Basic Books: 1466 books
The Politics Of Law
A Progressive Critique, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1998
The Politics of Law is the most widely read critique of the nature and role of the law in American society. This revised edition continues the book's concrete focus on the major subjects and fields of law. New essays on emerging fields and the latest trends and cases have been added to updated versions...
Home
How Habitat Made Us Human
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
A leading anthropologist studies the science behind "feeling at home" to show us how home made us human
Home is where the heart is. Security, comfort, even love, are all feelings that are centered on the humble abode. But what if there is more to the feeling of being at home? Neuroanthropologist...
What Was Liberalism?
The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
A sweeping history of liberalism, from its earliest origins to its imperiled present and uncertain future
Donald Trump is the first American president to regard liberal values with open contempt. He has company: the leaders of Italy, Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, among others, are also avowed...
The Universe Speaks in Numbers
How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteries
One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them....
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so...
by Clifford Geertz
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is
With The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing,...
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are...
Writing with Intent
Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
From one of the world's most passionately engaged and acclaimed literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces to...
by Samuel G. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Over the course of a thirty-year career, Samuel Freedman has excelled both at doing journalism and teaching it, and he passionately engages both of these endeavors in the pages of this book. As an author and journalist, Freedman has produced award-winning books, investigative series, opinion columns,...
The China Strategy
Harnessing the Power of the World's Fastest-Growing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
No major enterprise or financial institution can avoid doing business with China—if not directly, then through myriad hidden connections. Global businesses either use Chinese resources or sell to and in China or compete with companies that do.
Because there's no avoiding China, business leaders...
Becoming Myself
A Psychiatrist's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoir
Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare:...
The New Dealers' War
FDR and the War Within World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming brings to life a flawed and troubled FDR struggling to manage World War II. Starting with the leak to the press of Roosevelt's famous Rainbow Plan, then spiraling back to FDR's inept prewar diplomacy with Japan and his various attempts to lure Japan into an attack...
The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century--in government, business, and beyond
Power is shifting-from large, stable armies to loose bands of insrugents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares....
New York at War
Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
the need to try.
Stretching from the colonial era to 9/11 and beyond, New York at War is that most rare of books: a work of history that is at once local and international, timely and timeless. Bringing a unique lens to bear on the world's most celebrated and contested city, Jaffe reveals the...