Basic Books: 1466 books
War in 140 Characters
How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought
Modern warfare is a war of narratives, where bullets are fired both physically and virtually. Whether you are a president or a terrorist, if you don't understand how to...
Give Me Liberty
A History of America's Exceptional Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of twelve essential documents
Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly -- from the United...
Who Really Cares
The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism -- America's Charity Divide--Who Gives, Who Do
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert,...
The Age Of Terror
America And The World After September 11
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
September 11 marked the beginning of a new era--an age of terror in which counter-terrorism will be one of the highest priorities of national governments and international institutions. How we proceed in this new war depends in large measure on the answer to a prior question: what exactly happened...
by Stephen Carter
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Stephen Carter argues that American politics is unimaginable without America's religious voice. Using contemporary and historical examples, from abolitionist sermons to presidential candidates' confessions, he illustrates ways in which religion and politics do and do not mesh well and ways in which...
Mad in America
Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2001
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded...
The Mapmaker's Wife
A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known...
America and the World
Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
America's status as a world power remains at a historic turning point. The strategies employed to win the wars of the twentieth century are no longer working, and the US must contend with the changing nature of power in a globalized world.
In America and the World, two of the most respected...
The End Of Shareholder Value
Corporations At The Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
"Allan Kennedy provocatively proposes that running corporations to benefit shareholders damages companies and the societies they operate in. [He] has raised questions about managing for shareholder value that someone will have to answer."-Mark Henricks, American Way"Allan Kennedy has...
Rebel Code
Linux and the Open Source Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
The open source saga has many fascinating chapters. It is partly the story of Linus Torvalds, the master hacker who would become chief architect of the Linux operating system. It is also the story of thousands of devoted programmers around the world who spontaneously worked in tandem to complete the...
We Who Dared to Say No to War
American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
We Who Dared to Say No to War uncovers some of the forgotten but compelling body of work from the American antiwar tradition-speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, political cartoons, and more-from people throughout our history who have opposed war. Beginning with the War of 1812, these selections...
Ready
Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Over the past three decades, skyrocketing numbers of women have chosen to start their families in their late thirties and early forties. Women now have the option to define for themselves when they are ready for a family, rather than sticking to a schedule set by social convention. In Ready, Elizabeth...
Brainwashed
The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
In recent years, the advent of MRI technology seems to have unlocked the secrets of the human mind, revealing the sources of our deepest desires, intentions, and fears. As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld demonstrate in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory...
The Mature Mind
The Positive Power of the Aging Brain
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The Mature Mind delivers good news for those in the second half of life, with an extraordinary account of cutting-edge neuroscience, groundbreaking psychology, fascinating vignettes from history and case studies, and practical advice for personal growth strategies. Gene Cohen, a renowned psychiatrist...