Basic Books: 1466 books
by Sally Wriggins
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang tells the saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, one of China's great heroes, who completed an epic sixteen-year-long journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India. Eight centuries before Columbus, this intrepid pilgrim traveled 10,000...
Once Upon A Number
The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
What two things could be more different than numbers and stories? Numbers are abstract, certain, and eternal, but to most of us somewhat dry and bloodless. Good stories are full of life: they engage our emotions and have subtlety and nuance, but they lack rigor and the truths they tell are elusive...
by Amir D. Aczel
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Nicolas Bourbaki, whose mathematical publications began to appear in the late 1930s and continued to be published through most of the twentieth century, was a direct product as well as a major force behind an important revolution that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century that completely...
Thoughts Without A Thinker
Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Blending the lessons of psychotherapy with Buddhist teachings, Mark Epstein offers a revolutionary understanding of what constitutes a healthy emotional life
The line between psychology and spirituality has blurred, as clinicians, their patients, and religious seekers explore new perspectives...
Sovereignty
God, State, and Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Throughout the history of human intellectual endeavor, sovereignty has cut across the diverse realms of theology, political thought, and psychology. From earliest Christian worship to the revolutionary ideas of Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx, the debates about sovereignty—complete independence and...
The White War
Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random...
Just How Stupid Are We?
Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Fifty percent of Americans can name four characters from The Simpsons,” but only two out of five can name all three branches of the federal government. No more than one in seven can find Iraq on a map. Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid.
In Just How Stupid Are We?, best-selling author...
The Savage Wars Of Peace
Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
"Anyone who wants to understand why America has permanently entered a new era in international relations must read [this book].... Vividly written and thoroughly researched." --Los Angeles Times
America's "small wars," "imperial war," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts,"...
Strategic Vision
America and the Crisis of Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Eminent scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's New York Times bestselling blueprint for American foreign policy strategy in the twenty-first century
The world today faces a crisis of power, caused by the dramatic shift in its center of gravity from the West to the East, by the dynamic political awakening...
by Rene J. Cappon
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
More people write for the Associated Press than for any other news service, and more writers take their style and word-usage cues from this world-famous institution than from any other journalism source. In the no-nonsense, authoritative tradition of the best-selling AP Stylebook, the top editors...
The Long Detour
The History And Future Of The American Left
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The Long Detour is an intellectually engaging overview of the history of socialism in the United States and of the continuing relevance of socialist principles today. Historian and journalist James Weinstein, a lifelong socialist and one-time Communist, takes readers from the movement's early years...
Fooled Again
The Real Case for Electoral Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
In Fooled Again, renowned media critic Mark Crispin Miller argues that it wasn't moral values” that swung the 2004 presidential race-it was theft. A huge array of anomalies, improper practices, and blatant violations of the law in state after state all happened to swing in the Bush ticket's favor....
Another Day At The Front
Dispatches From The Race War
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2004
African Americans have been at war with some elements of the white population from the very beginning. In this collection of essays, his first since Airing Dirty Laundry in 1993, Reed explores the many forms that this homefront war has taken. His brilliant social criticism feints deftly among past...
Fortress America
How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracy
For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,...