Basic Books: 1466 books
Snoop
What Your Stuff Says About You
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Do the things on your desk betray the thoughts on your mind? Does your dining room décor carry clues to your character? Award-winning psychologist Sam Gosling has dispatched teams of scientific investigators to poke around bedrooms and offices, check out iPods, and peek at personal websites-to see...
High Wire
The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Peter Gosselin predicted in High Wire that the American worker would take on an exceedingly high level of risk in the American economy, and would be ever more exposed to the volatility of the market. Today, Gosselin's worst fears have been realized. American families are walking a high wire in which...
El Iluminado
A Graphic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
When young Rolando Pérez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, the mysteries immediately begin to accumulate. Was he pushed or did he jump? What are the documents that Rolando was willing sacrifice himself to protect from his family, the police, and the Catholic Church? And...
A Most Imperfect Union
A Contrarian History of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Enough with the dead white men! The true story of the United States lies with its most overlooked and marginalized peoples-the workers, immigrants, housewives, and slaves who built America from the ground up, and who made this country what it is today. In A Most Imperfect Union, cultural critic Ilan...
by Christopher Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry...
Bit by Bit
How Video Games Transformed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our time
Video games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four...
by Robert Henri
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art
"Art when really understood is the province of every human being." So begins The Art Spirit, the collected words, teachings, and wisdom of innovative artist and beloved teacher Robert Henri....
by Adrian Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall
Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where...
Deep Medicine
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care
Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients,...
Talking Pictures
How to Watch Movies
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies--from Casablanca to Clueless
Whether we are trying to impress a date after an art house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations among friends, we all need ways to look at and talk about movies....
The Truth About Animals
Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world
Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals,...
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In this instant classic of developmental psychology, a renowned psychiatrist examines the effect that trauma can have on a child, reveals how PTSD impacts the developing mind, and outlines the path to recovery.
What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster...
Trauma and Recovery
The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
In this groundbreaking book, a leading clinical psychiatrist redefines how we think about and treat victims of trauma. A "stunning achievement" that remains a "classic for our generation." (Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score).
Trauma and Recovery...
How to Be a Stoic
Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In the tradition of How to Live and How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today
Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How...