Basic Books: 1466 books
The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, Be a Good Blamer, and Throttle Your Inner Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Although the tenets of self-help have been attacked before, Pearsall is the first psychologist to expose these deeply entrenched ideas to scientific scrutiny. And unlike other debunking books, The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need goes beyond skepticism to propose a set of life-affirming (and refreshingly contrarian) axioms that can help anyone lead the Good Life.
The Constitution Today
Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
"I don't think there is anyone in the academy these days capable of more patient and attentive reading of the constitutional text than Akhil Amar."--Jeremy Waldron, New York Review of Books
When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded...
The Last Three Minutes
Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Ragnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Paul Davies reveals the latest theories. It might end in a whimper, slowly scattering into the infinite void. Then again, it might be yanked back by its own gravity and end...
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams's youthful Junior Class Oration on women...
The Rapture Exposed
The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
The idea of The Rapture”-the return of Christ to rescue and deliver Christians off the earth-is an extremely popular interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelation and a jumping-off point for the best-selling Left Behind” series of books. This interpretation, based on a psychology of fear...
Change for America
A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Mark Green and Michele Jolin look to 2009 as the beginning of an era of renewal and progressive governance in America. Change for America presciently and insightfully offers specific ideas for what our next President can do to revitalize our nation and restore our standing abroad."-President...
What the F
What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
It may be starred, beeped, and censored--yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains.
Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks, in...
Destruction Was My Beatrice
Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand; another young man...
Adam Smith
Father of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time
Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent...
The Jazz of Physics
The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming...
The Mutual Admiration Society
How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights
Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking "Are...
Winter War
Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism
When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different...
Then They Came for Me
Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Communist..."
Few today recognize the name Martin Niemöller, though many know his famous confession. In Then They Came for Me, Matthew Hockenos traces Niemöller's evolution from a Nazi supporter to...
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
The harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea
Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for...