Basic Books: 1466 books
by Niall Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into...
by Roger Moorhouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitler's empire, the embodiment of his vision of a world metropolis.” Berlin was also the place where Hitler's Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin suffered more air raids than any other German city and endured...
Sunlight at Midnight
St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
For Russians, St.Petersburg has embodied power, heroism and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blend with images of suffering on a monumental scale to make up the historic persona the late W. Bruce Lincoln's...
A Mad Catastrophe
The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front
The Austro-Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging...
The Profligate Son
Or, A True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Foppish, impulsive, and philandering: William Jackson was every Georgian parent's worst nightmare. Gentlemen were expected to be honorable and virtuous, but William was the opposite, much to the dismay of his father, a well-to-do representative of the East India Company in Madras. In The Profligate...
The Austrians
A Thousand-Year Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
This is a masterful survey of Austria's controversial place at the heart of European history. From the Reformation through the Napoleonic and Cold Wars to European Union, a superb history of Austria's central role in uniting Western civilization is covered. 24 pages of photographs and maps are included....
Moral Combat
How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars
Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control--sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these...
It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Pennant races are arguably the most important aspect of baseball. Players, teams, and franchises are all after one goal: to win the pennant and get into the post-season. But what really determines who wins? Statistical analyses of baseball abound: different ways of breaking down everyone's individual...
A Season in the Sun
The Rise of Mickey Mantle
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The story of Mickey Mantle's magnificent 1956 season
Mickey Mantle was the ideal batter for the atomic age, capable of hitting a baseball harder and farther than any other player in history. He was also the perfect idol for postwar America, a wholesome hero from the heartland.
In A Season...
The Language of the Game
How to Understand Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Essential reading for soccer fans amid the Women's World Cup in 2019, a lively and lyrical guide to appreciating the drama of soccer
Soccer is not only the world's most popular sport; it's also one of the most widely shared forms of global culture. The Language of the Game is a passionate and...
Baseball Between the Numbers
Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball...
The Last Time Around Cape Horn
The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
A memorable tale of adventure on the turbulent seas of the Great Southern and Atlantic oceans-on one of the most historic voyages of our time-finds its way into paperback. This is William F. Stark's engrossing memoir of the last leg of the Grain Race, and the Pamir's rounding of fearsome Cape Horn-the...
The Housing Boom and Bust
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Scary headlines and scarier statistics tell the story of a financial crisis on a scale not seen in decades-certainly not within the lifetime of most Americans. Moreover, this is a worldwide financial crisis. Financial institutions on both sides of the Atlantic have either collapsed or have been saved...
Applied Economics
Thinking Beyond Stage One
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
This revised edition of Applied Economics is about fifty percent larger than the first edition. It now includes a chapter on the economics of immigration and new sections of other chapters on such topics as the “creative” financing of home-buying that led to the current “subprime” mortgage...