Basic Books: 1466 books
Play Money
Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
Play Money explores the remarkable new phenomenon of MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments. With city-sized populations, these games generate their own cultures, governments, and social...
Buzz
The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers presents a natural and cultural history of bees: the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we...
by Richard Leakey
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The name Leakey is synonymous with the study of human origins,” wrote The New York Times. The renowned family of paleontologists-Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey, and their son Richard Leakey-has vastly expanded our understanding of human evolution. The Origin of Humankind is Richard Leakey's personal...
Animal Architects
Building and the Evolution of Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Animal behavior has long been a battleground between the competing claims of nature and nurture, with the possible role of cognition in behavior as a recent addition to this debate. There is an untapped trove of behavioral data that can tell us a great deal about how the animals draw from these neural...
Winning The Game Scientists Play
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
In this inspiring book of personal insight and sound advice, veteran scientist Carl J. Sindermann gives an insider's look at the competitive world of science and reveals the best strategies for attaining prominence and success. Taking apart the many different roles scientists must play during their...
The Magic of Math
Solving for x and Figuring Out Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The world's greatest mental mathematical magician takes us on a spellbinding journey through the wonders of numbers (and more)
"Arthur Benjamin ... joyfully shows you how to make nature's numbers dance."--Bill Nye (the science guy)
The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had...
by Jerry W. Gilley, Peter Dean, Laura Bierema
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
In this book, the authors integrate the three dominant approaches to organizational development-learning, performance, and change-to create a dynamic lens through which to analyze any HRD program or initiative.
Approaches To Training And Development
Third Edition Revised And Updated
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2003
Approaches to Training and Development provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the field of organizational training and human-resource development. It surveys the methods, functions, and goals of training--from needs assessment to implementation--illustrating each step of an effective...
A Geography Of Time
On Tempo, Culture, And The Pace Of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted-our perception of time. When we travel to a different country, or even a different city in the United States, we assume that a certain amount of cultural...
The Gridlock Economy
How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service suffers. These problems have solutions that can jump-start...
Lords Of The Harvest
Biotech, Big Money, And The Future Of Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers-from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive agriculture. But the vision has a dark side. In Lords...
The Cigarette Century
The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture, science, policy, and law. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness....
The Gates of Europe
A History of Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
"[An] exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country... leavened by aphorism and anecdote." --Wall Street Journal
Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents the authoritative history of Ukraine and its people from the time of Herodotus to the present crisis with Russia....
Ideas That Matter
The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Ideas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics are transforming our world now. In Ideas that Matter, renowned philosopher A.C. Grayling provides a personal dictionary of the ideas that will...