Basic Books: 1466 books
The Good High School
Portraits Of Character And Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
What makes a good school? A prominent Harvard educator looks for the answers in six schools that have earned reputations for excellence: George Washington Carver High School in Atlanta; John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, New York; Highland Park High School near Chicago; Bookline High School...
The Mind at Night
The New Science of How and Why We Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Psychologists and philosophers have long grappled with the mysteries of dreaming, and now-thanks largely to recent innovations in brain imaging -neuroscientists are starting to join the conversation. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning journalist Andrea Rock traces the brief but fascinating...
The Voices Within
The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our heads
At the moment you caught sight of this book, what were you thinking? Was your thought a stream of sensations? Or was it a voice in your head? Did you ask yourself, "I wonder what that's about?"...
Homeward Bound
American Families in the Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
A revised edition of the classic, myth-shattering exploration of American family life during the Cold War.
When Homeward Bound first appeared in 1988, it forever changed how we understand Cold War America. Elaine Tyler May demonstrated that the Atomic Age and the Cold War shaped American life...
The Death of Character
Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns-expressed here in their own words-shed a whole new light on...
Paths of Life
Six Case Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Several poignant scenarios and two essays of reflection focus on a range of issues-from birth, motherhood, and partnership to hatred, cults, and the Holocaust. In this updated tenth anniversary edition, Alice Miller offers new reflections on the transformative power of childhood.
Girls on the Edge
The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls-Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Envi
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self.
In Girls on the Edge, psychologist and physician Leonard Sax argues that many girls today have a brittle sense of self-they may...
The Science of Evil
On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
A groundbreaking and challenging examination of the social, cognitive, neurological, and biological roots of psychopathy, cruelty, and evil
Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis: All of these syndromes have one thing in common--lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence...
In Her Wake
A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
In 1963, Nancy Rappaport's mother committed suicide after a bitter divorce and custody battle. Nancy was four years old. As one of eleven children in a prominent Boston family, Nancy struggled to come to terms with the reasons why her mother took her own life. After years spent interviewing family...
by Eugenia Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world
In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic...
Beyond Infinity
An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A mind-expanding and funny trip to the edge of mathematics
How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity,...
First Bite
How We Learn to Eat
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
"Carefully crafted, astutely served, delicious, and nourishing: First Bite is a real treat." --Wall Street Journal
In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists and neuroscientists to reveal that our food habits are shaped...
Soul Searching
Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Paul, a divorced father, wants to back out of his child care arrangement and spend less time with his children.Nathan has been lying to his wife about a serious medical condition.Marsha, recently separated from her husband, cannot resist telling her children negative things about their father.What...
Fish on Friday
Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? Fish on Friday tells the story of the discovery of America as a product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic...