Basic Books: 1466 books
I Am My Mother's Daughter
Making Peace with Mom--Before It's Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Iris Krasnow-mother, daughter, and bestselling journalist-tackles the toughest relationship in the lives of many grown women: the mother-daughter bond. With women's life expectancy inching up past 80, you may be embroiled with your mother well past the time your own hair turns white. The good news:...
A Land As God Made It
Jamestown and the Birth of America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history
Although it was the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown is too often overlooked in the writing of American history. Founded thirteen years before the Mayflower sailed, Jamestown's courageous...
The End of Sex
How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend hours agonizing over their hopes for Friday night and, later, dissecting the evenings' successes or failures, often wishing that the social contract of the hookup would allow them to ask for more out of sexual intimacy....
The Choice
Global Domination or Global Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
American power and a pervasive globalization are the central realities of today's world, and the source of its thorniest dilemmas. Yet while America's unprecedented might should be the source of global security, Americans today feel less secure than ever. Globalization promotes American dominance...
by Andrea Dworkin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Andrea Dworkin, once called Feminism's Malcolm X,” has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book...
Reinventing the Melting Pot
The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In Reinventing the Melting Pot, twenty-one of the writers who have thought longest and hardest about immigration come together around a surprising consensus: yes, immigrant absorption still works-and given the number of newcomers arriving today, the nation's future depends on it. But it need not be...
Word On The Street
Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing--not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing politically correct arguments,...
Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust
A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
A unique oral history of the entire span of the Holocaust based on interviews from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
by Alexander Nehamas
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
An eminent philosopher reflects on the nature of friendship, past and present
Friends are a constant feature of our lives, yet friendship itself is difficult to define. Even Michel de Montaigne, author of the seminal essay "Of Friendship," found it nearly impossible to account for...
The Flooded Earth
Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. This-not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves-will be the most catastrophic effect of global warming. And it won't...
Freedom Is Not Enough
The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life--from LBJ to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
On June 4, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered what he and many others considered the greatest civil rights speech of his career. Proudly, Johnson hailed the new freedoms granted to African Americans due to the newly passed Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, but noted that freedom is not...
The Sun and the Moon
The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six articles reported the existence of life on the moon-including unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind legs, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. In a...
The Witch Must Die
The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying significance of fantasy and fairy tales been so insightfully and entertainingly mined.
The Galapagos
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"- the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galápagos is the most pristine archipelago to be found...