Basic Books imprint: 1165 books
Surviving The Breakup
How Children And Parents Cope With Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Based on the Children of Divorce Project, a landmark study of sixty families during the first five years after divorce, this enlightening and humane modern classic altered the conventional wisdom on the short- and long-term effects of family dissolution.
Frames of Mind
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The book that revolutionized our understanding of human intelligence.
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences has been hailed by educators for decades and applied in hundreds of schools worldwide. In Frames of Mind, Gardner challenges the widely held notion that intelligence is a...
Without Roots
Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
Bringing together their unique vantage points as leaders of Church and State, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Marcello Pera challenge us to imagine what can be the future of a civilization that has abandoned its moral and cultural history. They call on the West to embrace a spiritual rather than political...
Freud and Beyond
A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories
Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic...
The Way We Think
Conceptual Blending And The Mind's Hidden Complexities
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition --the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive...
The Birth of the Mind
How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome Project to the development of the brain. Scientists have long struggled to understand how a tiny number of genes could contain the instructions...
Surviving Manic Depression
A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Surviving Manic Depression is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on the disorder that affects more than two million people in the United States alone. Based on the latest research, it provides detailed coverage of every aspect of the disorder.All aspects of the disease are addressed: symptoms,...
Cain's Legacy
Liberating Siblings from a Lifetime of Rage, Shame, Secrecy, and Regret
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Bonds between brothers and sisters are among the longest lasting and most emotionally significant of human relationships. But while 45 percent of adults struggle with serious sibling strife, few discuss it openly. Even fewer resolve it to their satisfaction.
In Cain’s Legacy, psychotherapist...
Metamagical Themas
Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
The Irony of Modern Catholic History
How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals
Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph...
Math on Trial
How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by journalists, politicians or other public figures, but in the case of the law your liberty—and your life—can depend on the right calculation.
Math on Trial tells the story of...
The Periodic Kingdom
A Journey Into The Land Of The Chemical Elements
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Come on a journey into the heart of matter-and enjoy the process!-as a brilliant scientist and entertaining tour guide takes you on a fascinating voyage through the Periodic Kingdom, the world of the elements. The periodic table, your map for this trip, is the most important concept in chemistry....
by Yoram Hazony
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A leading conservative thinker argues that a nationalist order is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today
Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump's "America First" politics to Brexit to the rise of the right in Europe, events have forced a crucial...
by Robert Alter
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
From celebrated translator of the Hebrew Bible Robert Alter, the classic study of the Bible as literature, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a...