Free Press: 1051 books
Heart Like Water
Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Try it. Right now. Picture the lights going off in the room you're sitting in. The computer, the air conditioning, phones, everything. Then the people, every last person in your building, on the street outside, the entire neighborhood, vanished. With them go all noises: chitchat, coughs, cars, and...
Venus in Exile
The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still...
A Mind of Its Own
A Cultural History of the Penis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Whether enemy or ally, demon or god, the source of satisfaction or the root of all earthly troubles, the penis has forced humanity to wrestle with its enduring mysteries. Here, in an enlightening and entertaining cultural study, is a book that gives context to the central role of the penis in Western...
The Real Toy Story
Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
The American toy business is massive, world dominating, cutthroat, exciting, and increasingly willing to sacrifice our kids in its frantic rush for profit. And yet, for all its rapaciousness, the industry is in the business of delighting and fascinating our children. Toys are one of the most emotive...
The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year, Whiting Award-winner Teddy Wayne’s second novel is “more than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it’s also a poignant portrait of one young artist’s coming of age” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)—and an enduring...
The Modern Jewish Canon
A Journey Through Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001
What makes a great Jewish book? What makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse, one of the leading scholars in the field of Jewish literature, sets out to answer these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon. Wisse takes us on an exhilarating journey through language and culture, penetrating...
A Thousand Lives
The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jonesopened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As Jones’s behavior became erratic and his...
by Talia Leman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
You can be greater than you know how to be.
In a world where you are pushed to know more, this book will prove that your greatest asset is often not knowing. In a world where you are told it’s all in the planning, this book will encourage you to keep your cart ahead of your horse and allow...
eLeadership
Proven Techniques for Creating an Environment of Speed and Flexibility in the Digital Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2001
What if the rules that made you successful were the cause of your current problems?
What if the name of the game was personal fulfillment rather than power and wealth?
What if the biggest threat to your company's future was employee dissatisfaction?
What if success in the digital economy depended...
The $1,000 Genome
The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
In 2000, President Bill Clinton signaled the completion of the Human Genome Project at a cost in excess of $2 billion. A decade later, the price for any of us to order our own personal genome sequence—a comprehensive map of the 3 billion letters in our DNA—is rapidly and inevitably dropping to...
Cracking the Genome
Inside the Race To Unlock Human DNA
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2001
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. The discovery was a profound, Nobel Prize-winning moment in the history of genetics, but it did not decipher the messages on the twisted, ladderlike strands within our cells. No one knew what the human genome sequence...
Tattoos on the Heart
The Power of Boundless Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
“Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality” (Los Angeles Times)—Tattoos on the Heart is a series of parables about kinship and redemption from pastor, activist, and renowned speaker, Father Gregory Boyle.
For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle...
Our Mothers' War
American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
**"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944**
Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed...
Helluva Town
The Story of New York City During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In the stirring signature number from the 1944 Broadway musical On the Town, three sailors on a 24-hour search for love in wartime Manhattan sing, "New York, New York, a helluva town."
The Navy boys’ race against time mirrored the very real frenzy in the city that played host to 3 million...