Basic Books: 1466 books
Europe's Last Chance
Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen issues a clarion call to radically remake the European Union in the mold of the United States' own federal government
Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalog of ills seems...
The Second World Wars
How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma...
Al-jazeera
The Story Of The Network That Is Rattling Governments And Redefining Modern Journalism Updated With
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, emerged as ambassador to the Arab world in the events following September 11, 2001. Arabic for "the island," Al-Jazeera has "scooped" the western media conglomerates many times. With its exclusive access...
Legacy Of The Prophet
Despots, Democrats, And The New Politics Of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Now available in paperback, Legacy of the Prophetis a sweeping, first-person account of the transformation in the style and message of Islamic politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century. As terrorism floods our headlines, this book offers a rare but much-needed counterpoint: it shows that...
Flying High
Remembering Barry Goldwater
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
In Flying High, William F. Buckley Jr. offers his lyrical remembrance of a singular era in American politics, and a tribute to the modern Conservative movement's first presidential standard-bearer, Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was in many ways the perfect candidate: self-reliant, unpretentious, unshakably...
Augustine
Conversions to Confessions
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
"This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for detail." --New York Times
In Augustine, celebrated historian Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine of Hippo on his journey to the writing...
by Robin Lane Fox
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
"Undoubtedly the best gardening book for the past 30 years--provocative, full of information, witty and very funny" --Financial Times
An award-winning historian of antiquity, Robin Lane Fox is also one of Britain's foremost gardening experts, and in Thoughtful Gardening he takes readers...
Patrick Henry
First Among Patriots
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Most Americans know Patrick Henry as a fiery speaker whose pronouncement Give me liberty or give me death!” rallied American defiance to the British Crown. But Henry's skills as an orator-sharpened in the small towns and courtrooms of colonial Virginia-are only one part of his vast, but largely...
Dominion of Memories
Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
For decades, the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. The premier state in population, size, and wealth, it produced a galaxy of leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Mason, Marshall. Four of the first five presidents were Virginians. And yet by the middle of the nineteenth century,...
Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor
The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In 1774 American independence was hardly inevitable—indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September 1774, they were, in the words of John Adams, “a gathering of strangers.” With their differing interests and cultural...
Bind Us Apart
How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution through...
Evil
An Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, evil remains as potent and radical a force in the world as it has ever been. We all know evil when we encounter it-in the villains of history like Hitler and Stalin, in the routine brutality that makes the nightly news, in the hateful violence of terrorists...
Thunder at the Gates
The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of...
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory
The Theoretical Minimum
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A funny, insightful, and self-contained guide to Einstein's relativity theory and classical field theories--including electromagnetism
Physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical...