Free Press: 1051 books
The Israelis
Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land (Updated in 2008)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Israel is smaller than New Jersey, with 0.11% of the world's population, yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. The BBC has their version, The New York Times theirs. But how does Israel look to Israelis? The answers are varied,...
The Inner Game of Selling
Mastering the Hidden Forces that Determine Your Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Selling is 85% emotional and 15% logical.
Forget everything you've been taught about selling -- forget the hardsell, forget negotiation strategies, forget those closing techniques. In The Inner Game of Selling, Ron Willingham debunks the familiar myths about "sales skills," showing that those...
The Silent Takeover
Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2002
Named one of the best books of the year by The Sunday Times of London, and already a bestseller in England, Noreena Hertz's The Silent Takeover explains how corporations in the age of globalization are changing our lives, our society, and our future -- and are threatening the very basis of our democracy.
Of...
High Tech Start Up, Revised And Updated
The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
This revised and updated edition of Nesheim's underground Silicon Valley bestseller incorporates twenty-three case studies of successful start-ups, including tables of wealth showing how much money founders and investors realized from each venture.
The phenomenal success of the initial public...
by Bill James
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1995
Arguing about the merits of players is the baseball fan's second favorite pastime and every year the Hall of Fame elections spark heated controversy. In a book that's sure to thrill--and infuriate--countless fans, Bill James takes a hard look at the Hall, probing its history, its politics and, most of all, its decisions.
Compassionate Conservatism
What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government. No author...
Colossus
Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote...
by David A. Lax, James K Sebenius
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1987
This fine blend of Harvard scholarship and seasoned judgment is really two books in one. The first develops a sophisticated approach to negotiation for executives, attorneys, diplomats -- indeed, for anyone who bargains or studies its challenges. The second offers a new and compelling vision of the...
Grow to be Great
Breaking the Downsizing Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
No company ever shrank to greatness, conclude Dwight Gertz and João Baptista. Drawing upon their new study of more than 1,000 large companies, the authors argue that managers must move beyond the current wave of downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering. Contrary to current management fads, they...
A Tear at the Edge of Creation
A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
For millennia, shamans and philosophers, believers and nonbelievers, artists and scientists have tried to make sense of our existence by suggesting that everything is connected, that a mysterious Oneness binds us to everything else. People go to temples, churches, mosques, and synagogues to pray to...
by Staff of The New York Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Pick up The New York Public Library Literature Companion to check the dates of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or to find out how James Joyce's Ulysses changed U.S. obscenity laws, and you may find yourself hours later absorbed in the imaginary worlds of Camelot and The Matrix or sidetracked...
by John Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no prospects, and little else to recommend him but stoic, unflappable pluck. Japan at that time was still in the shadow of the Occupation, and only a handful...
by Richard H. Popkin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
A short anthology of philosophers of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, which includes the most important philosophical writings from Europe during this period.
Part of the Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this volume features writings by the most important philosophers of...
Great Pretenders
My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
February 1964: The Beatles step onto the tarmac at JFK International Airport and turn the country on its head. It's the advent of rock and roll's uninterrupted reign, youthful rebellion, and overt teenage sex. It's also the deathblow for the pop music of another generation -- the songs of Pat Boone...