Basic Books: 1466 books
Love's Executioner
& Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In his classic, bestselling work, the masterful therapist and novelist Irvin Yalom describes his sometimes tragic, sometimes inspiring, and always absorbing encounters with patients
In this classic book, master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and...
by Irvin D. Yalom, Molyn Leszcz
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
The classic work on group psychotherapy
Hailed by Jerome Frank as "the best book that exists on the subject," Irvin D. Yalom's The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has been the standard text in the field for decades.
In this completely revised and updated fifth edition,...
Pricing the Future
Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Options have been traded for hundreds of years, but investment decisions were based on gut feelings until the Nobel Prizewinning discovery of the Black-Scholes options pricing model in 1973 ushered in the era of the quants.” Wall Street would never be the same.
In Pricing the Future,...
Becoming Adult
How Teenagers Prepare For The World Of Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
How do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-school work, and how do these experiences affect their passage to adult work? These are the questions that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Barbara Schneider posed in...
Not Like Us
How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Pells...
Judaism for Everyone
Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
In Judaism for Everyone Shmuley Boteach imagines a future in which his religion provides "a locus of spirituality for men and women of all faiths." This sounds like a pretty good future. "In some religions the purpose of life is to perfect oneself," Shmuley begins. "For Judaism...
Fluke
The Math and Myth of Coincidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A mathematical guide to understanding why life can seem to be one big coincidence-and why the odds of just about everything are better than we would think.
What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences,...
Weird Math
A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A teenage genius and his teacher take readers on a wild ride to the extremes of mathematics
Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use this? It turns out, Earth is precisely the place. As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his...
Locked In
The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing...
Feathers
The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
As seen on PBS's American Spring Live, one of America's great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathers
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told.In Feathers,...
Drink Beer, Think Beer
Getting to the Bottom of Every Pint
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
From an award-winning journalist and beer expert, a thoughtful and witty guide to understanding and enjoying beer
Right here, right now is the best time in the history of mankind to be a beer drinker. America now has more breweries than at any time since prohibition, and globally, beer culture...
What Love Is
And What It Could Be
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions
What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie...
The Good War
Why We Couldn't Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In the earliest years of the war in Afghanistan, after the Taliban fell to an American-led coalition, the fight there appeared to be a triumph-a good war” in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. Now, thirteen years after it began, it has turned into the longest war in U.S. history, as well as the...
Vietnam
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A 2017 Cundill History Prize Finalist
"Groundbreaking...Goscha has provided quite simply the finest, most readable single-volume history of Vietnam in English."--Guardian
In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations...