Friedman: 806 books
Fortune Tellers
The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of...
Forget About Today
Bob Dylan's Genius for (Re)invention, Shunning the Naysayers, and Creating a Per sonal Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A revealing new perspective on Bob Dylan's enduring legacy - from one of the foremost experts on the Nobel Peace prize-winning artist.
Forget About Today shows a side of Bob Dylan that most people - from fans to skeptics - have never seen. Rather than another gossipy account of his romances,...
Spiritual Guidance: Trusting the Voice Within
A Workbook to Enhance Your Spiritual Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Spiritual Guidance, Trusting the Voice Within, is an interactive workbook that can awaken your hidden potential. Discover an energetic language that exists within you and tap into its ability to improve your life experiences.
Dr. Kimberly K. Friedman and Lisa Miliaresis take you on a journey through...
A Mother's Kisses
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
An indefatigable, irresistible, and wildly inappropriate Jewish mother takes her 17-year-old son to school in this uproarious coming-of-age comedy
Tall and scattered-looking, Joseph has just graduated from high school and is ready for college. But is college ready for him? Apparently not,...
by Barry Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2011
On October 15, 1942 the destroyer USS Meredith, escorting the tug USS Vireo, towing a barge loaded with fuel and ammunition desperately needed by the troops on Guadalcanal, was attacked by Japanese aircraft carrier planes. When the attack seemed imminent, the crew of the lightly armed Vireo was transferred...
A Cup of Honey
The Story of a Young Holocaust Survivor, Eliezer Ayalon
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
“ In a chance meeting in the 1980’s, I had a discussion with Elie Wiesel, the famous Holocaust author, historian, and teacher. I told him that I had not been able to tell my story. He said that it was my obligation to speak out and to tell the world about the Holocaust. He told me that I had survived...
by Norman Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book does for naval anti-aircraft defence what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery – it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War and the response...
Shadow Cold War
The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of...
The King of Chicago
Memories of My Father
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
“More than a son’s paean to his father . . . An intergenerational portrait of the quintessential American Jewish family, a rags-to-riches story” (Ethan Michaeli, author of The Defender**).**
The King of Chicago is the story of a father-son relationship as real and hugely loving as that...
'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out
Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Kinky Friedman is back, and with 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out he gets it on with all manner of egos. In this collection of twisted takes on life, the Kinkster gives us funny, irreverent, and insightful looks at outsized personalities from people he's known, like Bill Clinton, George W., Willie...
by Richard Elliott Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
In this groundbreaking and insightful new commentary, one of the world's leading biblical scholars unveils the unity and continuity of the Torah for the modern reader. Richard Elliott Friedman, the bestselling author of Who Wrote the Bible?, integrates the most recent discoveries in biblical archaeology...
A Parting of the Ways
Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Since the 1930s, philosophy has been divided into two camps: the analytic tradition which prevails in the Anglophone world and the continental tradition which holds sway over the European continent.
A Parting of the Ways looks at the origins of this split through the lens of one defining episode:...
by Benjamin M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits.
In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M....
by Milton Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.