Freedman: 317 books
by James O. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
With refreshing eloquence, James O. Freedman sets down the American ideals that have informed his life as an intellectual, a law professor, and a college and university president. He examines the content and character of liberal education, discusses the importance of letters and learning in forming...
No Turning Back
The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A truly...
Vietnam
A History of the War
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A comprehensive overview of one of the most controversial wars in America's history, written by masterful children's historian and Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman.
With prose that is clear, concise, and enthralling, Russell Freedman presents a detailed overview of the Vietnam war. Beginning...
One Hour in Paris
A True Story of Rape and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. One Hour in Paris takes the reader on a harrowing yet inspirational journey through suffering and recovery both...
The Nine Commandments
Uncovering the Hidden Pattern of Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
In a book certain to be as controversial as Harold Bloom's The Book of J and Elaine Pagels's The Gnostic Gospels, David Noel Freedman delves into the Old Testament and reveals a pattern of defiance of the Covenant with God that inexorably led to the downfall of the nation of Israel, the destruction...
by B.J. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
B.J. Freedman's "TBoaTYO" is a comic novel about boylovers and their boys. Its cynical yet understanding take on the amusing foibles of international boylovers will annoy some, but at heart it's just another sweet man-meets-boy story with some surprises along the way.
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by Samuel G. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Over the course of a thirty-year career, Samuel Freedman has excelled both at doing journalism and teaching it, and he passionately engages both of these endeavors in the pages of this book. As an author and journalist, Freedman has produced award-winning books, investigative series, opinion columns,...
Intimate Matters
A History of Sexuality in America, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
As the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offered trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans from colonial times to the present. Now, twenty-five years after its first publication, this groundbreaking classic is back in a crucial and updated...
by William Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marveled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying...
by Lawrence Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
The Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine and economic sanctions imposed by the West, transformed European politics. These events marked a dramatic shift away from the optimism of the post-Cold War era. The conflict did not escalate to the levels originally feared but...
How to Live Forever
The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generation
In How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living so much longer,...
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics
Essays by Estelle B. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. Over the past thirty years, she has produced a body of work in which scholarship and politics have never been mutually...
Statistical Models and Causal Inference
A Dialogue with the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
David A. Freedman presents here a definitive synthesis of his approach to causal inference in the social sciences. He explores the foundations and limitations of statistical modeling, illustrating basic arguments with examples from political science, public policy, law, and epidemiology. Freedman...
Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression
Assessing the Scientific Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
The scientific evidence does not support the notion that TV and film violence cause aggression in children or in anyone else. So argues Jonathan Freedman, based on his findings that far fewer than half of the scientific studies have found a causal connection between exposure to media violence and...