Basic Books: 1466 books
The Design of Everyday Things
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The ultimate guide to human-centered design
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious-even liberating-book, lies not in ourselves, but in product...
Group Genius
The Creative Power of Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
"A fascinating account of human experience at its best." --Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, author of Flow
Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs...
The Mystery of Capital
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
A renowned economist's classic book on capitalism in the developing world, showing how property rights are the key to overcoming poverty
"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis."...
The Haves and the Have-Nots
A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you’ll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why—beyond the idle curiosity—do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world’s leading experts on...
Advice and Dissent
Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policies
American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and...
by Warren Bennis
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
A timeless classic from a pioneer in the field of leadership studies-the only book you need to read on becoming an effective leader.
Warren Bennis (1925-2014) was a pioneer in leadership studies, a scholar who advised presidents and business executives alike on how to become successful leaders....
Myths Of Rich And Poor
Why We're Better Off Than We Think
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Popular wisdom holds that the years since 1973-the end of the postwar miracle”-have been a time of economic decline and stagnation: lackluster productivity, falling real wages, and lost competitiveness. The rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and most of us have barely held on...
The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition...
The Master Algorithm
How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own
In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from...
The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited
Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed.
Initially published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly achieved classic status for its identification of forces then only beginning to reshape our economy, geography, and workplace. Weaving...
Rise of the Robots
Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
**The New York Times-bestselling guide to how automation is changing the economy, undermining work, and reshaping our lives
Winner of Best Business Book of the Year awards from the Financial Times and from Forbes
"Lucid, comprehensive, and unafraid...;an indispensable contribution...
The New Urban Crisis
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Richard Florida, one of the world's leading urbanists and author of The Rise of the Creative Class, confronts the dark side of the back-to-the-city movement
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....
Emotional Design
Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Why attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered design
Emotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don Norman shows how the principles of human psychology apply to the invention and design of new...
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Thomas Sowell's indispensable examination of the most popular economic fallacies
In Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include...