Free Press
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The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait
$22.00 Add to cartA timeless resource that describes the evolution of the US military in the first half of the 20th century.More than 50 years after its publication, The Professional Soldier remains a path-breaking stu… [more below]
- Author: Janowitz, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1501179322
- Language: English
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Here’s Looking at Euclid: From Counting Ants to Games of Chance – An Awe-Inspiring Journey Through the World of Numbers
$19.99 Add to cartToo often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, “math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the … [more below]
- Author: Bellos, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 1416588280
- Language: English
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
$19.99 Add to cart“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseem?ler world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable st… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1416535349
- Language: English
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Reading Reflex: The Foolproof Phono-Graphix Method for Teaching Your Child to Read
$20.99 Add to cartReading is the single most important skill for any child to develop. And the key to learning how to read effectively is recognizing the sounds that letters and words represent. With the help of the re… [more below]
- Author: McGuiness, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 19 1999
- ISBN10: 0684853671
- Language: English
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
$21.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of … [more below]
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825252
- Language: English
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It’s All Too Much Workbook: The Tools You Need to Conquer Clutter and Create the Life You Want
$18.99 Add to cartThe perfect companion to the New York Times bestselling book by organizing icon Peter Walsh, the It’s All Too Much Workbook delves deeper than the original book to help readers let go of the physical … [more below]
- Author: Walsh, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 1439149569
- Language: English
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Noto
$23.00 Add to cartAll but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrif… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 143914155X
- Language: English
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Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky
$17.99 Add to cartA shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart–the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled … [more below]
- Author: Van Meter, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1416538690
- Language: English
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A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
$17.99 Add to cartRevised and updated, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty.
When A Retur- Author: Shalit, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1476756651
- Language: English
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Last Men Out: The True Story of America’s Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
$18.99 Add to cartA “thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss” (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the “gripping story of a handful of marines who formed the last body of Americans to leave Saigon on April 30, 1975” (… [more below]
- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 143916102X
- Language: English
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Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
$21.00 Add to cartOur Mothers’ War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society.
Never before has the vast range of- Author: Yellin, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0743245164
- Language: English
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Born for Liberty
$22.00 Add to cartThe most concise and comprehensive one-volume history of American women–from the indigenous women of the 16th-century wilderness to the dual-role career women and mothers of contemporary times–this … [more below]
- Author: Evans, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0684834987
- Language: English
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
$18.99 Add to cartPraised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how wate… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1439102082
- Language: English
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
$18.99 Add to cartTwenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to tak… [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0743284461
- Language: English
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A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World’s Oldest Religion
$19.99 Add to cartFor too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. And it is true that, many times in the course of history, they have been nearly decimated: when the Fi… [more below]
- Author: Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0743267427
- Language: English
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
$19.00 Add to cartA journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today–guided by the owner himself.
Bestselling author Daniel Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) is virtually unique among people who have severe autis- Author: Tammet, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 16 2007
- ISBN10: 1416549013
- Language: English
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
$19.99 Add to cart“Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana–exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. … [more below]
- Author: Eire, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0743246411
- Language: English
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The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times mega-bestselling author of The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav takes a giant leap forward in his message, with this guide to the next level of spiritual growth.
“THE LONGEST JOURNEY YOU WI- Author: Zukav, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0743234960
- Language: English
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians
$24.00 Add to cartThis “flowing, lucid, and satisfying…story of Indian nations” (The Washington Post) traces the history of North American Indigenous peoples from the Pleistocene era to the present–a must-read for a
- Author: Page, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 03, 2004
- ISBN10: 0684855771
- Language: English
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Report from Iron Mountain
$13.95 Add to cartClaiming to be of the contents of a “secret government report” until it was proven false by the investigative work of journalist and scholars, Report from Iron Mountain outlines the social structure c… [more below]
- Author: Lewin, Leonard C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 25 2008
- ISBN10: 143912311X
- Language: English
