Basic Books: 1466 books
Spy Handler
Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In his four decades as a KGB officer, Victor Cherkashin was a central player in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage. From his rigorous training in Soviet intelligence in the early 1950s to his prime spot as the KGB's head of counterintelligence at the Soviet embassy in Washington, Cherkashin's...
Lion in the White House
A Life of Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
A masterful, concise biography of Theodore Roosevelt, America's first modern president
New York State Assemblyman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New York, Vice President and, at forty-two, the youngest President ever--in his own words, Theodore Roosevelt "rose like a rocket."...
Heir to the Empire City
New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was...
by Devra Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. Left untouched were many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, or the global environment. Proof of how the world in which we live and work affects whether we get cancer was either overlooked or...
100 Plus
How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Humanity is on the cusp of an exciting longevity revolution. The first person to live to 150 years has probably already been born.
What will your life look like when you live to be over 100? Will you be healthy? Will your marriage need a sunset clause? How long will you have to work?...
Branded
The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for...
by Cait Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Beautifully designed and carefully curated, a fascinating collection of the things that shaped the way we live and play in America
What artifact best captures the spirit of American sports? The bat Babe Ruth used to hit his allegedly called shot, or the ball on which Pete Rose wrote, "I'm...
City on the Verge
Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century
Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, gridlocked highways,...
Selling Women Short
The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class action, representing 1.6 million women. In her...
Rest
Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
"Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves."
---Arianna Huffington, New York Times Book Review
Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done-but they are never done....
A PhD Is Not Enough!
A Guide to Survival in Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Everything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist.
Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good...
Go To
The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Ico
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
In Go To, Steve Lohr chronicles the history of software from the early days of complex mathematical codes mastered by a few thousand to today's era of user-friendly software and over six million professional programmers worldwide. Lohr maps out the unique seductions of programming, and gives us an...
Smart Mobs
The Next Social Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Smart Mobs takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, wireless-paging, and Internet-access devices-that will allow us to connect with anyone, anytime,...
Designing Reality
How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anything
Two digital revolutions--computing and communication--have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today's 3D printers are...