Basic Books: 1466 books
Tales From The Underground
A Natural History Of Subterranean Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, and many of them perform functions essential to all life on the planet. Yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David W. Wolfe lifts the veil on this hidden world,...
The Character of Nations
How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
In this cross-cultural study, Angelo M. Codevilla illustrates that as people shape their governments, they shape themselves. Drawing broadly from the depths of history, from the Roman republic to de Tocqueville's America, as well as from personal and scholarly observations of the world in the twentieth...
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson’s, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube...
The Meaning of Science
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A philosopher of science examines the biggest ethical and moral issues in science today, and explains why they matter for all of us--scientist and layman alike
Science has produced explanations for everything from the mechanisms of insect navigation to the formation of black holes and the workings...
The Human Spark
The Science of Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
What makes a human a human? In The Human Spark, pioneering psychologist Jerome Kagan offers an answer in a sweeping narrative of our personal, moral, and cultural development. In this extended meditation on human psychology as well as the methods, successes, and failures of the scientists who study...
by Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, Gerald Klerman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Since its introduction as a brief, empirically validated treatment for depression, Interpersonal Psychotherapy has broadened its scope and repertoire to include disorders of behavior and personality as well as disorders of mood. Practitioners in today's managed care climate will welcome this encyclopedic...
The Human Brain
A Guided Tour
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
What would you see if you removed the skull from the human brain and then slowly worked your way deeper and deeper into the brain, to the level of an individual neuron? With renowned brain researcher Susan Greenfield as your guide, here is your chance to gain a bird's eye view of the human brain-and...
The Gap
The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals, but what exactly is the difference between our minds and theirs? In The Gap, psychologist Thomas Suddendorf provides a definitive account of what makes human minds unique and how this disparity arose. He proposes...
Scared Sick
The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
The first years of human life are more important than we ever realized. In Scared Sick, Robin Karr-Morse connects psychology, neurobiology, endocrinology, immunology, and genetics to demonstrate how chronic fear in infancy and early childhood- when we are most helpless-lies at the root of common diseases...
Kinds Of Minds
Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the...
Drive, Ego, Object, And Self
A Synthesis For Clinical Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In this important new book, the noted theoretician Fred Pine provides a synthesis of the four conceptual domains of psychoanalysis: drives, ego functioning, object relations, and self experience. He argues that a focus on the clinical phenomena themselves, and not on the theoretical edifices built...
Dominion
How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
A historian of antiquity shows how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination
Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable. It was this that rendered it so suitable a punishment for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe...
Turning the Tide
How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, German U-boats threatened the lifeline between the...
The Dawn Of Universal History
Selected Essays From A Witness To The Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an active participant. Combining objectivity with incisive questioning, Aron's reading of movements and people reminds us of what was really at stake. Whether...