Basic Books: 1466 books
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I
The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning publications that have remained definitive and introductory to physics for decades. Ranging from...
Time Traveler
A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time...
Cat Sense
How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Based on cutting edge science, the New York Times bestselling book on the inner lives of cats
In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to dispel lingering myths and explain...
The Gunning of America
Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation.
Or so we're told.
In...
A Most Elegant Equation
Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An award-winning science writer introduces us to mathematics using the extraordinary equation that unites five of mathematics' most important numbers
Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry." This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the...
The Many Faces of Christ
The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The standard account of early Christianity tells us that the first centuries after Jesus' death witnessed an efflorescence of Christian sects, each with its own gospel. We are taught that these alternative scriptures, which represented intoxicating, daring, and often bizarre ideas, were suppressed...
The Road to Freedom
How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America’s exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions—by exploding the size...
The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide
Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Ask a dozen talking heads about the course of action we should take to right the economy and you'll get thirteen different answers. But what if we possessed a handful of basic principles that could guide our decisions-both the personal ones about how to save and spend but also those national ones...
by Jeffrey A. Miron
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Libertarian principles seem basic enough—keep government out of boardrooms, bedrooms, and wallets, and let markets work the way they should. But what reasoning justifies those stances, and how can they be elucidated clearly and applied consistently? In Libertarianism, from A to Z, acclaimed Harvard...
Too Big to Know
Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We'd nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. There's more knowledge than ever, of course, but it's different. Topics have no boundaries, and nobody agrees on anything.
Yet...
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II
The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning publications that have remained definitive and introductory to physics for decades. Ranging from the basic...
Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain
How to Retrain Your Brain to Overcome Pessimism and Achieve a More Positive Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Are you optimistic or pessimistic? Glass half-full or half-empty? Do you look on the bright side or turn towards the dark? These are easy questions for most of us to answer, because our personality types are hard-wired into our brains. As pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist Elaine Fox has discovered,...
The Pattern On The Stone
The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize-and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates-is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken down into a few simple parts that perform the same simple...
America's Unwritten Constitution
The Precedents and Principles We Live By
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
America's Unwritten Constitution presents a bold new vision of the American constitutional system, one in which proper interpretation of the Constitution rests on the interplay between its written and unwritten manifestations, but in which interpretation does not, and cannot, depend wholly on one...