Basic Books: 1466 books
The Unschooled Mind
How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.
Learning to Lead
A Workbook on Becoming a Leader
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
From leadership expert Warren Bennis, a workbook to help anyone reach their full potential as a leader
Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith maintain that leaders are not born, they are made-in fact, anyone can develop the skills to transform their lives and their organizations. In Learning to Lead,...
Data for the People
How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A long-time chief data scientist at Amazon shows how open data can make everyone, not just corporations, richer
Every time we Google something, Facebook someone, Uber somewhere, or even just turn on a light, we create data that businesses collect and use to make decisions about us. In many...
Born Digital
How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
"An excellent primer on what it means to live digitally. It should be required reading for adults trying to understand the next generation." --Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being Digital
The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming...
The Cluetrain Manifesto
10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses about the new reality of the networked marketplace. Ten years after its original publication, their message remains...
The World Class Project Manager
A Professional Development Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2001
Effective project management is becoming a critical mission skill for individuals and organizations in every industry. Faster product life cycles, the widespread adoption of cross-functional teams, and the increasing demands of customers are all contributing to the growing need for professional managers...
The Partnership Charter
How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You're In)
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In The Partnership Charter, psychologist and business mediation expert David Gage offers a comprehensive guide to the art of establishing and maintaining a business partnership. The centerpiece of his approach is the Partnership Charter, a document that clearly outlines the goals, expectations, responsibilities,...
Free to Learn
Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning -- "unschooling" -- is the best way to get kids to learn.
In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing world,...
Games Primates Play, International Edition
An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange of grooming behavior in rhesus macaques or chimpanzees. Interestingly, some of the major aspects of...
The Complete Art Of War
Sun Tzu/sun Pin
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Sun Tzu's Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written. The profound insights of this book have endured for over two thousand years, and they continue to reward careful study. The Military Methods of Sun Pin, the great-grandson of Sun Tzu, is a brilliant...
by Ralph D. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang dynasty--indeed, war was the...
The Tao of Deception
Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
The history of China is a history of warfare. Wars have caused dynasties to collapse, fractured the thin façade of national unity, and brought decades of alien occupation. But throughout Chinese history, its warfare has been guided by principles different from those that governed Europe. Chinese...
by Ralph D. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Ralph D. Sawyer is the preeminent scholar and translator on Sun-tzu's masterful work. More than 200,000 copies of his Sun-tzu Art of War and more than 55,000 copies of The Complete Art of War have been sold. The Art of War is the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary...
by Ralph D. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Wang Chen, a ninth-century military commander, was sickened by the carnage that had plagued the glorious T'ang dynasty for decades. "All within the seas were poisoned," he wrote, "and pain and disaster was rife throughout the land." Wang Chen wondered, how can we end conflicts...