From Plato to NATO is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its greatest challenges. Readers of Francis Fukuyama, John Gray, Samuel Huntington,...
by Ferdinand Mount
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and family—including the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family.
In Subversive Family, politician and writer Ferdinand Mount argues that society is shaped by a series...