Basic Books imprint: 1165 books
by Peter Moskos
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals-- even low-level nonviolent offenders-- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view. Our "tough on crime" political rhetoric offers us no way out,...
Red Team
How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Essential reading for business leaders and policymakers, an in-depth investigation of red teaming, the practice of inhabiting the perspective of potential competitors to gain a strategic advantage
Red teaming. The concept is as old as the Devil's Advocate, the eleventh-century Vatican official...
Same Difference
How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only lead to grief. But as the New York...
Evaluation in Organizations
A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From new product launches to large-scale training initiatives, organizations need the tools to measure the effectiveness of their programs, processes, and systems. In Evaluation in Organizations, learning theory experts Darlene Russ-Eft and Hallie Preskill integrate the most current research with...
Edge of Chaos
Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy
Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes....
The Rational Animal
How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Why are Amazonian hunter-gatherers better at logic than Harvard students? Why did the Zambian president reject food donations during a famine? And why do billionaires work so hard-only to give their hard-earned money away? In this animated tour of the latest in behavioral science, psychologist Douglas...
The Creative Destruction of Medicine
How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
How genomics, big data, and digital technology are revolutionizing every aspect of medicine, from physical exams to drug prescriptions to organ transplants
Mobile technology has transformed our lives, and personal genomics is revolutionizing biology. But despite the availability of technologies...
Building Red America
The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power the Drive for Permanent Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
This powerful examination of the present and future of American politics, by one of America's most distinguished political journalists, reveals how the Republican Party has gained a long-term institutional advantage that allows it to shrug off apparent setbacks like the 2006 elections. Building Red...
The Beijing Consensus
Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington-but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community.
Taking us on a whirlwind tour of China in the world-from...
The Global Achievement Gap
Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Bestselling education expert Tony Wagner's groundbreaking manifesto on how to reform our schools and educate our children for the twenty-first century global economy
In The Global Achievement Gap, education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the larger context of the demands...
The New Education
How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past--and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change
Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments,...
by Don Norman
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how--and why--some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international...
Getting (More of) What You Want
How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything, in Business and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Two top business professors offer up the only negotiation book you'll ever need
Do you know what you want? How can you make sure you get it? Or rather, how can you convince others to give it to you? Almost every interaction involves negotiation, yet we often miss the cues that would allow us...