Basic Books imprint: 1165 books
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The bestselling citizen's guide to economics
Basic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different...
The Best Business Books Ever
The Most Influential Management Books You'll Never Have Time To Read
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Every manager could benefit from a solid grounding in the history and evolution of business thinking. The Best Business Books Ever is a uniquely organized guide and an illuminating collection of key ideas from the 130 most influential business books of all time. It places both historical and contemporary...
High Tech Harvest
Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Genetically engineered plant products line the shelves of our grocery stores, but we don't know which ones they are because no label identifies them. Should we be concerned? It is true that biotech companies are saying that engineered corn and canola are safe, but are they telling the truth? In High...
Intelligence Reframed
Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2000
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolutionized...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
The History and Future of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated
Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us:...
The Reckoning
Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern capitalism and the nation-state....
The Economic Naturalist
In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic...
by Dinesh D'Souza
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his best-selling exposé Illiberal Education. Now,...
Six Easy Pieces
Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
"If one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be Six Easy Pieces."- John Gribbin, New Scientist
It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students...
The Art of Statistics
How to Learn from Data
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
The definitive guide to statistical thinking
Statistics are everywhere, as integral to science as they are to business, and in the popular media hundreds of times a day. In this age of big data, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever if we want to separate the fact...
The Trainable Cat
A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
"I have to hand it to Bradshaw and Ellis: Once you suss out their basic cat-training philosophy, their methods totally work." --Slate
We often assume that cats can't be trained, and don't need to be. But in The Trainable Cat, bestselling anthrozoologist John...
Edmund Burke
The First Conservative
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A provocative biography of Edmund Burke, the underappreciated founder of modern conservatism
Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of...
Ametora
How Japan Saved American Style
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Look closely at any typically "American" article of clothing these days, and you may be surprised to see a Japanese label inside. From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese designers have taken the classic American look-known as ametora, or "American traditional"-and turned it into a huge...
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III
The New Millennium Edition: Quantum Mechanics
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...