Free Press: 1051 books
The Fiber35 Diet
Nature's Weight Loss Secret
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
It's time to revolutionize the way you think about dieting!
Bestselling author Brenda Watson shares the remarkable secret that helped her take charge of her health and change her life forever. Now you can do the same!
The Fiber35 Diet will show you how to lose weight and improve your...
Origins
How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
What makes us the w***ay*** w***e are?*** Some say it’s the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it’s the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics—our health, our intelligence, our temperaments—are influenced by the conditions...
The 17 Day Diet Cookbook
80 All New Recipes for Healthy Weight Loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Based on the New York Times bestselling book and revolutionary diet program that has swept the nation, a collection of easy, delicious, and healthy recipes that will help readers lose weight fast, and keep it off.
The #1 bestselling 17 Day Diet offers a lifetime plan for shedding pounds fast...
Day of Honey
A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A luminous portrait of life in the Middle East, Day of Honey weaves history, cuisine, and firsthand reporting into a fearless, intimate exploration of everyday survival.
In the fall of 2003, Annia Ciezadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. Over the next six years, while living in Baghdad and...
It's All Too Much
An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
Whether it’s tidying up or tiny-house living, the decluttering revolution is taking America by storm. In It’s All Too Much organizational expert Peter Walsh reveals the tools for taking control of your physical—and emotional—clutter in order to reclaim your life.
Are you surrounded...
Tidal Wave
How Women Changed America at Century's End
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Forty years ago few women worked, married women could not borrow money in their own names, schools imposed strict quotas on female applicants, and sexual harassment did not exist as a legal concept. Yet despite the enormous changes for women in America since 1960, and despite a blizzard of books that...
The Wolf
How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
On November 30, 1916, an apparently ordinary freighter left harbor in Kiel, Germany, and would not touch land again for another fifteen months. It was the beginning of an astounding 64,000-mile voyage that was to take the ship around the world, leaving a trail of destruction and devastation in her...
The Seventies
The Great Shift in American culture, Society, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2001
Most of us think of the 1970s as an "in-between" decade, the uninspiring years that happened to fall between the excitement of the 1960s and the Reagan Revolution. A kitschy period summed up as the "Me Decade," it was the time of Watergate and the end of Vietnam, of malaise and gas lines, but of nothing...
by Robert S. Gottfried
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure...
Lost Prophet
The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Bayard Rustin is one of the most important figures in the history of the American civil rights movement. Before Martin Luther King, before Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin was working to bring the cause to the forefront of America's consciousness. A teacher to King, an international apostle of peace, and...
Look Away!
A History of the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America...
Season of the Witch
Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.
The Prize
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis.
Sybil Exposed
The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Sybil: a name that conjures up enduring fascination for legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973 and the TV movie based on it—starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward—about a woman named Sybil with sixteen different personalities. Sybil became both a pop phenomenon...