Basic Books: 1466 books
Between Two Worlds
How the English Became Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England...
The New Corporate Cultures
Revitalizing The Workplace After Downsizing, Mergers, And Reengineering
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The authors of the hugely influential Corporate Cultures reunite to assess the effects of the last two decades of management trends and to offer new strategies for achieving corporate renewal.
Climatopolis
How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
"Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time" --Nature
We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn,...
Boiling Point
How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
In Boiling Point, Ross Gelbspan argues that, unchecked, climate change will swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions--denial and delay--has now grown into a crime against humanity. The fossil fuel industry is directing the Bush administration's...
Inside The Mirage
America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has always been a marriage of convenience, not affection. In a bargain cemented by President Roosevelt and Saudi Arabia's founding king in 1945, Americans gained access to Saudi oil, and the Saudis responded with purchases of American planes,...
The Fall of the Ottomans
The Great War in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East
An Economist Best Book of the Year
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The...
Barrelhouse Blues
Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated...
Celestial Bodies
How to Look at Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet
As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad--in Russia, Italy, and...
Language of the Spirit
An Introduction to Classical Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
A preeminent composer, music scholar, and biographer presents an engaging and accessible introduction to classical music
For many of us, classical music is something serious--something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit,...
What Liberal Media?
The Truth about Bias and the News
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Widely acclaimed and hotly contested, veteran journalist Eric Alterman's ambitious investigation into the true nature of the U.S. news media touched a nerve and sparked debate across the country. As the question of whose interests the media protects-and how-continues to raise hackles, Alterman's sharp,...
Happy Days Were Here Again
Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
In Happy Days Were Here Again, William F. Buckley Jr. offers a collection of his finest essays from the latter part of his long career. Sometimes celebrating, sometimes assailing, Buckley takes on opponents ranging from Mikhail Gorbachev to Carl Sagan to Leonard Bernstein; reflects on the academic...
A Different Universe
Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
A Nobel-winning physicist argues that fundamental physical laws are found not in the world of atoms, but in the macroscopic world around us
In this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. But in...
Beethoven's Eroica
The First Great Romantic Symphony
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony
In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," rudely broke the mold of the Viennese Classical symphony...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An instant New York Times bestseller: From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more than ever
In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and...