Basic Books: 1466 books
The Drama of the Gifted Child
The Search for the True Self, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply...
How to Bake Pi
An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
One of the world's most creative mathematicians finds the meaning of mathematics in the kitchen in this "whimsical...rigorous and insightful" (New York Times) book
What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi,...
The Happiness Hypothesis
Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
The bestselling author of The Righteous Mind and The Coddling of the American Mind draws on philosophical wisdom and scientific research to show how the meaningful life is closer than you think
The Happiness Hypothesis is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one...
Lying On The Couch
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
From the bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept comes a provocative exploration of the unusual relationships three therapists form with their patients. Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual propriety with one of his clients. Marshal, who...
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
“Kenrick writes like a dream.”—Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology and Neurology, Stanford University; author of A Primate’s Memoir and Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
What do sex and murder have to do with the meaning of life? Everything.
In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning...
by Ted Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a...
The Cold War
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet...
The Right to Vote
The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of...
Just and Unjust Wars
A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A penetrating investigation into moral and ethical questions raised by war, drawing on examples from antiquity to the present
Just and Unjust Wars has forever changed how we think about the ethics of conflict. In this modern classic, political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues...
Oppose Any Foe
The Rise of America's Special Operations Forces
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The epic story of America's most elite warriors: the Special Operations Forces.
Born as small appendages to the conventional armies of World War II, the Special Operations Forces have grown into a behemoth of 70,000 troops, including Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, Special Operations Marines,...
America, Empire of Liberty
A New History of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A magisterial history of the United States by a prize-winning historian
"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written."
--Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet
Thomas Jefferson envisioned the United States as a great "empire...
To Make Men Free
A History of the Republican Party
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
A distinguished American historian traces the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party-founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country's elites.
Black Dog of Fate
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir, New York Times bestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the '50s and '60s and coming to understand what happened to his family in the first genocide of the twentieth...
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
A Biography of the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
From one of the most influential journalists of the last half century, an essential explanation and defense of a foundational American idea: free speech
More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the...