Basic Books: 1466 books
Losing Ground
American Social Policy, 1950-1980, 10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
This classic book serves as a starting point for any serious discussion of welfare reform. Losing Ground argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities. Charles Murray startled readers by recommending...
Good Work
When Excellence and Ethics Meet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces wield unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These are the questions at the heart of this important...
Relic
How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the deficit to climate change, our political institutions have long shown that they are incapable of meeting the challenges of modern society. Why the dysfunction?
In Relic, William Howell and Terry Moe point to the Constitution...
The Patient Will See You Now
The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health
A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the...
Nature's Fortune
How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
What is nature worth? The answer to this question-which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms-is revolutionizing the way we do business.
In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that...
What Matters Most
How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Busines
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
For more than sixteen years, Jeffrey Hollender has presided over Seventh Generation, a world leader in manufacturing environmentally friendly, nontoxic household products. What Matters Most illuminates the successful practices of Seventh Generation-and many other pioneering companies around the world-to...
by Ian Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Acclaimed writer and mathematician Ian Stewart's third miscellany of mathematical curios and conundrums.
In Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart presents an enticing collection of mathematical curios and conundrums. With a new puzzle on...
The Tyranny of Experts
Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
"Bracingly iconoclastic." --New York Times Book Review
In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting...
In Pursuit of the Unknown
17 Equations That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The seventeen equations that form the basis for life as we know it
Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is seldom appreciated....
The Clock Of The Long Now
Time and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: How do we make long-term thinking automatic and...
Who's Your City?
How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
In the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesn't matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeable. The world is, after all, flat.
Not so fast. Place, argues the great urbanist Richard Florida, is not only important, it's more important than ever. In fact, choosing a...
by Richard Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping...
Laboratory Earth
The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford To Lose
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Laboratory Earth taps the relevant knowledge from physical, biological, and social sciences needed to study the planet holistically. This so-called Earth Systems Science fosters a new way to understand the Earth and our roles as inhabitants, with the purpose of building solutions to the bewildering...
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Since the dawn of civilization, humans have struggled to describe the defining virtues of civilization-and, in the process, have confronted some of mankind's most difficult and enduring questions. In Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, renowned scholar Howard Gardner traces the astonishing transformations...